Irish wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 7:29 pm
Being without power sucks.
I'll never forget Hurricane Wilma....less than a year after we moved to SoFla....... 100 mph winds knocked out the power for 6 days .... thank God I was able to buy a generator off the back of a truck..... used it to power the fridge, a fan, a hot plate and lamps (not all at once) ......
PS That First year we lived there (2005), the state was hit with no less than 6 hurricanes (Including Katrina)......
Wilma was crazy. Funny thing about that year, we got hit from both bodies of water.... I remember being happy we had no school but then it slowly got worse because of the things you mentioned. We had a small generator and a power inverter that my dad hooked up to his Sprinter van.
Also a very fun story, we lived in these buildings called Meadowbrook. Nevertheless, they are basically a bunch of buildings that look identical to one another, and constructed in groups. Mostly full of olds, some of them are 55+ etc.
Well, my dad's spot was immediately outside of our apartment on the 1st floor, and the middle of the building had a sort of covered drop off area, like a hotel or hospital does. My dad's EMPTY sprinter van starts moving with the wind, eventually bumps very lightly into a neighbor's car, but the moment it cleared the parking space it was in, a piece of the roof from the drop off area blew right onto our spot. Legit filled our entire spot and hit the car parked in the spot over. I remember praying a lot while the van was moving, basically saying please keep the van safe so my dad can go to work after this.... I was sad it was getting moved, but when the roof fell on the spot, it would've crushed the rear of the van for sure... I definitely had a different spiritual and faith outlook during those moments... I know it was probably coincidental, but how much of a coincidence can that be??