Yes, I’m glad that all is well with you, Chuck and Charlie.
Chris
> On 11 Oct 2016, at 17:51, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Glad to hear a good report, Charlie.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 10/11/2016 11:44 AM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
>> We did well on Daniel Island. No damage to the house and only a bunch of
>> sticks, small limbs and leaves to pick up. We were lucky with the storm
>> surge. My neighbor stayed home for the storm and at the height of the it
>> crawled back to the edge of the salt marsh to check the water height. At
>> 1:30am it should have been dead low tide but the water level as at full
>> high tide mark, so about 5' storm surge and we are three miles in from
>> front beach. My rain gauge maxed out at 8" so not sure how much rain we
>> had. Downtown Charleston had plenty of flooding as it always does but was
>> indeed lucky the worst came at low tide. The area to the south of us
>> (Edisto, Beaufort, Hilton Head) got it far worse than us.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
>> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm a bit over 4 miles from the beach. AFAIK the eyewall passed over us.
>>> Fortunately, it was only Cat 1 at that time and not the Cat 2 expected when
>>> it was predicted to be further away. This was the 2nd Cat 1 where I've
>>> been in the eye (first on Long Island). But I can tell you that being 35
>>> miles away from a Cat 4 is a hell of a lot worse (Andrew 1992). :-)
>>>
>>> I was protected by my hurricane panels but I'm not aware of any of my
>>> neighbors who didn't have them getting impact damage from debris. There
>>> are, however, a couple of houses which sustained roof and other damage from
>>> falling pine trees and a couple where the damage was limited to fences. We
>>> have a large, dead pine tree in a wetland area not too far from the house
>>> and I was concerned it might decide to topple. The tree is still standing
>>> but large sheets of its bark are now in my yard.
>>>
>>> But even during Andrew in Florida in 1992 I think we were only without
>>> power for about 3 hours. 32 hours is enough for me to think about getting
>>> a portable generator as some of my neighbors already have.
>>>
>>> ps: Thanks for your concern, Jim. I'm copying this to the list as my
>>> "I'm OK report"
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
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