Severe Storm, morning of 1/17/2016 (Sarasota, Punta Gorda: living in, trailer, pool)

[wpc691]

Originally Posted by Tujuleez1

Gotta go now because I'm taking a row boat out on the Gulf. Should be fun.

What?!? Hope you're in a surf boat with 6 Australian lifeguards.

[Macgregorsailor51]

Originally Posted by wpc691

Lots of rain in PGI, but the wind somehow went around us - not a leaf out of place. Tide the highest I've seen since the TS 2 yrs ago, maybe 8 in from the top of the seawall before the wind turned around - it's now dropping very fast, must be screaming through Boca.

Our canal has dropped 8" so far.. as noted mine was around 18" from coming over..

[blare246]

Originally Posted by Travelassie

Can you contact some of your neighbors in Deep Creek to see how things fared there?.

We got hold of friends who drove over. No major damage....just one panel from our screen cage came off and a bunch of potted plants tipped over. They righted the plants (no damage to them). Guess we'll have to get someone out to fix the panel since it's on the roof. We aren't overly concerned about that. We just feel lucky that we decided to put up our hurricane shutters including the one that covers the lanai.

[Restrain]

News says we had a 7' storm tide down at Naples, figure similar up here. Heard the storm to over, relocated the Bimini top on my boat, but otherwise just some limbs down in the area, one short outage. Lot more damage south towards PG.

[Travelassie]

Originally Posted by Restrain

News says we had a 7' storm tide down at Naples, figure similar up here. Heard the storm to over, relocated the Bimini top on my boat, but otherwise just some limbs down in the area, one short outage. Lot more damage south towards PG.

And north into Sarasota and Manatee counties.

Two dead after tornadoes in Tampa area - NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral & Naples, Florida

[MikeM8560]

I keep my cell on a charger deck by my bed around 4 am a tornado warning sounded and was like a alarm clock. I awoke to my 2 dogs in my face scared. just some big fronds blew down and 2 buahes leNED OVER. I went down by rthe beach and the houses dight on the harbow had pool cages down and the house with all the yellow Adirondack chairs must have lost some as I saw a boat come in wth one they pulled out of the water I saw some blown apart canvas on some boats at bayshore marine

[Travelassie]

Originally Posted by blare246

We got hold of friends who drove over. No major damage....just one panel from our screen cage came off and a bunch of potted plants tipped over. They righted the plants (no damage to them). Guess we'll have to get someone out to fix the panel since it's on the roof. We aren't overly concerned about that. We just feel lucky that we decided to put up our hurricane shutters including the one that covers the lanai.

That's got to be a relief, the missing screen cage panel nonwithstanding. If it's just the screen panel, it shouldn't be a major fix.

And who'da thunk those hurricane shutters would come in handy in January!

[blare246]

Originally Posted by Travelassie

That's got to be a relief, the missing screen cage panel nonwithstanding. If it's just the screen panel, it shouldn't be a major fix.

And who'da thunk those hurricane shutters would come in handy in January!

I think we were lucky all-around. We were debating whether or not to put the shutters on, and finally decided "why not?" since we planned on being gone for a few weeks. I'm really glad we did!

On a side note...it's been snowing here all day. It's cold. We have the fireplace going. I really miss PG right now!

[Messing About]

What a 12 hour period! Been cleaning up here all day. Never even saw myself on the news but glad to read on here I didn't embarrass myself. I had every intention of doing a bunch of pictures around here but quickly realized I had not time to fool around.

I had been awake til 1, thanks to that thrilling finish in the Cardinals game. Our weather radio alerted me awake at about 3:30 AM with the tornado warning for PC NP and I'm right near the border. I got busy closing all of the windows and checking the locking in all of the slider doors. The big event happened at exactly 4:39, marked by my security cams. The review looks like a bomb blast.

My neighbor to the South took the worst. He lost his 4x4 Dock light, boat lift cover canvas (I didn't lose a bungee), a carport awning on his second lot, a pine tree, a huge oak tree, part of which landed half on my dock, half in the canal, and he lost all of his rain gutters.

I lost 2 beams in my new pool cage, some soffit panels, a chair off my dock, had plant and dirt debris tattooed on all south facing walls, a large bottle brush tree down and found a ton of crap strew across my property. Was very lucky my boat didn't turn over in the driveway. At the moment of the event, was very thankful we'd upgraded our doors and windows to be impact resistant. Sort of feel like every room is a safe room at my house.

Here's some video from my security cams. One is every camera together, the second is the boat cam, zoomed in.

http://youtu.be/b7amVE-GWCI

http://youtu.be/E7EU4CUk6ig

[wpc691]

Originally Posted by Messing About

What a 12 hour period! Been cleaning up here all day. Never even saw myself on the news but glad to read on here I didn't embarrass myself. I had every intention of doing a bunch of pictures around here but quickly realized I had not time to fool around.

I had been awake til 1, thanks to that thrilling finish in the Cardinals game. Our weather radio alerted me awake at about 3:30 AM with the tornado warning for PC NP and I'm right near the border. I got busy closing all of the windows and checking the locking in all of the slider doors. The big event happened at exactly 4:39, marked by my security cams. The review looks like a bomb blast.

My neighbor to the South took the worst. He lost his 4x4 Dock light, boat lift cover canvas (I didn't lose a bungee), a carport awning on his second lot, a pine tree, a huge oak tree, part of which landed half on my dock, half in the canal, and he lost all of his rain gutters.

I lost 2 beams in my new pool cage, some soffit panels, a chair off my dock, had plant and dirt debris tattooed on all south facing walls, a large bottle brush tree down and found a ton of crap strew across my property. Was very lucky my boat didn't turn over in the driveway. At the moment of the event, was very thankful we'd upgraded our doors and windows to be impact resistant. Sort of feel like every room is a safe room at my house.

Here's some video from my security cams. One is every camera together, the second is the boat cam, zoomed in.

http://youtu.be/b7amVE-GWCI

http://youtu.be/E7EU4CUk6ig

Wow - great footage. You guys dodged a bullet.