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Post by justme on Sept 10, 2017 22:53:42 GMT -5
There's going to be a 11pm news report about Irma on CNN. I don't have cable. I'll check out the site. Thanks. The updates are every three hours fyi. With every other updating the track. So 11 and 5 are when the track updates, 3 and 8 are just winds and such.
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Post by justme on Sept 10, 2017 22:55:40 GMT -5
Finally shoved a towel into the stair door near me. Stopped that banging. But the fire alarm going off on floors 5 & 6 of the building connecting mind is upping my anxiety and increasing my wine intake.
Still have power and mostly just wind.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 10, 2017 23:11:35 GMT -5
Finally shoved a towel into the stair door near me. Stopped that banging. But the fire alarm going off on floors 5 & 6 of the building connecting mind is upping my anxiety and increasing my wine intake. Still have power and mostly just wind. You are lucky so far. I had the remnants of hurricane Harvey pass through here ten days ago with winds maybe gusting to 30 MPH and I and my neighborhood lost power for 16 hours!
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Post by justme on Sept 10, 2017 23:35:19 GMT -5
Finally shoved a towel into the stair door near me. Stopped that banging. But the fire alarm going off on floors 5 & 6 of the building connecting mind is upping my anxiety and increasing my wine intake. Still have power and mostly just wind. You are lucky so far. I had the remnants of hurricane Harvey pass through here ten days ago with winds maybe gusting to 30 MPH and I and my neighborhood lost power for 16 hours! Yup! My parents lost power but my bro about 8 miles (less by the bird) haven't. But my bros neighbourhood has underground power lines. Seems to be the deciding factor because I still have power but friend less than 8 from me and some other places around me lost power, but I have underground and so far have been fine.
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Post by justme on Sept 11, 2017 0:32:09 GMT -5
Still doing good! Shoved a towel in the stair door so that's not scaring me anymore. Trying to decide when to shove 24 hour food into cooler just in case I lose power while I sleep.
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Post by justme on Sept 11, 2017 0:34:55 GMT -5
OMG something behind my living room (kitchen, bathroom, laundry, bedroom) is making the same noise as a pot that's put on the burner with water under it right as that water is boiling...but that's not happening. It keeps doing it but u can't find out why. Ugh!
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Post by Spellbound454 on Sept 11, 2017 0:44:05 GMT -5
Sit tight we are thinking of you
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Post by NastyWoman on Sept 11, 2017 0:58:09 GMT -5
milee , needs to sign in, she hasn't posted since September 8. Stay safe everyone, << HUGS >> Milee and her family were retreating to their business building. She said it was a very safe building and higher up, so no ( little) danger of flooding. I don't know about access to internet though.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Sept 11, 2017 5:01:46 GMT -5
We are still in SC, staying with family. I really dread heading back. The drive is 1-1/2 tanks of gas and goodness knows where we will find some, much less one with power. Figuring out when to head back is still wait and see. We left at 6 pm Saturday and were fighting wind all the way through GA which is crazy considering the eye was down at the keys. We arrived at 4:15 am. Very very few gas stations had gas on the way up here. I don't feel good about my moms mobile home in Lakeland, and really pretty worried about the huge oaks toppling over at my house.
ETA: My mom found out her mobile home is okay, they are just without power there. We won't know about our house until we get back.
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Post by zibazinski on Sept 11, 2017 6:28:20 GMT -5
You are lucky so far. I had the remnants of hurricane Harvey pass through here ten days ago with winds maybe gusting to 30 MPH and I and my neighborhood lost power for 16 hours! Yup! My parents lost power but my bro about 8 miles (less by the bird) haven't. But my bros neighbourhood has underground power lines. Seems to be the deciding factor because I still have power but friend less than 8 from me and some other places around me lost power, but I have underground and so far have been fine. It definitely is. We have underground here and have power. Cat and I are okay. Don't know about the house and can't get to it until after 3 pm
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Post by milee on Sept 11, 2017 8:05:00 GMT -5
Very grateful - all Ok. Lost a few small sections of roof at business (think it was hit by flying debris) but other than that, only minor damage. No power since 5 yesterday but water still on. Glad everybody's ok.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Sept 11, 2017 9:24:44 GMT -5
OMG something behind my living room (kitchen, bathroom, laundry, bedroom) is making the same noise as a pot that's put on the burner with water under it right as that water is boiling...but that's not happening. It keeps doing it but u can't find out why. Ugh! Everything okay for you?
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Sept 11, 2017 9:30:46 GMT -5
Power outage now in SC.
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Post by mmhmm on Sept 11, 2017 9:41:29 GMT -5
Upstate SC hasn't been hit yet. Just light rain. Waiting for the winds to start screaming this afternoon. Once that starts all the cats will gather in my bedroom as that's the "storm cellar" for them. They can get under the king-sized bed and "hunker down". Daughter and SIL are here with me and brought their two cats so there are four here. We should be fine.
I was up until 4am on Zullo helping to answer calls with questions. SIL's granddaughter lives in Plant City, FL. The eye of this beast went right between Plant City and Lakeland. Haven't heard from her this morning so we're hoping they're okay. Power is out there.
So glad to see you folks checking in. My thoughts are with all of you. Hope for as little damage as possible. So sorry this had to happen!
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Sept 11, 2017 10:15:36 GMT -5
Upstate SC hasn't been hit yet. Just light rain. Waiting for the winds to start screaming this afternoon. Once that starts all the cats will gather in my bedroom as that's the "storm cellar" for them. They can get under the king-sized bed and "hunker down". Daughter and SIL are here with me and brought their two cats so there are four here. We should be fine. I was up until 4am on Zullo helping to answer calls with questions. SIL's granddaughter lives in Plant City, FL. The eye of this beast went right between Plant City and Lakeland. Haven't heard from her this morning so we're hoping they're okay. Power is out there. So glad to see you folks checking in. My thoughts are with all of you. Hope for as little damage as possible. So sorry this had to happen! My mom's mobile home is in Lakeland, so we were really quite surprised to find out that her place made it through okay.
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Post by mmhmm on Sept 11, 2017 10:33:24 GMT -5
Upstate SC hasn't been hit yet. Just light rain. Waiting for the winds to start screaming this afternoon. Once that starts all the cats will gather in my bedroom as that's the "storm cellar" for them. They can get under the king-sized bed and "hunker down". Daughter and SIL are here with me and brought their two cats so there are four here. We should be fine. I was up until 4am on Zullo helping to answer calls with questions. SIL's granddaughter lives in Plant City, FL. The eye of this beast went right between Plant City and Lakeland. Haven't heard from her this morning so we're hoping they're okay. Power is out there. So glad to see you folks checking in. My thoughts are with all of you. Hope for as little damage as possible. So sorry this had to happen! My mom's mobile home is in Lakeland, so we were really quite surprised to find out that her place made it through okay. So glad to hear that! Some areas took such a terrible beating. Glad your mom's wasn't one of them!
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Post by justme on Sept 11, 2017 11:04:32 GMT -5
OMG something behind my living room (kitchen, bathroom, laundry, bedroom) is making the same noise as a pot that's put on the burner with water under it right as that water is boiling...but that's not happening. It keeps doing it but u can't find out why. Ugh! Everything okay for you? Yup all good with me.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Sept 11, 2017 11:41:32 GMT -5
Did you figure out the scary noise?
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Post by Jaguar on Sept 11, 2017 13:02:33 GMT -5
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Sept 11, 2017 15:29:09 GMT -5
Just got a text from my SIL and my friends are ok. They're her brother and SIL. They evacuated to Indiana. Their place is alright but they would really like to go home and can't. Now I can worry about others, like Nancy.
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Post by Sharon on Sept 11, 2017 15:36:02 GMT -5
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Post by Jaguar on Sept 11, 2017 15:41:07 GMT -5
POM signed in 18 hours ago and posted on page 1, and Sue posted 22 hours ago on page 1. Neither have posted since.
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Post by Waffle on Sept 11, 2017 16:31:39 GMT -5
We also haven't heard from swamp about her sister and BIL.
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Post by justme on Sept 11, 2017 17:30:17 GMT -5
Did you figure out the scary noise? I'm thinking it was the door just outside mine that goes to outdoor stairs. Water was being pushed underneath it and it was slamming. I wedged a towel in it to keep it from moving.
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Post by zibazinski on Sept 11, 2017 18:25:51 GMT -5
DH's cat and I were up most of the night. We took an hour nap today and we're going to bed early.
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Post by swamp on Sept 11, 2017 19:18:10 GMT -5
We also haven't heard from swamp about her sister and BIL. All is good. no damage to house. Beach house hasn't been checked yet but minor flooding on the island.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Sept 11, 2017 19:34:34 GMT -5
Nancy's last post here and on fb were Sunday morning. Hope she's ok.
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Post by justme on Sept 11, 2017 20:16:15 GMT -5
I didn't hear of any tornadoes in POM's general area. Though I know two people that are kinda near her and they're still out of power so that might be why she hasn't gotten online.
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Post by Jaguar on Sept 11, 2017 21:03:57 GMT -5
forwardwego, hasn't signed in either and she's in Florida.
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Post by suesinfl on Sept 11, 2017 21:56:49 GMT -5
Power was restored here abut 1 hour ago. I've lived in FL all my life, so I've been through all sorts of weather, but nothing like this. Weather wise I was scared shi--less and I've been through rough, back to back weather with a 3 and 8 yr. old by my self. We're fine lots of limbs/debris down. I have a major tree that now needs to be removed and may have damage to my shed. Plus I'm noticed water stains on the ceiling in my bedroom. So now I need to figure out what I need to do with my home owners insurance. I've had the same ins. for 25 yrs and have never filed a claim, so I'm tagging andi9899 and Iggy aka IG for help. Anyone else that has info, please feel free to add your suggestions. Hope all is well with the others that are/have been in the path.
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