Fay

[efmaron]

To all my fellow woodworkers and SS owners also living in Florida, FAY is coming!!!! be prepared and be safe and hopefully in a few days we will be back chatting

[dusty]

Eric, Ed in Tampa, et al;

I hope you know that we are all pulling for you as you prepare to face this pending hurricane and all that follows. I have been there and I know that these are stressful times. Our prayers are with and will be throughout these next couple days.

Hope to hear from all of you soon after that it was not all that bad.

[Ed in Tampa]

Eric, Ed in Tampa, et al;

I hope you know that we are all pulling for you as you prepare to face this pending hurricane and all that follows. I have been there and I know that these are stressful times. Our prayers are with and will be throughout these next couple days.

Hope to hear from all of you soon after that it was not all that bad.

Dusty
Thanks! I think a lot of what we are seeing now is nothing more than media hype. It worries me because so many of our older population (me included) is prone to worry or fear and it seems the media almost likes to prey on this. I think storm warnings are fantastic, but the reporters seem to enjoy putting fear into people. Perhaps they are trying to motivate people out of their apathy but I think they have cried the sky is falling so often that people tend to do one of two things get paralyzed with fear or view it as chicken little.

I almost envy those that live else where that face similar threats (tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, mudslides, fires, droughts, blizzards, super storms, and etc) but usually with a lot less warning thus less time to worry about what might happen.

The human mind and imagination is a power thing and given all the facts, pictures of past disasters and etc. You can get yourself overly worked up real quick.

One thing Home Depot loves it, they usually sell out of plywood, plastic sheeting, fashlights, batteries and generators. Great thing is after the storm season is over you can get great buys on craigs list for plywood, plastic sheeting, flashlight, batteries and generators.

Oh well
Waiting to see if Fay will really become a problem and where she is going.
Ed

[cityslicker2]

Here's hoping all you guys are safe and sound. If you can please send Fay towards NC - we can really use the rain here in the central part of the state and the latest forecast track shows the bulk of the storm missing our area. Steve

[Ed in Tampa]

Well here in Tampa it has been a big nothing. In fact all we had a few drizzles of rain. However my brother on the East Coast around Fort Pierce has had about 10 inches of rain with another 6 forecasted.
10 inches may sound like a lot but here in Florida water disappears pretty quick. He said there has been some road flooding but not bad. Their biggest problem is his septic system, with that much rain septic tanks don't work all that well.
We have had some light winds, where he is getting enough to blow his heavy wind chimes around. All in all pretty quiet on the west coast and a little more exciting on the East.
I worked most of the day in the shop, temps were down but the humidity was up, wind coming from the south.

Now they think the storm will go into the Atlantic then turn back into the coast. Perhaps the Carolinas with get the rain they so badly need. My in laws lives around Lake Hartwell in SC and that lake is about 20 feet or more down from normal.

Take care all
Ed

[a1gutterman]

Glad to hear that you're oakay, Ed.:)

[charlese]

Thanks for the report, Ed!

[chettrick]

Here is the Melbourne update where I live. It is a swamp over here. Roads are closed everywhere, Getting in to South Brevard is almost impossible, the estimates are up to 30".

Yes, in some palces the water does run out quickly but we have been saturated for days, the water on my lot has not drained down from last week yet.

The water has no where to go at this time. There is so much water that a friend of mine has left work early because the neighborhood he is in has water up to his thighs, which is what he has had to wade through to get to his home. By the way he is 6-3. You might see him on CNN, along with the National Gaurd.

My other friend lives on Turkey Creek around Palm Bay, he left early because the water on the creek behind his house rose 6 feet in the last day. The creek feeds directly in the Indian River. The meters that record water flow showed the rush of water went from approx 200 cubic feet of water per second to 2500 in less than a day.

I work at a major hospital in Melbourne, No one expected the storm to do what really happened. I am on duty for 24 hours straight, many people could not get out of their homes or neighborhoods to come to work. Unless your truck is of decent height, better put pontoons on your car.

No that I have talked that have been here for many years ever remembers a problem like this. The rain still has not stopped because lil ole Fay decided she liked our town so much, she does not want to leave.