Had a heck of a storm yesterday

[rekees4300]

Just trying to stay cool for now.

Okay glad your X530 survived. Is your generator big enough to run A/C? Humans survived for millions of years before A/C so guess there's a way? Perhaps fans, open windows or basement would do the trick? :confused3: Weatherman here says mid 90s for coming week with no relief in sight.

 

[Cpjlube]

I work in Columbus, Ohio. We saw the same storm but before 5pm. Lost power at work. Got everything shut down. Heard in the radio that the airport just north of work (Don Scott) reported straight line winds over 80mph. Came home expecting the worst. My house takes the brunt of west and northwest winds. No damage to the house or pole barn. Some branches scattered along with pool cover, etc. But I lost a metal frame gazebo. Pretty much balled it up. Made it easy to take apart.



Chuck

 

[PerigeePowerSolutions]

Looks like we're on the threshold of a fourth state declaring an emergency.

The governor of MD did send our "what to do" email earlier today but we had not yet been declared.

 

[jwstewar]

We survived pretty well. Lost a Maple tree, but that isn't a big deal. Lost power at 5:30 PM yesterday. They are saying Thursday before it comes back on. Running a borrowed generator 2 on 3 off to keep the freezers frozen. Then I have my little cheap Champion running the camper so we can have lights, TV, and most importantly Air Conditioning. We are also having to run fans to keep the goats cool so we don't lose those. I'm on a waiting list at TAX for a load of generators expected in tonight. If I get that, I will return the borrowed generator as I hate to have something borrowed - though only after doing an oil change.

 

[Bob77064]

Sorry to hear of the damage you had, glad y'all are not hurt.

 

[lockhaven]

we got very little damage and hardly any rain .120 on the gauge. It was a bad day electric did not go off during the storm which was around 11 last night. It went off this morning at around 8 and stayed off till this evening around 8 all because some lineman forgot to put the fuse back in on the pole. I went out to the main road where they had some damage and the crew had left, I looked up at the pole and sure enough the fuse had been removed as is practice when they are working but they had forgot to put the one back in that feeds our road.

 

[DKCDKC]

Virginia's Shenandoah Valley got hit pretty hard. The house was battered by high winds Friday night, lost garbage cans - out of a rack yet - the hot tub cover and a lot more. But nothing serious. Tried to get out this morning, found my mile long driveway literally paved with a few inches of twigs, branches and leaves... And more. Main drive was blocked by the tops of two trees, piles of really big branches, and a locust tree that that just folded up over the gravel. My back-up emergency road across a neighbors was blocked a a 65 foot tulip poplar and a half dozen smaller walnuts. My John Deere managed to clear a path for a 4wd out in an hour or so, but I'll be using the chain saw for a long time on really clearing the stuff.

However, I feel pretty lucky. Nothing valuable was damaged and I got my power back on about 7 this morning. Over 100,000 in this region are still out - with super hot temps today and tomorrow.

I have lived in the region 60+ years and never seen winds like last night. I've experienced hurricane force winds before, and the winds Friday were certainly hurricane-force.

 

[s219]

Well we got hit again tonight, with high winds and nickel-sized hail. There was a tornado spotted about 15 miles away where we have our new property, so I will have to go check on that tomorrow. Did not lose power tonight. I won't be able to survey damage to our house until tomorrow morning, but I bet there will be some dents on my car from the hail. Hope my Kubota is OK!

 

[Bird]

As of last night at least, some of my wife's relatives in West Virginia, even at the south end of the state, were still without electricity.

 

[mjarrels]

I have a fantastic view from the front porch now. Between last falls early wet snow and the recent storm, my bradfort pear trees are history.

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