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Florida Take Care - Hurricane Ian

Fl Canopy Stalker said:
They just issued state of emergency and we were told we will be working storm assignments effective tomorrow at noon. The negative, my wife and my cruise will be cancelled, the positive is all the money we make working storms :hearteyes:
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Be careful and stay safe. Hate to see you guys out in those winds. Is it possible to ground yourself so people backfeeding there home with a generator can't send the surge through the line if they forget to shut off there main?
 
This is when all the neighbors who have never spoken to u ever, become real friendly....word spreads quick when u have climbing safety stuff. I've helped my friendly neighbors cut limbs with my saddle gear in the past. If u are neighborly year round I'll be happy to help....but the 1s who aren't friendly better bring some cash or barter/trades.....my "favorite" parts of the storms is the next morning when u wake up and go survey damage and bust out the chainsaw, pile debris, help who u wanna help, and then go driving around....

It's a little gusty here currently but u can feel it in the air that it's coming. I'll be at work until the power goes out or my parents show up from being evacuated..schools are closed. I can't remember what the required windspeed has to be for them to close the bridges but u can't go anywhere around here when they shut down the bridges.

Supposed to be hunting fri-sun....we see how that goes. Friday probably gonna be a bust but Saturday Sunday should be good weather as the swirler moves off.

I heard from multiple people with a good number of them being old timer Florida hunters that just before and just after the hurricane is the best chances of seeing big mature bucks on they feet in the day time.
 
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Had numerous tornado warnings go off on the phone overnight and have had about 9 inches of rain since it started raining pretty nonstop Monday afternoon. Fortunately we were a little on the dry side and had some capacity, but I am pretty much surrounded now by standing water. Winds steady in the 30s and highest local gust I've heard of is 58 in northeastern PB County. I feel for those in SW FL that are gonna see the 160ish sustained and 180+gusts with 15ft plus surge.... Many people/places in those areas won't recover financially or environmentally in a generation....
 
Bowtie747 said:
So they send you around building banks and stuff? I’m from Ohio and I haven’t heard of just a transformer guy! Sounds like a good job bub!
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Something like that. We do mostly parallels, testing and refurbs for overhead transformers. At our company about 40% of the grid is now underground. There are specialist for the underground systems, overhead only guys, substation techs, a department for transformers, and a department that only works on the relay and protection system stuff.
We don’t make as much as the line crews because of all their overtime (except during storms when all of us work 16 hour days) but we don’t have to work as hard as they do either, so I consider it a fair trade. I’ll give up 500 or 600 hours of OT for career and health longevity.
 
josh9284 said:
Be careful and stay safe. Hate to see you guys out in those winds. Is it possible to ground yourself so people backfeeding there home with a generator can't send the surge through the line if they forget to shut off there main?
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Depends. If they have a real certified generator, it will have a power disconnect (some of them are automated) but we test before we just start touching stuff so it’s fine.
 
Weldabeast said:
This is when all the neighbors who have never spoken to u ever, become real friendly....word spreads quick when u have climbing safety stuff. I've helped my friendly neighbors cut limbs with my saddle gear in the past. If u are neighborly year round I'll be happy to help....but the 1s who aren't friendly better bring some cash or barter/trades.....my "favorite" parts of the storms is the next morning when u wake up and go survey damage and bust out the chainsaw, pile debris, help who u wanna help, and then go driving around....

It's a little gusty here currently but u can feel it in the air that it's coming. I'll be at work until the power goes out or my parents show up from being evacuated..schools are closed. I can't remember what the required windspeed has to be for them to close the bridges but u can't go anywhere around here when they shut down the bridges.

Supposed to be hunting fri-sun....we see how that goes. Friday probably gonna be a bust but Saturday Sunday should be good weather as the swirler moves off.

I heard from multiple people with a good number of them being old timer Florida hunters that just before and just after the hurricane is the best chances of seeing big mature bucks on they feet in the day time.
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Sustained winds of 45 and they close the bridges
 
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