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Sanrith Descartes
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Gator
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Yup, it was nothing but farm fields and Florida pineland back then. Now days it's more developed with a lot more housing and all types of nursery's taking over.
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Sanrith Descartes
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I worked with someone a while back who lived out there back then. They were without power for so long he said it felt like being in another century. Oh, and that every single person had signs up saying looters would be shot on sight.
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Lol yes, he wasn't lying. They had to replace miles upon miles of lines and poles. I was a kid when it hit but I remember certain thing like it was yesterday. Like the sound of machine gun fire or popcorn during the storm because rocks from the fields were getting launched at the house, being ushered into different parts of the house to avoid wind directions, the eerie calmness of the eye then my parents saying it's not over yet, that odd smell of wet drywall, wood, and insulation after a few days.
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Lanx
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Go to the AMC near the mall. Spent at least 10 hrs watching movies in ac when I was there. They are on the same grid as the hospital as well. If for some reason it's down they have mad generators to run.
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There were a lot of homes on the island. Northern part of the island (where the pier was) was mainly business, think of it as the tourist trap area. As you traveled south along Estero Blvd you had hotels, condos, and homes along the gulf (west side). The east side of the Blvd had all the houses which were situated behind businesses.
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Powers back but had to go a full 2 1/2 days without power can you imagine the horror it must be how poors feel before they get their government check and ask for their power to be "cut back on"..
Actually the cleanup and recovery of everything has been pretty quick overall. I am sure areas a bit further south are fucked for a while. Fort Myers and Sanibel island are right ass fucked for some time, but in general Sarasota, St. Pete, Tampa all seem to be relatively unscathed by comparison.
One thing I already knew but it's a stark reminder is seeing how cleaned out the grocery stores and gas stations are, dipshits decent upon these places like locust after the fact because they are retarded. All it takes is 2-3 days for these places to be emptied out. America is run so much on just in time shipping that we would be fucking crippled and at each others throats if someone ever severed the highways, truckers actually went on strike for even a week or how quickly so many turbo tards without even some basic food in a pantry would starve.
Actually the cleanup and recovery of everything has been pretty quick overall. I am sure areas a bit further south are fucked for a while. Fort Myers and Sanibel island are right ass fucked for some time, but in general Sarasota, St. Pete, Tampa all seem to be relatively unscathed by comparison.
One thing I already knew but it's a stark reminder is seeing how cleaned out the grocery stores and gas stations are, dipshits decent upon these places like locust after the fact because they are retarded. All it takes is 2-3 days for these places to be emptied out. America is run so much on just in time shipping that we would be fucking crippled and at each others throats if someone ever severed the highways, truckers actually went on strike for even a week or how quickly so many turbo tards without even some basic food in a pantry would starve.
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Gravel
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They always show these things that limit it to the first 3-5 blocks closest to the ocean. I always wonder how those a few blocks further inland faired. My guess is much better but it isn't as impactful so they ignore it.
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Sanrith Descartes
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Those non-commercial with power most likely are on the same grid with hospitals/police/fire and grocery stores. Those are the prioroties for power restoral. Also the areas where they just need to reset a fuse. If you need a transformer replaced, the wait is gonna suck. Covid supply chain fuckery is gonna make transformer replacements a shitshow. Hope they are trucking in spares from other power companies' existing storage.
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Oldbased
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Meh. Every utility has supply, just the replacement supply is 2-3 years backordered.
So getting what is needed now shouldn't be much an issue other than the trucking time as all the local power companies get things in motion.
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I just spoke to a friend who subs for Duke. His exact words are Duke only has about 2k poles (of various height and class) in the entire state. Poles are even in more of a backlog issue than transformers right now.
They can bring in all the contract lineman in the country but without poles and transformers for them to place the recovery is gonna be painfully slow.
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Oldbased
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I bought a 3.2 cubic foot mini fridge earlier this year and it even has a mini freezer in it.
I put it on a power monitor because I didn't believe the claims of .8 amp max average 35 watts.
Sure enough, the second the compressor kicks on it jumps to 75-150watts for 2 seconds and back down to 35 watts.
On average it pulls 13 watts and freezes soda at mid setting.
Crazy how efficient they have become.
I got another thermofridge that pulls 40 watts and only big enough to hold 2 2liters but the nice feature about it is it has 2 plugs. Normal 115v and also 12v. Bad thing is it only effectively cools 25 below ambient so if it is 60 then 35 but if it is 90 only to about 65 which would spoil stuff.
I keep that one in the trunk of the car wired up since it has a toggle switch.
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Oldbased
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That was my point though. They won't just be sending linemen, they'll send what poles, transformers, wire, strapping and so on they can spare.
I have little doubt that we'll run dry but add in another few hurricanes and some winter ice storms and we could be in serious trouble.
Been 3 days now since I was able to get ahold of my parents in Ormond and prior to it hitting there.
If I don't hear from them by Monday I am going to pawn a few cats for gas money and head down.
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Chanur
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Thinking about doing this as they are nearly across the street and all have had power for days. Same with all the other commercial properties. Still no power for the thousand of residents across the roads.
We were down for a week last time for a fix that took them 30 minutes. They have not even looked at our area yet.
I know the last time I was there they played all the Marvel movies in order at the time. I think it was 5? It was the best thing to do. This is exactly the reason why I won't move back to Florida. The random every 3-5 years of no power for a week. Funny enough though I might get deployed with my company for cat duty there. It'd be nice to see the area and how much it's changed in 5 years and see my friends. Sweating my balls off with mosquitos not so much.
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