Official Tampa/St Petersburg Thread - Champa Bay

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  1. JGator1

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    Would love to get back tonight but if I don’t have power there’s no point.
     
  2. JGator1

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    Anyone have power? Still in Jacksonville, sounds like gas deliveries tonight will start easing things up on that front.
     
  3. CUgator

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    power came back on at my in laws in lutz for a solid 30 seconds today, and then went back off.

    apparently they’re now on a boil water notice too.
     
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  4. danny2430

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    Got power back like 30min ago in Lakewood Ranch
     
  5. JGator1

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    Back in south Tampa, unfortunately was unable stay any longer in Jax. Feels so weird it’s this dark, can only hear generators.
     
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  6. JGator1

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    Anyone in south Tampa with anything resembling power? For all Meatball Ron’s talk about the “50k lineman ready to go” the Teco map looks pretty bad, showing 421k outages and 229k in Tampa.
     
  7. MJH

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    It seems pretty random other than grocery stores and hardware store type places having power. I live in Citrus Park and like a mile away Westchase has power. My parents don’t have power in Carrolwood but there’s linemen in the area when I was going with them to get lunch.
     
  8. CUgator

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    was 540k yesterday.
     
  9. JGator1

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    Right and with the resources that were continuously bragged about like an army I didn’t expect to see virtually zero of them in south Tampa.
     
  10. Rock

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    they’re all over Tampa and Seminole heights today

    they’re everywhere
     
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  11. War Grundle

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    I lost power for 18 hours and just lost a few pool screen panels. No flooding.
     
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  12. MJH

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    I look up the TECO outage map every couple of hours to see what the number is. It says it’s updated every 5 minutes but not sure how accurate that is middle of the day compared to like 9:00 tonight. I don’t bother checking specific addresses anymore since there don’t seem to be updates to those or any estimates other than the estimates for the counties. Their CEO said they had to repair their infrastructure the last two days and they’ve been flooding residential areas today.
     
  13. Rock

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    It’s gone done almost 70k today

    South tampa, especially close to gandy is absolutely fucked. They have to rebuild the entire grid. They aren’t just fixing the lines or replacing transformers. It was all under water
     
  14. two

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    where’d you see that?

    luckily my power is back on I’m basically Dale Mabry and Gandy
     
  15. Rock

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    which part? The number? It’s actually gone down almost 10k since I posted https://outage.tecoenergy.com/mobile

    or having to rebuild? That’s coming from someone in TFD and people I know who had over a foot of water in their houses
     
  16. JGator1

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    Teco is lazer focused on outages in bumfuck parts. Why actually do work in South Tampa to possibly allow businesses to open or whatnot? Like I get that it’s fucked but feels like the dude in the group project shifting blame to everyone eise. Wild how those increased rates didn’t result in increased preparedness.
     
  17. Rock

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    this is some old school south Tampa elitism
     
  18. two

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    Water St has power haha
     
  19. Wendel Clark

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    Crazy part is my place in Indian Shores never lost power at all.
     
  20. Hank Scorpio

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    Well that explains it
     
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  21. Rock

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    Under 300k now

    the other side of the street has power. Currently enjoying a beer a independent and going to find a place to watch bucs

    might get a hotel tonight if we don’t have power by end of the game. Need a bed with cold a/c
     
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  22. Lawnole23

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    My buddy is right of Macdill near Palma Ceia CC and they just got power back this morning.
     
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  23. tigr2ndbase

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    Neighbor let us borrow their window AC unit. Entire family will be sleeping in one room tonight. Jigga i thought you would like this picture posted from the Venice Shark tooth page. Someone just pulled all those over the weekend. IMG_4917.jpeg
     
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  24. Rock

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    Looks like another night without power
     
  25. CUgator

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    Got ours back in carrollwood. We’ll see if it lasts. Got it back at 8ish yesterday and it went out at 2am
     
  26. Rock

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    Just came on!!!!
     
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  27. MJH

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    I am back up and running!
     
  28. JGator1

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    It wasn’t I’m just still shocked bars/Publix are still on generators at this point.
     
  29. DuffandMuff

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    Buddy is still out of power. Seminole heights.
     
  30. JGator1

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    Still out of power in South Tampa, other units in my building (like 1/3) somehow have power. Make it make sense.
     
  31. JGator1

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    According to Teco map I may be in business, gotta check after work.
     
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  32. JGator1

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    We are back to normal, hope I was the last one itt without power.
     
  33. JGator1

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    Everything I've heard about him has been positive and obviously he's done so much for the city and the Bolts

     
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  34. scuba

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    1.1% of his 1.8 billion. Nice.
     
  35. two

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    yes I’m sure the FT EEs are balking at their $50k bonus
     
  36. CUgator

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    Imagine the reaction to someone fresh out of college in ticket sales making $35k a year getting a $50k bonus. Went big and ordered Tito’s at Mac’s happy hour yesterday.
     
  37. scuba

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    They aren't and I'm not saying they should be, but it's still paltry. We're conditioned to tolerate this.
     
  38. Simon Templar

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    Considering he didn’t owe them anything it seems like a good deal
     
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  39. JGator1

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    I mean ultimately you're not wrong but comparatively for a billionaire he's as good as it gets. Bar is low as fuck but the Glazers sure as shit wouldn't do that. In terms of actual human interaction I also haven't heard a bad thing about Vinik (I completely understand your point and the general ethos).
     
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  40. CUgator

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    was my first thought when I saw it.
     
  41. JGator1

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    Have posted before I worked there during training camp a decade plus ago, it taking till like 2017 or whenever to build an indoor facility was nuts. After practice in the morning they did walkthroughs in afternoons, when it stormed (virtually every day late July/early August) said walkthroughs had to be done at the St Lawrence middle school gym just south of Hillsborough Ave. Best story (getting players to afternoon walkthrough) involved me trying to back a 16 passenger van into the loading dock at One Buc Place alongside another van. Once I got it backed in the players got on, in the rush I didn't switch from reverse to drive. Took my foot off the gas and the van jerked backward, I fucking slammed my foot on the break. Got everything copacetic, at that point the players laughed/pointed out Darelle Revis was in the van and how I needed to thank god and everything else he was ok or the whole city would hate me. Bucs sucked that year but I'm still very glad I didn't injure Darelle Revis.
     
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  42. Rock

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    Anyone in the city have their debris picked up yet? The map they set up and said would be updated daily hasn't updated in a week. Supposed to be picking up 7 days a week

    I know it’s a huge job, but doesn’t seem like their 90 day goal is going to happen
     
  43. Rock

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    Also, they are making it clear that they won’t pick up sections of trees grater than 100 lbs, but the subcontractors that cut up all the huge oaks up here just cut the limbs up and left some massive trunk sections on side of the road. Idk what’s going to happen there
     
  44. Hank Scorpio

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    I'm in Countryway (south of Westchase). Our yard debris was picked up on Tuesday.
     
  45. two

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    Played the Eagles this morning - fun lil track
     
  46. two

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    Anyone in real estate here? Super curious to see what impact these two storms have over the next 6 months
     
  47. Rock

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    that’s the county though, right?
     
  48. Hank Scorpio

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    Yes
     
  49. Lawnole23

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    My MIL is a pretty big real estate agent in Westchase area. She’s just as busy as always currently.
     
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  50. JGator1

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    In South Tampa area they picked up stuff today.

    Anyone pretending like they have an idea 6-12 months down the road isn't realistic.
     
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