Did you put your boat on the roof of your house before you ran away?

Hehe, it's as high on the lift as it can be and tied down.

The latest storm track has it going a little further south. This could be huge for us but of course better for me means worse for someone else .

Do you have cameras at your house so you can keep an eye on it til the power goes out?

Yeah.

The sheriff is talking about not allowing access to the entire county after the storm. Hooollyyy ****.

Wobbled a bit to the north again. A few miles will make a huge difference in storm surge.

Seems like just crazy talk. They'll have to let residents, workers, utility people in in droves.
For now, I'm planning to be out there 10/23-11/8 to finish the work my guys skipped because of this. Hopefully things will be close to business as usual by then. Also hoping my storage buildings are built on higher ground, lol. I have close to 200 55" TVs in storage between Brandon and Fort Myers.

Spent some time yesterday watching guys remove a huge tree that was right above the house we are riding the storm out in.

It was quite an operation. They had a guy in a bucket truck tying a harness hanging from a crane to the tree, then chainsawing it. They lifted over the house next door where 2 guys cut it up. Then a guy with a tractor hauled the debris away.

It really was amazing watching this. Those guys were a well oiled machine.

This was a really big tree.

Tree gone.

Now they are taking down some big oak limbs.

They hate shade!

I did tree work one summer when I was in college. Worked up from doing clean up to cutting stuff up on the ground. Dangerous stuff. Guys up in the trees were just nuts.

First and foremost, best wishes to the Boats.

I see guys up in trees walking around the neighborhood. I do some of my own trimming, but nothing like those people.

Back up, this sounds like a story that needs telling.

I have 2 crews installing TVs for advertising in Tmobile stores and they were supposed to start in Fort Myers today followed by Tampa when they finished there. All the TVs were based in a warehouse in Miami, which is too far to be driving daily to restock, so I had them go pick up all the TVs with a box truck a week or so ago and stage them in storage buildings where the work is. Then Milton popped up, lol. They finished the Orlando market yesterday and instead of having them wait around to see what happens we are just skipping Ft Myers/Tampa and they moved on to Atlanta/Richmond/Norfolk. I guess I'm going to go out and do the skipped stores myself in a couple of weeks and hope the TVs weren't inundated.

Edit: When I'm there I'll have Sundays free if you want some free labor BB.

In the UK, we just had a live from Florida "Hurricane of the Century News Special" 90 minutes long programme on Channel 5.

Maybe a tad too early, I thought, but I guess that was the only time slot they had for it.

That's a less fun story than I'd hoped for. I was thinking mark had a top-secret second life.

OK, derail over.

Saw at lunch Milton should be down to cat 3 by landfall.

Does it seem as if hurricanes' landfalls happen inordinately at night?

Always at night.

Lights just flickered where I am.

Storm surge at our home is still a huge if. Probably won't know until tomorrow.

On one hand it's good there is time to prepare for a hurricane, but the wait is excruciating.

I'm second guessing my decision to spend days with my alcoholic mother in law instead of riding out a major hurricane.

have to get that timber from point a to b, might as well use a machine to do it in bulk so the crew breaking it down is out of harms way while the loggers keep felling big limbs.
free wood chips and firewood for the neighborhood

sending nothing but good thoughts your way bb
and i suggest you take advantage of mark's gracious offer
he's like the cajun navy, but more of a cable army
either way the results are generally admirable

Hang in there BB.

We are ok. They shut access to the entire county we live in down so we can't go home yet. It looks bad.

So glad you guys are safe.

Initial reports are encouraging for us at least. We think the neighborhood is ok. No power but they brought the sewage plant and water back up. They are allowing people in. Not sure when we'll be going back.

The highest wind recorded in the immediate area was right by our home. But not near as high as south of us

Glad to hear you're ok. Hope the house has little or no additional damage when you're able to get back to it.

screw the house its the boat he has to sweat. high on a lift the wind has leverage on the lift.