Guest Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 12 hours ago, Sable said: Note to self: Run garbage disposal before a hurricane hits. Ugh... oh no... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 Finally heard from the in laws.. They are all ok. SIL in Tampa just has some trees down in her yard. Still no power though. Parent's in law just have a tree down on the fence. The power has just been restored at their house so all is good, because it could have been so much worse.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 Our Baldwin County electric co-op have sent some trucks and crews to help restore power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparklepuppies Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 Yay Sam, that is great news! I know that's such a relief. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 Tracy, is your daughter attending Valdosta State? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparklepuppies Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 She is actually. She started way back in 2010, changed her major and school several times, then finally graduated from a Technical school last August with an associates. She just went back to VSU this semester to get her bachelors. So now all 3 of my kids are in college, which I never thought would happen because the oldest and youngest are almost 8 years apart! But I'm glad and proud of them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thimble Hall Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 Hi Samantha, so happy to hear all is well with your husbands family, it must be a big relief, waiting to hear about anything is always very hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapchap73 Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 So glad to hear all of you are okay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathieB Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 Has anyone heard from Gina on the central east coast of Florida? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 Don't we also have a member in the Jacksonville area? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sable Posted September 13, 2017 Author Share Posted September 13, 2017 1 hour ago, KathieB said: Has anyone heard from Gina on the central east coast of Florida? She is just south of Vero. I'm sure she is fine. That area had a lot of rain from a very long band so she may have some minor street flooding. I haven't seen her on the Forum in a long time. I just checked, she hasn't been on the forum since 7/2016. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sable Posted September 13, 2017 Author Share Posted September 13, 2017 Terrible event just happened. My neighbor's house guest was helping me clear debris from the Vero property. Afterward, he and his girlfriend went down to the beach for a swim. He drowned. They are still looking for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathieB Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 Egad! How awful! Is the surf still treacherous in the wake of the storm? Undertow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 Our eldest son used to run to the beach after storms to surf; scared me witless! When the surf is up there's usually undertow, not to mention all the seaweed & junk the storm stirs up and the marine predators that are looking for munchies in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sable Posted September 13, 2017 Author Share Posted September 13, 2017 Our beach is always treacherous and it's not within the life guarded section about 1/4 of a mile north of us which is still closed. I'm good for dipping a toe in it but that's about it. Yes, there are boards with nails on the beach right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 I like to go to the beach right after a storm; I'm a sheller, and I go for the tiny ones. One year was excellent for itty bitty sand dollars! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L Swearengin Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 14 hours ago, KathieB said: Has anyone heard from Gina on the central east coast of Florida? She posted on her Facebook page they are good. Lost a few roof tiles and a tree. Overall it's good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L Swearengin Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 My son-in-Love went to wiregrass in Valdosta. Daughter worked at books a million. They moved to Athens in May so he could finish his MRI training. He will test in a few months to get his licence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparklepuppies Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 Glad Gina is good. Wiregrass is where my daughter graduated from last year. I think she wishes she had stuck with VSU, since she already had 3 years invested... But they don't listen. Realized today that my next door neighbor had a tree fall over the fence, hit the deck, but just barely missed the house. Yikes. Schools go back tomorrow, yay. We have been distributing computers to each student, and we will have to reschedule 8 schools for a later date. I feel bad for those kids. (especially since two of them are my nieces, and I'll have to hear about it...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 Wow Sable.. that's awful. My thoughts with his family and girlfriend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sparklepuppies Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Sable, how awful, I am so sorry. This is an actual conversation I just had with my youngest in college. He came home during the storm, but it passed pretty much right over his school as a tropical storm. "So, your dorm lost power? Did you lose a lot in the fridge?" "No, I didn't have much. Just bread, jelly, root beer, and water." "Okay good" "Oh, and milk" "But you threw away the milk right?" "Wait, was I supposed to?" I can't make this stuff up. This kid also asked if he needed to take his hairbrush to college. He also only took 7 pair of underwear because he planned on doing laundry once a week. His first trip home he got 2 more... In his mind he's visiting and not moving out. I'm not sure he was ready to leave home... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sable Posted September 16, 2017 Author Share Posted September 16, 2017 22 minutes ago, sparklepuppies said: Sable, how awful, I am so sorry. This is an actual conversation I just had with my youngest in college. He came home during the storm, but it passed pretty much right over his school as a tropical storm. "So, your dorm lost power? Did you lose a lot in the fridge?" "No, I didn't have much. Just bread, jelly, root beer, and water." "Okay good" "Oh, and milk" "But you threw away the milk right?" "Wait, was I supposed to?" I can't make this stuff up. This kid also asked if he needed to take his hairbrush to college. He also only took 7 pair of underwear because he planned on doing laundry once a week. His first trip home he got 2 more... In his mind he's visiting and not moving out. I'm not sure he was ready to leave home... There is something about boys, I have two of them. Trust me it doesn't get any better even when they hit 30. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdlnpeabody Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Although the medical center where my wife works offered childcare for employees who were part of the disaster activation, my DW insisted that I take the kids up north to my sister's in Bowling Green, Kentucky. There was a mandatory evacuation anyway, so we left at 1:30 Saturday morning and took byways instead of getting stuck on the interstate. After a brief visit with my mom in Alabama, we got to my sister's at 7:30 p.m. Kids had a blast and it was great seeing my little sister again. It did feel very strange to go on a road trip without my DW. She had a mostly uneventful campout on her unit from Friday night to Monday afternoon. We headed back home early Monday morning while the eye was just north of town. By the time we arrived, it was far north. The power was out at our house for a few hours. Not long enough for everything in the freezer to thaw. A tree did fall about a block from the house and took the power lines with it. Aside from one of our solar lamps on the porch getting knocked off, our property was fine. My DW thought a tree had fallen within 2 feet of the house, but it was just weeks sprouting since I hadn't mowed this past weekend. Parts of town were flooded and power wasn't restored to parts of UF and downtown until Tuesday afternoon. The only other problem we had from the storm was the main relay on my bike. It burns our every time we get a heavy rain. This is the 3rd time this year (2nd time since June) it has happened. So once again, my bike isn't running. BTW, my suspicions about less fortunate evacuees were true. I heard from several friends in South and central Florida who don't have cars or disposable income. They all had the same story- they called the phone number the governor said to call in his frequent press conferences. It rings a couple of times, changes to a busy signal and then disconnects. It's a non-working number! They all had to wait out the storm. It's a shame there has been some loss of life, but fortunate that we didn't have an incident like New Orleans in 2005. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thimble Hall Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Jeremy, thank you for posting, another name off my fridge. I was very shocked to hear about the other folks though, it seems so very wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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