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Community => Recreation Commons => Topic started by: Elok on October 31, 2018, 06:39:54 PM

Title: Hurricane Thread
Post by: Elok on October 31, 2018, 06:39:54 PM

Diverted from my old cooking thread.

A lot of the infrastructure seems to be fixed now--most crucially power lines and traffic lights.  No more curfew, or anything like that.  The problem will be getting businesses up and running, and repairing or replacing all the wrecked houses.  Even if shops are fixed, you can't run them if all the former employees are homeless and look to be so for the foreseeable future.

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: E_T on November 01, 2018, 01:37:09 AM

where abouts you living?

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: Elok on November 01, 2018, 12:09:33 PM

FL panhandle.  Just north of Panama City where Michael made landfall.

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: Geo on November 01, 2018, 01:59:06 PM

Oh, I thought you were the forum user more towards Kentucky/Tennessee.

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: Elok on November 01, 2018, 02:02:46 PM

Well, BUncle is very roughly in that area.  Is he okay, BTW?  I haven't seen/heard much of him.

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 01, 2018, 02:45:45 PM

Naw.   I got kilt by sumthin' or another.

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: Elok on November 01, 2018, 03:34:28 PM

Then hush up.  Uno would be disappointed to see a corpse acting out of character.

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: Geo on November 01, 2018, 05:46:09 PM

Quote from: Elok on November 01, 2018, 02:02:46 PM

Well, BUncle is very roughly in that area.  Is he okay, BTW?  I haven't seen/heard much of him.

Nah, I know BUncle's not from either state I mentioned. Mr. Green or something?

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: Elok on November 01, 2018, 06:03:49 PM

I did say very roughly.  I think he's actually in a Carolina.  I have a hard time keeping that whole part of the country geographically straight, it all seems so nondescript.  Not everybody is lucky enough to live in America's Perineum like me.

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: E_T on November 02, 2018, 01:16:09 AM

Quote from: Elok on November 01, 2018, 12:09:33 PM

FL panhandle.  Just north of Panama City where Michael made landfall.

That area basically got scrubbed from the map...
Had seen before and after Sat Pictures on the news and there would have been more standing if a Nuke had hit it instead...

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: Elok on November 02, 2018, 03:23:15 PM

Depends on which part.  Mexico Beach, and some surrounding areas, were utterly wrecked.  Further inland, like in Callaway/Parker/Millville, there was serious wreckage, but most buildings remained largely intact if they didn't have a tree fall on them.  Mostly you saw stripped roofs.  Lynn Haven was better off still.  PC Beach, off to the west, was fine, as was I up at the north end of the county.  It's a big place.  Sort of.

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: E_T on November 02, 2018, 04:48:00 PM

Did the storm center pass east or West of you?  Even though it was a slow moving storm (IIRC), there is still a bit of difference to the severity of the storm due to this...

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: Elok on November 02, 2018, 05:06:56 PM

It skimmed east of me, which meant I got offshore winds plus no storm surge due to being way up north.

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: E_T on November 02, 2018, 07:23:02 PM

and the "better" wind side, too
EDIT: In areas close to where (was it Irene? ) had gone though, in Lake county/NW Orange County, a LOT of trees now have a permanent lean to them.  I was driving though one area a month or so after the storm and was fascinated by the groves of leaning trees...

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 02, 2018, 08:23:43 PM

Quote from: Buster's Uncle on November 01, 2018, 02:45:45 PM

Naw.   I got kilt by sumthin' or another.

Quote from: Elok on November 01, 2018, 03:34:28 PM

Then hush up.  Uno would be disappointed to see a corpse acting out of character.

You kiddin'?  That makes me fascinating to Uno...

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: Rusty Edge on December 09, 2018, 05:49:26 AM

How are things these days in the Panhandle?  Recoveries are seldom newsworthy.

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: E_T on December 10, 2018, 01:15:58 AM

If it's anything like I had observed in South/Central FL after the 2004 storms, then post Storm Cleanup is still ongoing, but almost completely done

By this, I'm talking about stuff that people have put out on the curb to get picked up to be removed.  But when compared to the amount of shear devastation... 

I worked Cleanup (Cleanup & Safety Monitor - I was all over the state - Started right after Charley) in 2004 and the only break I got was for Thanksgiving Day (and when the other storms had come through).  I was out the door before daylight and didn't get back home until well after dark, 7 days until just before Christmas.  By that time, it was down to the last pass (for pickup) and only a few people were needed after the New Year.

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: Elok on December 25, 2018, 12:07:55 PM

Okay, back from Advent break.  The area's sorta recovering--the rubble's mostly cleared, there aren't as many giant piles of trash--but the hospital I was working at bungled repair so badly that it's shrinking to a quarter of its previous size, and I got laid off.  I'm not too stressed; there's other work in the area, I own this (undamaged) house, and they're paying me for the next two months.  I've been applying; we'll see.

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: E_T on December 25, 2018, 03:12:12 PM

Hope that you don't have to relocate, although undamaged housing (in your general area) is likely at a premium (for now), thus allowing you to possibly sell it, relocating is still a major hassle...

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: Elok on December 25, 2018, 04:42:14 PM

It was built by my wife's grandfather; selling it isn't in the cards.  We just don't have a mortgage, or rent, is all.

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: Rusty Edge on December 25, 2018, 07:05:49 PM

God be with you as you redesign your life.

Title: Re: Hurricane Thread
Post by: Geo on December 25, 2018, 09:27:23 PM

Quote from: Rusty Edge on December 25, 2018, 07:05:49 PM

God be with you as you redesign your life.

Intelligent design?