| Re: Irma [message #323859 is a reply to message #323846] |
Wed, 13 September 2017 21:29  |
Jp Benson
Messages: 649
Registered: October 2011
Location: Fla
Karma:
|
Senior Member |
|
|
We did OK here in Orlando. 1 foot of rain, 60+ mph winds for several hours, soggy lawn, lots of tree branches and fences down but not much serious damage. Power was out for 3 days but the 5Kw generator did everything except the house A/C. The GMC stayed in the garage and is fine. At least this time, for us, the wise decision was not to evacuate.
The forecasters still aren't good enough. We relied on the forecast 12 yrs ago that hurricane Charlie would skirt the Gulf coast and made no preparation. At the last minute Charlie shifted east and midnight that night dropped a tornado on us that felled most of the trees in the yard including several 50 ft tall oaks onto the garage roof and then took a lot of the roof off the house. Well we couldn't have prepared for that if we tried. Did most of my own repairs and bought a GMC motorhome with the insurance money. I feel for those folks in the FL Keys who stayed put and relied on the forecast that Irma would hit Miami.
JP
|
|
|
|
GMCforum
Search
Help
Register
Login
Home
