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The Weather Channel on TV showed a lot of damage to the Bend of Florida, heavy rain in Georgia and flooding as far as Asheville, NC. Several counties in FL had a mandatory evacuation. My grandson was in the Tampa area and left yesterday morning. Tied up in traffic and got home outside of Atlanta about midnight.
 
We're lucky.
Down in Sebastian, if not for the news, we wouldn't have known there was a hurricane.
Up at our farm in NW Marion County, no damage; just no power.
My daughter near Tampa lost power and said the storm was too close but they had no damage either.
 
Gregory, Weather Channel showed some flooding in downtown Asheville, NC.
We have high winds here in SE TN. Our power was off for about 90 minutes. So far, so good. Main concern is flooding as the Tennessee River watershed covers a lot of TN, NC, GA and VA. Will see what happens.
 
Woodchipper said:
Gregory, Weather Channel showed some flooding in downtown Asheville, NC.
We have high winds here in SE TN. Our power was off for about 90 minutes. So far, so good. Main concern is flooding as the Tennessee River watershed covers a lot of TN, NC, GA and VA. Will see what happens.
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Asheville is almost 3 hours from me and in the mountains. It's a lovely place, much kind centeral eastern Tennessee is a well. I love the pigeon forge area and travel there at least three times a year. One of my favorite spots in the area is Cades Cove. For anyone that has never been it's totally worth a visit.
 
The flooding was pretty bad in some areas of NC. It flowed down from the mountains toward the peidmont area. One section of interstate 40 completely eroded and the east bound lanes collapsed. There are quite a few trees down from what friends have posted on Facebook, but the storm seemed to break apart over our area and a line of nasty stuff went further to the east, with most of it still in the west part of the state. I hear that the lake Lure dam and another one in TN, were not expected to hold up through all the flooding. That could get ugly really fast. You can't stop mother nature when she unleashes her true powers.
 
sorcerertd said:
The flooding was pretty bad in some areas of NC. It flowed down from the mountains toward the peidmont area. One section of interstate 40 completely eroded and the east bound lanes collapsed. There are quite a few trees down from what friends have posted on Facebook, but the storm seemed to break apart over our area and a line of nasty stuff went further to the east, with most of it still in the west part of the state. I hear that the lake Lure dam and another one in TN, were not expected to hold up through all the flooding. That could get ugly really fast. You can't stop mother nature when she unleashes her true powers.
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Isn't that the truth. I'm south of you by about 45 minutes and the most we got were standard puddles in low areas. Good to know about 40 though, in headed to Gatlinburg for the craft show next weekend. Might have to find an alternate route.
 
GFHWoodWerks said:
Isn't that the truth. I'm south of you by about 45 minutes and the most we got were standard puddles in low areas. Good to know about 40 though, in headed to Gatlinburg for the craft show next weekend. Might have to find an alternate route.
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It sounds like that will be a challenge. Whichever alternate route you take will be super busy. NC seems to have gotten the worst of it, but the Gatlinburg area got hit pretty hard, too.
 
We made it fine here, some very strong winds and a lot of rain. Luckily, we are not in the flood zone as those near the Charlotte Harbor were devastated by the storm surge!! The city of Punta Gorda across the harbor from us and where our gallery and club house are, was totally under water from the storm surge. Lucky for us, the building is up on pilings above normal flood levels but others in the history park weren't as lucky :(
 
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