Our highest wind gust last night was 78 mph. We had several hours of 40-50 mph wind. We wound up getting 4 inches of rain in total. There were a couple of instances where I heard something hit the house.
At first light, I went out and surveyed the damage. We had no damage to our house, but a neighbor had a couple of trees topple. I helped him do some chainsaw work. Another lost his roof. All in all, it was relatively painless. Once the breezes calm a bit, I will get the drone up to look at the area.
I set up the propane stove on the back porch, and we are cooking breakfast. Once the clouds are gone, we will go back to cooking on electric. I am just trying to limit electric loads while we are on battery.
We have plenty of food, water, and supplies.
7 Comments
Mr_Garibaldi · October 10, 2024 at 8:06 am
Glad to know you are okay!
ModernDayJeremiah · October 11, 2024 at 3:40 am
Were you listening to REO Speedwagon?
“Riding the Storm Out”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVFgEBq0EKM
Noway2 · October 11, 2024 at 9:09 am
Glad you made it through OK. My boss was really worried about his family, who live in Tampa as well. His mom lost a giant tree that fell on their fence, but the house wasn’t damaged. While some areas undoubtedly got hit hard, the overall sound of things is that this one could have been much worse. Especially lucky that the storm surge went out (reverse surge) instead of in which prevented A LOT of flooding.
Silverfox · October 11, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Are you able to charge the bank with the generator? I use a generator to charge the bank and provide house power at the same time, as in my case, the genny provides more power than the house needs so that goes into the bank. Running the fridge, computer, lights.
Divemedic · October 13, 2024 at 6:17 am
There are ways to make that happen, but I purposely made the decision to make this system self sufficient.
lynn · October 12, 2024 at 5:14 pm
I take it that you do not have natural gas at the house for a natural gas cooktop / stove ?
Divemedic · October 13, 2024 at 6:17 am
That is correct. There is no natural gas here.
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