Just got cell service today. No power, no internet. Normally I can power my well pumps with the generator, but a tree fell on my water treatment shed, so no water till I rebuild that.
Very grateful we survived and the weather is miraculously cool.
Skeeters are next level vicious now.
Took a direct hit out here in Alva from Irma, thought this one would go further north.
I work on Sanibel and Captiva. Had a gig scheduled tonight at Sundial resort. The devastation is unreal, my dad and grandparents, all the old timers always tried to tell me my whole life how a real storm would remove entire islands and change the topography. This was that storm, can’t imagine that a cat 5 would’ve been even worse.
Y’all have prolly seen more news than us, I’ve only seen what we can see on the free “rabbit ears” tv antenna while the generator is running. We run it 1;2 hour or so every 2 to 3hours to keep the fridges and freezers cold.
4th generation FL cracker here, can you imagine before AC and mosquito control, (and before the amazing invention of the chainsaw for cleanup), no warning to speak of, back in the day?
I saw the edge of the eye from my front porch, it looked like a Q.
WWG1WGA, gotta sharpen the chains in the morning, my saws are spewing too much sawdust but they’ll be back to spitting chunks tomorrow 😎
Thank you for the update, glad you and yours are alive and unharmed, and hope you get back to some kind of normal soon.
Thanks for checking in. We were getting a smidge worried about y’all.