Excellent, Classy! Really glad you didn't have any damage! Now about tjat snake....[emoji16]I am so relieved to see that everyone is reporting in and fine !
My power came back on about 30 minutes ago !
I was freaking at hearing it would be 7 - 10 days !!!
I think we may be on the same grid as the fire station tho...so that probably helped !
You could hear all the neighborhood cheering !
Ohmygosh it got intense last night ! Wowzer it did !
No power so no tv to drown it out...ugh !
No damage for us.
Three houses down had an oak tree go over and I can see several homes with screen sections missing from pool cages.
We got dang lucky.
I am thankful we are all still here
TX still has rural areas with spotty power. Good news is that eberything gets upgraded as repaired.
FPL is reporting 5 million customers without power -- the most ever for any storm. It's gonna be a while until they're all back on-line.
Thank you, K.added
Wow! It's been a long time since I've been seen poles snapped like that. Please be careful out driving around. Carjacking may increase. A guy here in our little town got held up for his last 50.00.So I just got back to the house that has no power :0( from driving around half of Lakeland. Probably going to be a week or so without power. It sucks, plus tomorrow I have to go back to work ::thumbs down::
It seems as if the northside drew the short straw on this storm. Northside of Lakeland (country and country boys everywhere. The side of town I was born and raised) has trees down. Looks like we may have a tornado or 2 come through. Of course the strongest part of the eye came right over this side of town. Good thing the boys out here have trucks, tractors, chain saws and a get 'er done attitude. Places are flooded and there are trees laying on roofs and across the roads. Wooden power poles snapped like toothpicks. Here is a pic of a few of the poles.
Drove straight through the middle of town and the southside barely got touched. No power on the northside but the southside (rich side of town) has power, fast food places open with lines out the wazoo.
Needless to say we got hit hard along with other places in central Florida over to the west coast. I heard that this storm is a hurricane that will go down in the record books and they are retiring the name Irma from the list of hurricane names for the future.
#FloridaStrong #WeWillRebuild #Irmageddon
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Whatburger stayed open 24/7 thru the whole thing. 1st responders & known helpers got fed for free. They were filling thermoses with coffee & were a huge boost in keeping everyone moving. Every place with gass stayed open to keep trucks, atvs, generators, j boats moving. They kept going until they ran out or lost power.McDonalds was the first place to open down here after Ike and Harvey.
(my husband says vaping is killing my memory,,,,,,,i didn't figure it out until after lunch today that ike anniversary isn't until the 13th..............time to up the nic
Thank you, Opi.
Yup, I'm still around ...
Thank you, K.
Irma sideswiped us with her skirt as she danced past us in Miami.
We were Blessed to only have to pick up a mess of downed trees and deal w/o electric power
for a couple of days.
No AC in Miama while the windows are shuttered is no phun.
Since I have no clue where ECF keeps the negative review section anymore
I'll skip my comments regarding FPL customer disservice or the fact that MetroPCS
has no emergency generators on their cell towers... (equals no service) So if one has VOIP and no electric
they expect one to dial 911 via smoke signals..
Thanks again to everybody who remembered to include me in their prayers,
especially my good bud @Opinionated
God Bless you.
