Thanks to everyone for their concern, especially my Brother
@SWAdude Yeah, we got clobbered pretty good. We had that leading wall on us for hours in North Port/Port Charlotte (we're right on the border of the 2). It sure seemed like that fucker parked right on top of us. It was about 7 hours of heavy wind and rain. Our street was flooded up into our driveway. Think we got somewhere between 15-20" in that 7 hours. We specifically bought 5 miles inland from the nearest large boy (The Peace River) and not in a flood zone, we're at 26', and I was till worried about the massive rains. We have a brand new generator and a electrician buddy finally was able to come yesterday and hard wired it into the breaker box. I started with about 25 gallons of gas. When that's gone it's time to start robbing from our 30-40 gallons in the boat.
As far as water for the toilets we filled up the bathtub prior to the storm and when that's gone it will be pool water. As far as water we're on well water and septic so we need that power back for the well pump. Not sure if the storm does anything to the water table (our well) that we need to be thinking about?
Damage was blessedly minimal, roof damage (maybe a small leak and were trying to get it tarped) and lots of roof shingles in our yard. Tree branch fell on our car creasing the hood, storage shed got thrashed as well as a privacy trellis. the debris across our outside was epic, the empty lots around us, which looked like nice lush jungle, now looks like something from an Iwo Jima jungle after an artillery barrage. Amazingly our 18 year old pool cage survived, not one ripped screen. Just lost one support crossbar which fell into the pool, which also has lots of dirt in it.
God knows when we'll get power back but we're good on water for now. In the grand scheme of things we were very fortunate compared to others in the coastal areas that had the devastating surge. All we can do is praise God for protecting us.
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