I’m dumbfounded right now… almost numb…
We have sooooo much debris from Charley still that it is absolutely dangerous outside!
I’m watching it VERY CLOSE and frankly becoming more and more nervous. We’ve been making ice like crazy and since the freezer is still empty from Charley’s wrath we’ve got plenty of room to store it.
We gave up on trying to get a generator… they are already out of them in Central FL and we are assuming that those willing to stand in line for 8hrs or more waiting on new shipments probably need them more than we do.
I really felt the many trees we had around our yard would help to protect us during Charley…and they did. However, 30 or so of them fell down and another 50 or more are leaning and weak with their roots already pulled and shifted just waiting for something to knock them over.
With Frances I fear the trees are going to be our enemies and become projectiles so I doubt we’ll be able to look out windows to see Frances like we did Charley. We’re also hoping to get a lot of Charley’s debris packed up and taken to a local dump site since it does not appear the city is going to be able to make their second round of pickups prior to Frances arriving. FORTUNATELY we were lucky enough to be in the path of the city’s first round so a large amount of our debris is in fact gone.
On my fear factor scale is a 100yr old oak tree that stood through Charley but it’s trunk cracked and it’s roots lifted…It is now a dying tree and I don’t think it can handle Frances so I’m not sure how it is going to affect us on this round if she hits…
A couple of days ago we had a 5 MPH wind gust (which is like nothing lol) take down this branch…
And things like that have been happening all week long. So many branches in the trees already weakened or broken that just a tiny breeze is all it takes to send them flying down…
People are very nervous in Central FL right now and many inland folks may still have to be evacuated because all of the dump sites setup for Charley’s mess are now extremely dangerous to live around (city parks full of trees, branches, limbs etc that are now seen as missiles)
But yes… right now the eye is projected to come right over us again…I’m hoping she changes her mind because we really don’t need Charley’s Big Sister this weekend
I WILL be leaving the weather station out there It did store Charley’s details but I never could figure out how to get them out of the system and into WD. Everytime I tried I got no where so I blew it
Anyone want to post a step by step on that one so if I do get data from FRANCES I don’t lose it?