Media is reporting that *all* of Puerto Rico is now without power.

These hurricanes make me glad that I live in Michigan. We may get remnants of hurricanes or tropical storms up here but no direct hits from a hurricane.

I would take a blizzard anytime instead of going through a hurricane.

On 9/21/2017 1:29 AM, RGrew176 wrote:
These hurricanes make me glad that I live in Michigan. We may get remnants of hurricanes or tropical storms up here but no direct hits from a hurricane.

I would take a blizzard anytime instead of going through a hurricane.



Me too. Having had property in Florida that got hit with three
hurricanes in 14 months was enough for me.

"Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message:
On 9/21/2017 1:29 AM, RGrew176 wrote:
These hurricanes make me glad that I live in Michigan. We may get remnants of hurricanes or tropical storms up here but no direct hits from a hurricane.

I would take a blizzard anytime instead of going through a hurricane.



Me too. Having had property in Florida that got hit with three
hurricanes in 14 months was enough for me.


Irma was a doosie. We didn't realize how bad until we watched the
news. There are still locations wher the flood waters haven't
crested yet.
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 22:29:44 -0700 (PDT), RGrew176
wrote:

These hurricanes make me glad that I live in Michigan. We may get remnants of hurricanes or tropical storms up here but no direct hits from a hurricane.

I would take a blizzard anytime instead of going through a hurricane.

To each his own I guess ;-)

Most of the Michiganders I know spend the winter here and the summer
there avoiding both. My kids live in Traverse City year round but they
do complain about the winter. A hurricane event like Irma is actually
still pretty rare. We were on the right corner of the Charley eye wall
13 years ago and that was comparable, Wilma was close but most were
just a rainy day.
The thing that made this one bad was that it hit the whole state,
taxing resources so the recovery was slow. My power was still only out
8 days and they expect to have everyone back by the end of the week.
Other than that and all of the trees I had to haul out, it was not
that bad. I can't even say we were camping. We were slightly
inconvenienced but it was just white people problems. ;-)

On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:49:28 -0400 (EDT), justan wrote:

"Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message:
On 9/21/2017 1:29 AM, RGrew176 wrote:
These hurricanes make me glad that I live in Michigan. We may get remnants of hurricanes or tropical storms up here but no direct hits from a hurricane.

I would take a blizzard anytime instead of going through a hurricane.



Me too. Having had property in Florida that got hit with three
hurricanes in 14 months was enough for me.


Irma was a doosie. We didn't realize how bad until we watched the
news. There are still locations wher the flood waters haven't
crested yet.

The thing that made that bad was we had just had a similar rain event
a week earlier from a no name storm while Harvey was going on that
they say was unrelated. I measured 12" of rain then and before all of
that was gone, Irma dropped another 12.5" of rain on waterlogged soil.
I have not seen a low tide in my canal for almost a month and we have
had similar situations in low lying communities all over the county.
Island Park, across the canal from my father in law still has standing
water in the roads.
Fortunately for me, we are relatively high here, in the Florida sense
of the word and we did not have the problem. The perimeter road dammed
up water in the center of my community but everyone's house is higher
than the road so it was just a soggy front yard for them and nobody
was trapped by high water.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Irma/Tract%20A%20flooding.jpg
This is a peek at what it looked like from my front porch on the lee
side of the house.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Irma/Front%20yard%20eye.avi

On 9/21/2017 11:09 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:49:28 -0400 (EDT), justan wrote:

"Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message:
On 9/21/2017 1:29 AM, RGrew176 wrote:
These hurricanes make me glad that I live in Michigan. We may get remnants of hurricanes or tropical storms up here but no direct hits from a hurricane.

I would take a blizzard anytime instead of going through a hurricane.



Me too. Having had property in Florida that got hit with three
hurricanes in 14 months was enough for me.


Irma was a doosie. We didn't realize how bad until we watched the
news. There are still locations wher the flood waters haven't
crested yet.

The thing that made that bad was we had just had a similar rain event
a week earlier from a no name storm while Harvey was going on that
they say was unrelated. I measured 12" of rain then and before all of
that was gone, Irma dropped another 12.5" of rain on waterlogged soil.
I have not seen a low tide in my canal for almost a month and we have
had similar situations in low lying communities all over the county.
Island Park, across the canal from my father in law still has standing
water in the roads.
Fortunately for me, we are relatively high here, in the Florida sense
of the word and we did not have the problem. The perimeter road dammed
up water in the center of my community but everyone's house is higher
than the road so it was just a soggy front yard for them and nobody
was trapped by high water.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Irma/Tract%20A%20flooding.jpg
This is a peek at what it looked like from my front porch on the lee
side of the house.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Irma/Front%20yard%20eye.avi



Yuck. You were relatively fortunate that you didn't have more damage to
your house and property. Great video.

On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:20:11 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 9/21/2017 11:09 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:49:28 -0400 (EDT), justan wrote:

"Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message:
On 9/21/2017 1:29 AM, RGrew176 wrote:
These hurricanes make me glad that I live in Michigan. We may get remnants of hurricanes or tropical storms up here but no direct hits from a hurricane.

I would take a blizzard anytime instead of going through a hurricane.



Me too. Having had property in Florida that got hit with three
hurricanes in 14 months was enough for me.


Irma was a doosie. We didn't realize how bad until we watched the
news. There are still locations wher the flood waters haven't
crested yet.

The thing that made that bad was we had just had a similar rain event
a week earlier from a no name storm while Harvey was going on that
they say was unrelated. I measured 12" of rain then and before all of
that was gone, Irma dropped another 12.5" of rain on waterlogged soil.
I have not seen a low tide in my canal for almost a month and we have
had similar situations in low lying communities all over the county.
Island Park, across the canal from my father in law still has standing
water in the roads.
Fortunately for me, we are relatively high here, in the Florida sense
of the word and we did not have the problem. The perimeter road dammed
up water in the center of my community but everyone's house is higher
than the road so it was just a soggy front yard for them and nobody
was trapped by high water.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Irma/Tract%20A%20flooding.jpg
This is a peek at what it looked like from my front porch on the lee
side of the house.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Irma/Front%20yard%20eye.avi



Yuck. You were relatively fortunate that you didn't have more damage to
your house and property. Great video.


We are protected from easterly winds by a 10' high berm behind the
house. With the trees on top of that it is more like a 25' berm but
most of those trees are next door in the vacant lot now. That used to
be the run up to a trestle across the Estero River that the Seaboard
Railroad used up until WWII. It was gone in the 44 aerial photo.
It is hard to get the scope of that pile from the picture.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Irma/Stick%20pile.jpg

wrote:
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:20:11 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 9/21/2017 11:09 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:49:28 -0400 (EDT), justan wrote:

"Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message:
On 9/21/2017 1:29 AM, RGrew176 wrote:
These hurricanes make me glad that I live in Michigan. We may get
remnants of hurricanes or tropical storms up here but no direct hits from a hurricane.

I would take a blizzard anytime instead of going through a hurricane.



Me too. Having had property in Florida that got hit with three
hurricanes in 14 months was enough for me.


Irma was a doosie. We didn't realize how bad until we watched the
news. There are still locations wher the flood waters haven't
crested yet.

The thing that made that bad was we had just had a similar rain event
a week earlier from a no name storm while Harvey was going on that
they say was unrelated. I measured 12" of rain then and before all of
that was gone, Irma dropped another 12.5" of rain on waterlogged soil.
I have not seen a low tide in my canal for almost a month and we have
had similar situations in low lying communities all over the county.
Island Park, across the canal from my father in law still has standing
water in the roads.
Fortunately for me, we are relatively high here, in the Florida sense
of the word and we did not have the problem. The perimeter road dammed
up water in the center of my community but everyone's house is higher
than the road so it was just a soggy front yard for them and nobody
was trapped by high water.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Irma/Tract%20A%20flooding.jpg
This is a peek at what it looked like from my front porch on the lee
side of the house.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Irma/Front%20yard%20eye.avi



Yuck. You were relatively fortunate that you didn't have more damage to
your house and property. Great video.


We are protected from easterly winds by a 10' high berm behind the
house. With the trees on top of that it is more like a 25' berm but
most of those trees are next door in the vacant lot now. That used to
be the run up to a trestle across the Estero River that the Seaboard
Railroad used up until WWII. It was gone in the 44 aerial photo.
It is hard to get the scope of that pile from the picture.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Irma/Stick%20pile.jpg



Great video...sheesh. Looks strong enough to knock you over.

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On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:13:00 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:20:11 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 9/21/2017 11:09 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:49:28 -0400 (EDT), justan wrote:

"Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message:
On 9/21/2017 1:29 AM, RGrew176 wrote:
These hurricanes make me glad that I live in Michigan. We may get remnants of hurricanes or tropical storms up here but no direct hits from a hurricane.

I would take a blizzard anytime instead of going through a hurricane.



Me too. Having had property in Florida that got hit with three
hurricanes in 14 months was enough for me.


Irma was a doosie. We didn't realize how bad until we watched the
news. There are still locations wher the flood waters haven't
crested yet.

The thing that made that bad was we had just had a similar rain event
a week earlier from a no name storm while Harvey was going on that
they say was unrelated. I measured 12" of rain then and before all of
that was gone, Irma dropped another 12.5" of rain on waterlogged soil.
I have not seen a low tide in my canal for almost a month and we have
had similar situations in low lying communities all over the county.
Island Park, across the canal from my father in law still has standing
water in the roads.
Fortunately for me, we are relatively high here, in the Florida sense
of the word and we did not have the problem. The perimeter road dammed
up water in the center of my community but everyone's house is higher
than the road so it was just a soggy front yard for them and nobody
was trapped by high water.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Irma/Tract%20A%20flooding.jpg
This is a peek at what it looked like from my front porch on the lee
side of the house.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Irma/Front%20yard%20eye.avi



Yuck. You were relatively fortunate that you didn't have more damage to
your house and property. Great video.


We are protected from easterly winds by a 10' high berm behind the
house. With the trees on top of that it is more like a 25' berm but
most of those trees are next door in the vacant lot now. That used to
be the run up to a trestle across the Estero River that the Seaboard
Railroad used up until WWII. It was gone in the 44 aerial photo.
It is hard to get the scope of that pile from the picture.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Irma/Stick%20pile.jpg

CNN would probably love to have that video. Nicely done!