OT: I really didn't even know this was a hurricane...
lordmarcovan
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Hermine? Who?
I haven't been watching the news.
Turns out we're right in the thick of it.
Could've fooled me. We've had worse summer thunderstorms.
I guess high tide and the surge in the AM is what may keep me on St. Simons Island, if the causeway goes under (which is not entirely unheard of).
The hotel asked employees to spend the night and gave them rooms.
I had to laugh, because as the night auditor, I spend the night here every night.
This one might be a little different, though.
I haven't been watching the news.
Turns out we're right in the thick of it.
Could've fooled me. We've had worse summer thunderstorms.
I guess high tide and the surge in the AM is what may keep me on St. Simons Island, if the causeway goes under (which is not entirely unheard of).
The hotel asked employees to spend the night and gave them rooms.
I had to laugh, because as the night auditor, I spend the night here every night.
This one might be a little different, though.
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Gonna get me a $50 Octagonal someday. Some. Day.
Stay dry!
I did have a scare, though. Stepped outside the front door just a few minutes ago and practically tripped over a freakin' live armadillo, which was snuffling around. This is the second time in a month or so I've had a "close encounter of the armadillo kind".
They don't see very well, and they're not terribly bright, so it takes them a moment to realize you're there. It's not hard to accidentally come up on one and almost trip over it. Other critters will get outta your way.
One time I was metal detecting at night (and digging an 1837 large cent) when an armadillo came over to the hole I'd just dug and started snuffling in the dirt where I'd just gotten the coin from. I was happy with the large cent and I guess he/she/it was happy with whatever tasty grubs or whatever I'd unearthed. Never knew I was there until I poked it with the detector searchcoil.
I'm in Gainesville in the midst of Hermine. I lost power for about 45 minutes and was shocked--oops, bad word when talking electricity, guess I'll say surprised--when it came back on. The rain is fairly intense and the winds are probably around 35 to 45. I've heard loud thumps on my roof over my bed, so I decided I'd sleep elsewhere tonight. I'm guessing you probably get pretty much the same because I believe the center of the weakened storm will pass closer to you than it did to me.
Assuming no roof damage, so far all the storm has done is caused me to delay purchasing a coin because I wanted to conserve my cash in case I had a tree fall on my house. Oh, and it also has me up replying to your thread at 2:00 AM even though I am not on a night shift.
So far so good (still)...
Mark- hope the worst has passed you by. We might get some in a few hours, I guess? I'll have to look at the radar again.
Edit: oh. Neato. I didn't realize the Weather Channel radar graphic I posted in the OP updates itself. I thought it was a static image.
By the time everybody else reads this in the daytime on Friday, it'll probably look much clearer and folks will wonder what all the fuss was about. The media has certainly made it sound much more dire than the actual experience has been (so far).
(Boy, does that one ever remind me of my high school senior year!)
But yea, I've seen much worse nor'easters when I lived on the east coast, as I'm sure you have.
Stay safe Rob!
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Getting some much needed rain. Cloudy and much cooler than usual.
Nice breeze blowing.
How did you make out? Down here in Gainesville, around my house I had a bunch of smallish branches I had to pick up and discard and a lot of leaf litter that I still have to pick up. I keep hoping for wind to blow that stuff elsewhere. But no damage, even though gusts of wind were recorded to a little above 50 mph.
My daughter and I drove around Gainesville and the damage seemed really hit or miss. A lot of places looked like nothing happened, I presume because nothing happened. We saw just a couple of decent-sized trees knocked over, but no large trees and not too many trees in general.
I surely hope you had it even better than my fairly mild experience.
The west coast had all the real activity. Too bad, as we were getting ready to head over there for some scalloping....hopefully they will recover quickly, as they was a lot of flooding and storm surge over there to deal with.
On the plus side I would think there should be some good detectoring next week on the beach?
Maybe. Definitely will improve the fossil hunting on some of our regular sites. Maybe I'll go pick up a big fat megalodon tooth or two.
I like the way they alternate between herracaines and himacaines.
It's the 21st century now, so we're all properly PC. Fair and balanced.
LordM:
How did you make out? Down here in Gainesville, around my house I had a bunch of smallish branches I had to pick up and discard and a lot of leaf litter that I still have to pick up. I keep hoping for wind to blow that stuff elsewhere. But no damage, even though gusts of wind were recorded to a little above 50 mph.
My daughter and I drove around Gainesville and the damage seemed really hit or miss. A lot of places looked like nothing happened, I presume because nothing happened. We saw just a couple of decent-sized trees knocked over, but no large trees and not too many trees in general.
I surely hope you had it even better than my fairly mild experience.
When I drove home yesterday there were some isolated flooded areas. Plenty of branches down and pine straw and leaves everywhere. One limb fell off a tree about 30 feet to the left of my car as I drove past, and another smaller one actually hit the car (but fortunately did no damage).
Got home to find our dying oak tree still standing, all the critters OK, and no major damage aside from spilled and scattered trash and recycling bins. However, the power was out. Since I sleep with a CPAP machine for sleep apnea and the inside of our trailer was oppressive in the heat, I arranged to come back to the hotel again and spend the day (i.e. sleep in a guest room, not work another shift).
On my way back out to the island, the most interesting thing I saw was this: on top of one of the higher bridges on the causeway, in the bicycle lane, there was what appeared to be a discarded yellow rain slicker. It looked like the ones worn by the cops and firefighters who were directing traffic at the major intersections where the traffic signals were out. Closer up, however, it looked more like a bright yellow fire hose, all unraveled and in a sloppy pile.
What it turned out to be was the striping off the road- the very yellow striping which had formerly delineated the bike lane! Apparently this stuff must be more like a rubberized tape they roll onto the road surface rather than paint on, or if it IS paint, it was rubbery enough to come off in strips several yards long and blow into a pile.
So the winds literally blew the stripes off the road, at least on top of one of the high bridges. They buffeted my car pretty badly as I drove over, too.
All in all, I will say that Hurricane Hermine was just bad enough to be interesting and memorable but not bad enough to be really serious, which is good. That's the kind of hurricane experience you want to have, if you must experience one. Just enough to get a few stories.
Our power came back on Friday evening after being out all day. I had to work Friday night, so I stayed at the hotel while my wife went home. Here at the hotel, we went from being a ghost town to being a refuge for locals without power. Management has given them a special rate. Plus the Labor Day weekend is now upon us.
PS- bunked down in my free hotel room Friday evening, I went out for some carryout Chinese food and took it back for my solitary dinner. (Sorry, I didn't do a PennyLady-style report with pictures of the food- but trust me, you'll be glad of that once you read the rest of this tale.)
Earlier in the day, when I had attempted to go home, I wanted to grab a bite, as I hadn't eaten. None of the fast food joints were open except Mickey D's, and they were mobbed, so I passed on that. In the end, I had to opt for a convenience store corn dog. So I had grease for lunch and grease for dinner.
Now, if you have ever had a convenience store corn dog for lunch, do NOT follow it up with Egg Foo Yung for dinner, OK? Just never, EVER go there.
I happen to like Egg Foo Yung (and pretty much anything with gravy on it, which is no doubt why I look like Jabba the Hutt). But I spilled Egg Foo Yung gravy all over myself, the sheets, and the pillowcase in the hotel room (ow- hot), so now my Housekeeping coworkers are gonna think I puked or pooped in the bed. (But I'm sure they've become accustomed to seeing that occasionally.)
I must say this: chlorine gas... sarin or mustard gas... anthrax... other weapons of mass destruction... none of these are as deadly as a few good Egg Foo Yung farts. If there are any residual fumes in that room, and housekeeping sees the gravy on the sheets, they're gonna be putting it out of service.
(I figured I'd wrap up my horrendously off-topic hurricane story with a good fart joke. I'm just classy that way. But if you want to make this topical, post a coin with a picture of Egg Foo Yung or a corn dog on it.)
Kung Fu? Fuhgeddaboutit. I am practiced in the ancient and lethal art of Egg Foo.
No? Hm. They must be rarer than I thought.
(Old School Open Forumites will note the use of the correct spelling of "smoebody". That was NOT a typo, though my smart-alecky Android tablet tried to tell me it was, and I had to do battle with autocorrect again. Sometimes it is difficult being a deliberately idiosyncratic speller in the modern age.)
My coworkers told me that was a good thing, 'cause they said Miz' Vita probably will clean that room, and Miz' Vita would've broadcasted my supposed gastrointestinal indiscretions all over the hotel. Fortunately the vaporous gastrointestinal indiscretions of the evening before had dissipated by the time I checked out. The aroma of Egg Foo Yung gravy and shrimp, not quite.
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