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
>
>
> On 10/9/2016 11:33 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>
>> Great news. I've been through the power outage thing, but it was during
>> an ice storm.
>>
>> Are you within 3 miles of the beach? It appears that the storm made
>> landfall not far from you.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>> On 10/9/2016 9:55 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>
>>> We were without power for about 32 hours the last 2 days. But we are
>>> otherwise unscathed.
>>>
>>> Chuck
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/9/2016 11:35 AM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>
>>>> Chuck, if you have power and internet, drop us a note as to how you and
>>>> your wife are faring. I've been concerned about you.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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