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Hurricane Ian
NHC/NOAA ^ | 23 September 2022 | NHC/NOAA

Posted on 09/23/2022 2:32:24 AM PDT by NautiNurse

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To: NautiNurse
This article talks about the transformer issue:

Supply Chain Issues Could Slow Fix Of Florida Electric Grid

2,401 posted on 09/30/2022 10:33:07 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam
From the article, regulations and bureaucracy are the main problem:

Ditto said the main choke point is the specialty steel used in transformers — there is only one U.S. manufacturer for that. Her group and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association asked the Energy Department in May to suspend a 2016 efficiency standard that they say is partly responsible for the steel shortage, but the department has not gone along.

2,402 posted on 09/30/2022 10:40:16 PM PDT by CedarDave (Pfizer's boosters: You just turned your immune system's functionality into a subscription service!)
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To: NautiNurse
Today's chores include Paul Bunyan chainsaw behavior. WooHoo!

Woo Hoo! :-D

Wow, you've been working SO hard... good for you! Each day is another day closer to normal life.

2,403 posted on 09/30/2022 11:06:29 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: caww

Beautiful! Thanks for posting.


2,404 posted on 09/30/2022 11:13:05 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: CedarDave; jeffers
If you look carefully you can see a break in the photo compilation at the west end of the causeway. The south end of Sanibel is impacted (boats scattered, trees stripped), but north of there including Captiva is an earlier photo as there is absolutely no damage.

I take it back, with a much closer look there is damage but those houses are well built. One clue, swimming pools are brown.

2,405 posted on 09/30/2022 11:18:19 PM PDT by CedarDave (Pfizer's boosters: You just turned your immune system's functionality into a subscription service!)
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To: CatHerd

We went to Sanibel last year in March, and it was quite crowded. Had always wanted to go after reading Randy Wayne White’s Doc Ford books. I’m sure it was a neat place before it became famous. But there’s just not very much of coastal Florida that isn’t paved under any more. All the way from Tarpon Springs to Naples on the west coast, and the entire east coast, except for a few preserves.


2,406 posted on 10/01/2022 12:51:17 AM PDT by abb
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To: blam

Last year, after the tornadoes in Mayfield, KY, the local power distribution companies faced shortages of the pole top transformers used to deliver household voltage to their customers. TVA took several dozen of the potentially damaged ones, tested, and rebuilt the ones that could be, so that they were able to be returned to service.

I can’t recall the success rate, but if an entity has transformer repair/maintenance facilities available, they could perform this assessment/repair service.


2,407 posted on 10/01/2022 3:13:23 AM PDT by meyer (FBI = KGB for the DNC; IRS = Gestapo)
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To: NautiNurse
Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 70 miles from the storm center.

Eye doubled in size from last time we discussed it,some kinda storm!

2,408 posted on 10/01/2022 4:26:05 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY: UNTIL ITS NOT)
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To: abb

Thats the story of Florida one big parking lot.....


2,409 posted on 10/01/2022 4:27:22 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY: UNTIL ITS NOT)
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To: meyer

Being on the water is the last salvation for many of us down here and NOAA is doing it’s best to take that away and have been for decades.


2,410 posted on 10/01/2022 4:28:53 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY: UNTIL ITS NOT)
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To: rodguy911
Access into and out of the SW FL damaged area is crippled. Flooding from the Myakka and Peace Rivers has closed a substantial portion of I-75 and a smaller section of Hwy 41. May take days for the flooding to recede. These are two major access points around North Port, Port Charlotte, and Punta Gorda. This also means no access

While this will reduce the number of looky-loos, it is crippling access for relief supplies and ability of residents to exit the zone. Gasoline for generators is in short supply within the zone.

Now there is breaking news of a levee breach in the North Port area.

2,411 posted on 10/01/2022 4:57:13 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Ron DeSantis is Top Gov)
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To: rodguy911

The levee break alert has been corrected to east Sarasota County. Not North Port.


2,412 posted on 10/01/2022 4:58:25 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Ron DeSantis is Top Gov)
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To: blam
Bad news all the way around. The transformer shortage was news many months ago. Why hasn't this been corrected? In a rebuild, are there alternatives to transformers?

Florida Power & Light also suffered severe damage to multiple substations. Far beyond repairimg felled power lines.

2,413 posted on 10/01/2022 5:14:40 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Ron DeSantis is Top Gov)
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To: genetic homophobe

Thanks for checking in. We were getting a smidge worried about y’all.


2,414 posted on 10/01/2022 5:31:19 AM PDT by numberonepal (WWG1WGA)
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To: CedarDave; NautiNurse; SunkenCiv; Red Badger; BenLurkin; Kaslin; Liz

Very typical of the absolute power of the enviro Deep Swamp in charge of federal decisions under Clinton, Bush II, Obama, and no Biden.

ANY change towards a rational energy system is opposed.


2,415 posted on 10/01/2022 6:38:47 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: NautiNurse
"Florida Power & Light also suffered severe damage to multiple substations. Far beyond repairimg felled power lines. "

Florida Power And Light was the first US company to win the prestigious Deming Award.

Not a shabby company.

2,416 posted on 10/01/2022 7:00:01 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

FP&L apparently hardened the electric lines on my block after Hurricane Irma (no power for a week).


2,417 posted on 10/01/2022 8:24:16 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Ron DeSantis is Top Gov)
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To: rodguy911

Last night, local weather guy said all of Hurricane Charley could fit inside the eye of Ian.


2,418 posted on 10/01/2022 8:32:26 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Ron DeSantis is Top Gov)
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What is the status of the levy break and are there any links available? TYIA


2,419 posted on 10/01/2022 8:34:46 AM PDT by Dacula
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To: Dacula

Here is a Fox 4 news report from 3 hours ago. There doesn’t appear to be a levee break. My guess is the sheriff’s office went around warning people of high water levels incase they were without power and had no way to know..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgG1PRkEQOI


2,420 posted on 10/01/2022 8:58:23 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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