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First light assessment is okay. Lots of limbs and branches down. Gazebo went by by. No major damage. Neighbors west and south of here did not fare well. Storm surge over 8’ flooded many. Bridges are shut down this morning.  We have already started our cleanup. By tomorrow we will be back in business. Others will need more time. Lots of debris for contractors to pick up. That will take weeks to happen. Too much for regular pickups to handle.

Posted
51 minutes ago, king derelict said:

Glad you all came through okay Craig. Your new pup can chalk up her first hurricane. The reach of this storm was huge, would have covered the whole of England and Wales apparently. Looks like a lot of flooding and wind damage out there.

alan

Storm surge is the greatest threat from Hurricanes. Much greater threat than wind. The old saying is, run from the water, hide from the wind.

Posted

News reports say storm surge of 15-20 feet in Big Bend area of Florida, that's a small tsunami! 

 

Glad you came thru relatively unscathed, Craig.

Posted

Glad to see good reports from you, Craig.  I cannot imagine the damage closer to where it made land fall.  My only hurricane experience was with Fran back in the mid 90s.  I was in Raleigh, NC, which is well inland, but Fran was just decreasing from category 1 to tropical storm when it got to Raleigh.  There were so many pine trees down, it took months and months for them all to be cleaned up.

 

- Gary

 

Current Build: Artesania Latina Sopwith Camel

Completed Builds: Blue Jacket America 1/48th  Annapolis Wherry

 

Posted

Glad your safe  and  not  too much  damage  Craig.

 

OC.

Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

Posted (edited)

Latest news from NBC said dam is okay and not failing but evacuees advised to not return until state of emergency is lifted. Dam is on the North Carolina- Tennessee border, town is in Tennessee 

Edited by Jack12477
Posted

Glad you and your family made it out ok Craig - losing a gazebo stinks, but could have been a lot worse.

Mike

 

Current Wooden builds:  Amati/Victory Pegasus  MS Charles W. Morgan  Euromodel La Renommèe  

 

Plastic builds:    Hs129B-2 1/48  SB2U-1 Vindicator 1/48  Five Star Yaeyama 1/700  Pit Road Asashio and Akashi 1/700 diorama  Walrus 1/48 and Albatross 1/700  Special Hobby Buffalo 1/32   IJN Notoro 1/700  Akitsu Maru 1/700

 

Completed builds :  Caldercraft Brig Badger   Amati Hannah - Ship in Bottle  Pit Road Hatsuzakura 1/700   Hasegawa Shimakaze 1:350

F4B-4 and P-6E 1/72  Accurate Miniatures F3F-1/F3F-2 1/48  Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat built as FM-1 1/48  Special Hobby Buffalo 1/48  Eduard Sikorsky JRS-1 1/72

Citroen 2CV 1/24 - Airfix and Tamiya  Entex Morgan 3-wheeler 1/16

 

Terminated build:  HMS Lyme (based on Corel Unicorn)  

 

On the shelf:  Euromodel Friedrich Wilhelm zu Pferde; Caldercraft Victory; too many plastic ship, plane and car kits

 

Future potential scratch builds:  HMS Lyme (from NMM plans); Le Gros Ventre (from Ancre monographs), Dutch ship from Ab Hoving book, HMS Sussex from McCardle book, Philadelphia gunboat (Smithsonian plans)

Posted
35 minutes ago, CDW said:

Has anyone heard from Ken (Canute)? That area got hit so hard, I'm worried about him.

I have sent him  a  message  enquiring  that  he is  safe and  well from us  all.

 

OC.

Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

Posted

My niece and her children live in that area. They have no electric power, not communication lines, no running water, no way to access bank accounts. Major roads are completely washed out. It is a desperate situation. She is a schoolteacher, and their school was totally demolished. Nowhere for the children to go to school until something can be arranged as an alternative site. Local businesses have had to resort to a manual set of books and lines of credit for people to trade for essential supplies. Very limited fuel supplies. It's bad. Real bad.

Posted
1 minute ago, CDW said:

My niece and her children live in that area. They have no electric power, not communication lines, no running water, no way to access bank accounts. Major roads are completely washed out. It is a desperate situation. She is a schoolteacher, and their school was totally demolished. Nowhere for the children to go to school until something can be arranged as an alternative site. Local businesses have had to resort to a manual set of books and lines of credit for people to trade for essential supplies. Very limited fuel supplies. It's bad. Real bad.

So  sad to  hear  that.

 

OC.

Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

Posted (edited)

He has not responded to any of my emails or PMs. I do know his house is on high ground and he has a Generax auxiliary generator so he has electric, but the Internet service in that area down. I'm sure between his Air Force training and his experience in Emergency Management in NJ he's pretty prepared but still that storm wiped out some cities and towns in that area 

Edited by Jack12477
Posted
1 hour ago, CDW said:

My niece and her children live in that area. They have no electric power, not communication lines, no running water, no way to access bank accounts. Major roads are completely washed out. It is a desperate situation. She is a schoolteacher, and their school was totally demolished. Nowhere for the children to go to school until something can be arranged as an alternative site. Local businesses have had to resort to a manual set of books and lines of credit for people to trade for essential supplies. Very limited fuel supplies. It's bad. Real bad.

It has made a really devastating mess in North Carolina; it’s going to take a lot of work to recover.

I hope all is well with Ken

alan

Posted

Thank you all for the good wishes. Being without TV or phone was a nuisance, but all we had from Friday of the storm was intermittent texting. Apparently, in the haste to get all the electric types of utilities, somebody cut a fiber-optic cable. Kudos to Duke Power and all its contractors replacing power poles and restringing wire. I do hope you weather this next storm out in the Gulf, brother.🫡

Ken

Started: MS Bounty Longboat,

On Hold:  Heinkel USS Choctaw paper

Down the road: Shipyard HMC Alert 1/96 paper, Mamoli Constitution Cross, MS USN Picket Boat #1

Scratchbuild: Echo Cross Section

 

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Posted
4 hours ago, Canute said:

Thank you all for the good wishes. Being without TV or phone was a nuisance, but all we had from Friday of the storm was intermittent texting. Apparently, in the haste to get all the electric types of utilities, somebody cut a fiber-optic cable. Kudos to Duke Power and all its contractors replacing power poles and restringing wire. I do hope you weather this next storm out in the Gulf, brother.🫡

Wow, great news to hear from you, Ken.

The last time a cat3 hurricane landed a direct hit on Tampa Bay was 1921, over a hundred years ago. In those days, people had enough sense not to build on the shoreline. The storm surge on that event was over 20 feet. If this storm continues on this track at a level of intensity that is being predicted, it will be an event of greater magnitude and severity than any other ever experienced here before. 

 

TROPICAL STORM MILTON (noaa.gov)

Posted
2 hours ago, CDW said:

If this storm continues on this track at a level of intensity that is being predicted, it will be an event of greater magnitude and severity than any other ever experienced here before. 

I hope it is going to drift north a bit and stay out of Tampa Bay. The models are all in agreement right now although they look a shade more northerly than the NHC track. I’m thinking about putting the shutters up on Monday. There are a lot of tall trees behind me (south) that would prefer to stay outside.

I hope we all do well.

alan

Posted
1 minute ago, king derelict said:

I hope it is going to drift north a bit and stay out of Tampa Bay. The models are all in agreement right now although they look a shade more northerly than the NHC track. I’m thinking about putting the shutters up on Monday. There are a lot of tall trees behind me (south) that would prefer to stay outside.

I hope we all do well.

alan

My favorite meteorologist, Ryan Hall, predicts the storm will not develop as a dangerous one, but lots of rain. My motto is, prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

Posted

We have  the  remains  of one  coming our way next week, its currently  in the  Atlantic  -  but due  to  loose   a lot of its  power by the  time  it reaches us.

 

OC.

Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

Posted

Craig  will  you have to  evac.

 

OC.

Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

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