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Joined: 18 Feb 2018 Posts: 621 Location: va, ct, mo

you guys in the center of usa gotta deal with twisters and floods. we coastal guys get hurricanes.
cant tell which is worse, but today, we dodged the bullet. couple limbs down but for the most part it went right of va beach.

Was supposed to spend this week down at OBX. Oh well. No issues up here in the NNK, not even much rain.

Buxton/Hatteras are getting quite surge from the sound this Am..

Joined: 18 Feb 2018 Posts: 621 Location: va, ct, mo

ill take a glancing blow today, but since living here, weve had 4 eyes go over our home. its enough to make me want to move. fyi....we are collecting boxes to pack in. so I guess you can say ive had enough of coastal va. wanna 19 room mansion ? for sale, come and get it.
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Yep! Just another day in paradise!

Left Keesler AFB one week before Camille. Left Ponchatoula one day before Katrina.

Had a lot of little ones in between and have a great respect for nature and the awesome powers that can be unleashed.

Chuck

Joined: 18 Feb 2018 Posts: 621 Location: va, ct, mo

today is pick up sticks day. youd never know such a storm was here. its like it never happened. nice sunny day.

Joined: 22 Jan 2015 Posts: 345

I'm very thankful it didn't sit on us here in eastern NC like the last one did, or this one did to Bahamas. We had litters of tornados crop up from this last storm for some reason. News people were more focused on reporting all of them than the hurricane itself around here.

Hopefully I won't run out of non-ethanol gas before power is restored. Got more oaks down in the yard again, still haven't cleaned away all of them from last year. Again, I'm very thankful it wasn't worse. Arizona is looking better every day!
Starting a new kitchen upgrade so that we will be cooking with gas (propane). Once that's finished, think we will be shopping for a propane fueled residential generator I can feed from the same holding tank as my kitchen stove will use.

Joined: 18 Feb 2018 Posts: 621 Location: va, ct, mo

you need a home until things get better? lmk.

Joined: 28 Oct 2015 Posts: 166 Location: SWMO

I’ll take my chances with tornadoes.

Joined: 18 Feb 2018 Posts: 621 Location: va, ct, mo

I do that too. I cant win.

Joined: 11 Jan 2018 Posts: 36 Location: Eastern NC

The obx area got hit pretty good this time but for the most part nothing like Florence. I'll take the 5"+ over the 30"+ Florence left us with. Only rained about 18hrs vs the 50hrs of rain last time. Always got to find the bright spots.

Gentlemen,

I will tell you this these bigger storms are something to pay attention too. Having lived in Slidell, La and lived thru numerous big storms we survived a few seriously big ones.

The owners just after we moved back north to the Pa mountains, were not so fortunate. I enjoyed my life in Slidell, La but not the Hurricanes. The fishing and the Duck hunting along with the Woodcock hunting were exceptional.

Our big home, that we sold the people in the Coin De Lestin Estates in Slidell, was taken completely into Lake Ponchatrane by Hurricane Catrina. Nothing left on the 10 acre property but the base for the flag pole and parts of the flat brick entry way. Very scary to look at for my family and devastation for the new owners.

Pine Creek/Dave
L.C. Smith Man

Joined: 18 Feb 2018 Posts: 621 Location: va, ct, mo

im just buying time before I leave. I wore va beach 7 cities out. nothing exciting about it anymore. granted, I live a dream house, but I don't like wondering if itll be all gone from a storm. when I was in the navy, it was my career path here. but retired now 20 years? time to move. thank God I got the farm in mo.

Member Joined: 27 Jun 2012 Posts: 1113

Bobski, Missouri ain't all that bad. I've lived here 16 years after getting fed up with California. We had one tornado in 2008 that did about $20,000 damage to our home and took out several trees including a wonderful 100 year old plus oak shade tree. I grew up in Neosho before joining the Navy and in 1954 a storm put a big maple tree through my sister's bedroom. Some people claimed that was a tornado, but I doubt it. So basically one tornado in 78 years is not too bad. We had a Twister Safe installed in our garage before our tornado and rode it out inside that. We also have a whole house standby generator and after the storm knocked out the power in the area, that night our house was the only one in sight with lights, air conditioning and TV playing. Just be a good Boy Scout and "Be Prepared."

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Floods are expensive.

Joined: 18 Feb 2018 Posts: 621 Location: va, ct, mo

our goal was, and and I say was... mo, but all our family in the area died. our support lines are gone. granted, the people around vanzant are salt of the earth, but we need we more than solace.
my home in conn fits the bill and odds are we will be heading there in the future. yes, its full of liberals, but the pro gun movement is strong and gun clubs abound.
letting go of this wonderful mansion in va is going to hurt. but im getting too old to care for it.