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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:55 pm 
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Shout out to Ric and other Florida boaters....hope all made it thru safe and sound. This has been a crazy hurricane season so far and it ain't over yet.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:06 am 
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From West Palm Beach, FL:

We did pretty good here compared to how it could have been. It was a very powerful storm considering the eye was about 100 miles away. Had Tropical Force to Hurricane Force 1 winds for about 18 hours. About 7" of rain here (which is not a major problem). My only damage was some tree branches and a wooden fence was knocked down.

About 80% of households lost power, and that is down to about 50% now. They say it should be very low percentage within the next 5 days. Shortages of fuel and food are still happening.

"Not Easy" was my generator... running on the cuffs for about 45 min x twice per day was enough to charge the batteries and use the 1500watt inverter to keep my refrigerator running (about 1/2 hour every 6 hours was enough to keep the food frozen). I had a second inverter and marine battery inside the house (800watt) that I could run the TV and a fan. I recharged that battery from the car.

My house got power back last night. :D :D :D

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Good deal and glad all is good on your end......I had close to 50 inches of rain with Harvey, which was nutttttss!!! That would be the same amount of water as 500 inches of snow. I had raised my house near 3 feet so was fortunate i had no water in house, but was like living on a houseboat for a few days. We didn't have much wind, around 45ish, as the eye was about 150 miles to the south of us.

If it had rained much more, i was planning to launch my boat straight from the trailer in my yard.

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