Cat 3 is gonna be ripping off some roofs. They keep moving it east.

It’s not better for me. I’m surprised I actually have a chance of hurricane force winds.

I'll be OK. Better that it's less worse for you. I'm not on the coast. This one is kinda slow moving too. We're used to them moving along quickly in Florida. Sounds like your daughter is being smart about it. Definitely don't get any ideas to ride it out if you are coastal and at a potential point of landfall.

Let's hope it stays that way.

For you newbies, if you have any branches, even small ones, that the wind can blow against your roof, trim them. A few hours beating against your asphalt shingles will damage them.

We're gonna have a solid 48 hours of TS conditions. I won't be starting mine up right away. I will be shocked if I don't lose power.

Does anyone know if AT&T Fiber is dependent on the local grid? I thought I read somewhere that it isn't. I've got one of the newer routers with fiber plugged directly into it. Obviously I have to power it.

Stay safe! Drove down from GA today and passed lots of bucket trucks and generators heading south on I-75. I've got my Satchel's pizza and lots of beer as well as power and internet. Let's see which runs out first.

They do it on purpose...

Not if they have gap coverage. Also, if it's a poorly cared for lease with way more miles driven than paid for?

As for this hurricane, it has been raining damn near every day for the last 3 months up until recently. Some areas are gonna get real f'd up just from the extra 15 to 20 inches of rain forecast. I expect St. Augustine to get flooded bigtime.

Look at the high probability of hurricane force winds so deep into Central Florida. That's just not what we usually see.

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We got home about an hour ago and the wind is really starting to pickup now. Still not raining too hard though. I just don't need any wind driven rain f'ing with my roof.

Power outages all around me and it is howling outside. Crossing my fingers I don’t lose power. OTA has been rock solid. Does grounding the mast make a diff? No shit it isn’t breaking up at all.

I’ve had the lights flicker a few times now. There is a tree too close to a line. When the wind gets stronger I’m gonna lose power.

I wish…

Tony Manolfi’s friend lost their condo on Sanibel. I had 3 brief power outages and am now back up.

Lost power at 5:30 am. Still too wet to get the gen going. Some trees and power lines down near me. Also some flooding down the street.

The rain won’t stop so went ahead and got the gen going. So far so good. Wonderful not having extension cords strung all over the place and I can run everything short of the heat pump.

Wen GN875I. I’ve got a soft start on my heat pump. It may actually run it. But I’m not gonna push it right now.

I had a Duromax XP12000 and it would defin8tely run the heat pump but the power was dirty. Big screen TVs don’t like it. My 65” OLED is running just fine with the Wen.

The flooding is pretty crazy. Port Orange was bad and I believe New Smyrna is worse. Drove by a trailer park where it was up to the bottoms of the trailers.

Got my power back this morning! That is the quickest I've ever been back up after a hurricane. Thank you linemen!

The one thing I didn’t like about my gen was the 4 gallon gas tank. It seemed small for the rated output. But I’ve been averaging 9 to 10 hours per tank. That’s running a fridge, freezer, big tv, and routers nearly constantly with water heater, washer, dryer, microwave as needed.