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Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:44:48 -0400 from hubzilla

Things are about to get exciting around here again... I don't recall if they replace this image with a new one after each advisory. I guess if doesn't say 8 pm in a few hours, we will know.

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Marshall Sutherland

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:05:32 -0400 from hubzilla

Cool, it is an updating image!

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:21:57 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

"attack of the giant monster sperm"

Marshall Sutherland

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:14:51 -0400 from hubzilla

In a change from the usual, my co-workers in the Atlanta office look like they are going to get more wind and rain than we are in Gainesville, based on current predictions.

Marshall Sutherland

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:57:36 -0400 from hubzilla

Looks like we now have a 100% change of tropical force winds here.

Marshall Sutherland

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:15:36 -0400 last edited: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:15:53 -0400 from hubzilla

The projected Tropical Storm strength wind area keeps expanding

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Waitman Gobble

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:08:16 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Hope you stay safe and dry.

Marshall Sutherland

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:31:20 -0400 from hubzilla

Too late for dry. I got drizzled on during my morning walk,

Shimriez

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:33:44 -0400 from hubzilla

Stay safe.

Marshall Sutherland

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:14:21 -0400 from hubzilla

After no rain since before noon, a small storm is passing through just as I got off work and want to walk the dog. It should be past soon. You'd never know there was a Cat3 hurricane just offshore. I'm sure we will feel it eventually.

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:24:18 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

I was in Puerto Vallarta Mexico when a huge hurricane was projected to hit, everything was boarded up, CNN and others news out in the streets waiting, airlines shut down. It rained for 15 minutes and that's it. no high winds. but that was a good mishap :)

Mike Macgirvin 🖥️

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:05:45 -0400 from Y

I've been in PV during a hurricane/typhoon/cyclone/whatever. That was the day I went to get some coffee in the little restaurant nearby and found a drug execution took place there just hours earlier. Pools of blood all over the floor. That kind of thing.

It did make me forget about the weather.

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:23:55 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

One time in Mexico the neighbor woke up to garbage bags full of hacked bodies in the front yard. He didn't know the people and no idea why, police figured it was cartel sending a message but messed up on the address.

Marshall Sutherland

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:37:41 -0400 from hubzilla

Damn, this turned dark fast. Are y'all trying to distract me from the impending storm?

Mike Macgirvin 🖥️

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:42:49 -0400 from Y

Nah, you're not in a third world country where this kind of violence is common. Oh wait...

Marshall Sutherland

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:57:28 -0400 from hubzilla

It is up to a Cat 4 storm now. Meanwhile, my wife went out to play Pokemon Go. Gotta have priorities!

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:03:35 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

is that a game were you try to capture pokemonsters in like an AR thing? I kinda remember a stranger in Thailand doing that on her phone.

Marshall Sutherland

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:39:32 -0400 from hubzilla

Power went out an hour ago. I'm shutting down the server to keep the network up longer...

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:48:30 -0400 from hubzilla

Good luck, stay safe!

Marshall Sutherland

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:21:19 -0400 from hubzilla

Power came back at 6am. Fired things back up after I got up at 7.

We lost a big oak tree, that fortunately fell away from the house. There is tree debris everywhere. Some neighbors were not so fortunate. Many of them are still without power and I saw at least 3 trees that made contact with houses. Nothing looked catastrophic.

Waitman Gobble

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:25:02 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

welcome back, glad you are well and safe

Marshall Sutherland

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:18:36 -0400 from hubzilla

I'll post some pictures later

Scott M. Stolz

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:20:59 -0400 from hubzilla

Yeah, that is rough. I hope you have a speedy recovery. I know first hand how it is.

Marshall Sutherland

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:32:07 -0400 from hubzilla

Compared to your recent experience, we've had it easy. Had the tree fallen east instead of north, we would be in a totally different situation of learning how sturdy our metal roof is.

Marshall Sutherland

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:33:34 -0400 from hubzilla

Talked to some neighbors just now. Apparently, most of our neighborhood is still out of power. They are actually two connected neighborhoods and each seems to have its own electric feed.

Marshall Sutherland

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:29:56 -0400 from hubzilla

We lost power again yesterday around 3:30pm. I assumed it was a planned outage to make repairs, but a couple hours later, after looking around, I realized that there was no repair going on. I was unhappy with my UPS when it claimed I had 3 hours left and it dies right after a 1 hour walk with the dog. So, I didn't get a chance to properly shutdown.

We are still down now, but we think we know what is going on. My wife saw various activity going on in the neighborhood this morning after I headed to the office. We think another tree came down yesterday and took out more power lines.

We are currently the largest outage our power company has, with 89 customers. The 5-hour old estimated restoration time in in about half an hour. With all the activity going on, I am hoping they won't be far off. Once it is back up, I can head home and get my server back online.

At 21 hours, so far, this is the longest power outage I think we have had at this location (we have been here 14 years). I think the previous record was 9 hours a few months ago when Debby came through. I think we were out 8 hours during the actual storm last week.

Jason Cook

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:14:28 -0400 from hubzilla

Good luck! Hope they get your power restored very soon.

Marshall Sutherland

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:07:09 -0400 from hubzilla

We have power back after being down 26 hours

Marshall Sutherland

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:33:20 -0400 from hubzilla

It came back as I was driving home from the office. The pennies on ice in the freezers were still on top of the ice. We may not have much go bad in the fridge if we eat it soon enough.

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Els Mussols)

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 18:05:04 -0400 from Streams at els Mussols

Good luck, Marshall!