Hurricane Milton

[jazzbo]

Glad your power is restored Dan!

[Teasing the Korean]

TTK's power is still out. Interwebz connectivity is dicey. 

[Dan Gould]

I think I am lucky to be on the border with Polk county where TECO had a restoration date of yesterday which they barely met. Our outage straddled the county line and was probably more on the Polk side than the Hillsborough side.

Hope it comes back soon, TTK and thanks for the well wishes Lon.

[JSngry]

Back to work!

[Dan Gould]

Just now, JSngry said:

Back to work!

Some of us have to, until we die.

[JSngry]

Keep doing that good work!

[Teasing the Korean]

Power just came back on after 6 days and 22.5 hours. 

6 days and 22.5 hours without listening to Kenny G. 😹😹😹

Edited October 17 by Teasing the Korean

[Dan Gould]

Hope that never happens again TTK. It certainly sucks to be among the final few thousand to get restored, and I know someone who is also still waiting and very frustrated - her neighborhood is on but she has a downed wire in her backyard and is still waiting two days after everybody else came on.

I was amazed to learn of Florida Highway Patrol and other law enforcement agencies were accompanying fuel trucks to their destinations. Could not fathom it, it until I was informed by my wife's horse helper that there had been a shooting at a gas station where she lives in Dade City. 

At the same time, on Sunday morning, I saw the gas station nearest us had gas, a short line had formed, and there was no fuel truck or police presence in evidence.

[Brad]

When Hurricane Sandy came through NJ it took us two weeks to get power restored. That was not fun, to say the least. 

[Teasing the Korean]

5 minutes ago, Brad said:

When Hurricane Sandy came through NJ it took us two weeks to get power restored. That was not fun, to say the least. 

😿

14 hours ago, Dan Gould said:

Hope that never happens again TTK. It certainly sucks to be among the final few thousand to get restored, and I know someone who is also still waiting and very frustrated - her neighborhood is on but she has a downed wire in her backyard and is still waiting two days after everybody else came on.

👍

I'll gladly take loss of power over loss of home or loss of life, but still, it was stressful, exacerbated by the fact that our area is always the last to have power restored, whether it is a hurricane or routine rainfall.

[rostasi]

On 10/9/2024 at 1:36 PM, Teasing the Korean said:

No.  We'll tough it out.  Of course, if we lose power for weeks, we may think differently.

Any thoughts?

[Dan Gould]

My thoughts are without a doubt have a third generator to dedicate to the well pump;

Be absolutely certain that generators are serviced/ready to roll ahead of time - we thought both were good to go but older one with known issues was a real comedy of errors and trouble.

Maximize gas supply well ahead of storm;

 

Only wild card is possible investment in much larger generator for max power vs getting similar size generator to what we have for that third one that we need.

[jazzbo]

Wow, I'm glad that power has been restored. Six days. . . I have been without power for seven days before, and five after that, and not because of a hurricane, one was because of a heavy snow, and the other time a wind storm. I live in a sparsely housed wooded area and the power pole in the vacant wooded lot between my house and the next house two acres away was snapped both times. Both times when it fell it tore the wires off my house wall and once damaged our master panel. That pole just feeds two houses, as there are about 100 more trees than houses in my neighborhood it took a long ling time to get to us. . . they did repairs to everyone else first. And it always happens in the winter when it is COLD and being without heat and water is BAD.

If a hurricane were to somehow hit here. . . I think I'd be out for weeks!

Glad you are all safe. That's what is really important.

Edited October 17 by jazzbo