Hurricane Michael

drkelly

Dipstick who put two vehicles on jack stands
Joined
Mar 21, 2005
Location
Oak Ridge/Stokesdale, NC
I have numerous trees down at my house, plus branches and leaves all over the place. Power went out about 4pm yesterday, but luckily came back on by 9pm. How did you all fare?
 
Just leaves and twigs at the house in york. Out of power at work for about 3hours yesterday after lunch. Sent everyone home except my supervisors and Maintenance so they could get everything back up. Was ready by the time 2nd shift came in. There were a lot of places in York that were still out of power last night when I went to bed.
Glad the media didn't boost up this storm like they did Florence, but ironically it caused more issues here than Florence. We never lost power from her. We have been lucky.
 
3" or so of rain, handful of branches and leaves scattered around the yard, power flickered a little but never went out.
 
Trees down everywhere including the drive way. The wife and I had to walk up our long drive in the pouring rain. We still don’t have power.
 
River is up ehh 20’+ Radford is under water Roanoke is under water I’ve got some pics of idiots driving in flood water at least 3’ in cars one was swept away while on cell phone I’m over here In a 6k lb truck shaking my head and smoking a cigar...
 
Glad y’all are coming through pretty good. My wife is there delivering some of our less essential household goods and she said it has just been a lot of rain on the NW side of Aberdeen.
On a side note, I guess I just don’t understand the people down in florida who were told to evacuate and didn’t but then were the first ones crying for rescue?? Maybe I’m cold hearted but I’d be like GFY. You stayed, you deal with it.... I get it maybe in an extreme circumstance someone wasn’t able to get out (elderly, handicapped) but other than that reap what ya sow.
 
We drove from greensboro to richmond last night. We passed probably 20 downed trees across 360 between South Boston and richmond and 2 downed power lines. There was a lot of flooding from danville all the way to amelia county and we had to take a couple detours. It turned a 3hr trip into a 4.5 hour trip, also didn't help that I had to stop and change a flat. I really didn't expect that much out of this storm.
 
Columbia SC - pure flood. Not sure the rain totals but all day yesterday starting from early AM until 6pm was non stop rain with wind gusts up to 40 or right under. Traffic lights out but overall just a really rainy day.
 
We got 5" of rain. My work is without power, so I am home cleaning up the fallen trees.
 
Sat on the runway for almost 2 hrs trying to leave RDU yesterday.

Got these pics from the wife earlier:

Culvert that began washing out after Florence has washed out about another foot and the tree completely came down. County blocked it off after Flo but 90% of our road's traffic just goes around them and stays to the other side.
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Going the other way into town.
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Luckily, New Bern hardly got any rain. More wind than anything, but it wasn't too bad.
 
Pretty sure half of Salisbury is our of power, judging from Facebook, but mine barely flickered. Entrance to my neighborhood around noon yesterday, but drained within the hour...

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Didn't lose power, one tree down on my road, low lying flooded, my creek came up but didn't crest over bank.. I think the skylight leaked, not sure though, could've been the fridge. My shop didn't flood in under the doors, but it has in some of the super thunderstorms with 25moh max driving speed down pours.
 
We all good here. No damage in my neighborhood except twigs and leaves. Spent all day Friday helping neighbors clean up. Mowed 7 yards plus my own. Super high lift blades almost as good as a vacuum.
 
Here is between Boone’s mill and Roanoke! Crazy damage today when I drove through!
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New river junction below my house!
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Walnut Cove.
26 hours no power, high ground but so much rain and ground saturation I missed work keeping the basement pumped out sumps were overwhelmed ..... all friggin' night.

But we were good.

Matt
 
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