Prayer for Florida

[Kyle Wheeler]

Hello everyone! Been a member a few years and met a lot of great people on here. If we haven’t crossed paths yet I hope we do in the future.

Two weeks ago I was chasing bugling elk and now we are in the path of Ian.

We are in Fort Myers riding out the hurricane. Would appreciate prayers as I have two little ones and also for our neighbors and great state! We are trusting in God’s protection. Thanks everyone!

-Kyle

 

[Sherman]

Prayers heading your way. I work for a major utility in Colorado and may be heading your way for mutual aid to help restore power. Stay away from and be vigilant of downed power lines. Please be kind to the lineman out there. They will do everything they can to get the lights on safely.

 

[Kyle Wheeler]

Prayers heading your way. I work for a major utility in Colorado and may be heading your way for mutual aid to help restore power. Stay away from and be vigilant of downed power lines. Please be kind to the lineman out there. They will do everything they can to get the lights on safely.

You got it thank you for helping us out!!!

 

[Sherman]

Wife sent me this pic she saw. We haven’t got the call yet. Heard there are already 30,000+ linemen there.

 

[Hun10-freak]

Prayers sent, God bless!

 

[jdinville3]

Be safe down there, can't even imagine the chaos of the storm, let alone the people!

 

[Baddog]

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Wife sent me this pic she saw. We haven’t got the call yet. Heard there are already 30,000+ linemen there.

Curious why they don’t bury the majority of the utility wires in a place like Florida? Seems it’d be less trouble but I know nothing on the subject…

 

[jmez]

They are buried. You can't bury transformers and sub stations.

Sent from my moto g power (2021) using Tapatalk

 

[wind gypsy]

Curious why they don’t bury the majority of the utility wires in a place like Florida? Seems it’d be less trouble but I know nothing on the subject…

I'm sure a bunch of em are. The ones that aren't - cost and crossing agreements. Think of all the shit under ground in right of ways they'd have to cross if buried.

 

[HuntHarder]

Complex question, that in the end, comes down to $$$$. Ug utities still have plenty of outages, especially in areas of moisture and high heat. In the area I work in, we see as many or more ug outages than we do o/h, not counting storms. Storms, no doutedbly affect o/h more. Burying distribution lines is one thing, burying sub- transmission and transmission lines is another. In the end tho, it all comes back to $$$.

 

[go_deep]

Curious why they don’t bury the majority of the utility wires in a place like Florida? Seems it’d be less trouble but I know nothing on the subject…

You ever tried placing a ground transformer in a swamp?

 

[FLATHEAD]

Hope the OP is OK.

 

[Sherman]

Curious why they don’t bury the majority of the utility wires in a place like Florida? Seems it’d be less trouble but I know nothing on the subject…

Underground facilities are close to 3x more expensive than overhead.

 

[Kyle Wheeler]

Thank you everyone for the prayers and support. We are blessed and all well. Some family had house and car issues but everyone we know is healthy so we are so thankful. It’s devastating to see the community like this but there is going to be a lot of good that comes from this too I believe. The lineman are incredible we got power after 5 days and the last hurricane took over 9. Again thank you for the prayers and support.

-Kyle

 

[Kyle Wheeler]

Prayers heading your way. I work for a major utility in Colorado and may be heading your way for mutual aid to help restore power. Stay away from and be vigilant of downed power lines. Please be kind to the lineman out there. They will do everything they can to get the lights on safely.

Thank you again for your service! Very impressed with all the help we have down here

 

[Kyle Wheeler]

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Wife sent me this pic she saw. We haven’t got the call yet. Heard there are already 30,000+ linemen there.

You guys are amazing! If you’re in Fort Myers let me know I’ll stop by and bring food or something.

 

[Kyle Wheeler]

Prayers sent, God bless!

Thank you so much!

 

[Kyle Wheeler]

Be safe down there, can't even imagine the chaos of the storm, let alone the people!

Thank you! Yes the chaos after has been sad stealing and looting. We setup a neighborhood watch at the front until we got power. Really appreciate the support

 

[Kyle Wheeler]

Hope the OP is OK.

Thank you we are all good. Very blessed and thankful. Appreciate you!

 

[SWFLhntr]

Hoooweeee did we get smoked. So many friends and business associates lost everything. It’s so sad to see so much devastation.
My family is lucky to have not incurred any damage and we are all safe. We will help those that need it and re build. You can bet on that.