OT: Wilma in Florida

I was thinking of doing the same with Gillian!

Cheryl

Thanks for doing that.

Are they overdramatising again? They said several DAYS on our News 24.

Pat P

Did she get home yet ? I thought they were spending time with kids first ?

Just checked their position, ignore the other post, they are in Polk. Oh dear!

It has regained speed, left Florida and is picking up more in the Gulf Stream and headed for us lol

She was supposed to be home last week I thought!

Depends on how many power lines and substations went down and where. It could take weeks. It could take days. They won't know until they get out and actually look at the damage. And in some cases, they'll need to clear the roads before they can assess the damage.

If a high voltage line got taken out, that has to be fixed before the power can be turned on. If a substation got flooded, that's got to be dried out and repaired before they can start running power through it. If the damage was mostly local distribution lines being taken out by high winds and falling trees, there's a lot of little fiddly repairs that have to be done.

(Besides, if they say 12 days to get power back and it takes 13 to get power back to everyone, people complain. A lot. If they say 14 days and take the same 13 days, people don't complain nearly as much.)

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I just tried 'phoning Lucille and there is no answer on her land line, but it sounds like it is ringing, but I really doubt it actually is.

I tried her cell 'phone and there is a very strict sounding message there from Lucille saying not to leave voice messages, so I didn't!

Hopefully she is simply out of power and it is nothing worse. Just when 99% of the last lot of damage was repaired and replaced.