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Fall Brush fire threat a real concern especially with breezy conditions today and no rain until at least Friday. 100 acre fire earlier this week across from IJD

EPS not so good on Sally, time will tell.

We have a TS watch here now and breezy/squally at the moment. One other trait S FL offers from South of Lake Okeechobee is the moist Everglades and depending how hot and wet if a summer we have had it can be a great potential fuel source for TC

GFS/Euro show that wave coming off Africa near DR; of course being 10 days we will see if there is any consistency. Having generator inter-lock installed right now

Arrived in Sanibel this afternoon and a balmy 97 at the coast; Steama!

Fall Brush Fire Season?

If that ridging is in place in the Canadian Maritimes there are not going to be a lot of recurves

Wasn’t there a storm in the 11-14 range and we were forecasted to get 7” and I woke up to 20+? I remember waking up at 2am to 7” and it then Snowed 3-4” an hour until like 7am

I took these while working recovery in the Pan Handle; we were setting up in the Mexico Beach Public Works yard, 3 blocks from the beach and the water line was 7ft in their garage bays.

Tornadoes in Middletown, wild fires in Bigelow Hollow from the drought

Some nice spots in Glastonbury/Hebron area too

Like Kevin’s hood or slightly NE from there

Looks like it’s right over you

Dropping down now to your summer place

Reminds of the training event earlier in the summer that flooded Norwood and Northbridge

Correct, codes changed in 2006 and you can buy “Dade Rated” (Dade County) windows, Doors, and Garage doors

After the Hurricanes in 2005 I believe FL mandated that all new gas stations must have fixed generators and after Irma all long term facilities and nursing homes must have Generators. The state of FL promotes having a Hurricane/Disaster plan and kit ready and does a tax free week just before Hurricane season to buy Hurricane related supplies tax free. Many people bust on FL for different things and rightly slow but the have their shite together regarding storm prep and response

No idea

Below are examples of some of the improvements Florida Power and Light has done down here in S FL; changing out many wooden poles for cement to help harden the grid.

Lack of rain and tree damage bring on an increased summer brush fire threat

After this you may have an appetite for that

Here is were I will disagree a little; first New England and the Northeast are extremely susceptible to extensive tree damage from events like this and will be going forward. You can trim around power lines all you will always of trees further away that can hit the lines. The storm winds ended at dark and the surveying of the damage really only took place in Yesterday. Today out of state crews will start to come in today (Florida Power & Light sending crews to Jersey yesterday) and set up staging and work. With the amount of damage a downtime of 3-4 days is not unreasonable. I believe pre staging crews in this situation would be difficult due to damage up the NE Coast. What Eversource should be doing and FP& L has been doing for the past five years is swapping out a lot of the wooden poles for Cement poles, including high tension. I have been involved in many restorations from IRene, Sandy, Matthew,Irma, and Michael and they all present different challenges.

Your area got pretty hard, listening to Webster/Dudley now on the scanner and they are busy

And again, only a Tropical storm. Imagine when New England gets hit again from a Cat 1 or Greater

Co worker in CT driving in Tolland says Old Post Rd littered with branches