Hurricane Irma

[Baymule]

We are working out a plan

Are y'all going to evacuate or hunker down?

 

[greybeard]

Definitely put up some water for the humans! LOL Probably the best cup of coffee I ever had was boiled over a fire in my granite ware roasting pan, in the backyard after hurricane Rita. I had spent the night at a Red Cross shelter and went home at 5 AM to get some sleep, the smell of that wonderful coffee wafted through the window, probably brought to me on the wings of a mosquito, it woke me up. I staggered outside in my PJ's, bleary eyed and gratefully accepted a cup of coffee that took 6 or 7 grown men to prepare.

Last thing I did before I got in the boat that morning was turn off the coleman stove and dump the coffee in what used to be a flowerbed.
One way or another, I'm gonna have coffee.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Are y'all going to evacuate or hunker down?

There would be no need for us to evacuate
Worse thing is we have downed trees and no power

 

[Mini Horses]

One way or another, I'm gonna have coffee.

ME TOO !

 

[Baymule]

Better go stock up on orange juice. I like the frozen kind, think I need to go shopping.

 

[OneFineAcre]

So the latest track is further west
All the way up the FL peninsula and into Eastern TN

 

[Baymule]

So the latest track is further west
All the way up the FL peninsula and into Eastern TN

That puts you on the dirty side, doesn't it? Hopefully it will lose a lot of it's strength as Irma goes inland.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Something else one can do in preparation is to close the valve on the propane tank, or natural gas at the meter.....if winds are roaring outside and raining, ya certainly don't need to have to be concerned about a fire or explosion from a damged tank or ruptured gas lines. Also, plan for anotber light source other than a flaming lamp.

 

[Mike CHS]

I've said it before but those storms are the reason I no longer live on the Florida Peninsula. This storm looks big enough to get most of the southeast U.S.

 

[Fullhousefarm]

So the latest track is further west
All the way up the FL peninsula and into Eastern TN

Yeah. Good for you and bad for me. It going up the coast was concerning for us, but I wasn't overly worried about catastrophic damage. Strait up the peninsula is bad for us just east of Tampa.

Our original thought last weekend was to take the 15 does in the trailer and go to Perry,GA. Give the bucks and horses the run of the buildings/ shelters/ farm. Then it switched east and that could have been a bad place to be so we decided to stay for sure. Now we are stuck here. It's really too late to pack and leave with the traffic.

We have food and water for us, a huge tank of water and tons of hay/feed for the animals, a generator that will run everything but our AC and a small one in the barn for my milk machine. (Haha. Priorities with 13 goats in milk this season) Two of our does are mostly dried up. Three have (huge) doelings on them so I can skip milking them if needed but I have 5 who need milked at least every 24 hours. Depending on where the storm goes we will decide where the goats are going. By biggest worry is a huge tree falling on the shelter. I may put some Nigerians in the milk room in large crates since it's not under a tree and it's way off the ground. I might anchor the trailer in the buck pen since it has the least secure shelters. I'm going to be a nervous wreck at night when I can't see what's happening. We aren't in an evacuation zone or an area that floods at all.

I think @OneFineAcre has my cell number.