Ike Aftermath
by Administrator on Sep.16, 2008, under General
It has been a fun few days. We’ve been keeping cool thanks to a cold front that came in Sunday. Unfortunately, we don’t have power, but have a few friends that got power yesterday (a hot shower is a great thing).
The hurricane itself was worse than I would have thought given how far we are from the coast. Power went out at the house around 1:30 AM. After that point, the only lights we had were from the glow of transformers popping around the neighborhood. They made an eerie sound close to what the monster in Cloverfield made. The hardest part of the storm didn’t hit until 4 AM. The odd thing was the power tried to come back on around then, but was browning out. I remember opening my eyes to see my digital alarm clock flickering (the ‘1′ would partially come up, then go out, then I’d see portions of the ‘12′ of ‘12:00′ pop up for a brief moment). I immediately ran (immediately in the sense of being groggy and sleep deprived) to the switch box in the garage to turn off the power to the house. I couldn’t see out of the front door to the cul-de-sac except for the slight glow from our neighbor’s front electric light flickering like a gas lamp. One thing I didn’t think about was the pressure difference between the outside and the house. I was pushed back the second I opened the door to the garage since it’s more open to the outside. Just walking to the breaker box was difficult with the wind curling around the garage doors.
The only other disconcerting effect of the hurricane was feeling the building shake from the more powerful gusts. In the future, we won’t be sleeping on the third floor during a hurricane. We took a quick look around once the wind started dieing down around 10 AM the next day. So far, there doesn’t appear to be any major damage to the house. There is a slight leak from inside the exhaust out of the AC. The cap probably came off in the high winds. If that’s the extent of the damage, I’m extremely happy though. We have running water that has been tested, food for quite some time, and friends that are kind enough to let us use their network access. Now we just need to get power restored to the homes in the surrounding area. We made out very lucky compared to other families.
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