Debby is messing with my shooting time!

[JimD]

I live a little west of Columbia, SC. We started feeling impacts from tropical storm Debby last night and have had rain all day today. The coast of Georgia and South Carolina are getting far greater impacts and Florida was impacted by Debby when it was still a hurricane. I feel fortunate that we are only getting kind of fringe impacts of this storm. But they are still enough I haven't been able to shoot all day today and may not have a chance until Friday afternoon or evening. I may have to shoot the "know your limits" target some through the rain. I can do that from the back porch and stay relatively dry. Wind level is not taking down trees here but all the rain will saturate the soil raising the risk as this continues.

I look forward to the weather clearing so I can put out some targets. Or take the boat out and do a little fishing. But I can't really complain too much. I have electricity and have other things to do - less enjoyable things but it could be a lot worse.

 

[rc4fun]

Stay well and safe

 

[RM100GUY]

Well...I had to evacuate Levy county Fla. for the 3rd time in 3 years. Not a good idea to stay in a singlewide with big high trees around it in a hurricane. We are building a house that will be rated to 140mph with a generator...not leavin' next year. Only took a Theoben sporter SLR 88 and my Steyr Pro X with me..priorities...Our place came through the storm ok even the new construction framing, they put the trusses on today...gowin' home tomorrow and do some shooting myself! I

 

[Rizz01]

I truly "feel for you" JimD.
Shooting is the only thing that truly interests me nowadays.

 

[maxtrouble]

@JimD - Sounds like the perfect opportunity to consider an indoor range! A long hallway or basement is perfect. A cardboard box and some old jeans are a great starter backstop. The P17 is the king of entry level pistols but the rabbit hole is deep!

 

[Peashooter]

While a big fan of extreme weather, i am also sort of glad Denmark are Smallville so tornadoes ASO not really something we see here.
Storms though can get big but houses here most often deal with that, but loose things can go flying, and forrests can get blown over.

Whine wood frame houses are rare here, i am pretty sure the stuff we have here would not kine a proper tornado, the roof tiles here i am sure would become really nasty projectiles

 

[JimD]

I grew up in Kansas which is kind of in "tornado alley". The sirens would go off multiple times a year. We lived in a small house over a crawl space. So there was nowhere to go and be safer than staying put. So I learned to sleep through the sirens. Tornados are very different from hurricanes in the area they affect. A tornado may totally destroy one house and leave the adjacent houses pretty much unaffected. If you are in the affected house, you could be injured but often people survive just fine. A hurricane affects a path at least tens of miles across so a much larger area. Fortunately Debby was only a hurricane briefly and is just a tropical storm at the moment. Evacuation if you are in the path of a hurricane is a good idea. Going to a basement if the tornado sirens go off is a good thing too but if you don't have a basement, being on the first floor of hopefully an interior room is about all you can do. But it usually works out fine.

Years ago when I shopped for a potential first home in Orlando Fl the only houses in our price range had concrete block walls, sometimes covered in brick or stone but more commonly stucco. I think that was more because of termites than the weather, however. We get a hard freeze in the winter in SC so termites are less of an issue but still a risk. Almost all houses are wood framed here and roofs are done lots of different ways but asphalt shingles are about the cheapest so the most typical. I think they are damaged more easily in high winds than clay tiles. We have red clay tile roofs but they cost more so they are more rare.

It stopped raining for a bit this morning so I got the yard mowed. The grass was wet but it really needed mowed so I did it. It's started raining again now and isn't supposed to stop much until sometime Friday. It has stayed quite windy so I did not try shooting. Mostly it's just windy and rainy because of Debby. Dreary but very survivable. Even on the coasts the news reports I've seen show limited flooding and not a ton of injuries.