Hurricane Florence

jbear wrote: NCH20SKIER wrote: Thanks John You are on my "to visit" list we did...me and Eddie. You wont be disappointed. Cool...kinda different place to ski. Great host. john

Bring it!
This what I promised John and Eddie however what they got looked a bit more like Green Lake! we made the best of it as always. Those are the guys you need to visit. Eddie and John are a living clinic.

Anyone heard anything from the Nautique Parts boys?

8122pbrainard wrote: jbear wrote: Hollywood wrote: That's a calm day on Green Lake you guys just never give up on poor Mojo! john John, He's the only one of us that we can pick on. Steve was the smart one selling his house and bailing out of GL!

Haha, why do you think I kept buying bigger boats?? Love the lake, but she sure can get angry...

Hollywood wrote: That's a calm day on Green Lake

you guys just never give up on poor Mojo!



john

Hollywood wrote: That's a calm day on Green Lake

I must boat in a hurricane every day then...

The winds have picked up and are a steady ~30 mph
From the boat launch in the Town of Badin

Some light breeze here now. My friend who lives near Rocky Mount NC - about 90 minutes east from Badin has gone under a tropical storm warning so things are heading west. If all goes well there will be no delays (from the storm) in the goodies from Jeg's or Summit........

And this is yet another reason (beyond the entertainment factor) to visit a Wafflehouse

Waffle House Emergency Response Team

Hurricane Hugo crushed Charlotte in 1989. It was a Cat 4 that hit Charleston and came through Charlotte (3.5 hour drive from Charleston) and did a ton of damage. I lost power for 2 weeks and most lost power for one month. My parents live 90 minutes North of Charlotte in the foothills of the NC mountains above Hickory, and they lost 20 Oak Trees in a 10 acres woods. That was almost five hours from the coast.

It does not take much I guess. We were 50 miles from the eye of Irma with not very much between it and us. Our street never even lost any utilities.
On a side note the weatherman here just said we have gone 5 days with out rain. Possibly going 12 with out,the longest of all summer! Maybe the river will open in time to put the boat away

Larry,, he is sort of the same in a different way... Never knew we were so close to the NC coast when we've been there. I hope they're ok.

Just to let all the members know that Nautique Parts, one of our sponsored parts suppliers is located in the direct path of the oncoming hurricane. Was looking on their website and they asked if we could keep them in our thoughts and prayers to come through this without great loss to them and theirs.

I wouldn’t worry about wind too much, rain is another story and I heard Florence is expected to stall. We’re probably 75 miles inland which seems to buffer the wind but tornadoes that spawn are a nightmare. During Irma I started measuring the rainfall after the first ~24 hours (which seemed to be 4” already) and for the next 24 hours I measured 22” of rain. I’m in a lower area but we have good drainage canals which evidently did a great job of moving the water to some other poor souls house but the ground and aquafur was so full and saturated that most of the wells in the area began to overflow which then caused erosion washing ground away, footings, houses caving in and sink holes. I seen wells flow into the electrical pvc conduit, fill the conduit then spill out into the panel and flood the house out. So many people survived the storm only to have their houses fall in a few days later. I’d take 120 mph wind in a 24 hour period over stalled TS for 5 days.

Not to deminish this storm Bruce but we were 50 miles from where Irma came ashore, the only thing we had happen was my rotten post fence fell over. We were very fortunate. Hope everything goes as well for you guys