Batten the hatches...here she comes

[Cypress Sun]

45 minutes ago, Texas Maverick said:

Well just talked with my daughter in St Pete. She still has power and did get some damage to her home and car. She luckily didn't get any water into the house since it is built up some but she got over 4 inches of rain in her garage where she has a lot of thing stored. She is afraid most of it is ruined since it was all in cardboard boxes. Her car shows some issues but she hasn't tried to start it yet. She isn't sure how high the water actually got last night but the rotor are all showing rust already but I told her that would rub off when she drove it and went to use them. We don't know if the engine was under water or not. Her fence was blown down and the solar panels on the roofs were blown off. Her poos area looks like someone poured sewage water into it. So overall I feel she was lucky that is all the damage she got.

 

I want to thank all those that sent prayers and well wishes for her. She needed them and they worked. It could have been a lot worse and it wasn't. I just hope the others fared as well. I have not heard a number this morning as to how many didn't make it or how bad the damage up in the bend area is but I can only imagine it is a nightmare.

 

Thanks

 

TM

 

 

Glad your daughter is okay and damage minimal. That's not rain water in the pool, it's flood water. Rain was really minimal for a hurricane. I'm 10 miles (mol) away from her, rain gauge read 1.85 this am...that's nothing for a hurricane.

 

As far as I know, there has only been 1 fatality in the Tampa Bay area. A road sign on I- 4 fell on someone driving in the hurricane and killed them. Don't know about the bend area or other locations.

[Texas Maverick]

15 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

Glad your daughter is okay and damage minimal. That's not rain water in the pool, it's flood water. Rain was really minimal for a hurricane. I'm 10 miles (mol) away from her, rain gauge read 1.85 this am...that's nothing for a hurricane.

 

As far as I know, there has only been 1 fatality in the Tampa Bay area. A road sign on I- 4 fell on someone driving in the hurricane and killed them. Don't know about the bend area or other locations.

I have heard the death toll is at 11 for all of the hurricane area so far. They are still looking through the debris though. I told her it was surge water that was from the gulf and the neighborhood. It could contain anything from mud, sand, dirt, chemicals debris and even sewage. Stay out of it and plan on draining the pool later.

 

TM

[Texas Joker]

You gotta be careful 'draining' that pool. Water pressure from underneath will push it out of the ground. 

 

Better to shock the water hard and the do partial purges and  change the filters a couple times. Sand is cheap. 

[Texas Maverick]

34 minutes ago, Texas Joker said:

You gotta be careful 'draining' that pool. Water pressure from underneath will push it out of the ground. 

 

Better to shock the water hard and the do partial purges and  change the filters a couple times. Sand is cheap. 

She has a pool company that is working with her. They said they have to be pumping water out as well as pumping water in so the pool doesn't try to float up.

[watab kid]

hope everyone survived with as little damage as possible , 

[Stump Water]

Lotta folks having a tough time right now in NW NC, SW VA, E TN & Upstate SC.

 

 

[John Kloehr]

Very much so. Western NC is a no-go zone if you don't have a good reason to be there. YouTube streams are not a good reason.

 

In the Knoxville area, there are some problems. I may go see the Douglas Dam spillways tomorrow. It has all gates open, but the water is still rising. Some local flooding as a result of the release. This will work its way downstream as dam after dam releases all it can to prevent overflow. Some localized flooding is the inevitable result.

 

Bigger issues further east of where I am, all the way up to Bristol. But the Carolinas! Tragedies unfolding hour by hour. And the water is greater than what Tennessee is facing, and it is a long way to the ocean. Towns and even big cities are cut off due to road and bridge failures. Grocery stores are almost empty, no way to restock. Some rescues not possible due to rising and fast waters.