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[Displaced_Yankee]

@skydy Thanks for keeping us in mind.

We are good. It is a steady rain that gets heavy at times. My weather app says we are gusting only around 11 mph so not bad. We still have power knock on wood. Ponies are typically out 24/7 with shed access, so having them up in stalls for the past 18 hours is making some restless. However, all are eating and drinking well.

We haven’t lost any trees yet, but I keep eyeballing some young (but tall) pines in the back. They have quite a bit of spring to them!

I’m cautiously optimistic…

[skydy]

Glad to hear you are hanging in there

How are you positioned for flood? Are you on fairly high ground?
Keep in touch, I’ll be keeping you in mind. :yes:

[JanM]

New Bern seems to be devastated, and Cajun Navy and many others are rescuing hundreds of people from rooftops, and attics. Rescuers are worried about boats getting capsized, and are using air mattresses to float people out of attics. I wonder how many will die because they stayed behind in evacuation areas?

Myrtle Beach is getting pounded. But Wilmington is bad, Jim Cantore moved back, so you know it sucks there. 600,000 without power in NC. Some fatalities reported. The storm is midway between Wilmington, and Myrtle Beach, but not moving much, so rain totals will be higher. The Wilmington police had to blockade the bridge to keep people from going out to the island. Behind the reporter by the bridge are pickups and minivans just cruising by. Morehead CIty, NC is really getting punished, with an idiot Weather Channel reporter standing behind a palm tree, next to the waterfront.

Cajun Navy has rescued hundreds of horses, donkeys, and dogs. Here’s the article about them:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/cajun-navy-races-to-the-carolinas-citizen-rescuers-pull-people-from-rising-waters/ar-BBNl1hn?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

Keep safe everyone.

[jetsmom]

@JanM

New Bern seems to be devastated, and Cajun Navy and many others are rescuing hundreds of people from rooftops, and attics. Rescuers are worried about boats getting capsized, and are using air mattresses to float people out of attics. I wonder how many will die because they stayed behind in evacuation areas?

Myrtle Beach is getting pounded. But Wilmington is bad, Jim Cantore moved back, so you know it sucks there. 600,000 without power in NC. Some fatalities reported. The storm is midway between Wilmington, and Myrtle Beach, but not moving much, so rain totals will be higher. The Wilmington police had to blockade the bridge to keep people from going out to the island. Behind the reporter by the bridge are pickups and minivans just cruising by. Morehead CIty, NC is really getting punished, with an idiot Weather Channel reporter standing behind a palm tree, next to the waterfront.

Cajun Navy has rescued hundreds of horses, donkeys, and dogs. Here’s the article about them:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world…id=mailsignout

Keep safe everyone.

Drives me nuts when people won’t evacuate, especially when they have kids or pets. It’s one thing to risk your own life, but irresponsible to risk others. And i realize there is the rare case, where someone is bedridden and unable to evacuate, or has no one to help, but that is the rare circumstance.
God bless the Cajun Navy and first responders. Praying for safety of people and animals.

[Displaced_Yankee]

No close streams or rivers. Property slopes pretty well so everything largely drains away. We do have a spring fed pond that I think is man-made, but will drain away from the barn if breached. The bigger concern here is trees coming down due to saturated soil.

[skydy]

@Displaced Yankee

No close streams or rivers. Property slopes pretty well so everything largely drains away. We do have a spring fed pond that I think is man-made, but will drain away from the barn if breached. The bigger concern here is trees coming down due to saturated soil.

Do you have a generator? I don’t know if you are out in the country on a well. I remember when I lived in the Midwest we finally bought a generator. To many power outages from storms. We realized we could do without electricity but not water. You never realize the volume that just two horses consume until you have to haul it in.

Your pond will come in handy for watering your beasties I hope.

Hoping very much that your trees don’t fall. The radar loop really drives home what a huge disaster this is. Take care and keep in touch OK?

I’m afraid it looks as if the WEG is going to have a deluge. I really hope they’ve taken this seriously and have planned as well as they say they have done. Too many people (including some here on the COTH forum) were pooh-pooh-ing and ignoring the NOAA and the National Hurricane Center.

[pAin_t_Misbehavin]

Yikes! Feeding tonight was like walking into a firehose!!
I have one horse who won’t come in, one horse who won’t go out, and a pony who thinks my pocket would be the best place to ride out the storm!:lol:
So I hung a water bucket in the stall of the one who won’t go out. And now that his stall has probably flooded I don’t have to worry about re-filling it.
For a wonder, I still have power. After Matthew my electric co-op sent guys out to re-configure our power lines. Success!
We are all OK and hope everyone else is also.

[rubygirl1968]

@pAin't_Misbehavin'

Yikes! Feeding tonight was like walking into a firehose!!
I have one horse who won’t come in, one horse who won’t go out, and a pony who thinks my pocket would be the best place to ride out the storm!:lol:
So I hung a water bucket in the stall of the one who won’t go out. And now that his stall has probably flooded I don’t have to worry about re-filling it.
For a wonder, I still have power. After Matthew my electric co-op sent guys out to re-configure our power lines. Success!
We are all OK and hope everyone else is also.

I’m amazed you still have power, but very happy you do! Glad you guys are all ok. Stay safe!

[rubygirl1968]

@displacedyankee, hope you and yours are doing ok.

@RMJacobs, I hope you guys are ok too.

Still jingling and praying for all those in the path of this storm.

[Displaced_Yankee]

We lost power about 30 min ago. Winds felt worse at night check but weather app says they are about the same.

going to save my phone for emergency should one come up but will check in when I get a recharge.

I knew it had been too easy!

[JanM]

I hope everyone gets power back quickly, and everyone stays safe.

[skydy]

Displaced Yankee, will look forward to hearing from you when you have the time and the technological ability. Until then, hang in there and my thoughts are with you.

[Displaced_Yankee]

Hi all,

We are well. Power came back on overnight. Conditions remain the same: wet and windy. Steady rain, gusts up to 24 mph. We are not getting some of the rain they are getting even 30 minutes south of us. We are so very fortunate.

We are going to remain careful. SO has to go into work today, but I am staying in.

Wanted to thank you all for checking in. Means a lot to me.

[rubygirl1968]

Displaced yankee, glad you guys are ok and your power came back on!

Are you in the path of the outer bands that haven’t made it too far yet? I’ve lived in the mountains all my life and I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a slow moving storm. The potential for rain is unreal.

I’m on call all weekend, we’re expecting flooding and trees down since our ground is already pretty wet. At least they did lower the dams earlier this week so hopefully it won’t be as bad as it was this spring.

Stay safe!

[Jackie_Cochran]

I’m in NC, the southeastern part of Stanly County. The rain bands have started, but they are intermittent. The trees are swaying in the wind, and puddles are forming. I do not see signs of out intermittent stream (well down from my house) flooding yet.

I am very glad that 1) I no longer have horses to feed and water, and 2 )that I let the brush take over my old horse paddocks so that there is plenty of vegetation to hold the soil and break the force of the wind gusts.

I even have internet access right now (and power), so far, so good.

[rubygirl1968]

Jackie, I’m glad you are ok too and have power. That’s always a good thing.

Stay safe!!

[Displaced_Yankee]

We are about 20ish miles southwest of Raleigh and literally on the line of the “green” and “yellow” radar lines of the main part of the storm. Like I mentioned before: either not so bad or not so good. Currently: not so bad.

[pAin_t_Misbehavin]

Wow! No damage at all to buildings or fences. There’s one dang little tree:rolleyes: on my farm road that took out my power line about midnight.
Solano thinks the generator is a horse-eating monster and has relocated to the far end of the paddock. So I’ll probably have to move a water trough out there at some point. But I think that definitely falls under the category of first-world problems:o so I’ll take it.
All mammals, both quadriped and bi-ped, are fine so I am truly thankful.
Hope everyone else is the same.

[skydy]

Good to hear from you Displaced Yankee. Hang in there!

[RMJacobs]

Sorry about the lack of updates. We lost power at the very beginning of the storm, and cell access followed soon after. But at my house (Little River, SC) the storm was no big deal. It rained, it blew, but it was a tropical storm shortly after landfall and we even had doors and windows open during it. Downstream flooding from the Lumber River will be a problem for my area in a couple of days, but it’s not an impact at my house.

My pony is fine and being spoiled rotten in a stall. He usually lives outside all the time, and the BO said he seemed glad to be out of the relentless rain. She said her family is doing fine, too.

Rebecca