All safe on the hilltop. A lot of trees and debris down in the area. Most are without power (we were only out 36 hours last year with Irma) but we didn't lose power this time. We were blessed....our younger son is with the county Fire/Rescue unit and he said our road was the only one that didn't lose power.
We had one large pecan tree go down, but it was dying and needed to come down anyway. The only thing it took out was an irrigation stub and a few limbs from the next tree over. We had one large limb come down between our house and shop and it just missed the sat dish, so no structure damage. There were a lot of near misses with fallen trees in the 4 x 4 mile block we live on. Entire trees just barely missing houses. There were a few trees on houses in the little town two miles down the road.
Compared to the FL panhandle we fared very well.
With a low barometric pressure recorded at 919 millibars, the measure of a hurricane's force, Michael ranked as the third-strongest storm on record to make landfall in the continental United States. Only Hurricane Camille on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1969 and the so-called Labor Day hurricane of 1935 in the Florida Keys were more intense.
The thing that hurt GA so badly was the forward ground speed of Michael. Because the forward momentum was faster than normal, it remained at hurricane strength well into GA. It was still a Cat 2 when it went through SW Georgia.
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