Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

Drew you might want to move any valuables off the floor and have some blocks of wood to raise furniture. Do you have access to your roof through your attic might keep an axe nearby.

 

[CWB Wyo]

It's a warm 51° this morning and no wind. The wind yesterday was 20-30 mph with sunny skies. Looks like today will be about the same low 80's with more wind and sunny.

Making a trip to town this morning. Not sure what the rest of the day will bring.

Everyone in the path of Flo stay safe.
CWB.

 

[daugen]

bored already of being domestic. Towels under all doors, spent an hour rubbing beeswax polish into kitchen cabinets.
I don't have any issues at all of high water. Before all the ditching done on this property, worst it got was just under two feet, per water stains on pilings under home. Entire home raised up about five feet. Nothing to do about vehicles, they'll be fine. I'm ten miles from the River, the surge isn't coming that far...that's why I bought out here, to get away from exactly this. Near the water, but not in the water...

I have such an ingrained fireman itch to go help people downtown but best thing I can do is stay off the roads.
Looky Lous create a lot of problems for more than themselves.

still pretty quiet here, first heavy rain now coming onshore at Havelock, where all the Marines are South of me.
And then straight at New Bern where RNG's friend is.

update: got email from friends in Wilmington, they bolted, drove last night to daughter's in Richmond. Smart. He had big canals right behind his house. Wake up to find an alligator in your living room and that's no joke.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low at 50° this morning, up to 85°. Like CWB, no rain in the forecast for the 7-10 days. Had a few good rains over the past month, but still in drought conditions.

If someone could figure out how to stretch a big tarp over the East Coast, slanted towards the west, maybe we could get some of that rainfall.....

Everyone stay safe, especially Drew. Sounds like you guys are well prepared. Good news that the storm has been downgraded.

Had a different 'water issue' yesterday. Came home from work and the wifey reported the laundry room flooded while washing a load of clothes. She had most of it all cleaned up by time I got home, just some water remained behind the washer and dryer, she couldn't pull them out. I was hoping it was just a hose leak, but nope. Coming from inside the washer. This is the third time the washer has leaked from an internal seal or component. It's 10-12 years old. They say that's about the life expectancy of 'modern new washers'......really? What happened to machines that last for 20-25 years? So....I guess time for a new one. We went into town last night to look...spent about double what I was expecting :shocked:

Again, everyone stay safe and out of harm's way. Drew....avoid the fireman's temptations...

Welcome to the GM thread for all the new guys and returning 'old' guys

Prayers out for everyone. Have a good day.

 

[hawkeye08]

Prayers for those impacted by storm...

 

[daugen]

Don thanks for advice about elevating valuables. I've been giving the same advice to ladies in the Garden Club who aren't leaving downtown.
Which reminds me to email the President (of the Garden Club) and remind her I will likely have hot showers and guest bedrooms in a dire emergency.

If someone could figure out how to stretch a big tarp over the East Coast, slanted towards the west, maybe we could get some of that rainfall.....

what an excellent idea :thumbsup:

 

[LouNY]

Wishing for the best to all in the Carolinas, been watching kind of close.
My SIL and daughter and 2 grandkids living in Jacksonville, NC., he is deployed at this time (on one of those big gray boats),
and they also have a house for sale in New Bern.
Wish they would have evacuated but also know that I would have stayed also,
went thru hurricanes both times I got stationed at Cherry Point back in the 70's.

 

[daugen]

Lou, living along the East Coast has such wonderful benefits.
But you sure can get the tar kicked out of you by weather.
Perhaps no more than folks in Tornado Alley and near the Gulf.
We are so built up that severe weather brings huge price tags.
And it's not all insured.

Guy this morning at breakfast at the greasy spoon was grousing about having to pay so much
for flood insurance because he was paying way too much because of all the beach houses getting washed away.
In fact was getting a bit incensed about it. I didn't think it was time to lecture him about premiums of the many
pay the claims of the few, because he sure thought there were too many of the few....
We went on to other topics.

am watching out my rear security camera and seeing the trees and bushes sway back and forth,
not much rain yet. Hope not to watch any big pines from the woods fall on the barn.
thought about pulling the Kubota out and parking it out in the middle of the field, but then figured that
would be overdoing it. He said with less optimism...

I haven't had the rain others in Western NC and Virginia have had so first six inches aren't a big problem beyond normal pooling
and backing up until main water drains clear. More than six inches and I'm likely to lose some plants and shrubs.
I'm pretty sure the veggie garden will be toast.

 

[daugen]

I have a couple of old fountains I think I could still get to work, though solar is the way to go,
and put one on that brown spot. Always dies in the heat, top of one of the two septic tanks.
Am tired of looking at that brown spot. Can't plant anything there.
That will be a good project, resurrecting a fountain. Hope all the parts made the move.
anyone have a recommendation on a solar powered fountain?

no... no glass balls, pink flamingos, giant frogs, etc...

 

[newbury]

I have a couple of old fountains I think I could still get to work, though solar is the way to go,
and put one on that brown spot. Always dies in the heat, top of one of the two septic tanks.
Am tired of looking at that brown spot. Can't plant anything there.
That will be a good project, resurrecting a fountain. Hope all the parts made the move.
anyone have a recommendation on a solar powered fountain?

no... no glass balls, pink flamingos, giant frogs, etc...

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