Stay safe, jym626! Thinking of you and your family!
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You called it! When Jim Cantori with The Weather Channel planned to report from my parents’ hometown a few months ago, we knew to batten down the hatches!!
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We have a LOT of trees around our house and a dead one in a neighbor’s yard that they have been ignoring. I spent the morning taking everything off our deck (in the rain) and running errands for something I am co-hosting Saturday.
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Y’all be safe. We secured our furniture on the front and back porches and moved potted plants inside or to garage. I’m just crossing fingers for the furniture in our yard/firepit area. It’s too difficult to move.
After that, my biggest concern is being able to watch the UGA - Bama game Saturday night. Priorities!!! Hahaha
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you too
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My son is keeping an eye on Atlanta from New Orleans. It is usually me watching the weather near him, not the other way around!
I was able to make it to my Mohs procedure this morning, so that was good; they said they are closing by 4:00, so trying to get others in early. I have a haircut tomorrow; it always rains when I go, but never like this. Hopefully everyone has electricity and everything has passed before hand, otherwise I will do without.
I think I will treat myself to takeout tonight and save the peanut butter for tomorrow if needed.
Now my mother is calling and is sure the world is going to end. How is she going to eat, what will she do if the power goes off and there is no tv, without a radio, how will she know if there is a tornado? She lives in an independent living on the 3rd floor; there are plenty of people around, and while not the easiest for her, she could walk down the stairs. I have no idea if they have a generator, but she is going to find out.
Off to pretend like nothing is going to happen! Everyone stay safe. @jym626 and @DramaMama2021, something tells me we may all be posting here in the middle of the night when we can’t sleep!
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My son is a 2nd year grad student at FSU and not the type to plan ahead about much of anything. I restrained myself from my strong urge (we are not from a hurricane area and I’m a long time weather worrier) to keep updating him about the storm and how he should be prepping for it. I was so happy last night when he texted me that he had evacuated and was visiting friends, still in an area that should see some wind/rain but far from the Panhandle. I’m still thinking and worrying about everyone else in the path of the storm though. He has roommates/friends who didn’t evacuate.
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If we have power or cell service!!
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I can not remember the last time I lost cell service for more that an ATT issue for an hour or so, not weather related; of course my memory may be failing. Hope I won’t be biting my tongue for saying that out loud!
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We have a VERY large old oak VERY CLOSE to our house. We had branches trimmed a few months ago but still……. It’s very worrisome.
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Hopefully the roots will hold.
My aunt took my mother a weather radio as that is all she found wherever she stopped; not sure why she didn’t buy a regular AM/FM radio as I can not imagine anywhere that had a weather radio didn’t have an AM/FM. 
Actually, I am pretty sure her alarm clock has a radio; I will have to ask her when she get back to her room from dinner.
I also found out her building has a generator for the lobby, elevators and each hallway, just not the individual apartment. If she is really bored and doesn’t have power, she can go to her friends apartment or the lobby.
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According to one of the local stations earlier today, Helene was upgraded to a ‘dangerous, major’ Category 3 hurricane. Is there another kind of Cat 3 hurricane I am unaware of; isn’t that the purpose of grading them by category?
NOAA upgraded again to a Cat 4; looks like it’s going to be a long night.
Got home from the beach a couple hours ago and feverishly went into prep mode; furniture’s under the deck, mums are in, generators are ready and the boat’s tied with extra lines and bumpers. That’s all we can do for now; stay safe everyone and keep us updated 
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Worried about big limbs coming down on the house. Moved a bunch of stuff to the basement.
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Remember that snowstorm that hit the east coast in 2011 October? The cell towers were out for a week. So was internet and electricity. We had an old fashioned landline and were the only ones on our street with phone service.
Stay safe, everyone. I hope this does not cause too much damage in the path of this storm.
We will be arriving in Atlanta next Friday…
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We had a big snowstorm in Atlanta in 2014, called Snowmaggedon, but I don’t remember being without cell service. We also had/have a landline, but without power, it also doesn’t work as it is tied to the internet.
I thought I heard the tornado sirens about an hour ago, but once I turned the tv down, it stopped within a minute. Checked local news and nothing was showing; my phone also did not alert me, so either it was an error, or I am hearing things!
We currently are having pretty heavy rain with no sign of it letting up until after 10:00 tomorrow morning.
We have a regular land line…not one associated with internet or cable. It costs us not much. It’s a bundle with our DSL.
And because it always worked in any weather…we keep it. I know…it seems silly,but it works. We have one old princess phone that doesn’t use electricity and that’s in an office. Works all the time.
Anyway…hope you folks in the path of the storm don’t lose power for too long!
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@oldmom4896 your nephew is showing up in my X feed.
@thumper my daughter was in college during that storm. It was close to Halloween as I remember. The trees still had leaves on them, the snow created a huge mess.
Stay safe everyone. 
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