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I've got a hurricane bearing down on me...it should arrive sometime early tomorrow morning, if it arrives at all. I don't anticipate any trouble---this one doesn't seem nearly as powerful as some others I've ridden out---but one can't be sure. And there are all sorts of minor irritations to deal with, like picking up debris and being without electricity or phone service.
So if you don't see me around for a few days, I'm probably...preoccupied...
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Ha, through most of your post I thought you meant hurricane figuratively. Like you were anticipating a wave of form rejections to arrive, or something.
But now that I see it's the real deal I have only one advice. Buy Duct Tape. After all, it stops terrorism.
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Something of a bust. Power never went out. The hurricane stayed a tropical storm. All I got was a lot of wind and rain, the low-lying areas of my back lawn flooded (which they do in moderate rainstorms), and a fair amount of brush fallen off the trees. Nothing severe.
All I did was sit around and watch the storm out my windows with one eye, keep an eye on news coverage on TV with my other eye, and keep my hands occupied by cutting up and taping up a bunch of old off-line comics printouts and old newspapers. (I kinda do that every hurricane.) The storm was intense at times, and pretty much lasted till the sun went down, so I was worried all day about power maybe going off...so I didn't bother going online again till this morning.
There's a fair amount of damage around, I gather. Besides, the storm is still active, and the guys upstate from me are likely to get much more from it than I did. Down here, on to the next one...
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When I lived in the Virginia Beach area, we had the burnt-out remains of hurricanes come through fairly often, a few that even still had intact eyes. I remember walking out during one of those eyes to check the damage and thinking that even these remnents were pretty powerful storms. I'm thankful I have never had to actually go through one of those things when it was in its peak form.
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Well, the worst hurricane I went through was Charley, a few years ago. My power was out for less than a day---got put back up right away, apparently, 'cause I was on the same circuit as the firehouse down the street. I lost one tree in my back yard, and a lot of branches from some others.
My roof sustained some damage, and there was a little interior damage as well---more than ten thousand dollars worth, from the settlement payments I got later. And the exterior damage---well, I had already contracted to have it replaced at some point. The settlement paid for most of it.
Happy was I when I found all those tiles lying around in my yard were from my neighbor's house. Less happy was I when I had to pick them all up...
(My brother fared worse. He broke his arm clearing the brush away from his house. (Memo to everyone: don't try to use a chainsaw while standing on a ladder.) He also had part of a roof, redone that week, ripped away.)
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TS Fay is parked over my county now and won't go away. She's stalled and before it's over may have dropped up to 30 inches of rain in some parts.
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WouldBe, you're close to my parents-in-law. Old trees hover over their house, where I hunkered down for the storms in 2004. I'm worried a limb will crash through their roof. Fortunately, they are not in a flood plain.
Best wishes to you and everyone else in Fay’s projected path.
That reminds me, i need to call my family in JAX to see how they are doing. They live about 1.5mils from the St. Johns River. but only .25 miles from Julington Creek. And one of my buddies has a farm that Julington Creek runs right through when it rains to much they are probly underwater now.
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It's interesting how many of us are under Fay right now. As I type, her winds and rain are caressing my house as well. 5 inches of rain here in Titusville today, and counting.
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I'm in Indialantic. Fay has left the building finally and heading for the Panhandle. Alas, there are two more lows in the Atlantic pointing in this direction. I can assure you Floridians, though, the National Hurricane Center will know exactly where they're going five minutes after they get there.
Edit: Fay dropped 22 inches of rain in this area. Previous record: 15.
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You upstate guys got it worse than I did. But it's still raining on and off down here; tolerable, but acceptable.
My backyard is still sopping wet, preventing my scheduled cutting and weedwhacking---cheers for not having to do it, but worry about how thick the damned lawn will be when I can get to it...
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Robert, if you're lucky (and I'm using that term loosely), then the sitting water will suffocate the attacking plant life. You won't have to hack it back for, oh, another week or so after Fay dies.
~Former Resident of T.S. Fay's Reluctant Love Interest
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I'm hopeful, but...(1) it had already grown for a week beforehand, (2) it's been over a month since the last weedwhacking now, and (3) the thicker it is, the harder it is to push my mower through it.
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