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Hurricane preparations

dsculley said:
Not much of one, thankfully. Pretty much a non-event except for the so-called reporters. A lot of rain, a little bit of wind.
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Dsculley you are correct, not much of a hurricane but you never can tell about those little twisters. I've been living on the MS. gulf coast for 53+ years, wouldn't trade it for the world but we have to contend with these acts of nature. I'll take a weeks warnig of a hurricane over no warning of an earth quake anytime. Lol.

Darrin
 
I never thought much about them living in central Ohio hundreds of miles from the cost until Hurricane Ivan on Sept 14, 2008. Constant 50 mph winds with gusts over 70. Ohio had major power outages and damage in 86 of the 88 counties. We were lucky and only had the electric down for 12-14 hours. Some places in the area were well over a week without electric and everything it provides. Dumpsters full of food at all the grocery stores. My 68 trees save our house but we were one of the few without siding and roofing damage.

Pray for everyone in it's path!
 
Its blowing steady about 30 to 35 mph. Waters up and high tide is at 5:00 am this morning. So storm surge will really be a bugger with these current winds from the south south east. Radar has me in the upper northeastern corner outside the eye wall.
 
Since moving back to suburban western PA from rural NY I am actually more concerned about "weather" after-effects. In NY winter started in October and snow was melting in mid May. In 33 years I experienced one winter related power outage of about 8 hours, several short ones due to wind or storms in summer. No one even gave it a thought. Snow up to our butt, three times in 48 hours? Nothing... we just went on about business in our crappy 4WD trucks and ate venison.

Now I drive about in western Pa, look at all the power lines that are grown over, poles and transformers that date back to the 1960's and see how many houses are here...add in a heavy dose of "stupid folks who can't understand how to unlock their own car door" or "put snow tires on before winter" and I think I am gonna need a back-up generator and a means to keep the crazies away...oh...I have that. Guess I need a generator.

A week long outage is more likely here, despite the so-called sophistication. Things have not been updated in YEARS. The same three line feed to my house is still serving it since 1958 when my parents built it. As is every feed on the 20 houses on this street. One of thousands in a square mile. It is the same pole too...still has tacks in it I used as targets for my bb gun when i was 10. That was 44 years ago. And sadly, i pay a lot more for my electricity than I did in NY. I think by now Mr. Duquense of Duquense Light Company should have all his kids outta college and braces and could at least lower my costs...since clearly not one dang thing has been done to rebuild the infrastructure.

OK, rant over. Pass the Russells. keep the cigar.
 
Go easy on the cigar now guys, It’s just an innocent bystander, not many hurricanes in West Michigan. But I will definitely use this recipe for snow storms in January. Hope all is well

Randy
 
snert said:
Since moving back to suburban western PA from rural NY I am actually more concerned about "weather" after-effects. In NY winter started in October and snow was melting in mid May. In 33 years I experienced one winter related power outage of about 8 hours, several short ones due to wind or storms in summer. No one even gave it a thought. Snow up to our butt, three times in 48 hours? Nothing... we just went on about business in our crappy 4WD trucks and ate venison.

Now I drive about in western Pa, look at all the power lines that are grown over, poles and transformers that date back to the 1960's and see how many houses are here...add in a heavy dose of "stupid folks who can't understand how to unlock their own car door" or "put snow tires on before winter" and I think I am gonna need a back-up generator and a means to keep the crazies away...oh...I have that. Guess I need a generator.

A week long outage is more likely here, despite the so-called sophistication. Things have not been updated in YEARS. The same three line feed to my house is still serving it since 1958 when my parents built it. As is every feed on the 20 houses on this street. One of thousands in a square mile. It is the same pole too...still has tacks in it I used as targets for my bb gun when i was 10. That was 44 years ago. And sadly, i pay a lot more for my electricity than I did in NY. I think by now Mr. Duquense of Duquense Light Company should have all his kids outta college and braces and could at least lower my costs...since clearly not one dang thing has been done to rebuild the infrastructure.

OK, rant over. Pass the Russells. keep the cigar.
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Buy the generator! It’ll pay for itself during your first big outage.
 
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