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  • Hurricane Helene

    From Mike Dippel@954:895/1 to All on Thursday, September 26, 2024 20:06:00
    We live in the Tampa area, and for the past 2 days we have gotten a lot of weather
    activity. Today, we experienced strong tropical force winds and a lot of rain bands
    coming through.

    It is still active now and all is well so far.

    Our home is probably 20 miles inland so storm surge is not really a concern for us,
    thank God.

    I run 2 BBS's, one of which I run from my home. Knock on wood, we have not lost
    power yet. That is unusual for Florida, but most of our power lines run underground.

    I hope to be able to hatch out the files tonight as usual. We will see if the power holds
    out.

    Mike Dippel
    https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelDippel

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  • From Mike Powell@954:895/54 to MIKE DIPPEL on Friday, September 27, 2024 08:51:00
    Our home is probably 20 miles inland so storm surge is not really a concern fo
    us, thank God.

    I run 2 BBS's, one of which I run from my home. Knock on wood, we have not lost
    power yet. That is unusual for Florida, but most of our power lines run underground.

    Glad to hear you are apparently mostly out of harms way. The winds have reached KY this morning. Power has threatened to go out a time or two but
    so far has stayed on. The eastern part of the state was getting a lot of
    rain before Helene even became a thing. They were already having some
    issues with mudslides. Hopefully, they don't have too many more issues now that the Helene rain is upon them.

    Mike P


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  • From Mike Dippel@954:895/1 to Mike Powell on Friday, September 27, 2024 14:20:38
    On 9/27/2024 8:56 AM, Mike Powell wrote to Mike Dippel:

    Our home is probably 20 miles inland so storm surge is not really a concern
    fo
    us, thank God.

    I run 2 BBS's, one of which I run from my home. Knock on wood, we have not
    lost
    power yet. That is unusual for Florida, but most of our power lines run underground.

    Glad to hear you are apparently mostly out of harms way. The winds have reached KY this morning. Power has threatened to go out a time or two but so far has stayed on. The eastern part of the state was getting a lot of rain before Helene even became a thing. They were already having some issues with mudslides. Hopefully, they don't have too many more issues now that the Helene rain is upon them.

    Mike P

    Effectively, this was just a wind and rain event for us with no power outage at all. Our
    electric company (TECO) recently replaced all of the power poles along our main street,
    and probably did some upgrades as well. Whatever they did seemed to work. This is
    the first time that a rainstorm didn't take us down at all.

    Today we got a little residual rain, but no much.

    Mike Dippel
    https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelDippel



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  • From Mickey@954:895/12 to Mike Dippel on Thursday, September 26, 2024 22:20:08
    On 26 Sep 2024, Mike Dippel exclaimed the following...

    I hope to be able to hatch out the files tonight as usual. We will see
    if the power holds
    out.


    Hope things went well, Mike. At this writing, I think you're still in the hurricane's sights.

    Mick Manning
    @ Mick's Place
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