Irma Discussion Thread

A report from a friend of a friend who rode out the storm in the Keys:


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Date: Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 7:32 AM
Subject: Irmageddon

this is a short blanket note to all. You do not need to write back.


We are both fine. In camping mode for real....


no electricity...generator 2 times a day, very loud, poles down everywhere.


no water, have bottled, main line leaking 4 million a day.


Little fuel around...5 gallons per person just today.


no cable...hooray


Cell service just came on...it will be sporadic.


Some looters around with "shoot to kill" orders from the police. These are thieves not hungry people since there is food and bottled water within a few miles of everyone. MPs guard subdivisions to keep property safe. Some looters even coming by boat...our neighbors have guns, we just have fallen trees to give looters.


Everything will be sporadic for weeks.


Road is open, to mile 80 for residents, no one allowed beyond that for perhaps a week. Key West residents may be allowed back in as soon as the water supply is restored to the lower Keys.


Clocked winds here 140mph big gusts into the 160 area. Eye wall went over us at 172mph, tore shutters off a double door right in front of us....door bulging out and about to give and open up....held on knob and lock set for 1 and 1/2 hour standing in a pool of sweat. Grabbed a ladder which happened to be in the room, straddled it across both doors, braced both ends on the drywall and tied the knob and lock set to the ladder with computer cords as tight as possible. 30 seconds more and more panels flew, and AT that point....we would have been blown into the hurricane 172mph winds and off the second story porch. Believe in angels, they were here and stood beside us.


Key West was mostly spared. Big Pine is mostly gone. Everything in the middle is a mix. The 7 houses on this strip, only our house survived intact less one air conditioner. Our beautiful 100 year old hardwood forest is about gone. 12 foot tidal surge hit the lower Keys and Marathon. Nothing like this HERE since 1789 or there about according to the NOAH guy.


Since everything is sporadic, will close now. Lots of clean up, need supplies, for us now car survived. FEMA, the military and the best police force ( ours) in this country are all here helping, along will NGO groups. If you leave the Keys, you can not return until everything is back to 'normal'. Grocery and other supply trucks are arriving all the time. Post office and other carriers maybe running next week.


Will write again as soon as able.


Pass on to folks you know this info:

Tune into WWUS1.com radio to listen to what is going on. These guys were on 24 a day and kept everyone here sane and informed...all the rest left town.

DO NOT try to come here, there are no services yet to handle more people.

Keep calls to anymore here short, the cell is still in the mend.

Only one death from the storm...some ass in Key West went bike riding in the storm, fell over and drown in the street.



love to all...



B&G