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Friday, September 2, 2016

HURRICANE HERMINE REPORT FROM FAR N FL

Hurricane Hermine report from 4 miles south of the GA/FL border, a few miles from Alabama corner, GADSDEN County- 25 miles north of Tallahassee. Just waking up at 4:30 AM and have been setting up this little generator off the camper to power a fan, a couple lights and, surprisingly, a kick ass coffeemaker, which I am now sipping a cup of nectar from!  No power for several hours. Temperature in the dark pre dawn seems in mid seventies. Early 80's. I went outside to assess the damage here in the forest 25 miles north of Tallahassee. No big trees seem down on my house my truck or my little camper, that can see with my combat GI Joe flashlight. More on damage at first light. Looks like about 6 to 7 inches of rain, lots of high wind, thousands of small and medium limbs/ branches torn out of the trees leaves and twigs everywhere *** the ground is carpeted in limbs, sticks, vegetation, torn out of the forest. The wind, now subsiding from the roar and howling, still gusting and swirling around at 0430. Certainly there are bunches of trees down. Everything is covered with rubble and soaked. I do not see, at this point before dawn, any serious damage to my property. However, I anticipate that there will have been a great deal of damage from falling trees and falling limbs etc. I'm this area, as it is heavily forested, with tons of stuff to fly around. It has been too long since a storm ripped through this for us to deal with  and there was lots of material to fly around. There is not going to be serious flooding at my property  don't think...ibecause I'm up on a small hill. hill. There are lots of peeps around me who may have some VERY wet ground AND STANDING WATER,  but I don't see any kind of devastating flooding yet. It may yet come. Of course the water runs higher a couple of days/hours after the actual rain starts or rather stops. So the lake will rise over the next day or so as the rivers and creeks swell. I think it is going to be a mess when dawn breaks, but all of us here can probably count this as a lucky night, overall.

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