Milton
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From: Temple Terrace Florida
Milton
Just checking in on all of the forum members in Florida after Milton. We had winds in excess of 100 MPH. Rainfall is being measured in feet. So far the family, house and cars are fine. Power is out to 3 million households. Our power went about 10 PM and we are running off our generator. Tropicana field lost its roof and there are reports that a 150' crane toppled in St. Petersburg. Hope all made it through unscathed. Let the cleanup begin. Jerry
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Glad you’re safe and OK in Tampa.
I’m in OH but have a condo about a mile and half inland in Sarasota on Tuttle Ave. I think our place dodged a bullet last nite but not 100% sure on that.
We will get an update from neighbors today if communications are viable.
Scary times……
Glad winds were only 120 mph, LOL!
b safe
I’m in OH but have a condo about a mile and half inland in Sarasota on Tuttle Ave. I think our place dodged a bullet last nite but not 100% sure on that.
We will get an update from neighbors today if communications are viable.
Scary times……
Glad winds were only 120 mph, LOL!
b safe
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I'm in Wellington (West Palm Beach) and there were a few tornados in the area, actually one just two blocks away. But all we had was lots of rain and wind. Now it's yard clean up time.Others were not so lucky.
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Jerry,
We made it, I still have a home but about two hard days of clean up outside. The storm surge is what scared me as I did not get my 65 or 24 to higher ground. I searched frantically for an open shop with an empty lift to store it on they were all closed early before the storm. The barrier residents got hammered during Helene so I can't imagine how they fared after this recent hit.
Hope to see you out on Gulf Blvd over the winter.
Marshal
Jerry,
We made it, I still have a home but about two hard days of clean up outside. The storm surge is what scared me as I did not get my 65 or 24 to higher ground. I searched frantically for an open shop with an empty lift to store it on they were all closed early before the storm. The barrier residents got hammered during Helene so I can't imagine how they fared after this recent hit.
Hope to see you out on Gulf Blvd over the winter.
Marshal
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A lot of wind and rain in Mt. Dora last night. Mainly small debris to clean up.
I had the '67 up on the Quick Jack.
We're about 60-70 MILES from the eye, power was off for 15 hours or so. I can't complain.
Family in Pinellas Park, INCHES from the eye, never lost power! Go figure!
I had the '67 up on the Quick Jack.
We're about 60-70 MILES from the eye, power was off for 15 hours or so. I can't complain.
Family in Pinellas Park, INCHES from the eye, never lost power! Go figure!
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milton
Just north of the eye in Apollo Beach. Blessed with the tide going out and missed any storm surge. Kids kidnapped me and brought me to Tenn. Pictures showed my house is now a convertible. Most damage in our park is just wind damage. Surge damage is usually fatel so I have been blessed to have a home to go back to and hopefully to be able to repair. PRAYERS ARE STILL NEEDED Our retirement park has over 500 homes so extent has not been fully realised yet.
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No problems, never lost power.
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We’re in Eustis, about a half hour north of Orlando. Lots of wind and rain but we never lost power (you gotta love underground utilities). Huge yard cleanup of limbs and branches which we just did two weeks ago for the other hurricane.
I usually get an email from NCM ahead of storms offering to pay to relocate my ‘67 to a safer location. I didn’t get that offer for these last two storms. Doesn’t matter my car is very safe where it is.
Take care,
Steve
I usually get an email from NCM ahead of storms offering to pay to relocate my ‘67 to a safer location. I didn’t get that offer for these last two storms. Doesn’t matter my car is very safe where it is.
Take care,
Steve
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Just checking in on all of the forum members in Florida after Milton. We had winds in excess of 100 MPH. Rainfall is being measured in feet. So far the family, house and cars are fine. Power is out to 3 million households. Our power went about 10 PM and we are running off our generator. Tropicana field lost its roof and there are reports that a 150' crane toppled in St. Petersburg. Hope all made it through unscathed. Let the cleanup begin. Jerry
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We're on the NW corner of Lake Eustis east of Grand Island. Just got power and water back this evening. We decided that it is worse going without water versus not having power. You can generate power, but can't do the same for water! We lost about 8 screens on the pool enclosure. Lucky otherwise. I drove down the east side of Lake Eustis and the north side of Lake Dora today. Debris everywhere, along with some pretty good size trees down. A mess, but we will all recover from it.
Hopefully, we can make it to the Wednesday morning meet up in downtown Eustis this coming week!
Hopefully, we can make it to the Wednesday morning meet up in downtown Eustis this coming week!
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From: St. Petersburg FL
Made it through relatively unscathed in St. Pete. I have retrofitted our 96 year old house about as much as possible--impact windows and doors, and H-clips on the roof rafters. Grade is about 14 feet, so just out of the flood plane in "zone X". I also have a concrete block garage with hurricane doors, and I ran the Corvette up on the four post lift.
Despite all that, we did not hang around for Milton. We evacuated to a dog-friendly hotel a few miles further from the bay, and up on higher ground at about 44 feet. It was comfortable and did not lose power. We did have a front row seat to the roof peeling off the Trop.
Our house and garage wound up doing fine. We have one wet section of ceiling--culprit appears to be a small East-facing flat roof that was getting the brunt of the wind from the Northern eye wall. There are lots of trees down in the neighborhood. Most have power back in our vicinity but not everyone. Overall we got lucky, as did the whole Tampa Bay area really.
Despite all that, we did not hang around for Milton. We evacuated to a dog-friendly hotel a few miles further from the bay, and up on higher ground at about 44 feet. It was comfortable and did not lose power. We did have a front row seat to the roof peeling off the Trop.
Our house and garage wound up doing fine. We have one wet section of ceiling--culprit appears to be a small East-facing flat roof that was getting the brunt of the wind from the Northern eye wall. There are lots of trees down in the neighborhood. Most have power back in our vicinity but not everyone. Overall we got lucky, as did the whole Tampa Bay area really.
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I'm still in Texas and haven't seen the house since before Helene. Neighbor 3 doors away told me the house looks undamaged. Still don't have power. We dodged another flood surge bullet.