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Dandain

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edko said:
I'm amazed. I don't think a shingle is missing.

3rd from end on rt. The brown roof next to the green roof.
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The plant lover in me thinks you should thank your palm trees, it seems the wind came from the direction of your tree wall to the south of your house is located? or have I miss identified your house. Trying to think of the damage in terms of where the palm trees would have dampened the wind significantly before it impacted any given house.
 
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Oldbased

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Chanur said:
So fucking hot we can't sleep.
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Wet rag on neck and feet. After a minute wring it out good and repeat until body temp is not 140. Neck is a real thing but I've noticed since being on thinners that if my feet are cold I am cold.
 
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Chanur

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I have yet to see a single Duke Energy truck. Rumors keep swirling that they are not paying their guys OT so at 5 they pack up and go home.
 
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BrutulTM

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I want to believe. The smoke is so thick here right now that my eyes burn anytime I'm outdoors.
 
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kaid

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Chanur said:
So fucking hot we can't sleep.
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This was the problem with hurricane charlie. It was not total devastation it was a week or two without power and limited services in florida summer with massive amounts of post storm humidity. I hope you guys get your power back soon so you can fire the AC back up.
 
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LulzSect

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A fucking railroad? I'm guessing at one point someone was like we should build communities on these little rocks. What do we need?
42 bridges, a fuckton of concrete and a railroad to haul all that shit there.
Done.
So what's the plan?
We'll split it up into 1/4 acre lots, sell them for hundreds of thousands of dollars and build $70,000 homes on them!
DONE
What about landscaping?
Stick some flamingos in the sand.
DOOOOONE
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I recently finished a book about the Overseas railway. The keys pretty much exist as a community because of this crazy idea:

Overseas Railroad - Wikipedia

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Soygen

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Chanur said:
So fucking hot we can't sleep.
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That shit is the absolute worst. Olebass's suggestion on the wet cloth is really the best option for keeping cool. Do you guys have a generator or at least something to power a fan?
 
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Chanur

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No generator because its an apartment. But since they turned on like every fucking business and not the residential I got us a hotel for tonight and tomorrow. Going to sleep like the dead tonight.
 
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slippery

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Still no power rip. Staying at my sister's because she has power and i need a.c. To sleep. I feel like even when i get power internet is going to be down forever. Apparently Schools Here Are Closed Till The 25th
 
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Vaclav

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Chanur said:
No generator because its an apartment. But since they turned on like every fucking business and not the residential I got us a hotel for tonight and tomorrow. Going to sleep like the dead tonight.
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What I did last year when we had water but no power yet was to run the water on the absolute coldest I could with some tubs in our shower (we don't have any tubs in our property at all, standing showers only - so need to use tubs, using a stopped in a standard tub could accomplish the same) - then buy a 10# bag of ice from the store and add some of that to cool it down further (in theory as I'm saying it, I think some ice would've allowed further cooling too - but we didn't do that - just an inspiration hitting me now while writing) while stashing the rest of the ice in a cooler for later refreshing of it.

It's surprising how much a full to the brim 50 gal or so tub with ice water will cool down the adjacent rooms when there's nothing else helping.

If you're hoteling a bit - I know Choice Rewards group is doing buy 2 get 1 on nights right now with their program. It's what I used to mitigate the costs on the drive up and back from Maryland some.
 
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Vaclav

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slippery said:
Still no power rip. Staying at my sister's because she has power and i need a.c. To sleep. I feel like even when i get power internet is going to be down forever. Apparently Schools Here Are Closed Till The 25th
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Seriously? They prioritizing road lights or something out there? It's surreal in most of Brevard right now, so many traffic and road lights are out - but most of the residential power is up. (And water is back too - besides a boil warning for half of Merritt Island [my half of course though, lol - thankfully our tap tastes like shit even when it's not got a boil warning, so it's only really an issue for pet water - since any cooking water I'd already be boiling])
 
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slippery

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They seem to be doing okay at residential power, i feel like I'm just at the bottom because giant fucking tree snapped 2 poles.

They've done a lot of work on Lights though. Only a few intersections still out on my way to work
 
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Oldbased

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Florida Division of Emergency Management - FloridaDisaster.org

POWER AND UTILITIES

  • The current power outage as of 12:00 p.m. is more than 2.5 million accounts. For a full breakdown, click HERE. Since the height of power outages, 6.7 million on Monday, power has been restored to more than 4.2 million accounts, which is how utility companies measure each Florida home or business. In less than three days, more than 60 percent of all outages have been restored by more than 30,000 restoration personnel across Florida – the largest power restoration undertaking in history for a single state.
  • Do not try to handle downed power lines. Contact your local utility company to report it.
  • Tampa Electric
  • In total, 425,000 of Tampa Electric’s 730,000 customers were impacted by the storm. At the peak of the storm, 335,000 customers remained without power. Power has already been restored to more than 335,000 customers.
  • Tampa Electric expects to restore power to essentially all customers the night of Sunday, September 17th.
  • About 3,200 line, tree and other workers, from other utilities from as far away as the Midwest, Northeast and Canada, continue to arrive today to assist Tampa Electric, as part of the largest restoration effort in U.S. history.
  • Florida Power and Light
  • In total, 4.4 million customers were impacted by the storm. Power has already been restored to more than 3 million customers.
  • FPL expects power restoration to be completed for the East Coast the night of Sunday, September 17th.
  • FPL expects power restoration to be completed for the West Coast by Friday, September 22nd.
  • FPL has mobilized the largest restoration workforce ever assembled with more than 18,000 out-of-state restoration personnel working around the clock.
  • Duke Energy
  • More than 1 million customers were impacted by the storm. Power has already been restored to more than 824,000 customers.
  • Duke Energy expects power restoration to be completed for western service areas the night of Friday, September 15th.
  • Duke Energy expects power restoration to be completed for central and northern service areas the night of Sunday, September 17th.
  • More than 12,000 restoration workers have been mobilized to quickly restore power to all customers.
  • Gulf Power
  • Gulf Power has fully restored power to the 13,000 customers affected by the storm and has no storm related outages.
  • Gulf Power has a restoration team in route to Tampa to assist with power restoration for Tampa Electric.
  • Florida Electric Cooperatives Assoc.
  • More than 760,000 customers were impacted by the storm. Power has already been restored to more than 580,000 customers.
  • Approximately 3,000 cooperative workers from Florida and nine other states are deploying to the hurricane impact zone to assist with restoration efforts.
  • Municipal Utilities
  • More than 800,000 customers were impacted by the storm. Power has already been restored to about 600,000 customers.
  • Restoration is expected to be completed by the night of Sunday, September 17th, except hardest hit areas, such as Key West, which will take longer to restore.
  • Several utilities such as Tallahassee, Kissimmee and Jacksonville Beach are close to being fully restored. In addition, several smaller utilities like Newberry are already 100% restored.
 
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Chanur

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What Duke means is 12am Monday according to their twitter.
 
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edko

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Dandain said:
The plant lover in me thinks you should thank your palm trees, it seems the wind came from the direction of your tree wall to the south of your house is located? or have I miss identified your house. Trying to think of the damage in terms of where the palm trees would have dampened the wind significantly before it impacted any given house.
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Our hood was in the eye wall. Wind was initially SE, then E, then NE and when the eye passed it went NW then W then finally SW. The trees did take some of it, for sure. Not being directly on the channel and taking it full on probably saved alot of the houses in the area.

Alot of my friends on Big Pine suffered significant damage from both wind, falling trees and flooding. One guy we confirmed has feet of goop inside his home. We are trying to figure out a way to pool resources to buy tools and cleaning supplies up north so we can hit the ground running when we get down there. There's alot of work to do and they won't let us in to do it because it's a bomb crater down there.
 
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