JcMack
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I'm watching weather reports this morning. Once again they report widespread storms that have swept across the mid section of the country. We've been spared here. I hope everybody's O.K..
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bitstream
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Been up since 3:00 am when a huge storm rolled thru middle Georgia; we lost power all night. The power company just got us back on. I was the first to call it in according to their computer, so we apparently got fixed early. They are saying 8000 without power over night. 6000 are still out and and some won't have power back on until tomorrow.
I was glad to have my surefire LED by the bedside.
I was glad to have my surefire LED by the bedside.
joeintexas
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Seems like the whole country is having strange weather this year, here in Texas we went from 97 degrees Friday to 34 degrees this morning. Our friends in Atlanta have told us they are developing fins from all the rain!
About an hour or so before it hits here in the Orlando area..
Fired up the generator last weekend.. if we lose power we should be OK
Fired up the generator last weekend.. if we lose power we should be OK
The usual spring time storms and tornadoes rolled through here yesterday. Crossed the Mississippi River at Memphis at 11:30 AM and hit here (70 miles away) at 12:30... That was one FAST moving storm.
Apparently no tornadoes in populated areas, but winds were over 70 MPH when the front passed and did much damage to buildings & trees. Many roads blocked by trees and power was off for several hours. My rain gauge has 2 inches of water in it, but a lot of the water was going by horizontal and that stuff doesn't get into the gauge.
It was almost 80 degrees when the storm hit.
Now - 41 degrees - BLUE sky and calm.
BTW - I'm our local SkyWarn ham radio operator. If you're a ham, or just interested in helping your community, check it out.
Apparently no tornadoes in populated areas, but winds were over 70 MPH when the front passed and did much damage to buildings & trees. Many roads blocked by trees and power was off for several hours. My rain gauge has 2 inches of water in it, but a lot of the water was going by horizontal and that stuff doesn't get into the gauge.
It was almost 80 degrees when the storm hit.
Now - 41 degrees - BLUE sky and calm.
BTW - I'm our local SkyWarn ham radio operator. If you're a ham, or just interested in helping your community, check it out.
AJC says that as of 9:00 am Georgia Power had 143,000 customers without power, 49,000 of them in the metro area.
Our lights flickered, and we had some pretty strong straight-line winds. No hail that I saw or heard. We had some lightning, but nothing like the worst I have seen.
At about 1:00 am I was toggling through the weather underground site, this site, a Georgia forum, and facebook. A "chat" icon showed up on my facebook page. It was one of my neighbors who is a nurse at the Upson County Hospital. She said the power went off at the hospital and generators kicked on, and she was worried about her family. Apparently none of them were still up. I assured her that things weren't so wild down here.
Ain't technology grand?
bitstream
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Macon got hit a bit harder than us just south; they've still got over 12,000 without power (down from over 20,000 this morning).
There are some schools out today due to power loss/storm damage and at least one man in Dodge county is dead from the storm hitting his mobile home.
