Hurricane Thread

[Elok]

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.

[E_T]

where abouts you living?

[Elok]

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

[Geo]

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

[Elok]

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

[Buster's Uncle]

Naw.   I got kilt by sumthin' or another.

[Elok]

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

[Geo]

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?

[Elok]

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.

[E_T]

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...

[Elok]

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.

[E_T]

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...

[Elok]

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

[E_T]

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...

[Buster's Uncle]

Naw.   I got kilt by sumthin' or another.

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

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