Hurricane Laura - August 2020

[MimosaMornings]

There are some that can be recharged with solar panels and/or a wind turbine. However, that just adds to the cost. I've heard, haven't confirmed it yet, that if you buy from one of our local battery stores, they'll let you recharge it during a storm at their store. Of course that is assuming their store is able to reopen.

I just really need to keep my phone and laptop charged for medical communication. The mini fridge would be a plus along with a small fan. I have no plan to do big appliances at all. I have a grill to cook food if I need it. I had to evacuate to Louisiana during Irma. One of the sneaky things our county does is, they drive around listening for generators. If someone on your street has one, your street gets put at the bottom of the list for power repair.

I've watched this video a few times. I think it might work for my needs.

Holy smokes! They drove around to listen for generators? My County is huge and the flooding took a few weeks to recede, so there was no way for them to check after Hurricane Harvey. Just sent in out of state crews to assist. So glad to see them! That’s terrible your county did that!

 

[Warwick1991]

I was considering one of the battery generators for my own use, because I live in a condominium that has no room for a generator outdoors. The battery types are fairly heavy, and after considering one for a while, I decided not to get it. The ones I was looking at had wheels. I do have smaller backups for electronics, though.

 

[zecats]

The remnants are passing through my area now in South Jersey. The rains are monsoon like. Imagine this storm at its fullest. Yikes!

 

[PayrollNerd]

Holy smokes! They drove around to listen for generators? My County is huge and the flooding took a few weeks to recede, so there was no way for them to check after Hurricane Harvey. Just sent in out of state crews to assist. So glad to see them! That’s terrible your county did that!

Yeah and the family that had the generator, not one time offered to help anyone else on the street. They were the biggest jerks. My brother stayed with my elderly mother. They didn’t have power for 5 days. That crazy neighbor came over and pounded on my mothers door yelling at her because our side of the street got power a day before her.

My brother is the one who caught the county driving by early in the morning with their truck windows down. So he told the neighbor exactly how they ruined it, so to speak, for their street.

 

[PayrollNerd]

I was considering one of the battery generators for my own use, because I live in a condominium that has no room for a generator outdoors. The battery types are fairly heavy, and after considering one for a while, I decided not to get it. The ones I was looking at had wheels. I do have smaller backups for electronics, though.

Yeah they’re wicked heavy and I’d have to tie it to my rolling dolly. I do have 2 little cell phone portable chargers. But I tested them last week and they don't fully charge my iPhone 8, let alone my iPad Mini. My laptop battery literally croaked and the new one just arrived. I’m installing it today. That should help considerably. I’m going to keep researching. If anyone on here has any recommendations I’m all ears.

 

[PayrollNerd]

The remnants are passing through my area now in South Jersey. The rains are monsoon like. Imagine this storm at its fullest. Yikes!

Stay safe& dry!!

Remnants of Hurricane Laura soak several states after lashing Louisiana-Texas coastline

 

[zecats]

Stay safe& dry!!

Remnants of Hurricane Laura soak several states after lashing Louisiana-Texas coastline

Thank you. We have more tree limbs down in the yard and one on the deck due to heavy soaking. Basement also a bit flooded. Could be worse so I'll only whine a tiny bit.

 

[CSIDreamer]

Yeah they’re wicked heavy and I’d have to tie it to my rolling dolly. I do have 2 little cell phone portable chargers. But I tested them last week and they don't fully charge my iPhone 8, let alone my iPad Mini. My laptop battery literally croaked and the new one just arrived. I’m installing it today. That should help considerably. I’m going to keep researching. If anyone on here has any recommendations I’m all ears.

I have a huge battery pack. I'll see if I can find it online for you to look at.

I've got one of these. I can charge forever with this baby. I use it for my Samsung phone when I need it, work tablet, and work scanner.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N3TVRP...P2&ie=UTF8&linkCode=as2&sr=1-10&tag=ianker-20

 

[PayrollNerd]

I’m glad to see the accuracy increasing. Now if we can just convince people evacuate timely.

Hurricane Laura predictions more accurate with better modeling, faster computers

On Aug. 25, the National Hurricane Center classified the tropical storm Laura as a hurricane, and later announced that it might rapidly intensify over the next 24 hours. On Aug. 26, just 15 hours after that announcement, that forecast came true: Laura was a Category 4.

In the early morning of Aug. 24, 2017, the tropical cyclone Harvey was upgraded from a tropical depression to a tropical storm. Just five hours later, the National Hurricane Center announced Harvey would likely undergo rapid intensification before hitting land. This was also an accurate prediction: Harvey was classified a Category 4 hurricane just the next day. It became one of the most devastating natural disasters to hit the Gulf coast.

 

[FrostOwl]

To keep my phone, laptop, mini fridge powered quietly. I’m a cancer patient and will be in treatment forever. So I must have contact with my doctors.

This type generator can be charged by plugging it in, solar panels or by a car battery. This is an example but it’s too pricey for me.

electric generators - Google Shop

Here in Sweden small solar panels are used to get electricity at summer cottages, a friend installed one this summer at her cottage. I don't know how much she paid for it, but I found an ad for a firm selling all that's needed to run a small fridge (including the fridge) and more, from about $2,500, as well as a solar panel to run a cell phone and two lamps for $120.

Our local electricity company is building a solar park, and are selling shares, I plan to buy some, as it will lower my electricity bill.

 

[Deleted member 267032]

60 hurricane evacuees fight in downtown Austin, one woman shot and killed | KXAN Austin

Another hurricane casualty

 

[CSIDreamer]

60 hurricane evacuees fight in downtown Austin, one woman shot and killed | KXAN Austin

Another hurricane casualty

What in the literal world ?!?

 

[MimosaMornings]

60 hurricane evacuees fight in downtown Austin, one woman shot and killed | KXAN Austin

Another hurricane casualty

It began in the street with 50-60 people?
What in the world?

 

[LaLaw2000]

I am in North Louisiana and I can tell you that I have never been so thankful for electricity and water!

I live on the 8th floor of a building that lost electricity at the beginning of the storm. That meant no elevator. I walked down the 8 flights on Saturday and then back up. The elevators will not be fixed until in the morning (Monday).

Still in all, we were much more lucky than our friends/family in South Louisiana. I don't think there was a square inch of the state of Louisiana that didn't have damage of some kind.

Hope all is well with everyone.

 

[LaLaw2000]

Those 50 or 60 evacuee's in Austin should just be thankful to be alive instead of fighting. It's so hard to believe that some people actually act like that.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Since Laura began, I subscribed to some of the storm chasers. These guys are either scientists as the ones we shared during the storm, or others. I never knew of all of the storms across the US every day that seems to be happening.

This was one tornado from today that was filmed. WHOA

 

[CSIDreamer]

Mosquitoes are killing livestock.

Thick clouds of mosquitoes kill livestock after Hurricane Laura | whas11.com

 

[mickey2942]

Hurricane season peaks today, and the Hurricane Center is watching 7 systems - CNN

This isn't good.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Remember the fire during Laura, the same company has another fire at their plant in Conyers GA. Interstate shut down.

Chemical fire at BioLab Conyers | 13wmaz.com

Chemical fire at BioLab Conyers | 13wmaz.com

Crews working fire at bio lab in Conyers, I-20 shut down

 

[CSIDreamer]

Remember the fire during Laura, the same company has another fire at their plant in Conyers GA. Interstate shut down.

Chemical fire at BioLab Conyers | 13wmaz.com

Chemical fire at BioLab Conyers | 13wmaz.com

Crews working fire at bio lab in Conyers, I-20 shut down

Thats not good.