Severe Weather ?

western north carolina is supposedly in tough shape.

 

I think that was the hospital in Erwin, TN where they had to rescue 50 people from the roof by helicopter. Heartbreaking to see the devastation this storm has caused.

 

and to think I was whining about a week of GENTLE rain. so sad.

 

Eastern TN. I saw a video of Newport, NE of Pigeon Forge, that looked like that. No where for the water to go except the valleys...

 

Hey ya'll. Finally got internet and phone service late Saturday evening. We only had sporadic texting ability.
We're safe, house is OK. Limbs down in the yard. We lost power for about 12 hrs, our little community, Deepstep, was spared for bad damage, a few trees here and there down. I think we have 4-5 down on our place...there's a few more besides these...
The town where I work, Sandersville, is a mess. I drove to work Friday morning, while the eye was over us, had to dodge and detour a few times...
Dodged this one...
This pecan tree went across the road and bank was steep, turned around on this one...
I was able to squeeze by these 2 willows and got to work...
No power at the plant until 4:15 Saturday evening. Win stood this carport on end...
Neighborhoods and other roads are a mess...
White oak, hickory and sweet gum down...
Big pine
Road I normally travel to work...
Other end of that road where I turn off Deepstep Rd...
Farther into town on Deepstep Rd...
Other areas in Sandersville...
Huge post oak at a church blew over across the RR tracks. I drive by here every day to work...
And sadly, our town, Sandersville, suffered tragedy...
These young kids, 4&7, were killed when that big oak hit the end of the house...
Luckily, the young man driving this car on his way to work wasn't hurt...
hung a wire...

We didn't have the severe flooding though, thank GOD
Here is the video from about 4AM Friday morning...and we were in a protected area, that wind was scary

 

Well, had to get somewhere there is cell service to report. We had reported winds of 60-70 after over 10” of rain over a 12 hour period. Power still out and may be a few more days. No damage to house but lost lots of trees including one nice old hickory in the yard and another huge one in the woods. Oldest son 4 miles from us has lost at least 100 very old nice white and red oaks. Fortunately none of us sustained any damage to homes, but we have some wind damage to barn roof. Since we’re on a well we are without water so hauling 5gal containers daily. That’s going to get fixed pronto soon after we get through this mess as I’m going to get the house wired for well pump, hot water heater, fridge and a few outlets and lights at the very least to run off of the generator. If whole house system isn’t outrageously priced may just go that route. Been procrastinating on this for way too many years, time to get serious! Power outage is so wide spread that few fuel stations, grocery stores or anything else is able to open.

Have to admit I am really ashamed for not stocking up on water, fuel and a few extra groceries days ahead of time. Guess I’m a slow learner.

All things considered we’re very fortunate. Have lots of fencing to repair and like most of you will be processing firewood for years! Best wishes and prayers to everyone who has been affected.

 

T.Jeff Veal How did your mines make out with the storms?

 

Glad ya'll are OK and house is good.
We have linemen from TX working in our area.

 

One of my boss' truck. He has had it maybe 3 months...that WAS a Chevy Trail Boss truck...

The top of that tree hit his house, got a hole the size of the truck in the roof.

 

Our plant and the one next to us were completely down. The plant across the road never lost power. Just depended which line you were on.

 

Lost at least 7 trees at work, none at home. Fortunately we did not get the worst of the rain.
It’s hard to believe I40 is shut down in the mountains. Watched a bunch of videos of bridges getting washed out. Lots of people in the mountains are trapped without power, cell service, fuel and water.

 

A retired co-worker's home. Luckily, he wasn't there...
Another retired co-worker's place...big gnarly willow oak...she'd was the only damage
A huge pile of oak down the street from the first house...

 

Yes, definitely looking into that very soon! Same here, my dear wife of 55 years has no clue how to start our generator let alone move it and hook it up. Plus running the drop cords everywhere. Our area looks very much like T.Jeff Veal so I’m not going to post pictures. Power was out for 10 days and got it back at 3PM today. My prayers are for all of those so much less fortunate with injuries and deaths. By comparison we were very lucky. There’s too many to count of tractor trailer loads of hardwoods stacking up along side roads and highways. I’ll have no need to scrounge for several yearswe have enough on the ground already! God bless everyone affected.

 

Not as nasty a forecast as for those out on Cape Cod, but I'm fine with that.

 

I’m on the backside and the gusts are stripping deadwood and the temp is crashing.
Wife called about a tree down across the road.

 

Dang

things can be replaced

 

Rained nearly 2" yesterday. But, most of that time it was 33-35* and it was freezing on contact. While others were enjoying 50's and 60's (for a short time granted), my valley was socked in with a top temp of 39* (about 12:45 am this morning. Temp is now dropping and it is 37* at 2:15 am.

Although I may have lost a little snow, I still have plenty and the only thing bare is my driveway, which I had shoveled down to bare pavement Tuesday night. I didn't get real fanatical about removing all the snow from the top of my truck, figuring it would melt in the expected temps (since I new I wasn't going to be driving anywhere until Thursday night). I also did not shovel the small berm at the end of the driveway expecting the salt and expected temps to take care of that too. Neither of those worked out as I had hoped.

All pics taken just a few minutes ago:



The footprints you can see are from me going out and feeding the birds about 3:30 pm yesterday afternoon. That path has been shoveled several times so it got slushed up from the rain instead of clearing it off as I expected


Some of the snow on the roof of the truck did melt - although I had gotten most of it previously and it just had a couple of small piles that I was too lazy to take care of after shoveling.

 

Ugghh