Yes, this is a Q Win. But we are family and now a lot of Florida pedes are facing a potentially dangerous storm. Some are new Floridians and have no idea of how evacuations work here or may need other help from us experienced Floridians.
So I thought we could do a check-in post here and we can move to another Win to support each other, if needed. I lost my old home at Weather Underground when they got bought by Weather Channel so it would be nice to have a bunch of y’all to chat with.
Right now, TropicalTidbits.com is the best online site outside of the National Hurricane Center. Levi has been hurricane forecasting for many years and is excellent. You can see the Euro and GFS models there also.
So if you are a Floridian and are facing the roller coaster of the next five days, go ahead and say hi!
One thing they never tell you: Even if your house is still standing and seems fine after the storm and the power grid is being restored, you cannot switch on the electricity to a house that's been either flooded from the ground up or has roof damage to where water was running down the interior walls and ceilings.
Last time I had to go through one, the grid came back on pretty quickly. But the storm was so strong it tore up the roofs (even up-to-code roofs) on many, many homes and the power could not be turned back on - ever. The places had to be stripped down to the studs, rewired and re-drywalled. Then you had electricity.
For my house, that took a year. One year. It's not a matter of days. It's a matter of replacing whatever got wet and damaged in your house's walls.