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Who invited Milton to the party?

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Bob from Florida said:
Lost power at 4 AM - hurricane force gusts woke us at 2 AM. Lots of small debris around, roof intact, no obvious damage. Basically a "fizzle" compared to what could have occurred. We were fortunate.
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Basically the same here, no serious damage and the power, cable, internet stayed on all night.
I sat up watching TV and listening to music all night and just came in from checking on my friends houses, etc.
Only very light damage around our park so far, a bunch of blown off skirting, etc.
Not near as bad as Irma in 2017 where we lost a handful of roofs, etc. Thank God.
Haven't heard anything from RayDunzl yet, he's in Tampa and I'm a bit worried for him. He hasn't posted since 5:30 pm yesterday. :(
 
Wild night. Gusts into the 90’s. We had one leak but we had about 16 inches of rain pushing in with all that wind. Lost power at 6:08pm. Big oaks across our road pulled down power lines and we plus a few neighbors are stuck.
 
Reed said:
Wild night. Gusts into the 90’s. We had one leak but we had about 16 inches of rain pushing in with all that wind. Lost power at 6:08pm. Big oaks across our road pulled down power lines and we plus a few neighbors are stuck.
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which area are you one?
 
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Just got this update from @AdamG , and he asked me to post here as his connection is quite spotty:



We are safe. Amazingly we only lost power from about 10 pm until 4 am. Able to have a hot cup of coffee. We are blessed and we are grateful for all the Prayers. They worked and you guys have some powerful connections.

The Storm came raging in at 2pm ish and lashed us hard (over 100 mph winds were recorded). It was brutal and then the eye came and in an instant it was totally tranquility. It was dark (10pm) but you could see the walls of darkness swirling around in the distance. Went out side and took stock. Noticed the street storm drains were covered in debris so I went to them and cleared the blockages by hand. Just as I finished the winds started again (10:30ish).

We thought the back side (The storm went almost directly over us and was mostly a little north and on Radar the bottom south and west side looked better than the north and east side. Was hoping it was almost over. At this point both Patty and I were shell shocked by the previous lashing. But the backside of this storm had a surprise planned. It went from tranquil to insanity intensity in mere seconds and I barely made it back inside the house. The winds were so strong and hard if felt like the house was moving. The sliding glass doors that are 4 panels wide were flexing in and out it was like they were breathing. I was waiting for the glass to shatter and shower us in shards of glass. The whistling was nonstop and a few heavy freight trains drove by (probably tornadoes). It was an onslaught and relentless for the next several hours. It finally let off around 3:30 am.

By a factor of many. Milton was be the most powerful hurricane I have ever experienced. And I have been through about a dozen now. It was a completely terrifying night. Our home, with the exception of the screen enclosure over the pool and a few trees is fine. I don't see any roof damage or structural issues. The builder told us this house could handle 150mph winds. They didn't lie. The storm surge was at 15'9" when we lost power. We never flooded and we think that is down to how the backside winds worked to push water out of the Tampa bay and the Manatee River.

The hand of God and the power of Mother Nature is beyond our understanding and measure. I had thought that Milton was falling apart before landfall. I could not have been more wrong. This storm covered the entire state from coast to coast and remained a Category 3-2 the entire time. This is incredibly unusual.

To end this little shared experience. Thank you to all our friends and family who gave us support and prayers throughout this journey.

Will we stay for another major hurricane like this. Absolutely....we love the thrill of living on the edge of thinking we are going to die in any second...
 
ErVikingo said:
there was a very strong tornado in Palm Beach Gardens also. Various cars on their roofs. A report of a strong one in St Lucie county with loss of life

All OK down here. 2 twisters close by but in undeveloped areas! (everglades)
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That was close to me yes. My sister and rental property are in Fort Peirce, and they had far more, multiples deaths reported. This storm it was not the flooding that killed people, it was tornadoes. Not normal for FL. This is not good mojo. I have been considering leaving FL in the next few years mostly due to sky rocket costs of living, and these storms will raise insurance yet again.
 
"Will we stay for another major hurricane like this. Absolutely....we love the thrill of living on the edge of thinking we are going to die in any second..."

@AdamG You are a braver and bolder man than I... I'm glad to hear you made it through this one in pretty good shape and I hope for the best for everyone else.
 
Steven Holt said:
BD, thank you for pointing this out. In my experience, far too many people don't understand this.
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That was straight from Adam's heart after a harrowing night.

While Milton didn't cause Paradise to be Lost, it certainly made it a Hellish experience for those who went through it.
 
BDWoody said:
I had thought that Milton was falling apart before landfall. I could not have been more wrong. This storm covered the entire state from coast to coast and remained a Category 3-2 the entire time
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Yea same here. We were about 4 hours behind you and I thought that it had spun itself out of gas around 8pm, OPPS. It didn't stop shaking the house till around 6am. Luckily damage was minimal around the park, I believe 2017s Irma was a bit worse for us.. Sorry for the folks that took the brunt of it's anger.
Ain't life grand. LOL
 
BDWoody said:
Will we stay for another major hurricane like this. Absolutely....we love the thrill of living on the edge of thinking we are going to die in any second...
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I'm never going anywhere else, I love it here.
I'll take a few windy nights over sub zero temps and a snow shovel 4-6 months a year. :eek:
 
Went through the neighborhood today. A lot of damage from the tornado at the other end of our street. Lanai's torn off, roof tiles torn off, and a lot of downed trees.

My house was spared - just two ripped screens over the lanai. It just missed us.
 
Steven Holt said:
Cool, bro -- tell us a good one!
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Like being in the Sasebo Japan Harbor with other ships because the Sasebo Harbor is pretty well protected from high winds due to being surrounded by great hills (perhaps not mountains, but pretty high) with an entrance between them that a couple of ships the size of ours (950 ft. L X 107 ft. W draft 35 ft.) could (with some proper coordination) pass each other going into & out of the harbor when a typhoon hit?
So, we were at our various anchorages within the harbor when it was noticed that one of the other ships was dragging it's anchor, sliding backwards! And then another one! And then ourselves!
All of us had our bow anchors dragging as the typhoon winds were blowing us backward toward the mainland shore. The waves in the harbor were not huge, the ship was pretty steady (if you were sleeping in your room, you would not have noticed the issue).
Coordinating with the other ships, we all let ourselves drag our anchors as far as was deemed safe, then we all (as deemed necessary individually) got our engines going in ahead, and slowly moved forward as we raised our anchors just off the bottom of the harbor and pulled back up to our original anchorages. lowered the anchors again, let the engines idle & let the winds blow us back across the harbor & doing this again & again for about 5 hours.
What made it scary was that we were all there in order to get refueled. So we were all low on fuel.
Imagine the catastrophe that could happen if one ship ran out of fuel, the wind changed direction and that ship careened into another & then both being blown to the shore while sinking (perhaps hitting the bottom and being rolled over onto their sided with an ongoing typhoon).
Thank God we had enough fuel, there were no equipment failures & we all made it through the typhoon.
 
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Sal1950 said:
I'm never going anywhere else, I love it here.
I'll take a few windy nights over sub zero temps and a snow shovel 4-6 months a year. :eek:
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I moved from Jacksonville to Connecticut to be closer to the kids. Have a well insulated house and don’t notice the outside temperature. The lawn guys plow the drive. We’re nestled in the middle of protected wetlands. Couple of acres in the middle of a couple hundred. Have a picture window next to the bathtub. Took some getting used to.

In my lifetime, Jacksonville was never directly hit. Lots of low intensity tornados. Is there such a thing as F0?
 
Englewood, Pt. Charlotte side here, did not look good for a little bit in the approach, but other than the obligatory loss of power, we dodged a big one. No flooding.

Hope nobody had any loss.
 
Petrushka said:
I moved from Jacksonville to Connecticut to be closer to the kids. Have a well insulated house and don’t notice the outside temperature. The lawn guys plow the drive. We’re nestled in the middle of protected wetlands. Couple of acres in the middle of a couple hundred. Have a picture window next to the bathtub. Took some getting used to.

In my lifetime, Jacksonville was never directly hit. Lots of low intensity tornados. Is there such a thing as F0?
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I (and my wife) don't like it when it goes below 64 and I am 70% an outdoor person (She's about 40% an outdoor person). But we are both day sleepers, going to bed as the sun comes up and getting up between 11:30 AM & 2:00 PM. We usually don't make it outside until 4:00 PM. but we'll stay outside past 10:00 PM.
 
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