Posted on 09/23/2022 2:32:24 AM PDT by NautiNurse
The late-blooming 2022 Atlantic Tropical Storm season is making up for lost time. A tropical system has developed in the Central Caribbean Sea. This storm system is forecast to threaten continental U.S. interests next week. While the tropical wave passed south of a key geographic area known as Hebert's Box #1, it will very likely pass through Hebert's Box #2. These boxes are useful as predictors of hurricanes that will strike South Florida. For more information about Hebert's Boxes, see Hebert Box. See graphic below which illustrated the Hebert's Boxes.
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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.
Woo Hoo! :-D
Wow, you've been working SO hard... good for you! Each day is another day closer to normal life.
Beautiful! Thanks for posting.
I take it back, with a much closer look there is damage but those houses are well built. One clue, swimming pools are brown.
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.
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.
Eye doubled in size from last time we discussed it,some kinda storm!
Thats the story of Florida one big parking lot.....
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.
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.
The levee break alert has been corrected to east Sarasota County. Not North Port.
Florida Power & Light also suffered severe damage to multiple substations. Far beyond repairimg felled power lines.
Thanks for checking in. We were getting a smidge worried about y’all.
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.
Florida Power And Light was the first US company to win the prestigious Deming Award.
Not a shabby company.
FP&L apparently hardened the electric lines on my block after Hurricane Irma (no power for a week).
Last night, local weather guy said all of Hurricane Charley could fit inside the eye of Ian.
What is the status of the levy break and are there any links available? TYIA
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
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