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After 10 days without power, and 12 days without cable/internet, I'm finally back.
The storm went directly over me. We got up to about 80 mph sustained winds here, with gusts to almost 100 mph. I spent the entire time outside in front of my house. The wind was unbelievable. With the rain blowing, it was quite hard to see at times. There were 1 or 2 times when the wind gusted that I about ran inside, but I stuck it out. How many people can say they went through a hurricane outside? :D
The next day, I drove around the neighborhood to check the damage. There were trees down on every road. You had to drive under trees hanging from power lines. I can't believe how much damage there was to pine trees, but that's because they don't flex like palm trees. I even saw a telephone pole snapped in half by the wind.
My house received around $10,000 in damage. We're still waiting on all the estimates, but it's not gonna be cheap. If this had been a regular storm, our deductable would have been $500, but since it's a hurricane we have to pay $2,500. :mad:
Rain from one of the feeder bands
Tree in my front yard 1 - On it's way down, it took out the drop line into the house.
Tree in my front house 2
Screen around the pool, or what's left of it.
Tree 1
Tree 2
Tree 3
Tree 4
Road 1
Road 2
Road 3
As if 10 days without power wasn't bad enough, some idiot drove over the water line on the houses they're building next door. Now we had to boil our water. Pic
The storm went directly over me. We got up to about 80 mph sustained winds here, with gusts to almost 100 mph. I spent the entire time outside in front of my house. The wind was unbelievable. With the rain blowing, it was quite hard to see at times. There were 1 or 2 times when the wind gusted that I about ran inside, but I stuck it out. How many people can say they went through a hurricane outside? :D
The next day, I drove around the neighborhood to check the damage. There were trees down on every road. You had to drive under trees hanging from power lines. I can't believe how much damage there was to pine trees, but that's because they don't flex like palm trees. I even saw a telephone pole snapped in half by the wind.
My house received around $10,000 in damage. We're still waiting on all the estimates, but it's not gonna be cheap. If this had been a regular storm, our deductable would have been $500, but since it's a hurricane we have to pay $2,500. :mad:
Rain from one of the feeder bands
Tree in my front yard 1 - On it's way down, it took out the drop line into the house.
Tree in my front house 2
Screen around the pool, or what's left of it.
Tree 1
Tree 2
Tree 3
Tree 4
Road 1
Road 2
Road 3
As if 10 days without power wasn't bad enough, some idiot drove over the water line on the houses they're building next door. Now we had to boil our water. Pic
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