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To: lodi90
Now they're saying there's a good chance this will be a Cat 4 by Friday.

Exactly where landfall will be along the coast is still up for grabs.

I live away from any town in the country but I am on a major highway, so I'll get power restored, if it goes out, pretty quickly. Probably in a day or two. People just a couple of miles off the highway, went weeks to get power back on after the last blow.

The hurricanes give our many oak trees a haircut and there is debris everywhere. Tree debris cleanup after the last storm took my wife and I two weeks, working every day, to pick it all up and haul to our burn pile. We have 30 acres and limbs fall on the fences and the cows can get out. Yikes! :-)

Good luck to you.

214 posted on 08/29/2019 5:53:51 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: HotHunt

I live on a farm in Alva, about 20 miles inland from Ft. Myers. Lots of live oak hammocks and some pines. Though maybe not quite as far inland as you, I always thought we were far enough inland that we would miss the really strong winds.

Irma took a right and headed north northeast at Marco Island, traveled 60 miles north (over land) making a beeline right for Alva. Our little town got the northwestern wall of the eye, strongest part of the storm. Just 7 or 8 miles west of us, towards Ft. Myers, the wind wasn’t nearly as strong. We actually had 150mph gusts coming thru our pastures. Lost many trees. Big ones. Took me all day with big saws to clear a path wide enough to drive a car out. 3 weeks without power. I’ll be happy if I never, ever have to go thru that again. Still haven’t fully recovered/cleaned up.


246 posted on 08/29/2019 8:11:18 AM PDT by genetic homophobe (Trump: the only effective weapon we have to deal with the donor class.)
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