Hurricane Helene

[kenny thomas]

Anyone in the projected path of this hurricane? Gizmom is just west of it i think. Im heading south tomorrow morning with 2 loaded fuel trucks. Not sure yet where we are going. Hope we can help out.
Was near there last year and ended up spending several days in the Hospital in Perry Fl. I hope for better luck this trip.

 

[greybeard]

Well, good luck no matter what and where you end up.

 

[Warren Allison]

Up here where I live, north of Atlanta, they are predicting up to 5". As a matter of fact, while I was typing this, it rained so hard I couldn't see out of my office window...for about 2 and 1/2 to 3 minutes!!! Sun is out right now! Down at the Kudzu place, they are predicting 8-10 inches.

 

[Mountaintown Creek Ranch]

 

[Down in Dixie]

I’m just west of it outside of Montgomery. Have about a half inch of rain already.

 

[Ouachita]

I hope you guys and gals in the strike zone don't get pummeled, but I'm going to put out ryegrass seed tomorrow and hope for a hard left hook.

 

[kenny thomas]

Im in Jacksonville FL trying to get fuel loaded on my truck. Will get 1000 gallon and then head southwest to Port Charlotte FL tomorrow morning. Been sitting here almost 4 hours to get loaded and now only can get 1000 gallon.

 

[BFE]

I hope you guys and gals in the strike zone don't get pummeled, but I'm going to put out ryegrass seed tomorrow and hope for a hard left hook.

I'll pray for it to do just that. It's heading right for us at the top of its path. We got a rain earlier from the other hurricane, I'm not greedy. We had 3" Monday, I was shelling corn last night and never so much as left a tire tread mark.

 

[gcreekrch]

Prayers to all of you in that things path. I’ll keep my grizzlies and wolves thanks.

You stay safe Mr. Kenny.

 

[Moe]

Anyone in the projected path of this hurricane? Gizmom is just west of it i think. Im heading south tomorrow morning with 2 loaded fuel trucks. Not sure yet where we are going. Hope we can help out.
Was near there last year and ended up spending several days in the Hospital in Perry Fl. I hope for better luck this trip.

In Sarasota we have had 1.52 since midnight. Winds maximum of 16 but likely to get more by noon today. Likely miss Sarasota. Panhandle will get the worst and probably stay a hurricane inland quite a way.

 

[greybeard]

Panhandle? No, that's not Fla. That's LA----Lower Alabama.
(That's what i was told when I got stationed in PCola anyway. Did some great fishing in Escambia and Perdido Rivers tho)

 

[Ouachita]

Panhandle? No, that's not Fla. That's LA----Lower Alabama.
(That's what i was told when I got stationed in PCola anyway. Did some great fishing in Escambia and Perdido Rivers tho)

I think the more appropriate name for that area of Florida is Redneck Riviera

 

[Down in Dixie]

Just outside the danger zone while getting the slow and steady rain. Hope all my Georgia and Florida neighbors are staying safe.

 

[Ouachita]

I hope you guys and gals in the strike zone don't get pummeled, but I'm going to put out ryegrass seed tomorrow and hope for a hard left hook.

Well I was a day late. Co-op was out of seed. Apparently other folks had the same idea.
I had a dense crop of ryegrass this spring and let it go to seed before I mowed it, but I’m not seeing any growth yet. Although the temps should be favorable, it’s been a very dry September.

 

[kenny thomas]

Im southeast of the hurricane now. As it comes on shore i will probably move north. Tornado an hour ago close enough it was shaking my truck bad.

 

[simme]

Rain gauge here shows 5" already. No rain when I went to bed last night, so that is more rain than we have had total since the third week of May. Been feeding hay for 4 weeks. The 5" of rain is supposedly not from the storm, but caused by the storm controlling a front coming from the north. Rain from the storm is supposed to be 8" or more and that is supposed to be gone about 10am tomorrow. The storm will still have hurricane force winds almost to Atlanta. Wind gusts here up to 70 mph. Tomorrow may be rough.

Speed and rain totals are from our local TV station. Although everyone seems to agree on the path now, there still is a lot of difference in projections on speed and rain totals as it moves inland.

SC has seen 2 big rain events from recent tropical storms. Both times we were projected to get several inches of rain here. Even though the last one dumped up to 20" of rain at the coast, we got zero in our area. The other one gave us about 0.2", so we are glad for the rain. Not so much for the wind.

 

[Davex1]

I’m NE of Orlando and out of the hurricane track, but the wind is howling outside here. I can hear tree limbs breaking in the stronger gusts. It will get worse. The hurricane has been upgraded to a category 4 130mph+. That’s bad news for anyone in its path at landfall. Hope everyone stays safe.

 

[Warren Allison]

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Just outside the danger zone while getting the slow and steady rain. Hope all my Georgia and Florida neighbors are staying safe.

Well, the Kudzu place is just a hair NE of the right tip of that hurricane symbol numbered 2. My home is just a little north and west of that white line going through Atlanta. We gonna get a lot of rain up here, and straight line winds to 30-35 mph, with maybe some gusts approaching 60 mph.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

In 2004 I drove to hurricane Ivan from Texas. I had always wanted to experience a hurricane, but the men in my life had always confiscated my truck keys. This time I escaped. I 10 was closed and deserted the whole way. Although on I 10 at the rest stops there many Louisianan guys with head scarves and beards like pirates whooping it up.

Cat III coming across the coast into the piney woods of the FL panhandle,The way I drove on the I 10 passed over the bridge at Mobile Alabama up into the piney woods. Pine trees had fallen across the highway for miles. I just drove through the treetop branches.

Then the wind stopped in total stillness. I got out I thought I had missed the storm it must have gone a different way. It was so silent in the ruined forest I could hear the small pops of fern spores germinating. It was the eye, Then I realized that in the heart of creation is destruction. An in the heart of destruction is creation. Then I drove on into the hellish SE side.

Took refuge under a highway overpass bridge and got out, clinging to my truck bed. There was the roaring of a thousand lions and the hissing of a thousand snakes. And way high up, the wailing of banshees or angels. It was then what I came for, to sit at the feet of God.

I will not go to a hurricane again, once is enough.

 

[kenny thomas]

I'm NE of Orlando and out of the hurricane track, but the wind is howling outside here. I can hear tree limbs breaking in the stronger gusts. It will get worse. The hurricane has been upgraded to a category 4 130mph+. That's bad news for anyone in its path at landfall. Hope everyone stays safe.

I left Jacksonville this morning, come through Orlando on I-4 over to I-75 and south to Port Charlotte. Was i close to you? Good weather until i got to about Tampa. Fairly rough here now.