Hurricane Zeta just blew thru...

chienfou thought this was worth mentioning said Thu, Oct 29th 2020 at 2:46pm ET

Hope everyone did OK with our latest big blow. Here in Central AL we lost power somewhere around 4am and it just came back on in this part of town 20 minutes ago.
Lots of leaves in the pool, deck chairs blown around and some plants blown off the the deck or laid over on their sides (both olive trees are at about 20 degree angles and the jalapenos blew over-- but I was going to pick them and smoke them into chipotles soonanyway). Banana plant leaves are totally shredded in the top of the plant bunches. Thankfully, no major issues and the stuff in the freezer and fridge all survived the 10 hours or so of lack of power. Ice cream got pretty soft, but should be OK to refreeze.
How is it in your neck of the woods?

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f00l said Thu, Oct 29th 2020 at 3:38pm ET:

I’m glad you’re okay

If we can go light on the crazy natural disasters remainder of the that would be great

But I don’t really expect it to be that way

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tinamarie1974 said Thu, Oct 29th 2020 at 3:46pm ET:

Happy to hear you survived with minimal issues!

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PooltoyWolf said Thu, Oct 29th 2020 at 4:38pm ET:

I’m currently on vacation with my best friend in Lawrenceville, Georgia, and last night the wind was blowing all sorts of stuff against and onto the house. No damage that we can see, though. Sure was loud outside! My first hurricane experience outside of my home state…huh.

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PocketBrain said Thu, Oct 29th 2020 at 5:18pm ET:

Yeah, that part of the Gulf coast keeps getting it this year. At least there’s no new storm brewing quite yet. Of course, 2005 got all the way up to TS Zeta, but that one appeared in December. They had another four named storms after Nov.1. Realistically, we might get all the way up to Kappa. Keep your rubbers on.

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yakkoTDI said Thu, Oct 29th 2020 at 6:02pm ET:

Glad to hear you and the jalapenos are ok. At least the shape of Florida allows us to get just as many storms but spread them out.

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chienfou said Thu, Oct 29th 2020 at 7:41pm ET:

@mike808 @kidsandliz @anybodyelseinthelineoffire
Y’all OK?

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- @chienfou I was enough west that winds were only 30 and not all that much rain. Got lucky again. Hope others did too.
  
  Kidsandliz said Thu, Oct 29th 2020 at 8:26pm ET
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  chienfou said Thu, Oct 29th 2020 at 8:56pm ET
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  3 sections of my sister’s back yard fence blew down. Good news was that it didn’t take down the posts, just the panels. So easy repair. Pictures from Mobile didn’t look fun. Gulf shores evacuated yesterday. They weren’t finished cleaning up from the earlier storm last month.
  
  Brother in NO says most power is out (but nit where he is), lines at the gas stations with power, and he’s happy getting hazard pay running IT ops remotely from home for the State Troopers.
  
  mike808 said Thu, Oct 29th 2020 at 8:58pm ET
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- @mike808 likewise, I was relatively unscathed but have friends in Coosa county that said it was a real bitch last night. Being a REALLY sound sleeper is a bleessing/curse I guess.
  
  chienfou said Fri, Oct 30th 2020 at 1:56am ET
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Kidsandliz said Thu, Oct 29th 2020 at 9:37pm ET:

@chienfou Glad there was no major damage at your house and your food survived. I feel for the folks who were hit yet again, what was it, 5 weeks apart? That part of the coast with eastern LA, MS and western AL seems to have a target on it this year.

My best friend since 9th grade lives in CA and wants me to rent a house with her and another of her friends. I told sounds like fun but I am not living in frequent forest fire or hurricane areas nor in tornado alley if I can help it. When I used to live in a major tornado area I didn’t realize, every time it rained, how often I kept an eye on the sky until I moved to northern ID and they rarely even have thunder storms let alone tornadoes.

I have been in one hurricane when I was young and they didn’t warn like they do now. We were camped in a tent top trailer on the outer banks on the ocean side, fortunately up a sand dune One row back from the ocean. Trash cans flying through the air, rain felt like knives… it hit in the middle of the night and we were taking down the tent top (all the snaps ripped out) while it was shaking back and forth and up and down at the same time. We were very lucky winds were in the 70-80 mph range and gusts weren’t much higher.

I have been far to close to 2 tornadoes (along with straight line winds that knocked over trees in my yard, etc.). Once I saw one out my car window just behind me, had no way to drive away from it and it was close enough tree branches were falling all around me. It then was lowering and raising right in front of me. Another time one took out the house right behind me (and 10 others) and engulfed my house in a lightening ball while I was in it. No thank you.

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stryper2000 said Fri, Oct 30th 2020 at 7:27am ET:

In upstate SC, we got the high winds that blew over trees and power lines. Our power went out around 7am yesterday and is still out

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  Hope you got your power back up by now. This one really left a trail of damage across a large swath…
  
  chienfou said Fri, Oct 30th 2020 at 3:59pm ET
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mike808 said Sat, Oct 31st 2020 at 1:19am ET:

Power still out in New Orleans. Generator holding up so far.

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  you guys have really been in the cross hairs this season!
  
  chienfou said Mon, Nov 2nd 2020 at 10:50pm ET
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nasman6 said Sun, Nov 1st 2020 at 1:54pm ET:

Just got power back on here in this part of Biloxi. Not a fun storm.

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