#3749 Postby zeehag » Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:57 am
a friend was in eta in his catamaran with his cat..sunny is a cat, btw....this is his report...no no pix....sorry. location is key largo, in mangroves in a marina...
Catptain Sunny is at The End Of The World.
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Ok folks. Hurricane status update; We are going to survive, but damages are devastating, huge surge, my trailer and truck are under water. Probably a loss of both and everything in them, which is alot. Storm surge is about 5 feet, almost as bad as Irma. Winds are about 75 mph with gusts maybe to 90, which isn't completely awful since we tied off well, but its quite noisy and bumpy. The meter box for my whole dock went under water and burned up, probably no electricity for a few weeks at least, but it was three months without power after Irma tho. We have generators to break out after storm tho. Im running on inverter for a few minutes to power phone signal booster to post this update. Then im shutting down fur the night to save power. My freezer was up on a bench in tikihut but it wasn't high enough, so that is toast probably. There's hundreds of dollars of food in there we will have to distribute in couple of days. My skiff floated off trailer but is tied to tikihut so it won't go too far. Other boats on trailers around marina are floating around, so is the dumpster. Looks like we lost a house boat off another dock. There will be several more boats lost, my late afternoon walk revealed half the boats in here did not prepare at all. My storage trailer was up on blocks, but it wasn't enough, i actually went snorkelling with a bottle jack and managed to go side to side and get it up in two more cinder blocks and the water was coming as fast as i could jack, even in an outgoing tide. I added two more blocks but then the jack blew out before i could go for four. Oil all over me, sewage all over me, freezing my ass off, risky business in 50 mph winds, got it up three feet off ground, it wasn't enough. Damn there goes a bunch of tools, clothes, books, and a $8000 RO system probably. My new work van was up on blocks on higher ground by marina office, wasn't enough, it is probably toast also, last i looked it was up to the doors. Hopefully trailer doesn't blow right off the blocks. There are horrible metal sounding groaning noises, like docks tearing loose, and i can hear the distinct sound of crunching boats in the distance over the wind. Alarms going off.
ALL the storm models were wrong! It didn't turn west. It wasn't just a tropical storm with 45 mph winds either, about twice as bad as they predicted. It hit middle Keys, and Key Largo where i am is getting the worst of it on north side of eyewall. Right now in fact. So much for turning West and missing me. That forecasting put a lot of folks at ease and they didn't prepare at all. Daylight will reveal quite a mess I think.
But on the bright side, we are not going to die, and the boats on our dock at least were well prepared, we all got together and spun our spider web of ropes on Saturday and are holding fast, its weird looking down at tops of pilings and the docks have disappeared, as has the whole of the island, completely under water, we are floating in a spider web in a mangrove forest. Sunny had a cold dinner and is actually sleeping through all this noise and bouncing around. He has been through a dozen hurricanes and is purrfectly confident in my preparation and used to the chaos. I however will not be sleeping so well tonight, and tomorrow is going to be a very long and disheartening day. Still, after seeing videos from friends in Honduras, we are blessed compared to them, still have my home..
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zeehag on Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:58 am, edited 1 time in total.
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