Hurricane Dennis cont'd

"Guy Byars" wrote:
I was flying the Skylane in Southwest Ohio on Sunday morning. I
noticed a
convoy of 6 electrical repair trucks and crews heading South on I-71.
Looks
like reinforcements are on the way to help with the inevitable power
problems.

Yep.

When the ice storms hit up here next winter, perhaps you can
return the favor.

I'm sure the power companies have reciprocal agreements. There's no way
they can individually afford to keep enough staff and equipment on hand
to handle the occasional big emergency.

Good Luck down there!

Thanks.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

"Dan Luke" wrote in
:


"Guy Byars" wrote:
I was flying the Skylane in Southwest Ohio on Sunday morning. I
noticed a
convoy of 6 electrical repair trucks and crews heading South on I-71.
Looks
like reinforcements are on the way to help with the inevitable power
problems.

Yep.

When the ice storms hit up here next winter, perhaps you can
return the favor.

I'm sure the power companies have reciprocal agreements. There's no way
they can individually afford to keep enough staff and equipment on hand
to handle the occasional big emergency.


In all likelihood, they are all selling each other's power anyway, and have
a vested interest in keeping it flowing...

Although if the power really goes out every time a cow farts in Alabama, I
can't imagine they are selling all that much of it!

Good Luck down there!

Thanks.

I'll echo that sentiment. Good luck and stay safe!

16:00 CDT update:

Eight hours ago Dennis was looking like it might be the worst storm I'd
ever ridden out. Now the center is about 40 mi. due east of us and the
weather outside doesn't look much worse than a common thunderstorm,
except that it's lasting longer. That's the benefit of being well to
the "good" side of a hurricane.

Still not totally in the clear yet--there are more squalls headed this
way and tornadoes are always a possibility--but right now Dennis is
looking like a wimp in the greater Mobile Bay area.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Glad to hear you were spared the brunt of the storm!

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
...
16:00 CDT update:

Eight hours ago Dennis was looking like it might be the worst storm I'd
ever ridden out. Now the center is about 40 mi. due east of us and the
weather outside doesn't look much worse than a common thunderstorm, except
that it's lasting longer. That's the benefit of being well to the "good"
side of a hurricane.

Still not totally in the clear yet--there are more squalls headed this way
and tornadoes are always a possibility--but right now Dennis is looking
like a wimp in the greater Mobile Bay area.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Dan, if you have power and internet, how did you make out?

denny

"Denny"
Dan, if you have power and internet, how did you make out?

Hey, Denny.

Just fine, thanks. Dennis's jog to the east kept us far enough on the
"good" side of the storm that we never had any really heavy winds--maybe
45kts max in gusts. Amazingly, my power never even blinked, perhaps
because Ivan last year pruned a lot of the weaker limbs and trees.

I'm headed to the airport in a little while to see if they've pulled my
airplane out and check it for any new hangar rash.

This hurricane had me scared yesterday morning when it was a cat. 4 and
headed for Mobile Bay. It just shows that you can never tell about the
damned things until they actually hit.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Glad to see you did ok! Too bad we have 4 more months of this crap.

wrote:

Glad to see you did ok!

Thanks.

Too bad we have 4 more months of this crap.

Yep. Here comes another one:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...407.shtml?5day

Dan Luke wrote:

Too bad we have 4 more months of this crap.

Yep. Here comes another one:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...407.shtml?5day

We (wife and I) were supposed to land in Cozumel yesterday at 11:30am,
decided to change the tickets to September (9/11 geaux figure). I called
the couple that owned the house where we were staying at 10pm last
night. Power was off but it wasn't raining or blowing very hard yet.
Emily was 50 miles ESE with 135 mph winds and moving at 18 mph at the
time I gave them an update. Around 3am they were shoving buckets of
water out of the house (tile floors and solid concrete walls). No damage
to the house, but the yards pretty torn up, they'd already cut down all
the big trees when they boarded the place up. I got the update report
from their daughter in New Orleans after they called her this morning, I
haven't been able to get a line down there since last night, always a
recording until this afternoon when I can't even get that. Looks like
the internet is backup again down there though...

wrote:

Glad to see you did ok! Too bad we have 4 more months of this crap.

Here in Louisiana hurricane season lasts until December...