Glad you are okay and your house is not too bad off. I lived in Calloway when I lived there. When we evacuated for Opal, I looked around the apartment complex I lived in, and found the tallest tree there. I took a wag at what direction the wind would hit from and parked my car under that tree. When I returned a week later, tree still standing, car undamaged. Not 100 feet from the drive that lead into my apartment complex, trees down, a couple through houses, shingles and sheet metal everywhere. Odd how some places got whacked while others, mere yards away stood unscathed.We got pretty lucky; lost three windows in the living room and master bedroom, no trees near our house. Damage from the windows and water coming in but nothing to make the house unlivable. Power came back on last night, so that was a pleasant surprise. Garage doors dented and banged up from a ton of shingles but both bikes survived just fine!
Haven't heard from the other navy base dude yet, hopefully he made it through fine!Glad you are okay and your house is not too bad off. I lived in Calloway when I lived there. When we evacuated for Opal, I looked around the apartment complex I lived in, and found the tallest tree there. I took a wag at what direction the wind would hit from and parked my car under that tree. When I returned a week later, tree still standing, car undamaged. Not 100 feet from the drive that lead into my apartment complex, trees down, a couple through houses, shingles and sheet metal everywhere. Odd how some places got whacked while others, mere yards away stood unscathed.
I worked about 5 minutes from Mexico Beach, but still on Tyndall.....the shop where I worked was destroyed inside. Storm surge ripped the roll up doors off, took everything on the windward side of the shop and piled it all up on the other. Tool boxes, paint lockers...jacks, jack stands....all of it. There was a water line about 6 ft up the walls. Anything bolted down was completely wrecked. Electric motors for compressors and lifts were filled with sea water. It was a mess. I was only back to work for a couple of weeks before I PCS'd out. I was kind of relieved as I didn't have to deal with the aftermath for long.
There was one other member here who also worked on the Navy base....have you heard from him or know if he's okay?.....sean
My apologies for not seeing this sooner.....I just got back from vacation and haven't been on the forum at all for a week or so.I'm here as well. Don't have service out at my place, so it requires a run into town to get on the interwebs. Being out on the east side of town (off John Pitts, past Harders Park), we were high and dry. But we caught the west side of the eye, and took the shifting high winds.
The house is coming along, and I'm being told that we will be back working in the Air Operations Center on Tyndall by 1 Jan. My understanding is that we will be one of the only units operating on Tyndall for a couple of years.
Attached is a picture of my house during the eye. You can see the eye wall behind my house (looking due west). My shed was tossed off it's foundation through the fence and into the woods. It was sitting on the fence, tipped back when it was all over. Inside looked like it went through the spin cycle.
I know a couple folks here who didn't have insurance and have unfortunately lost pretty much everything; house has to be torn down, everything inside pretty much soaked. The insurance companies are definitely lowballing a lot of folks here but I also know people who are getting pretty fair deals and those who aren't seem to pick up some once they involve a lawyer (too bad it has to come to that though!). Hopefully this is a once in a lifetime event here though. If it's not we've already decided we're moving if another one like this comes through here anytime soon.My wife is pushing me to not even get insurance because so many of them in Florida won’t pay after a hurricane anyway .
Haha yea, our house is about 11 months old, so our roof is pretty new but now we're looking at possibly a full new roof. At least insurance is covering it!The weather is changing. I used to figure that since we caught a bad one a few years ago, and the edge of one last year, that the law of averages was on our side. I believe in climate change and I think it’s going to be worse for us, especially those near the coast like you and I. I could use a new roof but I’m hoping a storm takes mine before I break down and have it done. My luck, a hurricane will take off my new roof right after I have it done.