chucko
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Hey Flboys look out (AGAIN)
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Glenn9643
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The latest projection has it shifted back to the West again; with the eye making landfall about 30 miles North of me. That would put us in the danger zone, for sure. Historically, there have been no major hurricanes which have made a direct hit on my area, but there's always a first time.
Wouldn't you know, my son and a couple of his friends had scheduled Saturday as a day they could get over to my commercial property and pick up a lot of the stuff I have in the back yard. If the storm hits, they will be too late, and there won't be much stuff left to pick up...Of course, if the hurricane happened to totally destroy the building, that would solve my problems of how to get the remodelling finished, now that my health has deteriorated. Can we hope for a freak storm that only destroys one empty and insured building? Or, am I too anxious?
Wouldn't you know, my son and a couple of his friends had scheduled Saturday as a day they could get over to my commercial property and pick up a lot of the stuff I have in the back yard. If the storm hits, they will be too late, and there won't be much stuff left to pick up...Of course, if the hurricane happened to totally destroy the building, that would solve my problems of how to get the remodelling finished, now that my health has deteriorated. Can we hope for a freak storm that only destroys one empty and insured building? Or, am I too anxious?
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BradK
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Hey don, was wondering were yah were have not seen the commercial property moving forward as I drive by for work. Hope you are doing ok. I am hoping for this huricane to turn. If not I hope that the two horses i pasture board are able to be moved with my the 5 my girlfriend has to move, two full trailers. Hopefully the boarder can move one load so I can get the tractor and four wheeler out. But for now it is a waiting game and it figures we are gettin the pole barn up for the horses to move here go figure.
Hoping for a turn anywhere but here, but doesn't look good
BradK
Hoping for a turn anywhere but here, but doesn't look good
BradK
Attached is the latest projection -- I'm about 30 miles South of where it's supposed to hit. We're giving some thought to getting out. We have a cabin in the mountains in NC, and we're thinking about heading there, tomorrow. It gets real complicated, because I can't help drive, and we have to take my wife's 100 year-old Mother, in her wheelchair, on the 12 hour trip. We do have our Windstar rigged to strap her wheelchair in, but my wife would have to do it all -- manage her Mother, manage the 2 greyhoouds, and drive, all with me looking on helplessly. It's a big decision.
If we go, it will be tomorrow, so if you don't hear from me after Noon tomorrow, it's because we headed North. If we decide to ride it out, I'll post again tomorrow afternoon.
Our house is pretty secure, but if the storm is strong enough, we could lose the roof, and then all bets are off. That's the only thing that bothers me about staying. There's really no option to go to a shelter, because they just aren't equipped to handle someone like Betsy's Mother, who can be very disruptive.
I don't need this, right now...regardless of where we go, if the storm hits, we're going to lose a lot of tools, materials and such at my commercial property, since I haven't been able to do any prep over there.
If we go, it will be tomorrow, so if you don't hear from me after Noon tomorrow, it's because we headed North. If we decide to ride it out, I'll post again tomorrow afternoon.
Our house is pretty secure, but if the storm is strong enough, we could lose the roof, and then all bets are off. That's the only thing that bothers me about staying. There's really no option to go to a shelter, because they just aren't equipped to handle someone like Betsy's Mother, who can be very disruptive.
I don't need this, right now...regardless of where we go, if the storm hits, we're going to lose a lot of tools, materials and such at my commercial property, since I haven't been able to do any prep over there.
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BradK
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Good luck Don, I think i will be heading out this evening gotta finish securing stuff, get the horses shiped out this morning and hope for the best as the new tract this morning takes it through my parents area, my house, my boses house, my girlfriends house and my brothers house does not look good /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif.
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dmccarty
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Don,
I hope you get out. My parents are down your way and they boarded things up the best they could and left. I don't know where they are at the moment. They where just up here and left Monday. Got home boarded up the house and left again.
I always worry about the people who are due to give birth or have health issues and have to go through these things. Its bad enough when one is heathly.
Get out if you can. This one is bad and going to get badder. I would be concerned about the NC mountains though. Nobody knows where this thing is going to head but it looks like the mountains are going to get alot of rain which always causes flooding and landslides up there.
Good Luck and Take Care,
Dan McCarty
I hope you get out. My parents are down your way and they boarded things up the best they could and left. I don't know where they are at the moment. They where just up here and left Monday. Got home boarded up the house and left again.
I always worry about the people who are due to give birth or have health issues and have to go through these things. Its bad enough when one is heathly.
Get out if you can. This one is bad and going to get badder. I would be concerned about the NC mountains though. Nobody knows where this thing is going to head but it looks like the mountains are going to get alot of rain which always causes flooding and landslides up there.
Good Luck and Take Care,
Dan McCarty
Well, I said I'd try to update, and I am. We're staying here. Not much choice, really. It would have been entirely too difficult for my wife to handle her Mother, me as a near cripple, and the dogs on a 12 hour trip to the mountains. And, as dmmcarty said, the mountains may not be all that safe, anyway. There are no real good options.
Our house is fairly secure -- as good as any in the area, I'd guess -- and we have 3M film on all the windows that's as good as plywood to prevent shattering (although not breakage). The only thing we really worry about is getting strong enough to take off the roof. We'll be in a central hallway during the actual storm, a narrow passage in the center of the house where there is less chance of something falling down on us.
We're finished bringing in everything from the patio, our cars are filled with gas, we have all the batteries, water, etc. that we need. We brought the motor home over from the commercial property where I normally keep it. It's parked in the driveway across the front of the house, providing a bit of a barrier to both the house and the garage door, and available for us to run the generator and have a bit of power after the storm, if need be. It also has a propane refrigerator and a propane stove that we can use afterwards, along with the grills, which we brought inside to protect. The water tank on the motor home is also filled.
I don't know what else we can do. Thank goodness for friends who came this morning to help gas up and move the motor home, and our son, who took time from his own preparations to help his Mother get everything inside. Our son-in-law and daughter are about 45 miles inland in Okeechobee, and they've boarded up and plan to ride it out. My son-in-law is a fireman there and will no doubt be busy. Our daughter will have the two granddaughters, 2 dogs, cat, and is 6 months pregnant, so that will be interesting...
The latest projection, as of 11 AM, has it going straight over our house...
Our house is fairly secure -- as good as any in the area, I'd guess -- and we have 3M film on all the windows that's as good as plywood to prevent shattering (although not breakage). The only thing we really worry about is getting strong enough to take off the roof. We'll be in a central hallway during the actual storm, a narrow passage in the center of the house where there is less chance of something falling down on us.
We're finished bringing in everything from the patio, our cars are filled with gas, we have all the batteries, water, etc. that we need. We brought the motor home over from the commercial property where I normally keep it. It's parked in the driveway across the front of the house, providing a bit of a barrier to both the house and the garage door, and available for us to run the generator and have a bit of power after the storm, if need be. It also has a propane refrigerator and a propane stove that we can use afterwards, along with the grills, which we brought inside to protect. The water tank on the motor home is also filled.
I don't know what else we can do. Thank goodness for friends who came this morning to help gas up and move the motor home, and our son, who took time from his own preparations to help his Mother get everything inside. Our son-in-law and daughter are about 45 miles inland in Okeechobee, and they've boarded up and plan to ride it out. My son-in-law is a fireman there and will no doubt be busy. Our daughter will have the two granddaughters, 2 dogs, cat, and is 6 months pregnant, so that will be interesting...
The latest projection, as of 11 AM, has it going straight over our house...
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Don,
I read your reply, and I started shaking. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
I'm sure that you've done as much as you believe that you can do. But I would be very worried. I'm glad to hear that you have family reasonably close. But as you pointed out, they may end up being pretty busy themselves.
Isn't there some type of agency that you could contact for assistance or guidance? Maybe the Red Cross, the United Way, or the Salvation Army? In our neck of the woods, these agencies provide shelter for individuals that might be in danger. They'll even come and get you and take you to a better shelter than your home might be.
Please consider doing something like this. I can't imagine what it must be like to have to leave your home with the idea that it might not be there when you return. But the alternative is much worse.
I'll be perfectly honest with you, I'm requesting that you do this for a very selfish reason. We've never met, but I (and I know a lot of others on TBN) consider you a very good friend. And I don't intend on losing a good friend if I can do anything about it. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
At least call a couple of these agencies and find out what some options might be available. Maybe there aren't any, but we'd feel awfully bad if we found out that there had been some options available to you, your wife and her mother.
How about it? Will you do that?
PLEASE?
I should add that this goes for all of our TBN friends in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas or anywhere the storm might strike.
I read your reply, and I started shaking. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
I'm sure that you've done as much as you believe that you can do. But I would be very worried. I'm glad to hear that you have family reasonably close. But as you pointed out, they may end up being pretty busy themselves.
Isn't there some type of agency that you could contact for assistance or guidance? Maybe the Red Cross, the United Way, or the Salvation Army? In our neck of the woods, these agencies provide shelter for individuals that might be in danger. They'll even come and get you and take you to a better shelter than your home might be.
Please consider doing something like this. I can't imagine what it must be like to have to leave your home with the idea that it might not be there when you return. But the alternative is much worse.
I'll be perfectly honest with you, I'm requesting that you do this for a very selfish reason. We've never met, but I (and I know a lot of others on TBN) consider you a very good friend. And I don't intend on losing a good friend if I can do anything about it. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
At least call a couple of these agencies and find out what some options might be available. Maybe there aren't any, but we'd feel awfully bad if we found out that there had been some options available to you, your wife and her mother.
How about it? Will you do that?
PLEASE?
I should add that this goes for all of our TBN friends in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas or anywhere the storm might strike.
