Hurricane Delta; Forecast to become Major, then target LA/MS

deerefan · Oct 9, 2020

CompleteLawnCare said:
The eye wall is about 40 miles from me now. We still have power, but lights have been flickering. Wind is from the east right now. It's starting to get dark here.

Looks like it is weakening pretty rapidly and I like that. There doesn't seem to be any rain on the south side of the eye, so it's just wind for the rest of the night here.

Stay safe. I am in St Tammany Parish. Been breezy here. Lets hope this is the last one for us for a long time.

Frankenkubota · Oct 10, 2020

workinonit said:
Yea and when they are done in La and spread out several hundred miles wide, they dump rain on us for days. We are so wet in SC right now that a drizzle causes flooding.

Same here in central nc. Been here 40 years and this, imho, is the wettest summer I can remember. By far! And I知 a golf fanatic so rain is a big part of my life, like heartburn.

The gulf is heating up, spewing water vapor and it all heads a little north and mostly east.

The rain is back but we just had 7-8 dry days and what a blessing.

Back to normal now, new normal.

Diggin It · Oct 10, 2020

Delta has officially become depressed.

How's it goin' LawnCare?

Complete Turf Care · Oct 11, 2020

Sorry for taking so long to reply. We have power, but no internet/cable.

Once again, I was very fortunate through this storm. We were in the 2% of customers that our power company serves, that did not loose power. They reported that roughly 108,000 of their 109,000 customers were out of power. I don't know how I can be so lucky.

We had about 10 extra family members at my house most of the day yesterday, since we had power (and air conditioning) and they did not.

I had a few shingles blow off my new roof, but really no significant damage to any of my property.

The center of the storm passed about 25 miles west of me, so my area got the worst of it. Lots of trees down and roof damage.

I don't think the damage was as bad as it was for Laura, but it is more widespread.

Luckily, the storm weakened rapidly after landfall. We had probably 80-90 mph wind in my area. And , once the center of the storm made landfall, the rain stopped. I had about 4.5" of rain here, which is not a lot.

Now....what's next for 2020???