Key West was the least affected of all the Keys. That looks like a normal bad rainstorms.
Thanks. My home, husband, cat and even my car are ok. Many people have lost everything. Many probably their life. The real bad damage is the Middle and Lower Keys. There is no cell service, power, water, sewer at this time. I think by now all the bridges have been checked for structural integrity. It is bad though. Very bad. The lack of national information was due to the need to check all the bridges. I don’t know why there was not more helo or drone coverage though.
We dodged the bullet in St. Petersburg. My condo never lost power although we did lose cable and internet. Lost cell phone service too but everything seems okay today.
That’s an interesting typo. I think. :eek: 
Typed a nice update, but my internet glitched and lost it. 
I’m on a wifi hotspot from my cell phone - no cable or internet at the house. I did lose power for about half an hour late Sunday.
I’ve been busy since, doing yard cleanup at my house, and helping lots of friends with their shutters and yards.
LSLGuy, thanks for the notes about the airlines. Lots of my coworkers have been asking about flying back into town.
We keep pushing back the time for service restoration. Now it’s early Wed to start & not reaching full bore service until Saturday.
I’m now refugeeing in the Midwest and not in a big hurry to fly home even though my residence is undamaged. Some sampling on GasBuddy tells me there’s substantially no gasoline south of Atlanta GA. I’m not going home until that’s mostly resolved.
I’m a bit concerned about that. My office reopened today and I have a little over half a tank. That will get me through the next couple of days but I may be in limp mode by Saturday.
Just a carryover from **swampbear’s ** MMP lingo!
Thanks. But what does it mean? Please edumacate us dumb northern transplants.
Do you know what neighborhood? The tracks I have seen show the storm moving NW over the southwest part of town - crossing over the intersection of Rt 54 and Coats Road.
I think she was replying to GrumbacherRed.
publix is a supermarket chain. the humour is found in misspelling or speaking to make it pubic.
If anyone in the Orlando area needs a place to charge phones or shower, PM me. We have power and water and promise not to take nekkid pictures of you. 
Oh yeah. Never mind me. I’m so used to it that I glossed right over it. :smack:
In my neck of east metro Atlanta the winds started for reals about noon yesterday and didn’t calm down much until about midnight. My pine trees survived mostly intact, lots of small limbs and debris in the yard, but a neighbor a few doors down had a 100’ pine snap in half. Fortunately it hit nothing but the ground. We were without power from about 2pm until about 9pm, lots of sitting in the dark and listening to sirens. My daughter who lives 8 miles away was still without power last I heard, which was about 10am today. She and the grandson were headed to our house.
I came in to the office yesterday and today and had the shortest commute times in memory - 20 minutes to go 13 miles. Not bad considering that I go through about a dozen traffic lights on the way. I did see one wreck yesterday evening at a traffic signal that had lost power. Seems some folks just don’t know that it becomes a 4-way stop when the lights aren’t working; a pickup t-boned a sedan. Looked like all the occupants were OK. All-in-all it wasn’t nearly as bad as it could have been, but I’m good with not repeating it…
Alternatively, you can do the same thing in my household only with the guarantee that nekkid pictures WILL be taken of you
Thanks for translating! It’s only second to Piggly Wiggly is funny southern grocery store references, but Wilmington Island doesn’t have a PW…
Went out to Mama’s to retrieve the contents of the community pantry today. Shoulda driven the Suburban. I truly had no idea how much stuff I had taken out there, over the course of about 5 days of “hmm, we could use this or that” when we thought we’d have as many as 14-18 people up on the hill. The back of the little pickup was full when I got home. There’s still more up at the farm. And I got my Oreos! 
And the power companies are doing great work here. Yesterday at 5pm, there were ~ 23,000 customers without power in the county. By this morning at 10:30, the official count was about 5600. I suspect the spare line crews will be leaving here to help the coast by morning.
Not with me–your iphone/camera would recoil in horror at the sight of my naked body, and turn and eat you for subjecting it to that horror!
Everything fine here in the Augusta area, of course. Power was in and out (hah!) all day, and there are a lot of tree limbs and roof shingles in the yard.
Internet went out yesterday about 3:30pm, then back today about 1:30pm, then power went out (again) until just now. Can’t we coordinate the outages?
Really annoyed that I just found out that Barnes & Noble isn’t paying their employees for shifts missed because B&N closed their stores and did not allow them to work. (My best friend is a B&N assistant manager and she is not getting paid, regardless of her ability to work)
Aaand … Our power came back on an hour ago. Normalcy is returning.
So it was down about 60 hours total. Just enough to defrost the contents of my fridge/freezer. The several neighbors who stayed behind are gonna have a communal barbeque on me. They’d just raided my fridge of the still-cool food and made their plans when the lights came on. Oh well. They’ve certainly earned it. Eat hearty me friends!
Now the only challenge is that it appears there’s no gasoline along the interstates from about mid Georgia down to metro Miami. If I could get there there’s enough locally. But I can’t get there from here. Yet.
Give it a couple more days and we’ll be on our way.
36 hours without power. We’re good now. Our freezer seems to be good but I threw out all the dairy and eggs from the fridge.
We actually booked a hotel room (last one!) but then the power came back, so they refunded us.
No damage to our house. I need my son to get up on the roof and check for any damage up there. We had lots of downed branches and two large trees came down in the neighborhood, but fortunately they didn’t hit any houses. The only damage seems to be a branch that bashed in a car window.
I think the hard part was not knowing how long the power would be out. It’s hard to plan when you’re hearing reports of 6-10 days and then it comes back on much sooner than that.
Power is NOT back on at work, so I’m working from home. I’m glad everyone is doing okay!