Now that I can get online, I guess an after action report is due.
We are on the east side of Tampa bay about 15 miles inland. On the map we are just south east of Brandon.
Got a text earlier in the day from a friend saying he was headed to the east coast near Sebastian inlet.
More on that later...
We stayed up until midnight waiting for the winds to really kick up. The wind was more like a tropical depression. Power went out somewhere around 10-10:30
Went to bed and woke around 2-
:15-2:30. It was eerily silent and the frogs were talking up a storm. Had to be the eye. Went back to bed and slept through the night. (My house is deadly silent due to all the insulation)
Woke around 6:45 and boiled some water to make a couple of pour-over coffees.
While the water was coming up to a boil I went out to check the house and look at the neighborhood.
My yard has a lot of pine boughs in the back and oak tips in the font. The largest single piece of debris is a stick two feet long and the diameter of my pinky.
Two houses down from me a small tree fell over on to their next door neighbor's car. The car looked just fine.
That was the extent of damage on my culdesac.
Rebecca and I took a walk last night and we found three more trees knocked over and they are all small 12-15 year old trees.
A fellow hider named John from Jacksonville has been working to get their 480,000v power up. (I wrote it out that way because I missed the k part when he texted me and I thought he was working a nice little 480v system)
John lost a few roof tiles and a couple of fence panels.
A couple of friends from around this little community reported zero damage.
My brother lost three fence panels from a 20 year old fence. No surprise there.
Texted Mike Oneshot and he was firing up the crane truck to go clear downed trees around his neck of the woods.
Remember the fishing buddy that headed to the east coast? Well, here's how it went over there.
They were getting winds that rattled the roof, shook the walls and caused trees to snap.
He woke to find the streets lined with litter, roof tiles and lots of siding and branches. A couple of houses over, a boat had been lifted and wedged between a pair of palm trees.
Get this, as he was pulling into the driveway Sunday morning his master cylinder went to shit and he had no brakes. Nice pucker factor there.
Being the smartass I am, I told him that staying home might have been a better option.
Rebecca is back at work this morning at the Sheriff's office, the skies are clear and sunny. Overall, it hit our house more like a topical storm and we're more than thankful for that.
Power is still out and that's okay. The TECO truck that was in our area was just driving the high tension lines looking for any issues. The kids in the neighborhood were all chatty that they were here to power us back up. Unfortunately I gave it too much thought and hope. We'll get it when we get it.
The attached pic is pretty much the storm track. We are the little blue dot south east of Tampa.
BTW, power just came back on. Yaaaay!
