I am glad to hear she is safe.

Good to know.

There's an update on her FL house on the building a home forum here: http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/4838793/its-september-2017-how-is-your-build-progressing#20714023

Omg, her beautiful house! I so hope it makes it undamaged.

Barncatz, thank you for starting this thread, benjesbride thank you for letting us know she's safe. Isn't it something how we grow to care deeply about people we've never met?! cpartist has been such a great kitchen adviser, and therefore, friend, to so many, including myself.

cpartist, adding my good thoughts to the list. Stay safe!

Cpartist, I am thankful you are safe! Thanks for the update on here.

OM Gosh! This is the first I've seen of this thread and honestly, I feel so blessed. We truly do become online friends. Thank you all for your concern.

Truth is yesterday I couldn't peel my eyes away from the local news online and only went onto the building a home forum for relief.

(Yesterday, I also went shopping for new clothes and spent a fortune but that's another story.)

We are safely on Long Island right now. We left FL Labor Day weekend and we head back to FL for the winter on September 24th. :)

We dodged a huge bullet as the storm veered just east of us. We were first concerned about the strength of the storm. When it hit, it had been downgraded to a CAT 2. (Our house is supposedly built to weather a CAT 4 storm.) There are areas without power and lots of trees down, but very little other damage from the photos I've seen on the local news outlets. I'm hoping our roof survived as it only had the plywood and peel and stick weather stuff on it. Doors and windows are all hurricane rated.

Supposedly, we didn't even lose power but I'll know for sure tomorrow. Our rental in the condo building had no damage and definitely didn't lose power. (This is a good thing because the dog eats RAW and we left about 1 weeks worth of food in the freezer for her for when we get back to FL.)

Secondly we were concerned about storm surge as we are in Flood Zone A. (You'd think if we were in Zone A, the least we could have done is get a water view? No such luck! LOL)

Again we dodged a huge bullet. Because the storm winds came east to west, they wound up pushing the water in the Gulf and the Bay away from the shoreline. Even when the waters came back in (not like a Tsunami, but like any tide coming in), at most the storm surge was about 1' over what it should have been. They had been predicting 8-10' storm surge and our house is 11'3" above base flood elevation, so chances are we still would have been okay, but I'm sure glad we didn't have to test that theory.

I have not seen pictures of my house yet as everyone hightailed it out of Dodge and they were still asking people to stay off the roads today. Most of my friends are returning tomorrow, so hopefully then I can find out for sure how my house survived the storm.

I will definitely update once I know more. Thank you all again.

Here's hoping Joseph's house is okay.

Cpartist!!! It’s so wonderful to hear from you! Thank you for the full update (or as much as you know now). Sounds like you’ve dodged multiple bullets, and I’m hoping this remains true. Mostly I’m glad to hear you and yours are safe! Being relatively new here, I don’t know of all the GW’s who reside in FL, but my and DH’s thoughts are with everyone, and we hope all are safe, and stay safe.

Glad to hear you are okay. I've been wondering. Irma moved through Georgia yesterday. I kept power. Lots of downed trees, as we live in the forest.

Glad to hear your house was ok!!

Thank you all again.

My neighbors finally got home early this morning and this afternoon went over and checked out our house. House is completely dry and not even many branches or leaves down.

The crappiest thing? They brought the outhouse into our garage so it wouldn't get knocked over in the storm and I was told that now the smell is permeating the house since I don't have a door yet between the garage and the house. Ugh.

Seriously though, as I said, we dodged a bullet. Many others were as not lucky like we were. There is so much damage, not only here in the US but across the Caribbean and still in TX. Please donate to help those who need the help.

"the crappiest thing", pun intended? lol!

Glad all is well!

Yes it will.