weather The Weather.

[Darth Fluffy 302]

ll told, for a high cat hurricane, that does not sound too bad. No flooding?

[mlooney 3,417]

4 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Power is still out at my home so i am posting this on the road

Any  estimates  on when power is coming back?

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

1 hour ago, Darth Fluffy said:

ll told, for a high cat hurricane, that does not sound too bad. No flooding?

Manatee county was in the area where the winds were blowing out to sea as the storm made landfall.  Check out Ft Meyers for serious storm surge damage.  

1 hour ago, mlooney said:

Any  estimates  on when power is coming back?

Maybe today.  Maybe tomorrow.  Maybe later.  Who knows?  The McD down the block has power

[mlooney 3,417]

Hoping for today!

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

With FPL?  I'm hoping for this fiscal year

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

Please don't think I'm trying to minimize the impact.  100 plus mph gusts can be devestating even without surge.  Several of my neighbors took great damage.

I got lucky.  As a whole, my area came through A LOT better off than some other counties not too far away.  And the difference is where the storm turned to go inland.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

Three days and about four hours later, the electricity is back on.  

About as long as i ever went w/o power in Michigan in a blizzard.  

What would it take to have burried cables, rather than overhead lines, everywhere?

[Darth Fluffy 302]

2 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Three days and about four hours later, the electricity is back on.  

About as long as i ever went w/o power in Michigan in a blizzard.  

What would it take to have burried cables, rather than overhead lines, everywhere?

For the scope of damage, that does not seem like a shabby response time.

We get a hurricane in this far about once every ten years. In the time I've lived here, about thirty years, they've buried the utility lines, and it has cut outages tremendously.

[Don Edwards 548]

Just for a twist....

Twice this summer I've been hit with a power outage because a tree landed on a power line - and didn't break it.

(The line repair crews would deliberately cut power to the line while removing the tree and doing any necessary repair. Can't say I blame them.)

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

Now the water is cut off all over the park where I live

Not due to weather

Some of my genius neighbors drove their golf carts off the streets last night and shattered a shallow water main by hitting a water meter for another trailer

And yes, the only way to service the water line is to turn off water to the whole park

Apparently the utilities take turns going down

[mlooney 3,417]

Urgh.  I had a water main burst a  month of so ago.  Took them 8 hours to repair.  The main was rather deep, so I don't know what made it burst. 

[Darth Fluffy 302]

10 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

Just for a twist....

Twice this summer I've been hit with a power outage because a tree landed on a power line - and didn't break it.

(The line repair crews would deliberately cut power to the line while removing the tree and doing any necessary repair. Can't say I blame them.)

I saw one of those a couple of summers ago. Snapped one of the poles, but the lines appeared to be fine. It happened near a bridge, and they also blocked traffic until the tree was removed and the pole replaced.

[Darth Fluffy 302]

42 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Now the water is cut off all over the park where I live

Not due to weather

Some of my genius neighbors drove their golf carts off the streets last night and shattered a shallow water main by hitting a water meter for another trailer

And yes, the only way to service the water line is to turn off water to the whole park

Apparently the utilities take turns going down

Never underestimate the power of aggregated stupid people.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

9 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

Never underestimate the power of aggregated stupid people.

Doesn't that belong on the Politics Thread?

[mlooney 3,417]

I know it's fall when I need to turn on my space heaters for a couple hours in the morning.

 

[Darth Fluffy 302]

3 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Doesn't that belong on the Politics Thread?

I think it belongs in every thread.

[Darth Fluffy 302]

Miami Herald pictures of Fort Myers look worse than towns in the Ukraine. No Russian troops, so that's a plus.

[Darth Fluffy 302]

2 hours ago, mlooney said:

I know it's fall when I need to turn on my space heaters for a couple hours in the morning.

 

Already getting chilly here in NC, went from summer to autumn in one day, like a switch had been thrown.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

Storm hit and power off Wednesday afternoon.  

Power on Saturday evening.

Water off Sundae morning.

Water on Sunday afternoon.

Barring any more disasters, this is actually one of the better times weather-wise to live in this area.  

October, in Florida, is like summer almost anywhere else in the country.

[mlooney 3,417]

1 minute ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

October, in Florida, is like summer almost anywhere else in the country.

Hence the snowbird effect.

[ijuin 572]

Yeah, I grew up in borderline desert climate, and I can’t handle high humidity. Tropical destinations are right out for me.

[mlooney 3,417]

I've come to the conclusion that I don't like weather.  Spring and fall, rain storms causing body aches and/or migraines  Summer, rain AND heat.  Winter, cold.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

15 minutes ago, mlooney said:

I've come to the conclusion that I don't like weather. 

Let us sing the praises of the Great Indoors

[mlooney 3,417]

Two days ago we had a cold snap going to 25 degrees.  Today it got up to 84.  Make up your mind.

[Darth Fluffy 302]

12 hours ago, mlooney said:

Two days ago we had a cold snap going to 25 degrees.  Today it got up to 84.  Make up your mind.

Use Kelvin, it looks more consistent.