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Originally Posted by Opmoochler
In Hadley, palm stuff (not ours) and moss balls on our lawn, otherwise no damage. I was seriously surprised to see any limes left on our little key lime tree, but there were none on the ground, and our baby bottlebrush tree also survived! At 6:30 this a.m. we had only collected 3/4" of rain in our rain gauge-most of the rain must have fallen sideways  I actually think our screened lanai collected deeper rain than the rain gauge. Has anyone used the lanai drains I've seen advertised?
Found it scary to huddle in our hall bathroom with son and lab during the take-cover tornado alert between 8:40 and 9:00. I've experienced hurricane winds and surges on the Chesapeake Bay (Isabel and Sandy), but was never too worried about tornadoes before. |
How did you know about a take cover alert?
As a life-long Midwest resident, I have experienced hundreds and hundreds of Tornado Watch and Tornado Warnings and have never been that concerned because we have basements for shelter, sirens that go off to alert us about nearby tornadoes and four TV stations that provide street by street coverage throughout.
HOWEVER, I do not like the vulnerable feeling of no local TV coverage, no alert sirens, and no basements. We have Red Alerts on our phone as well as weather alerts from WESH-TV. We received one TEXT about a tornado warning...one TEXT. I monitored the situation closely via weather radio and the TV. I was aware of the tornado warnings nearby but there didn't seem to be adequate information about the direction they were moving etc. As I said, I'm used to top-notch coverage because tornadoes in the Midwest are so much more prevalent and powerful.
I'm thankful this was a Cat 1 hurricane and that we didn't lose power.