[PugMom]

Originally Posted by Dusty_Star

I hope you lose neither power nor water in Lake Denham.

I too am relatively new & so far my understanding is in Sumter County with SECO power losing either water or power is a rarity. I have been told they lost neither in the last major storm - hurricane Irma, I believe in '17.

Flood waters might be an issue if a house is near a pond/lake/etc. Right now ponds near me are HIGH. A prolonged - very prolonged, heavy rain might be a cause for concern for some unenclosed lanais, bordering ponds.

At the moment, high winds don't seem to be headed our way.

As for heat from lack of electricity, I don't have much advice. Battery operated fans? Power packs that can power fans? What about food? I'm lost without the A/C & microwave

Good luck! & let us know how you fare during the storm.

Post Script: Last year during hurricane Idalia (very early in the morning, I walked my pup. The storm was a non event as far as I was concerned).

during Irma we only lost power for just over an hour. i'd hate to jinx us, but the news weather can be so dramatic sometimes: half the storms they predict never hit us anyway. i lived through Gloria in the northeast, --the rest is a piece of cake

[Glowing Horizon]

Originally Posted by PugMom

during Irma we only lost power for just over an hour. i'd hate to jinx us, but the news weather can be so dramatic sometimes: half the storms they predict never hit us anyway. i lived through Gloria in the northeast, --the rest is a piece of cake

The 10 day forecast shows high probability for rain every day even after Debbie’s eye has moved North & East. The biggest threats will be tornadoes (they tend to occur on the right side of the eye), lightning, flash flooding & sinkholes, not so much high wind nor extended power outages.

[pcntech]

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[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by Glowing Horizon

The 10 day forecast shows high probability for rain every day even after Debbie’s eye has moved North & East.

That’s pretty much in the 10 day forecast just about every day for the four months between mid June and October.

[Timothyimitchell]

Does anyone have rainfall amounts yet? We've had a lot of rain and more to come

[Ham_and_Cheese]

Hope all y'all are safe there today
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[Michael 61]

Originally Posted by Timothyimitchell

Does anyone have rainfall amounts yet? We've had a lot of rain and more to come

Richmond - 4 1/4 inches and counting!

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by LeRoySmith

Don't laugh too loud, I experienced this myself first hand when I was a kid. A bucket of red and a bucket of white cobs split and halved in a real life out house.

Heh. I believe it. You gotta go with what is available.

Growing up in the wilds of Northern Minnesota, community life centered around the church. Our church had an outhouse, one side male, the other female. Well-meaning parishoners would leave outdated Sears catalogues to be used as toilet paper. You learned right quick to turn to those yellow index pages as they were much easier on the anatomy than those glossy regular pages.

[Snakster66]

Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy

wind threat is low, sump pump threat, very high

Gotta keep those basements dry.

[CoachKandSportsguy]

Originally Posted by Michael 61

Richmond - 4 1/4 inches and counting!

now if we could only pump this extra fresh water to other parts of the country which are in severe drought. .

but also, floods follow droughts just as droughts follow floods

[LeRoySmith]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

Heh. I believe it. You gotta go with what is available.

Growing up in the wilds of Northern Minnesota, community life centered around the church. Our church had an outhouse, one side male, the other female. Well-meaning parishoners would leave outdated Sears catalogues to be used as toilet paper. You learned right quick to turn to those yellow index pages as they were much easier on the anatomy than those glossy regular pages.

Thankfully mine was only when visiting relatives that lived a little further out than we did.