Figured you would make it fine. Outdoor people are way more prepared and can handle issues better than city folks. If there was a major disaster and everyone was cut off from any help which is pretty rare anymore those types would not make it. One good thing is the beavers have less trees to chew on. Hang in there. We are in clean up mode around here after the wind event last night.

Thanks SP!

Wife and I cooked up some pancakes and bacon outside on the Blackstone griddle tonight. I told her we was roughing it....lol

Everybody good?

What county are you in Swamp? I don’t know why I thought you were on the coastal area, but your blue pin showed you like right down below Valdosta area.

Echols County

17 miles due east of Valdosta

My daughters boyfriend is an engineer with Alabama Power, he left Tuesday morning headed to S. Georgia with a crew pre-positioned to respond to storm damage.

Swamp, you good? A little warm today for clean up. Calling for rain tonight and tomorrow morning then a little cooler weather.

I was going to say that it must've pulled in cooler air. Only in the 80s here today. Hopefully we're over the hump on the heat.

But I say it every year, if I can just make it through August. LOL

Swamp, you hang in there and pace yourself. It can't be fixed overnight so slow and steady wins the race.

Anyone heard from Swamp today?

Figured he was quite busy today. Seems like the sort fellow that'll be pitching in helping all his neighbors.

That or they had a looter and he's awaiting arraignment, lol.

Nah, I’m sure he was busy as heck. But like someone said, pace yourself. I don’t care who you are, if it hit them like it hit us in 2018, you ain’t getting it done in a day or two. Was just hoping he’d check in and give us an update.

Went through an F5 in 98. Saw lots of clean up injuries. Dad liked to have worked himself to death.

We had 2 tornadoes in 2017 20 days apart in my county. First was just an EF1, second was an EF3. We cleaned up for weeks. Not that they were good things to happen, but a lot of trees were lost in those areas so when the hurricane came through we didn’t have that to worry about.
A call went out about injuries and blocked roads and it was all hands on deck. We had two roads cleared and EMS helping folks before any State agency got there. One ole boy showed up with a fork lift and was lifting trees and clearing logs as fast as we were cutting them. Sometimes the worst brings out the best in your county.

Just came in and got a cool, but flashlight illuminated shower. Our water system is up and running...what a blessing that is. Been cleaning up all day. Went and purchased another generator this morning. Gotta save the
produce (maters and corn) we put up and those dang beaver pelts.



The tree that damaged my truck broke my line feed to my house weatherhead. Linesman wouldn't reconnect feed until inspection...then Georgia Power gotta look at it...b4 re-connect. Rest of neighborhood's power came on a few min ago. They got all nearby lines up this afternoon...then I cleared rest of street of oak trees with the New Holland.

So, Wife and I still get to listen to the generators running. Have certified electrician coming in the morning. Then if I can get a GP tech here with all that's going on.....maybe we'll get our power on soon.

We were smack dab in the middle of the hurricane force wind field. Still was a Cat 2 as it passed over us...About 4 hours of 80 to 100 + mph winds. This is what made this storm so rough here....the fact that it maintained it's intensity this far inland as it passed over us. Other tropical systems have slowed to TS or weak Cat 1 strength when they brushed by this area of Georgia. This was a direct hit by a still very strong storm.....

Hope I don’t see another like that anytime soon...

I'm at the red dot...bullseye!!

Damage sucks, but glad you’re doing as well as can be expected. Hopefully they’ll get your power back on tomorrow.

Swamp
Glad ya’ll came out as well as you did. That one could have been a lot worse than it was.
Sending prayers for you and your neighbors

Just got power!!!!

Fastest response from Georgia Power. I'm impressed!!!

Tested the weatherhead. It's safe, but gotta caulk it back.