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My Prayers are with all in the path of Hurricanes this Season.

Stay Safe!!


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Ditto ! !

Be safe!


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It's only wind and water smile


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Originally Posted by gfretwell
It's only wind and water smile
Yeah.... I worry about you anyway smile


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I ended up towing my lawn tractor and golf cart up to the FPL parking lot at the end of the street. That is higher ground. Then when the storm really got going we drove up there in the SUV with my generator in a trailer behind us and waited it out. I just kept pointing into the wind and pretending we were on the interstate going 80-90 with a truck passing us now and then when we were rocking. We had a cooler with sandwiches and drinks, AC going, listening to our tunes, dog in the back and we just watching the show. When the 13kv primary to my street parted and showered us with flaming metal, we went to the other side of the street. After that all hell broke loose. Transformers and primaries were blowing up all around us. At one point straight, down the 230kv transmission line we saw an explosion that must have been a main distribution transformer going. It was miles away and still lit up the night sky. We drove down the street every hour and watched the water coming up each time. At midnight when we looked it was going out fast so we went home. The house was dry but there was debris on the front step that indicated water right below the door at the peak. I fired up the generator and we went to bed. All in all, not that horrible. I had some minor damage but nothing important. Mostly the canopy over my boat lift but that was on the schedule to be replaced this year anyway. It was getting pretty long in the tooth. It is just a 12x24 trucker tarp (22oz vinyl) so no big deal. I have the yard cleaned up, the pool is coming back (it went under). I still have about a day of putting stuff away that we moved up to the attic or put in high shelves but no real rush on that. I got most of the yard cleaned up from the tree debris. I have about a cord of hort on the curb. I took today off. wink
Thanks everyone for thinking of us but a country boy will survive.


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Sounds like an exciting night! Like something out of a Movie!

Glad you're ok and not too much damage this time.


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When I saw what happened north of me I feel real lucky. I really didn't lose anything but a little sleep and 10 pounds.
I will catch up on both of them I am sure.


Greg Fretwell
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