The water authority is asking people in our area to conserve water so as to avoid the need for a boiled water alert as they have in north/central Brevard County.
Still no cable TV. Bought a couple digital antennas, but they are not the type strong enough to pull in the Orlando stations.
Still a lot of power outages in the area and many gas stations are either still closed or out of gas and selling their convenience store items. Very few gas lines at the stations with gasoline, though.
Publix stores are open here. Beachside Winn Dixie is too, but their refrigerated section was closed tonight. The Beachside and West Melbourne Walmarts are still closed.
Fresh milk is hard to find. It took five stops before I found plenty of milk at the Palm Bay super Target.
With everyone still without power, a lot of Beachside people went to the beach last night. It seemed every beach parking lot was filled along A1A from Indialantic through the northern edge of Satellite Beach.
Tonight had a spectacular sunset that lasted forever and changed colors magnificently. A reminder of why people put up with the hurricanes, and lightening, and tornadoes, and sink holes, and fire ants, and mosquitoes, and humidity to live in Florida.
Four big tankers came into Port of Tampa last night. Gasoline on the way!
I went to our local Publix today (Hyde Park area of S Tampa) to get some groceries and they are STILL without power. They were running what they could and stay open all on generators that the meat dept. guy told me uses 30 gal. of diesel PER HOUR. Most everything I needed, I was able to find - there even was some bottled water. Slowly we will all recover, I know.
WOO HOO!!! We're so happy both you and NautiNurse (and many other Floridians) got your power back today, finally! Yeah, maybe it was our CT Eversource crew, or one of the thousands of other crews from all over the US and Canada working hard in Florida.
What an ordeal just to get milk tonight! I'm glad to hear things are starting to get back to normal for you.
Tonight had a spectacular sunset that lasted forever and changed colors magnificently. A reminder of why people put up with the hurricanes, and lightening, and tornadoes, and sink holes, and fire ants, and mosquitoes, and humidity to live in Florida.
Sounds nice, although I'll have to think about the sink holes and fire ants. I have no experience with those, lol.
We all kind of miss seeing you in DC, kristinn, but it's good to know you've been enjoying life in Florida. :-)
Sooooo happy you’ve got power! Love the beach story:)
Orlando is also hit and miss with stores that are open. Most Publix are open, but no one has milk. Sparsely stocked stores all over. No store has ice but the city has given away 2 bags per car each afternoon at different places. Trucks emptied in 30 minutes.
St. John’s and Wekiva Rivers flooding continues, not expected to crest for days yet.