40_acre_mule
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Howdy y'all.
I survived!!! This is my first chance to sit at a computer. I lost about 25% of the roof shingles on my house. Another 30 or so from the storage building. A small piece of the metal roof on my barn peeled up just a little. We still don't have power. Our house is maybe 1500 feet from the street. there are 4 power poles between us and the street. We lost one pole and the lines on both sides.
I live about 6 miles from the coast. The eye of the storm passed just a few miles to the west of us. It got pretty scary for a while there. We took winds of about 130 mph. I've got about 300 trees uprooted or snapped in half on my 40 acres. My tractor is gonna be busy for a LOOOONNNGG time!
The sound made by a 36-inch tree snapping in half is awesome.
My brother-in-law now has a concrete slab where his house used to be.
Y'all just can't imagine the extent of the damage. Everywhere we go it looks like a war zone. Everything from the beach to 500 yards inland is just wiped clean. The local paper has some good pics at sunherald.com. Look for the link to "Aerial Photos". The local Home Depots and Lowes can't keep chainsaws in stock. I know lots of people who are now homeless. A lot of places and neighborhoods have flooded that had never flooded before.
I teach at the local junior college. About 200 of the teachers have lost their homes. There's no count of the homeless students yet. We started classes today. Only one of twelve students showed up for today's scheduled class. My class room and lab took about 6 inches of water.
I ordered a PTO generator several weeks before the storm. It was delivered the Friday before. My Kubota L4400 had 49 hours on it before the storm. I put another 5 hours on it immediately after, clearing my driveway and the street in front of my property, (about 1 mile long). Since then, its logged another 60 hours just running the PTO generator. I'll be so glad when we get power again, so I can use the tractor to start cleaning.
I have to put in a plug for Lowes. They were open the morning after the storm. Home Depot took over a week to reopen.
Lots of folks hurting themselves with chainsaws, mostly due to inexperience. Others are cutting branches overhead and getting hit when they fall. One guy has already rolled his tractor trying to move a tree that was too big. A friend of mine (chainsaw newbie) got his saw in a bind trying to cut a big tree. Someone else started cutting branches to release the pressure and just dropped the tree on my friend, breaking his leg. A couple of other folks tried to lift the tree with an undersized winch. When it failed, the tree fell back down on my friend breaking his back, crushing his pelvis, and breaking his other leg.
I keep thanking God for all I have.
Y'all be safe out there.
I survived!!! This is my first chance to sit at a computer. I lost about 25% of the roof shingles on my house. Another 30 or so from the storage building. A small piece of the metal roof on my barn peeled up just a little. We still don't have power. Our house is maybe 1500 feet from the street. there are 4 power poles between us and the street. We lost one pole and the lines on both sides.
I live about 6 miles from the coast. The eye of the storm passed just a few miles to the west of us. It got pretty scary for a while there. We took winds of about 130 mph. I've got about 300 trees uprooted or snapped in half on my 40 acres. My tractor is gonna be busy for a LOOOONNNGG time!
The sound made by a 36-inch tree snapping in half is awesome.
My brother-in-law now has a concrete slab where his house used to be.
Y'all just can't imagine the extent of the damage. Everywhere we go it looks like a war zone. Everything from the beach to 500 yards inland is just wiped clean. The local paper has some good pics at sunherald.com. Look for the link to "Aerial Photos". The local Home Depots and Lowes can't keep chainsaws in stock. I know lots of people who are now homeless. A lot of places and neighborhoods have flooded that had never flooded before.
I teach at the local junior college. About 200 of the teachers have lost their homes. There's no count of the homeless students yet. We started classes today. Only one of twelve students showed up for today's scheduled class. My class room and lab took about 6 inches of water.
I ordered a PTO generator several weeks before the storm. It was delivered the Friday before. My Kubota L4400 had 49 hours on it before the storm. I put another 5 hours on it immediately after, clearing my driveway and the street in front of my property, (about 1 mile long). Since then, its logged another 60 hours just running the PTO generator. I'll be so glad when we get power again, so I can use the tractor to start cleaning.
I have to put in a plug for Lowes. They were open the morning after the storm. Home Depot took over a week to reopen.
Lots of folks hurting themselves with chainsaws, mostly due to inexperience. Others are cutting branches overhead and getting hit when they fall. One guy has already rolled his tractor trying to move a tree that was too big. A friend of mine (chainsaw newbie) got his saw in a bind trying to cut a big tree. Someone else started cutting branches to release the pressure and just dropped the tree on my friend, breaking his leg. A couple of other folks tried to lift the tree with an undersized winch. When it failed, the tree fell back down on my friend breaking his back, crushing his pelvis, and breaking his other leg.
I keep thanking God for all I have.
Y'all be safe out there.
