The Glade 4.0

Everyone's ok, right?

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Hoping for the best for our TX contingent.

My wife and I are fine. We only got the fringes of Harvey, and our house is on a hill. My mom's, and my brother's, homes are fine too. My wife's family's home is surrounded by water, but it hasn't gotten in. My father's house has, last I heard, 1 inch of water in the house. And there's one or two more days of rain ahead.

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We were expecting serious rain here last week, but as it turned north it passed us by and we haven't seen a drop of rain. I used to get more rain in Cleveland than I did from this one even though I'm only 2 hours from Corpus Christi, which is where I drill. I'm not complaining though; there's an irrigation canal right behind our back fence and I was worried if it overflowed even if flooding isn't all that prevalent here.

From what I heard on the news, it's rained so much that it's sucking its own water back up rather than just raining itself out like usual and it's expected to get pushed back out to sea, where it will "refuel". It looks like this may go on another week.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

All good here. We're in Central Louisiana, and the eye passed right over us, but we haven't had any serious damage. Just a lot of rain. Luckily it lets up enough, every now and then, to let the water drain off.

Hope everyone else is ok.

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"I Live, I Love, I Slay, and I Am Content."
- Conan the Barbarian

I read that it dropped more rain in 24 hours than the yearly rainfall record for the rainy Seattle area ( which we just broke last winter).

Crazy...

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Well, Harvey is done and Irma is incoming.

Florida and the Carolinas seem to be in the path.

Lets see what happens next.

Stay safe out there.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

There are times when I really hate Michigan weather, this isn't one of them.

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Raell Kromwell

Putting shutters up starting tonight.

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Good luck to Florida. Im thinking of you all. x

Latest projections have Irma shifting to come in over the Keys and covering the entire Florida peninsula. Western top of the state will probably get heavy heavy rains, but the storm should be down a lot by then.

For Georgia and South Carolina this is good news because Irma doesn't refuel with more warm water over land.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Unfortunately, it's projected to still be at least a Cat 1 more than halfway up the peninsula, and a tropical storm for some time after that. Good for GA/SC, but Florida is going to really take one for the team here. State officials are basically telling everyone "GTFO because we can't help you once the storm hits" and apparently there's such a fuel shortage that the Highway Patrol is having to escort tankers in to make sure they don't get held up in traffic.

The tiny islands of Antigua and Barbuda really took it on the chain; evidently Barbuda took something like 90-95% vehicle and structure loss (inoperable/uninhabitable); basically total destruction. The government there was looking at evacuating everyone to the other island.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Please just be safe!

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

Hail and well met Gladers. I don't check in much, maybe it is having the first day off in the Sunday before last and surprised I'm not working. It is wait and see what happens with Irma landfall. And maybe ride out some of it ourselves as it was aiming towards Atlanta yesterday.

I hope everyone is well and prepared for the storms. "Little" Gorsina is now a freshman in high school, in a pre-IB program, straight A's academic career, board scholar, Beta club president, en pointe recital for her 12 year of ballet. Yep, still the proud father.

I'm still working at the CDC (in the Emergency Operations Center) and my wife is now a federal employee too working at the VA. All in all life is good, it just has bee very hectic. I hope all is well with everyone and it is comforting to see familiar names whenever I come back here.

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Gorse

All good here. No water in the house, so hoping it will sell soon. Car had a touch of water on the carpets but no other problems.

I am very happy now that cruising was delayed by a year, or I would have been in Irma's path and not Harvey's.

Glad to hear everyone seems to be ok.

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Memento Vivere

I have local knowledge.
That sandbar was not there yesterday!

We are fixing to get hit by the Tropical Storm Irma today. Glad it is down to that and not still a true Hurricane.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

We're all OK.

Impact to our area was primarily tornadoes. Tornado warnings were non stop, even multiples at the same time. Got power back at 2:53AM, so a day and a half without. Some roof damage, lots of shingles gone, gutter ripped off house, whole bunch of fence gone. Looking around the neighborhood this morning on the way to work, many trees and street signs are now leaning and pointed in the same direction. When all is said and done, I suspect max sustained winds in our area will be around 65MPH, but the constant tornadoes will bump the impact up to maybe a category 2.

This was a lot worse than Matthew last year, oddly, because the eye came a lot closer to us with Matthew.

On the flip side, this was nowhere near the impact of the 04/05 hurricanes. We were very fortunate that the storm took a turn to the west. Speaking from experience, I know that there are a lot of folks on the other side of the state in a much worse situation. They'll be affected for a long time to come.

Tornado Level: EXPERT

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Further updates...

Many family members and co-workers still do not have power. Gas is very hard to find, and the only place to eat in town is running on generators.

A/C unit stopped working yesterday. A/C company is routing to a remote call center. "Sorry, we have no phones or internet yet"

No internet service at home. Major network issues at work, primary and secondary carriers down, we're rotating through VPN logins for folks to get work done.

Tap water started looking like this last night. No, it's not beer.



Post storm preliminary reports are in from the weather service.

https://forecast.weather.gov/product.ph ... glossary=1

Confirmed we had category 2 gusts / tornadoes. 100mph out at the nuclear plant. 21.65" of rain up in Fort Pierce.

The National Weather Service is really starting to crowdsource data to populate these reports, it's pretty cool vs. where we were at 10 years ago.  Social media, CoCoRaHS data, etc.  Even though my storm total for rainfall was 8 and a half inches, it didn't even make the report because of the insane rain levels elsewhere in the area.

If you are interested in meteorological phenomena or science in general, there are two fine organizations whose volunteers directly contribute to these kinds of reports.  Your data can directly impact homeowners, farmers, insurance adjusters, and our scientific community in general. Anecdotally, I submitted a hail report a few years back that was subsequently used by my homeowner's insurance to confirm our roof damage.

Skywarn (click the middle orange icon in my signature) - This is the "Tornado has been confirmed on the ground by a trained spotter" stuff... a few hours of free classes in your area and you can become certified. "Storm chasers" are often Skywarn members, although we teach safe and responsible spotting (and discourage thrill-seeking).

CoCoRaHS (the little blueish water drop in my signature) - It involves buying a rain gauge for a couple bucks and reporting your data every day.  Also a good tool for teaching kids about weather, and responsibility in general.

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If you're having problems finding gas and have a GM vehicle, call "OnStar". They're getting daily feeds from Mastercard on stations that are selling gas.

this has been a public service announcement, not an endorsement.

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In time, this too shall pass.

Wanted to come to see if all the Floridian gladers were safe.

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ultimate guardians of their own liberty."- Thomas Jefferson

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