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Offline SIM

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Re: Matthew
« Reply #30 on: October 07, 2016, 07:02:33 PM »
Am in Florence,SC waiting for Matthew to arrive. Our crews were brought in this afternoon in anticipation of large and widespread outages.Our assembly area is a mass of electric utility trucks of all sorts.
 We are in hurry up and wait mode at this point as we watch the weather forecasts. It looks as if tonight will be wet, and the fun will begin tomorrow around mid-day.
 We cant operate our buckets in wind  faster than 25mph, and climbing in that wind is just as dangerous.
 Its going to be interesting at the very least........
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Offline Randy1

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Re: Matthew
« Reply #31 on: October 08, 2016, 06:39:13 AM »
We are 90 miles in from the GA cost.  We got nearly 7" of rain but we needed the rain very badly.  Our land is flat so that much rain is not a big deal.  Wind got close to 45 mph.  News is reporting mass power outages east of us getting much worse the closer you get the coast.

Storm surge damage on the coast is not known yet waiting on sunrise

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Re: Matthew
« Reply #32 on: October 08, 2016, 09:43:27 AM »
At least someone's enjoying the weather over there...

https://www.facebook.com/lane.pittman/videos/10153984485731724/

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Re: Matthew
« Reply #33 on: October 08, 2016, 03:41:37 PM »
I'm here in Daytona Beach, we went to a buddy of mines house, this made number 4 for me to go through. Our place just got minor damage but a lot of the other houses here got hit pretty hard!!! :cheers: :salute
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Re: Matthew
« Reply #34 on: October 09, 2016, 10:15:23 PM »
Still in Florence.....

 We have roughly 500,000 customers out in the Carolinas. The damage in some areas is very visible, in others there seems to be nothing wrong.

 Its going to be a long week.....
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« Reply #35 on: October 10, 2016, 07:46:54 PM »
Am wrapping up another 16 hour day thanks to Matthew. Spent the day in a very rural area near Sumter SC.

The work is progressing pretty well considering the amount of damage. Fresh crews are arriving from all over the nation to help with the restoration effort. Ive seen trucks from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Ohio, and even a group from Canada.
 The outages numbered over 660000 at their peak. Right now they are just short of 300K here in the Carolinas.

 If anyone has plans to travel thru eastern North Carolina or South Carolina, I would advise them to seriously consider their route and planned stops. Accomadations are being scooped up for all the utility workers. I would be highly surprised if there are any rooms available......
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« Reply #36 on: October 10, 2016, 08:03:25 PM »
Quote from: SIM on October 10, 2016, 07:46:54 PM
Am wrapping up another 16 hour day thanks to Matthew. Spent the day in a very rural area near Sumter SC.

The work is progressing pretty well considering the amount of damage. Fresh crews are arriving from all over the nation to help with the restoration effort. Ive seen trucks from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Ohio, and even a group from Canada.
 The outages numbered over 660000 at their peak. Right now they are just short of 300K here in the Carolinas.

 If anyone has plans to travel thru eastern North Carolina or South Carolina, I would advise them to seriously consider their route and planned stops. Accomadations are being scooped up for all the utility workers. I would be highly surprised if there are any rooms available......

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Re: Matthew
« Reply #37 on: October 11, 2016, 02:17:34 PM »
Meanwhile another hurricane has blown up in the Atlantic and will come right over the top of this little island on Thursday.

Reports say the slow moving Cat 2 storm will provide 24 hours of hurricane winds.

http://www.weather.bm/maps/TropicalStormInfo.asp?WTNTnum=WTNT25&20161011201619

Closest point of approach to Bermuda within 72 hrs (3 days) is forecast to be within 25 nm of (or directly over) the Island, 11 am Thu, Oct 13, 2016.

The whole island is only 21 miles long. 
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Re: Matthew
« Reply #38 on: October 11, 2016, 05:16:41 PM »
Nicole got a little more organized.  GFS forecast show the low deepening the next few days.  depending where the eye goes will help to plan wind and storm surge direction...I guess being a small island the storm surge would be everywhere.   :headscratch:
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« Reply #39 on: October 11, 2016, 05:49:22 PM »
Hurricane Matthew and Nicole are both named after my wife and son  :aok
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Re: Matthew
« Reply #40 on: October 12, 2016, 05:26:22 AM »
Quote from: NatCigg on October 11, 2016, 05:16:41 PM
Nicole got a little more organized.  GFS forecast show the low deepening the next few days.  depending where the eye goes will help to plan wind and storm surge direction...I guess being a small island the storm surge would be everywhere.   :headscratch:

Yea, it is, but luckily for us we don't live on a flat island.  This place is a big hunk of volcanic rock and a storm surge would have to be about 100 ft. to get anywhere near my place. 

It is already blowing a hooley here.  I think we will be shutting the office earlier than expected today.
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Re: Matthew
« Reply #41 on: October 12, 2016, 05:33:47 AM »
Check this out, I flew home yesterday and took a video of the plane landing from my window seat that I posted on our hotel's Instagram page.  The Weather Channel sent me a message asking if they could use the footage and I said "Help yourself".  Later on in the evening I went to Weather.com and this was there (Edgehill Manor is our little hotel):

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/video/hurricane-nicole-named-in-the-atlantic-2

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Re: Matthew
« Reply #42 on: October 13, 2016, 06:03:43 AM »
Be safe Curval, check in when you can
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Re: Matthew
« Reply #43 on: October 13, 2016, 06:12:34 AM »
Thanks.

Woke up this morning and first thing I did was check the NHC site:

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HURRICANE NICOLE ADVISORY NUMBER  37
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL       AL152016
500 AM AST THU OCT 13 2016

...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS HURRICANE NICOLE AIMED AT BERMUDA...
Maximum sustained winds remain near 130 mph (215 km/h) with higher
gusts.  Nicole is an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane on the
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.  Although a gradual weakening
is forecast, Nicole is expected to be at major hurricane strength
when it moves near Bermuda later today.

Just kind of in shock that this grew so big so fast. 
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