Florida folks

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:52 am

You guys okay?

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 9:03 am

Yes, thanks for asking. I lost internet until last night.

How are you doing?

Post by **Philip** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 10:13 am

We went to New Orleans with my family since my wife gets scared easily and the schools were closed anyway.. The drive was a pain with all the traffic, other than that we had a good time actually. The house is fine, just a few blown off bamboo and banana palm leafs. There are a couple of shingles on the ground, but they may be from my neighbor, will have to get up on the roof and look one of these days.

Lefty · Post by **Lefty** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 6:13 pm

Hey god bless from the NE.

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 1:13 pm

I have had a lot of uber passengers this and last week from people coming to RI to stay with Family. Glad your all doing well.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 8:31 pm

https://youtu.be/VdSpQNll8gE

all is good here, lost a bit of fence and just got power restored tonight at 6:30PM, we got lucky compared to alot of other folks in the state, the storm turned north slightly at the last moment, if it had stayed on course to go over the gulf more tampabay would have really got blasted worse for sure.

first time i boarded up all my windows with plywood i got from Ken back in 2004, i saved it in case i needed it, well it worked just fine and dandy.

once again Ken , thank you so much, you are a peach

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 8:38 pm

Philip wrote:We went to New Orleans with my family since my wife gets scared easily and the schools were closed anyway.. The drive was a pain with all the traffic, other than that we had a good time actually. The house is fine, just a few blown off bamboo and banana palm leafs. There are a couple of shingles on the ground, but they may be from my neighbor, will have to get up on the roof and look one of these days.

no flooding at your place, i heard reports of serious flooding there but have been unable to watch any news stories on it ?

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 12:09 am

Very glad to hear you and yours are safe

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 7:37 am

Hey Mark,
Was that you cooking a can of beans? Those torches have many uses!

I lost a few panels of fence in the back 40...

Thanks fellas, for all the thoughts!

Post by **Philip** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 11:53 am

There was no flooding in my neighborhood, the floods were mostly downtown and along the St. John's river, caused by the river surge combined with the rain.

We did get a few shingles blown-off this time from the wind though, will have to repair that soon:

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Ken · Post by **Ken** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 12:29 pm

Are you sure it was just shingles that were blown...

Post by **Philip** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 3:00 pm

Ehm.. On the advice of counsel I invoke my Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and respectfully decline to answer your question.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 6:51 pm

Ken wrote:Hey Mark,
Was that you cooking a can of beans? Those torches have many uses!

I lost a few panels of fence in the back 40...

Thanks fellas, for all the thoughts!

ya me cooking a can of chef beefaroni, so much better than eating it cold LOL

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 11:05 pm

Philip wrote:Ehm.. On the advice of counsel I invoke my Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and respectfully decline to answer your question.

I assume since Ken was there he already knows the answer.

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 12:25 pm

We were ok as well. No structural damage, just some fence repairs and screen repairs needed. Lost power Sunday around 5pm.. got power back on Tuesday night around 9pm. Internet service restored Thursday night. All other family members spread out among West Palm Beach, Clewiston, Lakeland, Orlando, Port St. Lucie, and St Pete / Indian Rocks Beach were all fine as well with varying duration of power outages that have all been restored now. I think I just have a couple local facebook friends that are still without power but overall we were very lucky it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:22 pm

koldchillah wrote:We were ok as well. No structural damage, just some fence repairs and screen repairs needed. Lost power Sunday around 5pm.. got power back on Tuesday night around 9pm. Internet service restored Thursday night. All other family members spread out among West Palm Beach, Clewiston, Lakeland, Orlando, Port St. Lucie, and St Pete / Indian Rocks Beach were all fine as well with varying duration of power outages that have all been restored now. I think I just have a couple local facebook friends that are still without power but overall we were very lucky it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

Good to hear

Post by **Philip** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 1:08 pm

Glad you are ok Matt