Stay safe, everyone. I have been following both the tornadoes and the hurricane closely and praying for all of you there.

So good to know you're okay, Connie!

Glad to see you are ok Connie. What a storm that was. We didn't loose power either. I'm having a hard time believing that but am glad. They flickered here and there but that's about it. Last I looked 3 million have no power. Like you no damage but debris all over. By 2am we were beat but did not want to go to sleep because of all those tornado warnings. We snoozed on the couch and finally went to bed around 5. The highest gust I recorded was 110mph. We sustained 70mph for awhile. We missed the eye but caught that north end as it went by. How were the winds for you being further north? Rough night?

You do not want to go to sleep oldbroad not knowing what could happen. You hear these roars outside wondering if a tornado is about to hit when they are nothing more then strong gusts. They do send out alerts if what could be a tornado is spotted in your area. There were a good number on the ground throughout the night, some deaths involved. I'm telling you between the winds, the rain and tornadoes....what a night

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Thank you for the thoughts and prayers, they worked!

Good bye Milton!

Glad to hear you and Connie are OK Orion!

Glad to hear all your generator prepping turned out to be unnecessary, Orion! I know I wouldn't have been able to sleep. Is there some scientific reason why these kind of storms so often seem to happen at night?

So good to hear the both of you made it thru the storm safely Connie and Orion!

Gerry

Orion, yes I'm north of you. We are between Orlando and Sanford. I'm not sure how high the winds were, but it was a ROUGH night. We are lucky to still have power, a lot of our friends here are not as lucky. We loaned our generator to a friend who lost power. We are opening the Eagles early, so those without power will have a place to come.

That is really nice opening up the Eagles and you letting someone use your genny Connie. We both know what it is like losing power. I'll bet they were very thankful. Very kind of you

I was thinking Silver Springs Connie. That is why I asked how the winds were you being further north. I'm 7 miles west of downtown Orlando. We were both about 35 miles from its path. Right before landfall they had the eye 60 miles in diameter. That put the eye wall 30 miles out from center if it maintained that diameter when it came by. That would have put us both close to what was left of an eye wall at that time. At the time it was going by us is was a Cat 1- 90mph. Rough night like you say. Why we did not lose power is a mystery

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There is no scientific reason why hurricanes cross over land at night it's just timing oldbroad. The next one, hopefully not this year, could cross land during the day

Forecasting had Milton crossing over the state at night. It's so much easier running cords during the day then at night using a flashlight. Had this been a daytime event we would have waited for the power to go out. If the power had gone out like we expected it to we had everything ready to go, just plug into the placed surges using a flashlight and we are up. Between the two of us it doesn't take too much time running the cords or wrapping back up

Hurricanes are not the only reason our power has gone out and we have had to bring out the generator. Atlantic and Gulf fronts meet in the middle of the state. When they clash it creates these strong storms. There was a time you could set your watch by them, 4pm. It is called the "Rainy Season", May to Oct. Our power seemed to always be going out. Duke Energy ran new lines under ground to these new distribution boxes throughout the neighborhood and worked the area around us this summer. Maybe that is why we did not lose power this time around. I don't know

We took Mocha and Teddy out for a walk Thursday oldbroad to survey the damage and saw many fences down, shingles blown off roofs and debris all over the place

So Far 17 deaths reported. One man was cleaning up debris Thursday and stepped on a hot line and it killed him. Unbelievable and so sad


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EDIT: We went from an estimated 3 million without power to 2 million without power now. We have linemen from all over the country here to help restore, some from California. They are moving right along

I'm so glad to hear you're both okay. What a horrible way to spend the night.

Orion-

My friend in Orlando got pretty lucky in that they only lost a few fence panels and a tree. They also were on high enough ground to not get any water in the house.

Prayers heading up for everyone who was affected by the storm.

Glad your friend didn't have a lot of damage.

A friend of mine had a 35' palm tree fall along the side of his home just missing it. Tree service said it weighed 10,000 lbs. Had it hit his home......

There are 23 deaths reported now