Northern weather

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Southern Weather:
I hope our friends, Roger/rogruth (Georgia) and Frank53 (Florida) are alright and have not had to leave their homes or endure any damage whatsoever.
Murph

I don't where Frank is located, but I suspect that Roger evacuated and may be w/o power and out of communications for a while. I hope someone who knows his number might try to contact him.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I sent them both e-mails but have not heard back.

[healey36]

Friends in Fayetteville, NC called and said their neighborhood is flooded on three sides by creeks up out of their banks. They said they dumped out their rain-gauge three times...figured they got ~ thirteen or fourteen inches of rain. They are lucky...they still have power and phone-lines.

[rogruth]

No damage. Just no electric for three days. OK now.
Thanks for your concern.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

No damage. Just no electric for three days. OK now.
Thanks for your concern.

[G3750]

No damage. Just no electric for three days. OK now.
Thanks for your concern.

Excellent news.

George

[rogruth]

Frank53 is/was on the gulf coast of Florida in the Sarasota area. Of course that may have changed.

We did not evacuate. Most of the people in our neighborhood are good ol' redneck boys that wouldn't evacuate for the second coming of Sherman.
The only hardship for us was no electric @ 1AM Friday until 9AM today, Monday. The biggest problem for my wife is the cable is still out. The internet is working so
I can talk to you guys so I am OK.
I hope that other of our friends are as well off as we have been through this.
This is our second to actually hit the area, David was first in 1977 and Hugo was a near hit for our area. We had almost as much damage in the area
from Hugo.

I really appreciate your concern.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

When we suddenly don't have electricity, it sure changes many aspects of daily, minute-to-minute living, doesn't it. For example, with no tv, we sure get back to conversation quickly, don't we. Chores get done. Plus.....?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

When we suddenly don't have electricity, it sure changes many aspects of daily, minute-to-minute living, doesn't it. For example, with no tv, we sure get back to conversation quickly, don't we. Chores get done. Plus.....?

When we w/o electricity for 5 days after that derecho storm a few years back, cooking was on the grill to empty the fridge and freezer (5 lbs of shrimp goes a long ways with the neighbors, ), showers were rationed until we ran out of hot water (4 days), and a lot of reading by a pair of very good LED lamps was done.

Chores? No. Too blasted hot that time after a day at the office to do anything other then plop down and sweat.....

[rex desilets]

LED lamps sounds like a capital idea.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

LED lamps sounds like a capital idea.

I highly recommend them - waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than the old time flashlight!

[E7]

Roger, glad to see you are back!

As for LED flashlights, the 3 cell Maglite is a dandy, and it is also a nice "persuader".

Rich

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yikes!

45 degrees here this morning in No. VA.

[rogruth]

Heard on radio that North Carolina was probably hardest hit with @ 40 deaths.

[robert.]

5:30 am. today.My wipers caused the morning dew to freeze on my windshield. All my garden plants look fine.