Here comes another Hurricane

[Stan Disbrow]

Hi,

We ought to be at the edge of it here. Not another runs us over like last year. This one has a lot more wind. The last one was pretty calm but stalled and flooded everyone. Well, we shall see. Ought to be outta here by this time tomorrow. And, I gots me two crawler dozers so I ought to be able to clean up pretty good.

Stan

[Pat]

Disagree about Florence's winds, Stan. I'm 20 miles from the coast and lost 3 roofs from buildings and machine sheds. Have just finished the roof on the cow shed, and picked up the last downed pine trees. So am certainly not looking forward to Dorien.

[Stan Disbrow]

Hi,

Here in Lillington, which is 30 miles South of Raleigh, Florence didn't wind us at all. It didn't even flood us here more than usual. The Cape Fear river was four feet lower than Matthew. Eight feet lower than Fran. But, six miles downstream where the Upper and Lower River feed the Cape Fear, it was far more flooding than Fran. It all depends on one's exact location with these things.

So far, this one has quite a bit of wind, which is still with us. Dropping off now, and the rain has quit for now. I haven't been out to the rain gauge this morning, but it was only at 2.2" at 10 PM last night. So, I don't think this one has brought us as much rain as Florence did. Power cut off at 10:30 last night, and suddenly, so it had to be a tree coming down. I will get out shortly and see just what has happened.

Update: 2.7" in the end. One tall skinny tree down, and it was on our own spur power line. So, just the few places along this dead-end farm road out of power. There wasn't enough rain this far West to even think that the river will rise up. Of course, the further East toward the cost, the worse it was.

Stan