Hey Jim take a pic of the Bastids ya shoot!
Wilmaaaaaaaaa!!!!
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Hard40 said:
Barry is beyond saving. Please have Mary direct Barry's prayers to my side, please.
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Holy Cow Capt'n, it looks like Monday it's in your yard.
Hold tight my friend. All our prayers are with ya'll and your
neighbors....hehe....even Brother Barry...dabonehead dat
he is and we love! Arghhhhh....what's a storm to pirates?
I'll be waiting a call after the storm passes. Looks to be
picking up forward speed. Let's hope it passes qiuckly.
Holy Cow Capt'n, it looks like Monday it's in your yard.
Hold tight my friend. All our prayers are with ya'll and your
neighbors....hehe....even Brother Barry...dabonehead dat
he is and we love! Arghhhhh....what's a storm to pirates?
I'll be waiting a call after the storm passes. Looks to be
picking up forward speed. Let's hope it passes qiuckly.
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Put up my last storm panels tonight. Finished at 12:30 AM. Had a Corona with my neighbor and now it's just sit and wait and watch Jim Cantore and Stephanie Abrams on the Weather Channel. Starting to get really breezy in the last hour. Should be in the rain bands in about an hour. Hurricane force winds by 6:00 AM. May lose power but I have a generator. If the phone lines hold up, I'll post some pics. Only thing I'm worried about is my boat. Parked it on the neighbor's property between his new house and a berm about 15' high. No trees around, so only flying debris can hurt her. I'm ready. Took me about 5 days to get ready so I'll be pissed if this thing misses me.
Well just flew into Tampa today at 12:30. It was sunny when I landed and very breezy. We had a 135 mph head wind we flew into the whole ride down...kinda bumpy. Then the landing was real rough..35 mph ground winds...we were banking 5-10 degrees back and forth. At least the good thing was right before it hit Jim is that it was down graded to a cat 2 so hopefully not too much damage to his place.
Update
Spoke with Jim. All are injury free. The house is another story.
He's now sporting a tree in his home office. Yes, that's right...
ANOTHER tree through the roof. Roads covered with lots of down
trees and debris. Cruisers and boats appeared to make it OK.
He was getting ready to winch some trees out of the road for
ingress and egress.
Whew......
Update this evening if anything changes.
Hang tuff Capt'n.
No word on Brother Barry and his roof.
No word on our other Fla members yet.
God's speed to their recovery.
Spoke with Jim. All are injury free. The house is another story.
He's now sporting a tree in his home office. Yes, that's right...
ANOTHER tree through the roof. Roads covered with lots of down
trees and debris. Cruisers and boats appeared to make it OK.
He was getting ready to winch some trees out of the road for
ingress and egress.
Whew......
Update this evening if anything changes.
Hang tuff Capt'n.
No word on Brother Barry and his roof.
No word on our other Fla members yet.
God's speed to their recovery.
Thanks for the update David. Sorry to hear about the tree Jim. Injury free is the most important part though! Hang in there Capt.!!!
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Hey guys. I'm on slow dial-up to my SC Bellsouth number. No service/power down here. Generator is humming along quite well.All is good. That was one windy storm. Had 6 roof punctures ranging from 6" to 12" in diameter. All are patched temporarily. Mike McInnis and I took 4 large pine trees of my roof today. He and his girlfdriend Morgan spent the whole day here helping us.
I'll try and post some pics tomorrow, but if it too slow, I'll do it when my DSL is back up. There are\power lines down everywhere and wood as well as concrete power poles are snapped in two. The project another 3 to 5 weeks + before all power is up and completed.
Food is good and beer is cold. Neighbor works in a restaurant and raided the Icemaker there. Brought me about 40 lbs. Another neighbor who has her own catering business had about 20 of us over for dinner tonight. Spaghetti, and it was superb. She's cooking all here food so it won't spoil. She has large walk-in type freezers that her gen-set can't run, so she wants to feed it to us. Free\chain saw work at here place from all of us.
Bothe kids are out of school at least through the rest of this week. One is in High school and the other is at U Miami.
I'm sitting in my office typing this looking up at two holes in the ceiling and the drywall dust is everywhere. Going to be tearing out the drywall ceiling and one wall tomorrow. Will check the floor for moisture tomorrow. If it is wet, it (travertine marble) will be coming out also as it has a wood sub-floor under it.
Weird thing about this storm, the following morning it was 54 degrees here. That's pretty cool for us this time of year, but it was a welcome repite from the heat.
Cell phones arre not yet working. I cannot call out, but do get voice and text messages. Occasional it will ring but the connect time is short and hard\to hear the caller.
In closing, this storm was AWESOME! That sounds weird after all the damage but I have never seen such strong winds in 33 years of living down here. Large pine trees would snap, and then fly latterally for about 100 feet before they hit the ground. Got lots of pics and videos, but like off-roading pics, they never do it justice.
Hope to get on line tomorrow.
capt. Jim
I'll try and post some pics tomorrow, but if it too slow, I'll do it when my DSL is back up. There are\power lines down everywhere and wood as well as concrete power poles are snapped in two. The project another 3 to 5 weeks + before all power is up and completed.
Food is good and beer is cold. Neighbor works in a restaurant and raided the Icemaker there. Brought me about 40 lbs. Another neighbor who has her own catering business had about 20 of us over for dinner tonight. Spaghetti, and it was superb. She's cooking all here food so it won't spoil. She has large walk-in type freezers that her gen-set can't run, so she wants to feed it to us. Free\chain saw work at here place from all of us.
Bothe kids are out of school at least through the rest of this week. One is in High school and the other is at U Miami.
I'm sitting in my office typing this looking up at two holes in the ceiling and the drywall dust is everywhere. Going to be tearing out the drywall ceiling and one wall tomorrow. Will check the floor for moisture tomorrow. If it is wet, it (travertine marble) will be coming out also as it has a wood sub-floor under it.
Weird thing about this storm, the following morning it was 54 degrees here. That's pretty cool for us this time of year, but it was a welcome repite from the heat.
Cell phones arre not yet working. I cannot call out, but do get voice and text messages. Occasional it will ring but the connect time is short and hard\to hear the caller.
In closing, this storm was AWESOME! That sounds weird after all the damage but I have never seen such strong winds in 33 years of living down here. Large pine trees would snap, and then fly latterally for about 100 feet before they hit the ground. Got lots of pics and videos, but like off-roading pics, they never do it justice.
Hope to get on line tomorrow.
capt. Jim
good to hear from you capt.! Atleast teh beer's still cold! 
Sounds like a decent storm afterall but its a good thing that cold front pushed south and slowed it down though. Keep us posted!
Sounds like a decent storm afterall but its a good thing that cold front pushed south and slowed it down though. Keep us posted!