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[lawandorder]

Glad you came through it ok.

 

[oink]

Not that anybody missed me, I'm sure!

Hurricane Helene came through Southwest Virginia and made a direct hit on my county. Power went out on Friday September 27th at 0840 and didn't come back on until 1430 on the 2nd of October.

Glad to hear you made out ok. Unbelievable damage from that storm.

With this new one I should do ok too, by comparrison to what others are and will be suffering. I'm on the East side of FL but not on the coast. Flooding has never threatened my house but it sure has flooded the roads in my neighborhood. My house will be on a little island in flooded woods. The roads are already just one notch away from being flooded from all the rain we've already had. And in past storms I've been without power for as much as 3 weeks with just cat 1s or 2s. I better see to the generators.

I'll be praying for those on the West coast.

 

[Muley Gil]

Glad you are OK Muley........I have a daughter about 50 miles north of you in Radford. No real problems there but the New River was really rolling and raging out of it's banks.

Don

I'm about 8 miles from the New. It took out part of the low water bridge in the little town of Fries. The dam there was questionable, as were two Appalachian Power dams, Byllesby and Buck. All three survived.

 

[Muley Gil]

I received this info from Appalachian Power today:

"Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic damage, leaving nearly 6 million customers in 10 states without power. For Appalachian Power, the powerful wind gusts and torrential rain caused unprecedented damage to our facilities, leaving many of our neighbors without power for days as we worked to rebuild our energy delivery infrastructure in challenging conditions.

More than 7,300 employees came together over the last week to assess, repair and rebuild the power grid following significant damage at a mind-boggling 3,100 unique locations. Material repaired or replaced included:
214 miles of wire
1,455 poles
438 transformers"

 

[Kinman]

Glad you pulled through, looks like you'll miss this next one.

 

[bovw]

I work in Telcom, we have some guys from central VA in the Norton area right now. My brother in law is in Asheville on the job as well. Glad you came through relatively easy.

 

[Faulkner]

Actually, I was worried about you. I figured it hit close to home. Glad you came out the other side.