Hermine

Pipe_Dream

Pipe_Dream

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lots of rain here, lost power at the shop around 4, came home, stopped by the ABC store, trolling the internet with Evan Williams
 
Not much to it here. Surf was up and schools closed for 2days. Les than a 1/4 of rain at my house. East of us, not so lucky
 
About 3 inches of rain, lots of wind, slowing down, but still gusty, power still out since about 3 am, yard looks like hell, 3 different transformers have blown near me due to branches on the line, lines down in 4 different places around here that I've seen, couple of trees on houses.

Got the generator running the fridge, freezer, and a window a/c.

Got three fingers of Flor de Cana Gold with a splash of Rose's lime.
 
We were without power from 10am till 2:45am.
Spent most of yesterday cutting a hickory nut tree out of Daddy's garage.
A couple of weeks ago we removed a birch and pine he was worried about. Didn't think the hickory was a problem, didn't think about the wind from that direction.

He recently changed insurance and is not sure if the work shop was covered or not.
Oh well, we built it, we can fix it.
 
You guys near New Jersey and New York pay attention to this storm.
It is scheduled to be back to a hurricane Tuesday, very close to you.
 
tsubaki said:
You guys near New Jersey and New York pay attention to this storm.
It is scheduled to be back to a hurricane Tuesday, very close to you.
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Yep... watching it like a hawk. We have some warnings up already for the southern part of the state. Too soon to tell if it's going to effect the northern part with much of anything. Time will tell...
 
We lost 3 trees (water oaks) and the yard was covered in tree debris. The asphalt easement road to our place was covered in green so thick that you couldn't see there was pavement under it. Still cleaning up. We were fortunate that our house was undamaged.
 
Total non-event for Northern New Jersey. Not a drop of rain. I think the Eastern tip of Long Island got a little rain, but it went out to sea before it reached us and we were spared any inconvenience. (But the ocean is running 7-10' waves and impossible for our boats to go out). Will need a few days for it to settle before that's possible. Oh well, time to dig out the metal detectors and go hunting along the freshly upturned beaches. (Best time to hunt is after a storm).
 
Pipe_Dream said:
We lost 3 trees (water oaks) and the yard was covered in tree debris. The asphalt easement road to our place was covered in green so thick that you couldn't see there was pavement under it. Still cleaning up. We were fortunate that our house was undamaged.
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Yeah Pipe, most of the downed trees around here have been water oaks too. They will look healthy, but be rotted out inside and break off at the ground. Really they're almost worse than having pine trees.

We were out of power a little over 40 hours. Crews still fixing lines. Huge piles of debris along the roads on the backside (south and eastern sides) of Wilmington Island.

Tsubaki good luck with y'alls insurance people.
 
Thanks bradford, the agent came by and accessed it today.
After the deductible, the check won't cover the materials cost.

Daddy said "well, I ain't had a good ****ing in awhile, guess I was overdue".
 
insurance is the only thing you buy and hope you never use it.

i think i have a $12,000 deductible hurricane coverage.
 
I wasn't going to grill him but the best I could understand was there is a $20,000 maximum coverage for unattached structures. And a $4,000 deductible for hurricane damage.

The agent sat down with him, showed him the places in the policy.
He also went as far to show him the old policy he had last said the same thing.
The agent also said that no company wants to cover anything along the coast.
I think he got check for $1400, the agent said "at least this will get you started".
Oh, he did throw in $100 for the three day tree removal that we done.

He has 288 square feet of roof that needs replacing. This includes all the shingles, all the plywood, all the rafters and beams.
Not to mention replacing 190 square feet of facial on the rear wall.

On the right side of the picture every rafter is busted and every piece of plywood has punctures as does the rear facial.

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at least u had a ridge pole and rafters, with trusses, the whole thing would have to be replaced.

ive got 3 rental houses and my house with only one left with shingles, the rest have metal. after opal in 95 i learned my lesson about shingles
 
Damn Tsubaki, that sucks. I guess about the only thing you can be happy about is that it wasn't his house.

We had a similar hit with Hurricane Irene. Took off the rear corner of our house. But our insurance covered $2500 to remove the tree off the house, and $1000 for tree disposal. Then $4000 to repair the roof with a $500 deductible left us with $7000 total to fix the damage. Just about covered it. I think we needed a few extra hundred to actually pay for everything.
 
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