Thank you. I'm originally from the east coast, and lived in FL, so I'm no stranger to hurricanes. My area of the Inland Empire is directly in the path - we are getting a lot of public emergency alerts. I battened down the hatches this evening (patio/pool stuff) and I am amazed that NONE of my neighbors have done anything. Several others are from the Northeast, so I'm kinda surprised. Then again many are RWNJs and preppers, so maybe their plan is to shoot at the storm in lieu of prepping?
I'm not the least bit worried. And as much as I despise Elon Musk, our solar system has 3 Tesla Powerwalls, and we already got notice from Tesla that we will be storing as much power as possible in the Powerwalls. I think it's unlikely our power will go out locally as we have underground utilities. The stored power is enough to power our refrigerator, water heater, and 1 of the 2 AC units for up to 3 days. And even on rainy days we absorb some light for power. And with all the winter storms, flooding was not an issue, so not too worried about that.
I will swing to the supermarket tomorrow, just for some foodstuffs I need - we are pretty well stocked here - pandemic hoarding habits that have not dissipated lol. I will also be curious to see what-all people buy here, because the east coast traditional storm shopping list is: bread, milk, eggs, toilet paper.
Also of note: hubby and I were supposed to go up to Pismo Beach this weekend, but my cousins we were going to visit all have COVID. We still needed a getaway, So we rebooked for Santa Barbara. Then found out about a rainy weekend and rebooked for Flagstaff. Then heard about the expected catastrophic flooding in the Coachella Valley and cancelled completely. We're going to wait til Tuesday to see where damage ends up and maybe make a plan for next weekend if we can.
We'll hunker down, but more for the fact that Californians really cannot drive in bad weather. Poor things, they just freak out and crash. Like bats in a thunderstorm.
Hope things don't get out of hand in AZ! Stay safe!
@Unk-P and everyone - last time a hurricane (technically a Pacific cyclone) hit SoCal was 1939. And BTW they are closing Disneyland!!! Inconceivable!!
Well, not only is S. California dealing with a tropical storm, they just had a 5.1 earthquake in Ojai which is near Santa Barbara!
The things you discover about nature
They have been named stormquakes and can get up to 3.5 on the richter scale
Regards to all
Idalia. Thoughts?
During our last RTFN August 2nd, most of us saw at least one or more damaging hurricanes. The Gulf Coast and Florida area as well as N. Carolina and the Smokey Mountain were areas we predicted would get a major hurricane impacts and/or major flooding events. This were predicted for September 2023.
Jeanne predicted a "record strengthening " hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico late August or Early September specifically.
Idalia is supposed to intensify rapidly.
I believe there likely will be multiple hurricane events in or around the month of September.
In other RTF nights over the past year, Florida was also mentioned as having hurricanes around this timeframe.
I'll give you all hurricane status reports as long as I have WiFi.
We are in the center of the predicted track, in North Florida. I'm not expecting any major effects -- since we are inland and not in a flood zone-- but there's always a good chance that a tree will fall on a power line and cut out the electrical power. But that is really not a big deal compared with what people on the coast have to cope with.