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Old 10-07-2024, 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by mikeycereal View Post
Ian (2022): In TV winds were in the 30s and gusts were in the 50s with 3" of rain.

Irma (2017): In TV winds were in the 40s and gusts in the 60s with 10" of rain.

For Ian I didn't hear of any major home damage in TV but there were many scattered palm branches and downed trees. Many on this site were saying we dodged one because it veered away from us.
I was wondering why it seemed everyone was kind of forgetting about Irma in 2017. That was our first big storm (other than the tornado in 2007 which spared our place while we were up north). Irma was very scary but we came through it pretty much unscathed. Maybe 3 hours loss of power and alot of wind and rain. We lost a few shingles and our 7 Cypress trees but otherwise we were good. We will prepare appropriately for this one. Everyone should. Then we will hunker down and keep each other safe and sound. Same wish to all.