Hurricane Irmageddon sucks!
13Thanks to Irma I lost power and screwed up my meh! button clicks. Like many who made it through Irma and Harvey starting over is part of the plan. I am blessed, have a home and have power and occasional internet. Prayers are with those still plodding through it and big thanks to all who have made their way to our States to help restore power, bring fuel and give support, however, the can. Also, big thanks to all who are keeping us in their prayers and helping in so many other ways. Like so many natural disasters and even acts of terrorism, it is good to see citizens and allies come together as one.
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Keep patient, don’t do anything stupid, the national guard always wins. If your neighborhood it totally wrecked, spray paint your address and the name of your insurance company on the street side of your house. Do what clean up you can. Approach it like a farmer don’t kill yourself, the work will still be there in the morning.
@thumperchick - under the circumstances maybe someone can fix @tellatale 's meh streak?
@Kidsandliz there is no way for us to do that. If there were, we would have monetized that years ago.
@Thumperchick Maybe meh can reward the programmer (eg one “in the wild”) who figures out how to do that with free, life time VMP? There are clever people on this site.
Jacksonville sucks right now. 90k people without power. 4 days later, most gas stations don’t have gas. Still long lines for it. Riverside is still drying out, San Marco is STILL flooded. A lot of roads aren’t passable. JEA is doing lots of useless things on camera to show how much work they’re doing, but crews and relief crews standing around. I’m actually still on generator right now. Have chased off looters and robbers. Almost been killed by a tweeker running from an accident, Schools are closed through the week.
It’s not fun here.
I want a hot shower and I need to shave, but I have to go to work in a few hours and hope my generator keeps my fridge cold.
@revloki Yikes! I hope you get power and safety back quickly.
@revloki If you’re in a house rather than an apartment, own a hose with a spray nozzle attachment you can do this: put hose in a spot where it will get one or two hours of sunlight. Charge hose full of water. Put on swim suit and take what we call a “Navy Shower.” Spray yourself down with water. Turn off sprayer. Soap up all over (just use shampoo–it’s faster). Rinse quickly starting at top of head and working your way down. If you time it just right and you work fast, you can be squeaky clean before you run out of warm water.
The relay sub-station which services my neighborhood in OP took a long time to dry out. Standing water two days ago. Lots of poles and oaks down, too. People very close by were having their power turned back on street by street. Hope my husband gets power back today. He’s in a very grumpy mood, and I’m very happy to be 900 miles away from home at this point!
@LaVikinga If it looks stupid but it works… it ain’t stupid!
Thanks! I’m gonna give that a shot. I can actually run my hose into my bathroom. So I can at least do cold for the majority and warm to do the important stuff.
@revloki I’m the female MacGyver in my family. I think it’s because I come from a long line of Navy Wives.
In Jacksonville as well, yard has tons of debris but we’re okay.
In a different part of Jacksonville, my insurance co. just sent the blue tarp people to take pictures. The tarps will be in place this PM, because rain is coming tonight. Blue Tarp Nation!
@OldCatLady Yeah I was over off of university yesterday clearing a tree off of my friends house. The adjuster showed up while we were cleaning to take pics of the holes and tarp it. Good luck on a speedy repair!
@OldCatLady You are kidding me? More rain? My husband is gonna be a royal pain in the ass for my kids to have to deal with if the power continues to be out in the area. He’s gone Special Snowflake on me this morning. Finally had to tell him “Dude, don’t be that person about getting your power back on. It’s embarrassing!”
@revloki Well, I have blue tarps. The foreman was describing Vilano Beach to me; they were there yesterday. My troubles pale in comparison. His opinion is that I’ll get a whole new roof, minus deductible.
@LaVikinga Well, here in the neighborhood, we got sick of getting passed by for four days. So as a collective force, we just spent the afternoon storming our city council rep, the mayor’s office, and JEA repeatedly and we finally have trucks here working on stuff after being ignored. JEA has been working single outage issues for two days in other parts of town.
@revloki Husband reported power was restored around 1345 today. I’m relieved for his sake. Those special snowflake meltdowns this morning were really surprising. My poor grumpy guy.
@revloki Civic action committee! That’s the way to work it. Congratulations.
Kingsland, GA all’s well with power and water back in service. I just love my A/C.