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Re: 2020 Hurricane Season
Reply #45 - Oct 12th, 2020 at 12:18pm
 
This one moved further west, all I caught was the fringes. 

Pretty sure Morphy got hammered again. 

Hope he's OK.
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Reply #46 - Oct 14th, 2020 at 1:34pm
 
  His last post was August 26th.  That's very unusual for him.  I sent him a PM and email.  Fingers crossed.
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Reply #47 - Oct 14th, 2020 at 1:48pm
 
Morphy wrote on Aug 26th, 2020 at 4:56pm:
Stuck at the station for at least 36 hours. Might be here till Monday morning. Luckily it’s supposed to turn. The latest sat photo I saw seemed to suggest it was turning North so hopefully that last the case.


This was his last post.  It was right before Hurricane Laura hit. 

Edit: the email address we have for him is bad.
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Reply #48 - Oct 27th, 2020 at 1:06pm
 
One more time.... and once again my sister Donna near Pensacola is right in the crosshairs.  Her hurricane shutters are getting a real workout this year. 
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Reply #49 - Oct 27th, 2020 at 1:09pm
 
   And on Thursday night it will roll over us in New Jersey.  This will be the sixth or seventh time a tropical system has reached us this season.  I've lost count.  My little lake has never looked better this time of year. 
    Zeta is supposed to run right into Winter Storm Billy.  That should make for some prodigious rain.
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Reply #50 - Oct 28th, 2020 at 9:36am
 
It's going to go over my house in the middle of the night.  With spin off tornadoes.  With 3-4 inches of rain (75mm to 10cm) in about 4-6 hours along with 50-70 MPH (100KPH +) winds.

"Oh Lord, for what I'm about to receive..."

Vehicles topped off.  Extra food laid in.  Generator tested.  Extra fuel for that.  New chainsaw blade. 

Now, I wait.
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Reply #51 - Oct 28th, 2020 at 9:39am
 
Good news is that it's supposed to miss Pensacola, although they will get storm surge and wind and rain. 

Same places in Mississippi, Texas, Alabama and Louisiana are going to catch Hell one more time this year.
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Reply #52 - Oct 28th, 2020 at 7:56pm
 
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Reply #53 - Oct 29th, 2020 at 8:52am
 
    Zeta is still cooking at 990 mb and 60 mph winds.  It's moving forward at a very fast 39 mph.  It will be over me at around seven tonight.  It will be a wild and wooly evening.  No tornadoes, please Lord. 
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Reply #54 - Oct 30th, 2020 at 2:35pm
 
   As often happens, Zeta lost its punch by the time it got to Jersey.  The wind was minimal. It did rain on us for like thirty hours though.  We got about three inches.  I don't think our water table has ever been this healthy this time of year.
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Reply #55 - Nov 1st, 2020 at 3:58pm
 
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Reply #56 - Nov 2nd, 2020 at 6:03pm
 
And I'm back.

100+mph (160kph) winds locally, lucky us.

at least 4inches of rain (10cm) in about 3 hours.  We probably got about twice that, my gauge only goes up to 4 inches and it was full.  Creeks did get out some. 

My brother's place got hit pretty hard, his cabin had a limb about 30 feet long (10m) land on its roof, a smaller branch about the size of a really strong man's arm punched a hole through the roof.  Luckily, the rain came first, there was almost no rain when the winds came from the back wall.  Usually, the high winds and rain come with the front wall, this time little wind but lots of rain at the front but lots of wind at the rear. 

And my brother's BIL fell off the roof while putting a tarp over the hole and broke his leg on Thursday.  And did an excellent job of it, he's got a spiral fracture in his ankle, both bones are broken about 1/2 way up and one has a split from that break down to the ankle.

He got complacent, he is a carpenter and handyman who replaces roofs for a living, when he stepped off the ladder, he wasn't paying attention and stepped in some sawdust from where I had to take a chainsaw to the limb on the roof.    He fell about 15-16 feet (5m).  Ambulance took about 30 minutes to get here, I'm out in the sticks. 

I told him jokes to make him laugh while we waited.  Every time he laughed, it hurt more.  So, I'd tell him another.   whistle  Moral of the story is don't get hurt around me.
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Reply #57 - Nov 2nd, 2020 at 6:12pm
 
Drove a chainsaw Thursday, Friday and part of Saturday.  Hauled stuff off every day except today.

Got electric back Saturday evening, phone service Sunday evening and the interwebz a couple of hours ago. 

My BIL's daughter had her I Pad with a different carrier than what I have, which was good, because I didn't have anything with any contact.  Ambulance took about 1/2 an hour to get there due to it having to come from 30 miles away. (65km)  And had to slow down for various work crews repairing/replacing powerlines. 

In my hometown of 200ish people, there were three trees down on houses, big old 100+ year old oak trees for the most part.  Those houses are probably totaled. 

Good news is the only injury was my BIL.  And technically, he isn't considered to be injured due to the hurricane.
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Reply #58 - Nov 6th, 2020 at 12:41am
 
Bill Skinner wrote on Nov 2nd, 2020 at 6:03pm:
Moral of the story is don't get hurt around me.


First, Glad you're ok.  Second  ^ :

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Reply #59 - Nov 6th, 2020 at 11:06am
 
Glad you're OK, Bill. And here we go one more time.
https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2020-11-06-eta-tropical-storm-forecast
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