Davebones
Senior Member
- Location
- North Of Tampa Fl
Know a lot of damage was from Ian water surge . Has anyone seen how solar panels did in the high winds ?
Do they have some sort of public dashboard that clocks their power output? Or are you just commenting on non-solar infrastructure?One of the 'solar communities' that was developed in the last few years is still totally functional. It is just a few miles from Fort Meyers (?).
The roads were designed to flood and drain, not the homes. Imagine that. All utilities underground.
High end construction, not the manufactured housing that seems to be so prevalent in Florida.
I'm here, gad. We still don't have grid power at our house from Fiona and that was like three weeks ago, I think. They're just dogpoop slow and understaffed. There was a big turnover when PREPA (Puerto Rico Power Authrity) sold off the distribution and billing to LUMA, whoever the hell they are, and lots of line workers got laid off, some got rehired but they are way short of linemen. There were scads of linesman's bucket trucks here for months after María, but now their all gone wheh we sure could use them. And personell. While we have staggering unemployment here, they can't or won't get enough staff. There's massive line damage, poles blown down, lines in the streets, traffic lights work some places and not others, so you have to be extra careful driving. But stores are open, food is available, so is gas/diesel, the airports are open, life is going on. We hear all kinds of rumors about this guy took this or that guy didn't do that, or some other guys stole all the FEMA money they didn't use, and after a while you don't know what to believe except the power co is horrible and you need to have your own. . I saw some trucks working on a main road today but they quite a ways from our road. I'd say maybe in two more weeks we might have grid, but our Tesla has been working great if there's enough sun. We've actually had several days in a row of cloudy rainy afternoon and so our solar harvest was way down, and we wound up using our gen for a couple of hours, to preserve what battery we had, then switched back to the Tesla at night so it was quiet again. And prayed for sun the next day. So far, we've had to use the gen not even an oil change's worth, which it will get when the grid returns. I don't think it needs a valve adjustment yet. We've learned how to deal with the situation here instead of just bellyaching about it, as some do.Do they have some sort of public dashboard that clocks their power output? Or are you just commenting on non-solar infrastructure?
I wonder how PR did. Is caribconsultant in the house?
Just to finish my thought here, more and more people here are getting solar in some way shape or form, there is a flood of new vendors and some of the feedback I hear regarding many of these noobies is not good, they just want to sell it to you, finance and sell the loan to some bank, which gives a rat''s patooty about your solar system, and I think some people get shafted, often because they don't do any research at all, just plunge in and accept what's put in front of them, no questions asked because they don't know diddly about solar and so they can't make an intelligent question.I wonder how PR did. Is caribconsultant in the house?
If you are talking about Babcock Ranch then it's 30-40 miles from the ocean. It survived Ian very well but I doubt such communities would do nearly as well if they were much closer to the ocean. Perhaps it's a good model for regional storm shelter centers that people along the coast can quickly evacuate to on short notice instead of clogging up the highways.One of the 'solar communities' that was developed in the last few years is still totally functional. It is just a few miles from Fort Meyers (?).
The roads were designed to flood and drain, not the homes. Imagine that. All utilities underground.
High end construction, not the manufactured housing that seems to be so prevalent in Florida.
Yes, BR.If you are talking about Babcock Ranch then it's 30-40 miles from the ocean. It survived Ian very well but I doubt such communities would do nearly as well if they were much closer to the ocean. Perhaps it's a good model for regional storm shelter centers that people along the coast can quickly evacuate to on short notice instead of clogging up the highways.
Our situation is a bit different than Florida. First of all, we have mountains and hills and terrain, something Florida lacks. So rainfall here naturally flows towards the creeks and rivers, which often overflow their banks and create lakes all around, trees topple blocking roads, making many roads impassable. Not a lot can be done about that, the government has no concept of controlling the flow via dredging, dams, etc. But there is serious development all along the coastline, because that's where many want to live, like Florida, with views of the ocean and nice breezes. Unfortunately for them, there's really no serious storm drainage or sewer system to carry off all this water from the rain, and the water draining down the hill. So flooding is worse...since they are almost down to sea level, there's no way for the water to run off except really slowly. So that inhibits repair crews and we wind up stuck in a gridlock of flooding, vulnerable grid gear, and governmental corruption and inaction. We were granted almost 100 million in FEMA money for relief after María, that was 5 years ago, and most of that money never got spent. Where is it? Probably in the pockets of a few politicians.