mackerel_sky Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Just had the strongest gust of the day! Had to be 65-70mph! Now that it's dark, the morning light should show a lot of tree damage!! If there's already a lot down, and what we've had the last 2 hours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainforrest Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Gettin bad here in toxaway and all of transylvania county. Power out and trees down everywhere. I hope these winds start to die down soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Rain Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Gusting into the 40s at Carolina Beach. Nothing like what y'all are getting in GA and SC, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEGa Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 1 hour ago, Tyler Penland said: My parents live south of Cleveland, GA and they both just texted me it's about the worst they've seen. Seems to be an area of enhanced winds behind that band running from Dahlhonega to Clayton. Cornelia had dropped off to 40MPH gusts back to 55. I can confirm. This may be worse than Ivan. getting 58mph gusts!! I have at least two trees down in the yard. 3-5' limbs all over the neighborhood. Powers still out and apparently much of my county is out of power - neighbor said her friend in town said many stop lights and power lines down in downtown Cornelia (I just went in my yard lol so that is a second hand report). The winds are stronger now than earlier this evening. I am scared to see what my back yard looks like tomorrow. wow. Edited to add: the wind link lookout posted has not registered winds below 50mph for the last 10 min (since I have been looking since coming back in). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Penland Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 1 minute ago, NEGa said: I can confirm. This may be worse than Ivan. getting 58mph gusts!! I have at least two trees down in the yard. 3-5' limbs all over the neighborhood. Powers still out and apparently much of my county is out of power - neighbor said her friend in town said many stop lights and power lines down in downtown Cornelia (I just went in my yard lol so that is a second hand report). The winds are stronger now than earlier this evening. I am scared to see what my back yard looks like tomorrow. wow. Here's the HEMC outage map. Pretty much if you are with them you are out of power. Can confirm the lights down too. Reader sent us this at Now Habersham earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEGa Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 22 minutes ago, Tyler Penland said: Here's the HEMC outage map. Pretty much if you are with them you are out of power. Can confirm the lights down too. Reader sent us this at Now Habersham earlier. Wow thanks. That's not too far from mby. Wonder how long our power is out lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Penland Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 5 minutes ago, NEGa said: Wow thanks. That's not too far from mby. Wonder how long our power is out lol The man handling dispatch for the Habersham road crews is expecting some areas to be out for multiple days. They only have 16 people out clearing roads but they can't even get to a lot of places due to power lines. edit: Davis station at UNG just hit 62MPH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEGa Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 5 minutes ago, Tyler Penland said: The man handling dispatch for the Habersham road crews is expecting some areas to be out for multiple days. They only have 16 people out clearing roads but they can't even get to a lot of places due to power lines. edit: Davis station at UNG just hit 62MPH! Thanks. That's amazing - why can't we get a winter storm to way over produce like this one lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackerel_sky Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Glenn Burns on FB said: Irma now a depression, and dissipated much sooner than expected! Sleep well my friends"! I think he was speaking to Lookout! Very windy and rainy still imby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Was this posted already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LovingGulfLows Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Winds have finally died down here and power just came back on. What a storm. Strong wind gusts for about 11 hours straight...it peaked between 3-9. Did not expect it to get this bad here. Mixed feelings. After about 5 or 6 hours, you grow tired and want it to end, but at the same time, to experience the howling wind gusts and lashing tropical rains was a cool experience. Surprisingly enough, no trees fell near my house , though my house did sustain some minor damage(gutters falling apart, windows screens falling off, things like that). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackerel_sky Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Looks like Irma is making for a nice day at the beach for Cold_Rain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Rain Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 21 minutes ago, mackerel_sky said: Looks like Irma is making for a nice day at the beach for Cold_Rain! Yep, intermittent showers, decreasing throughout the day. Cloudy but definitely much less wind! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oconeexman Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 2" of rain. Tons of limbs and a few trees down. Power just came back on after being down for 12hrs. Oconee got hammered by downed trees and power outages! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gman Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Finished with 2.6" of good steady rain. The yard is a mess, but we lost no trees and the power stayed on. Thankful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Rain Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Sun's out guns out at the CB now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oconeexman Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Highest gust recorded here was 58mph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainforrest Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Send some good vibes up the mtn and help us get our power back on. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LithiaWx Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 Looks like hartsfield did get a 64mph gust. Impressive. Good luck to those still without power. One of our Georgia stores in conyers at my workplace is still without power. This morning the roads were covered with little bits of leaves and twigs etc. only a couple of big trees down in douglas county that I saw. Overall not near the destruction of Opal but still a noteworthy storm for Atlanta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LithiaWx Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 Ill have a rainfall update later. I stopped looking at 3.7" last night. Guarantee here was at least 1-2 more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEGa Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Wow. No power (hope it's back quickly but I am sure rural areas are not priority lol) trees and lines down in my front yard and about 3.5" of rain. What a storm lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrgjeff Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 16 hours ago, No snow for you said: Duke just told my friend they are not going to restore power until the winds drop below 20 MPH gust. Fireman said trees and lines down everywhere. We are lucky to still have power. Every house on our street has no power except us and 4 others. Hurricane party. Wooooo Brutal for those out! Sounds like individual lines out vs whole block. They will restore large lines and groups first. 1 hour ago, LithiaWx said: Looks like hartsfield did get a 64mph gust. Impressive. Good luck to those still without power. One of our Georgia stores in conyers at my workplace is still without power. This morning the roads were covered with little bits of leaves and twigs etc. only a couple of big trees down in douglas county that I saw. Overall not near the destruction of Opal but still a noteworthy storm for Atlanta. It's all about the ACE. Sounds like a song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LithiaWx Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 4.8" storm total. Sweetwater creek is going to crest about 2 feet above flood stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharonA Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Looks like how much of a pain Irma was for you depended upon where you were relative to the heavier bands (duh - you mean, COMMON SENSE applies here? People on the other side of the Metro might have legit experienced *different* weather than I?) Other than brief 5-10 minute periods of high winds and gusts - a few spectacular gusts - it's just been drizzle-to-rain-and-back and windy since Monday morning here. A few power flickers. Lots of small vegetative debris, totally saturated ground w/ponding, some building materials blown over from the neighbor's business. Nothing broke, nothing fell down on anything important. Spring thunderstorms have done worse. What we got is annoying and messy debris & erosion but I'll take it over chainsawing trunks into pieces and using my truck to haul trees out of the driveway so we could get down to the road only to find that the streets were flooded. And doing all that with the power off for another several days so we couldn't even relax with hot showers and cold beverages afterwards. That's what happened when Jeanne and Ivan remnants passed over, and that's what I prepared for. I'm not going to complain about it not sucking as bad as it could have. It's not like if I don't get to USE all my prepping that the prepping was wasted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackerel_sky Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 I have been without Cable for 14 hours! No wi-fi! What the French toast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lj0109 Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Ended up with 5.39 inches of rain and a peak gust of 51 mph for the 24 hour period yesterday. 3M NE of Saint Matthews, SC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thess Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Quick cross-post from the (now abandoned) main storm thread, Keys aftermath: Quote Lengthy update on the Keys. Mostly not good to 'very bad' (for example, zero functional hospitals), although they don't mention casualties. I believe an aircraft carrier is anchored down there for support, and they just sent the "Iwo Jima" as well (forgive my total military ignorance here ... although I just looked it up and Wikipedia calls it an 'Amphibious assault ship'). https://keysnews.com/article/story/irma-recovery-update/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Just now, thess said: Quick cross-post from the (now abandoned) main storm thread, Keys aftermath: Yeah the keys are in bad shape. They got hammered really bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avdave Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 Most of the rain here in Durham from Irma came around 530-600pm tonite in one of her last remaining bands. Final today was .39" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaggy Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 So of the handful of deaths in florida most were preventable. Several nursing home patients died due to possible heat related conditions.....5 deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning and a man in tampa had a chainsaw kick back and hit his carotid artery. Sad to see very preventable deaths occurring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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