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Chanur
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Dude that’s the thing we didn’t even get hit hard. We lost power before the storm even fully got to our area. I’m in Altamonte Springs. But a slight breeze and my section of the grid goes down. Fucking thing sucks.
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Chanur
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I live in an apartment. No place for a generator unfortunately. Otherwise I’d have a massive fucker that automatically kicks on.y u no prepare?
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Lanx
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yea the preparedness guys say for you apt dwellers, get the battery backups
and they now have bundles where they include solar panels, you can hang those solar panels out your window and get "some charge"
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Chanur
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Those are cool but won’t power my shit for a week . Which is what I need.yea the preparedness guys say for you apt dwellers, get the battery backups
and they now have bundles where they include solar panels, you can hang those solar panels out your window and get "some charge"
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Lanx
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Gravel
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I bet you'd be surprised. We ran ours off our van shit (200W panels, 100AH lithium battery, 1000W inverter) after the 2019 earthquake. Fridges don't use much power anymore. You need a surge on the inverter big enough for when it kicks on, but otherwise the actual power draw is pretty low.
Now granted, that setup cost probably somewhere around $1500 and that was 2018. But still.
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In Cape Coral, not quite dead yet. Power grid is toast, no water, cell service abysmal. We basically sat in the eye wall forever. I don't know what it looked like, because can't load shit, but it felt like the eye wall was collapsing on top of us and just in it for like 8 hours. Pretty insane winds, everyone has roof damage, tons of debris everywhere, trees snapped all over the place. It's a mess
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Without power almost a full day now, about the start a gofundme with thoughts and prayers.
Wind went hard yesterday drove around a bit today and so many trees and shit fully blown over. Kind of impressed with how much damage it caused. Hardly any flooding at all, the rain was really light overall. Most of the areas traffic lights were out.
McDonalds and shit was closed but Burger King was fuck you workers get your assholes in here this is our only chance to sell burgers. Drive Thru was wrapped around the building twice I have no idea why you would wait in a line like that.
Surprisingly most Publix were open as well. Anyways not having power blows dicks, I had a bush that fell over but that's the extent of damage so really can't complain much.
Wind went hard yesterday drove around a bit today and so many trees and shit fully blown over. Kind of impressed with how much damage it caused. Hardly any flooding at all, the rain was really light overall. Most of the areas traffic lights were out.
McDonalds and shit was closed but Burger King was fuck you workers get your assholes in here this is our only chance to sell burgers. Drive Thru was wrapped around the building twice I have no idea why you would wait in a line like that.
Surprisingly most Publix were open as well. Anyways not having power blows dicks, I had a bush that fell over but that's the extent of damage so really can't complain much.
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Gravel
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That's like the opposite of what I figured most hurricanes would be. I thought it was that the wind doesn't really end up doing much with post-Andrew building codes, which is what most people are scared of. And that it was flooding that really does all the damage.
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Sanibel and Captiva appear to be well and truly fucked. Time to start rebuilding. Its the Florida way.
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It's almost like having a place on the ocean in a location that is prone to severe weather is a bad idea.
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Gator
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Sad, Fort Myers Beach has been a summer vacation spot that's been a family tradition for 20+ years. Started when I was in my early teens with my family and continued on as our family grew. Our hotel we always stayed at was about a mile or two south of the pier. We would always take the kids to get ice cream at Kilwins (circled in red). Now it's gone.
Interestingly enough, just south of the photo of the pier is a Margaritaville that was being built (underlined in red) and the other big building is the Lani Kai resort which is the one that had the time lapse video from 6ft above Estero Blvd.
Fort Myers Beach was nice because it wasn't commercialized and was full on smaller businesses. Let's see how they rebuild.
Also, I feel for you guys going through it now. I survived Andrew and we didn't get our power back for 3 months because my parents lived in the middle of no where.
Interestingly enough, just south of the photo of the pier is a Margaritaville that was being built (underlined in red) and the other big building is the Lani Kai resort which is the one that had the time lapse video from 6ft above Estero Blvd.
Fort Myers Beach was nice because it wasn't commercialized and was full on smaller businesses. Let's see how they rebuild.
Also, I feel for you guys going through it now. I survived Andrew and we didn't get our power back for 3 months because my parents lived in the middle of no where.
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Home Swept Off Foundation, Destroyed In Surge - Videos from The Weather Channel
Storm Surge in Fort Myers, Florida from Hurricane Ian washed a home off its foundation. - Videos from The Weather Channel | weather.com
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