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  • roho
    Senior Tech

    500+ Posts
    • Mar 2009
    • 844

    Hurricane Florence

    Good Luck to all of you in the South East USA, sounds like it will be one for the books. Cannot imagine what some of you must be going through right now and of course after. Hopefully everyone stays safe!
  • fixthecopier
    ALIEN OVERLORD

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    • Apr 2008
    • 4714

    #2
    Re: Hurricane Florence

    I drove to Jacksonville, on the coast, to do 2 service calls. Hospital there is preparing for flood. Traffic on I-40 was about 5 to 15 mph coming home. I have firewood to boil water for coffee, so I am ready.
    The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking

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    • NeoMatrix
      Senior Tech.

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      • Nov 2010
      • 3514

      #3
      Re: Hurricane Florence

      No good...
      Having recently gone through a similar Cyclone/Hurricane I know the feeling of having to rebuild.
      We can only offer you our moral support an hope that you fair well through your ordeal.

      Get back on line here soon...
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      • fixthecopier
        ALIEN OVERLORD

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        • Apr 2008
        • 4714

        #4
        Re: Hurricane Florence

        My worry is the giant pine tree 6 feet behind my bedroom window. If she goes, takes out the master bedroom, kitchen and part of garage.
        The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking

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        • slimslob
          Retired

          Site Contributor
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          • May 2013
          • 35064

          #5
          Re: Hurricane Florence

          It appears that it is going straight in instead of skimming the coast like many hurricanes do. It is expected to make landfall as a Category 4, very mush similar as Hurricane Hugo on September 22, 1989.

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          • ZOOTECH
            Senior member of CRS

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            • Jul 2007
            • 3381

            #6
            Re: Hurricane Florence

            Originally posted by fixthecopier
            My worry is the giant pine tree 6 feet behind my bedroom window. If she goes, takes out the master bedroom, kitchen and part of garage.
            If you haven't evacuated, or relocated - don't sleep in that master bedroom.
            "You can't trust your eyes, if your mind is out of focus" --

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            • fixthecopier
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              • Apr 2008
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              #7
              Re: Hurricane Florence

              Originally posted by ZOOTECH
              If you haven't evacuated, or relocated - don't sleep in that master bedroom.


              Can't evac with 4 dogs and 7 cats. Ride it out and hope for the best. Gas stations are running out. I got the last propane bottle at the one I stopped at. Drove 10 miles to find gas.
              The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking

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              • Gift
                Service Manager

                1,000+ Posts
                • Mar 2011
                • 2413

                #8
                Re: Hurricane Florence

                hang in there guys

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                • roho
                  Senior Tech

                  500+ Posts
                  • Mar 2009
                  • 844

                  #9
                  Re: Hurricane Florence

                  Originally posted by fixthecopier
                  Can't evac with 4 dogs and 7 cats. Ride it out and hope for the best. Gas stations are running out. I got the last propane bottle at the one I stopped at. Drove 10 miles to find gas.

                  Good luck!! Hope you are in land or on higher ground, sounds like the surge and the torrential rain will create havoc. Hurricane Hazel flooded out some areas north of Toronto by the Humber River after it became a TD. Walls of mud leveled many houses in that neighborhood. A Aunt and Uncle lived through it, others didn't. Of course that was over 50 yrs ago, more warning now, but more population density now as well, and of course the infrastructure for the increase in population. Good Luck to all of you!

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                  • LNorris
                    Senior Tech

                    500+ Posts
                    • Sep 2008
                    • 646

                    #10
                    Re: Hurricane Florence

                    Originally posted by slimslob
                    It appears that it is going straight in instead of skimming the coast like many hurricanes do. It is expected to make landfall as a Category 4, very mush similar as Hurricane Hugo on September 22, 1989.

                    i was in the Navy stationed in Puerto Rico when Hugo hit the island. that wasnt fun.

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                    • guitar9199
                      Service Manager

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                      • Sep 2016
                      • 1097

                      #11
                      Re: Hurricane Florence

                      I went through the floods here in Nashville in 2010. Some of our customers suffered a total loss... including one where you could see the water-line on the drywall, and it was about 2-3 feet ABOVE their document feeder.

                      Stay safe out there troops!! We're pulling for you.

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                      • Phil B.
                        Field Supervisor

                        10,000+ Posts
                        • Jul 2016
                        • 22808

                        #12
                        Re: Hurricane Florence

                        here in the Raleigh area, gas stores are out
                        stores have been out of milk bread water.

                        now the storm has slowed and is veering south... just like 90% of them do

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                        • vincent64
                          Trusted Tech

                          250+ Posts
                          • Feb 2008
                          • 382

                          #13
                          Re: Hurricane Florence

                          I know what many of you out there are going through, went through Harvey last year, back in the house, its still a work in progress, you know all them news stories of people getting out with just a few trash bags of stuff, that was us, water over a foot deep in the house, 3 feet or more outside on the driveway, got picked up in a boat at my front door, and funny thing, I was fixing a cup of coffee standing in ankle deep water, told the wife I need a cup, and all we could do, was try to save what we could get it up to higher places, lots of stuff on top of the water bed, I went through Rita many years ago, and I would rather go through 5 Rita's then one Harvey again.
                          Nothing worse then slogging out memories and belongings out to the curb, and watching scavengers going through them later, don't know what bugs me more, that I had to toss all my stuff, or people going through all that water logged crap now..
                          Anyway if your in the path, and you can get out, I'd say get out, I have rode out a few, Like Rita, that was a ride too...WOW...wont do it again.

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                          • fixthecopier
                            ALIEN OVERLORD

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                            • Apr 2008
                            • 4714

                            #14
                            Re: Hurricane Florence

                            Well, on a positive note, for me, work is closed Friday, with pay. Depending on how bad the wind and rain ar, may get out early tomorrow.
                            The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking

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                            • fixthecopier
                              ALIEN OVERLORD

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                              • Apr 2008
                              • 4714

                              #15
                              Re: Hurricane Florence

                              Now the thing is supposed to stall, dump rain for days. Wilmington could get 40 inches. My town will have curfew starting tomorrow.
                              The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking

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