BamaATL

You don't know these hillbillies

Looks to be North Alpharetta, and 20 miles to the east of me. We (where I'm at) appear to have missed the brunt of all this, it came thru starting about 5 and was pretty rough for a couple of hours, and now appears to be subsiding. It would appear that the eye missed us at least 40 miles to the east. The power flickered a bit early this morning but beyond that, we appear spared on that front as well. I'm certainly worried for the folks in Asheville, that looks real bad. Also, it seems that there is scant info from the big bend area of yet. I'm hoping we get real lucky all the way around.

Well folks, think I'm gonna try to catch some shut eye, probably won't be able to comment for a bit, loss of power and cell and all that good stuff. Beyond that, I imagine I will have ample work to do to help neighbors and what not. Wish all of you and everyone in the path of this bullshit well.

I wonder what happened in Charlotte, the article didn't say?

I just hope the Mermaids in Weeki Wachee are ok, national treasure.

Just a matter of time with this nonsense, honestly.

Well, if anyone can afford it....

It really doesn't help that major news networks interviews people that have decided to not evacuate and give them extra attention. CNN just did it, I wish they wouldn't. Invariably these people are trying to sell something, and it only encourages the behavior.

I'm actually beginning to believe Gatorubet might be Coach Napier.

Still got a couple of hours before it hits land, it may well do it.

Talk about dedication, I'd have said no thanks to doing it to begin with.

Pines are bad, but I'm really concerned about the water oaks, given the drought their root balls aren't as stable, combine that with quick ground saturation and heavy wind... no bueno.

My pool is overflowed, which considering how many times I've had to fill it this year I feel ok about. First Oak I know of down, had a tenants sil have it go thru their house, just went and took them to the tenant's house.

Same to all, and I hope everyone impacted just gets thru this alive. Not worried, for us, a couple of years ago I had to take down all the trees near my house for a number of reasons. All I have are Japanese Maple and Cherry Blossoms, now my neighbors on the other hand, potential for yikes. I do have my saws gassed up and ready to help people tomorrow in the aftermath.

On a positive note, they didn't appear to be diving towards the Titanic, so they got that going for them.

That's wild with Asheville, the full rain hasn't really hit here yet, and I'm about 120 miles south, southwest from there. We are due to start getting the heavy bands in the next hour or so; so yeah, not even close to the brunt of it there or here.

Don't worry, I'm sure Ron will do plenty of grandstanding in white boots.

Well, I gotta admit, I've never personally witnessed an eyewall to a hurricane, and if the path deviates just a hair to the west, I've got a shot at it. So I've got that going for me. In other news, all the milk and bread has been purchased at the store, so apparently, our community is now ready. Meanwhile, plenty of chain oil is sitting on shelves in stores, should work out great!

Sorry I didn't understand what you meant. Private organizations assistant in instances like this, but the National Guard is mobilized and will spearhead the initial response, then Red Cross then comes in behind them. Honestly, both do a great job, so it's something we get right on this.

Well, to be honest we don't have this sort of situation very often. I recall a hurricane about 30 years ago being a pretty big problem, and the blizzard of 93, beyond that I can't think of it anything in the recent past. I was only 13-14 when both of those things happened, so I don't really recall it being a huge problem; in most cases power was restored fairly quickly from what I remember. I think this it's unlikely that major areas with stores like that will be heavily impacted or impacted for very long (most of that is near major transmission lines, and if damaged or down those would take top priority). The bigger issue as I see it is the flooding, combined with the amount of downed trees in non major thorough fares. Once flooding starts, it's pretty much the shits until it subsides, and nothing much anyone can do, with the trees, many if not most households have chainsaws, so yeah, community action! (I have 5 chainsaws, weird story but 2 of them were my granddads I inherited). The best news is, in my experience, generally in this sort of situation people are on their best behavior and generally work together to try to get things back to normal as best as possible and as quickly as possible. You know, that way we can all go back to our day to day of bitching about each other and generally being pricks.

With it being as dry as it's been this summer in this area, I'm imagining the ground has been so hard much the water is going to pretty much run off immediately, into said tributaries, rivers, and eventually basins. We are going to have flooding problems and from the looks of it big ones. Worse, the flood control lakes haven't been drained down of yet (at least not the one next to me), so I'm sure that could only compound matters. This came on so quickly even if they started drawing them down a few days ago I don't think it will have been enough.

Not to rub salt in old wounds, the good news is when I was out for dinner earlier the GA Power had crews staged everywhere, must have seen 50 of them, so they are clearly expecting a shitshow even this far north of Atlanta. The other good news is that during times like this, the Southern Company can rally crews from Gulf Power, Alabama Power, GA Power, etc. They do as well as possible during this in my estimation and deserve tremendous credit for it.

Sweet Jebus, I used to.

It's pretty awful, the other thing is last year on the island they were offering free rides, gas, etc; and still people stayed. The sad truth, some people won't leave under any circumstances. It reminds me of that guy with the cabin at Mt St. Helens, they tried like hell to get him to leave, and of course, he refused. Thousands of years from now he will be the modern version of Pompei.