Hi Willy and All,
We did well as luckily Irma went
inland earlier lowering it's power from insane to manageable for me east Tampa
..
Only 2 fences fell thought a lot
of water damage but overall not bad. Lost power last night at 6:45 pm so went
though the night so now the power is back on in the last 30 minutes luckily.
Still 500k without power in just my county.
They are saying it hit me dead
on the eye's center with 100mph+. But I went to sleep at 9pm as no TV,
internet even with my 12vdc system so I'll have to make the TV and internet
modem work on 12vdc though more likely to buy a pure sine wave inverter after
this and go offgrid.
Things could have been far worse
had it stayed just offshore and kept it's full strength.
Things should be better at the
Clunns 50 miles north of me who looks like also got hit by the eye. Let's hope
they are ok as trees are the biggest danger..
The chassis mold got wet for the
63 Vette so I might have to do it again if it warps but that is easy.
Jerry Dycus
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On Sun, 9/10/17, jerry freedomev via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: Re: [EVDL] I wonder where the Clunns are
To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Cc: "jerry freedomev" <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, September 10, 2017, 10:30 AM
Hi Willy and All,
I'm 4 miles east of Tampa Bay, close or at
ground zero as the track presently is and where the max
winds will be, the dangerous quadrant . I'm at 52'
and immune to flooding, can't get deeper than 2" and only
until the downpour keeps up a 4"/hr rate for a while as
either soak into the sand or run slightly downhill. and as
an old Florida boy, I know better.
But likely over 100mph winds so I already signed
into a cat 5 shelter and have other options too.
My place, 63 Vette body, chassis, workshops, etc
can't though.
I'm boarded up, packed but will wait until things
get over 45mph steady then hit the shelter for about 10 hrs,
and get back once wind go down to 50mph.
The
Clunns are in low lying like most all of that area in
a mandatory evacuation zone I believe the whole county is
under.
I have an old friend living a couple miles from them
on higher land and he is leaving east.
And close to the coast and good possibility can
get hit by 100mph+ winds and the surge if the
present course verifies after the storm passes. Most
it'll depend on the forward speed as it takes time for the
winds to build up the surge but presently say 12-15' in
their area.
And
the massive rains that might happen can bring the flood from
inland.
All
up if it stays at 120mph + just offshore putting the most
dangerous winds right on the coastal areas most densely
populated and the most time to make the surge, damage will
be extensive losing maybe 25% of homes, buildings and
literally changing the coastline .
Taking out whole islands, losing 200-500' of
coast/beaches with our most expensive properties is
likely if it goes as they say.
The
first feeder bands are coming through Tampa now but they are
mostly just good rain storms.
It just hit the Keys with 130mph winds so
likely will be little left for 40 miles likely taking out
the only road, US1 for weeks, months even.
Let's hope it speeds up and veers west but the just
make it bad for others on the upper gulf coast.
We'll survive but is going to take a lot to put it back
together. I'll do fine as I can rebuild fairly fast,
low cost if needed, even better.
My big
worry and interestingly protects us is I live in an old oak
forest that protects us from winds until they fall down,
which is the major reason I'm not staying home in the worse
part in case they do.
All our
trees take out the powerlines like in Charlie a weaker storm
that hot me with 75mph winds and took out put with 3 hot
miserable days of listening to generators. Likely
it'll be days, even a week longer. Last time I just
used my lightweight EV's to supply my power and almost ran
out just when the power came back on. I had a set up
wit 7-11 to recharge my EVs I normally used for extending my
40 mile range but didn't need it.
Now I have
solar, batteries so no problem for me.
Going to
be an interesting 24 hours.
Jerry Dycus
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On Sun, 9/10/17, Willie via EV <[email protected]>
wrote:
Subject: [EVDL] I wonder where the
Clunns are
To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List"
<[email protected]>
Cc: "Willie" <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, September 10, 2017, 8:00
AM
I've heard Crystal River is under an
evacuation order. Even though most
houses in the area are on the ground,
the Clunn house is on stilts.
They may have decided to stick it
out.
In what part of the state does Jerry
Dycus live?
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