Thanks. Don't know what we're having. Due on 10/06. Hopefully it's a boy since we have a 2 year old girl already. Then, for trout season, I'll get vasectomy and fish for a week. LOL.
Thanks. Luckily my neighbor is a master builder and licensed Gc - so any of the crap with electric, I get him to do. He's a licensed electrician also. I'll do plumbing, framing, dry wall - I don't mess with electric.
It's supposed to weaken rapidly to a cat 4 or 3, but you know how these things go. I can't remember the last time we had a storm crash into the coast like this. The hurricanes that hit the Mid-Atlantic tend to ride up the coast from the south instead of blasting in perpendicularly like Flo is doing. That's one thing that has me concerned about this storm - it's just riding in off the water with little to nothing to slow it down till it makes landfall. I just hope it comes ashore in a remote area...
It's a RW overblown story, and I too lived through the Katrina experience, but unlike you I have no interest in derailing a thread that may interest people who have real stakes in Florence. It may inconvenience my wife in getting home from Philly, but that's small potatoes.
Putting up with Hurricanes is annoying an so I would strongly suggest restarting project Stormfury from the 1960s using not pounds but hundreds of tons of cloud seeding materials into the storms eyes walls just to start with. The experiments in the 1960s was lacking in the needed scale and yet there was some indications that such actions would indeed be helpful. Love to see a few hundreds tons of either silver iodide and or dry ice being drop into Florence nice looking eye wall.
I went through Katrina, Ivan, Camile and many many many others. Have evacuated twice in my life. Gordon flamed out before it hit but was fully prepared. In all recoveries it is the LOCAL officials and government NOT FEMA that runs things.
Hmmm, do you always get this angry when you try to write off fact for fake news because it doesn't suit your agenda?
So true. At 73, I am still gainfully employed as a firearm instructor teaching urban ladies how to not to become a victim. OK, If you get a generator of size, see if he will run a 220v outlet off your electrical panel and all you will need is a HEAVY duty extension cord with a double ended male twist lock plug. One end feeds your box through your new outlet, the other plugs directly into the generator. As long as you have the main power from the pole OFF, you control the power to individual circuits within your house using your individual circuit breakers. He may suggest a cut off box but that is not absolutely necessary. In any event, ask him how to use your new generator correctly as they can be very efficient if used properly. Good luck.
Welcome to the forum. Your sister will very likely be fine but may get wet & be without power for a while. Meanwhile, I look forward to hearing your views concerning topics that interest you. Good luck!
Do you realize how many tons of water are in that hurricane and how many it is churning up every minute? As you noted this was looked at under several programs and not results could be ascertained.
FEMA exist to provide assistance mostly in water, food, medicine to local officials. FEMA does NOT run the preparedness or evacuations or first response state and local government do.
Oh the federal response side it was. FEMA does not build nor manage power grids. And yes dig up Bush's quote along with the full context, where he was and to whom he was speaking and who had just spoken before him and what they had said. Be glad to discuss it with you.
Run cords to everything individually not through your box UNLESS you have had a QUALIFIED LICENSED electrician COMPLETELY cut you off the grid. You can get arrested here if you send electricity back to the grid from your generator.
The infrastructure like power and water are old and vulnerable to storms. It's going to take more than just local governments to fix that serious issue.
Certainly power is important for creature comforts, but the loss of good clean drinking water is scary.
