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Good job on the install Bevan, and they look like they'll get the job done! I'm using the Whelen 900 series High Intensity 90° Gradient Opti-Scene lights, and considering they are 6,500 lumens each, I'm considering doing the same thing and putting mine on dimmers also. Since I'm also...

Did you have any problems installing the touch pad deadbolt lock? I'm thinking about doing the same thing, because my two entry doors are each missing an internal link, and I can't find replacements.

I paid $275.00 + $70.00 for shipping on eBay. The seller's name was 'wartimefinds', so search for him and you may find the same deal. Mine was brand new, and came with the heavy duty black carry bag. The 'corrosion spots' Bob is referring to were actually more like small rust stains with...

The problem with these jacks, especially for old men with bad backs, is the weight of it. Weight – 30M-HMMWV JACK - 53.4 lbs Weight – 30M-HVB Base Plate - 5.4 lbs Weight – 30M-HVC Carry Bag - 4.2 lbs Weight – 30M HVP & 30M-HV6 - 11.6 lbs For a total of 74.6 lbs. Try dragging that around in...

Hey Bob, I know where you can get another one of those HMMWV jacks, exactly like the one you have! :p

Sounds like it's time to round up a posse and go get your wheels!

Thank you! If anybody over there had internet or cell phones that worked, I would pass that on. I wish I could go over there and help, but my time has come and gone, and my old body just won't cooperate any longer.

Mexico Beach is totally destroyed. They even had a huge freight train consisting of 50 something cars that was pushed over on it's side. It's leaning on another train on the other side of it.

From the pictures and videos I've seen so far it looks like Mexico Beach, which was on the east (bad) side of the eye, doesn't exist any longer. It looks like total destruction. Right now, the death toll stands at 1 in the USA and was the gentleman who was killed in Gadsden County, FL, when a...

Thanks Jim, I'm good and no damage here at all. Panama City Beach on the other hand, didn't fare so well...

The eye wall as Michael came ashore. This is what Mexico Beach looks like right now.

Yep, Tyndall was dead center. Wind at 155 mph with gust to 175 mph. 2 more mph and it would have been a Cat 5.

That's correct, but the nasty side is the east side of the storm, because it's turning counter-clockwise. It's just starting to make landfall now.

Good morning all! This pretty much shows the current situation. This storm is 155 miles wide and still moving North at 13 mph. Winds are 145 mph and increasing. If it gets up to 155 mph, it will be a Cat 5. It has turned to the NE just slightly and we're still waiting for the actual turn...

I wasn't talking about storms that hit Pensacola, but storms in general. Yes, Opal was pretty bad and we even have a beach named after it from where it made landfall.

Pensacola Beach still has a lot of the old cinder block houses built in the 50's, and since they are all ground level they always flood every time a hurricane hits us. People just go in with hoses and pressure washers and clean everything out and rebuild them. The insurance companies hate...

Oh yeah, and I do it every year to see if anything has changed. When you live here, that is one of the first things you want to know. I live 4 miles inland and North of the Inter-coastal Waterway (ICW) and I'm 33 ft. above sea level. However, I do have a bay that is 1.75 miles west of me. I...

Bob, it may be my imagination but I believe we have had more serious storms in the last five years than we've had in the last 20 years, so there may be something to that.

Thanks Ken! I have worked through every one we've had since 1969, so like I said not my first rodeo by any means, but you still take each one very seriously! If it tracks as predicted, we will get a lot of wind and rain tomorrow which will knock out power for days, and maybe some flooding...

For those following this storm, Hurricane Michael is a Cat 3 now, with 120 mph winds. It is expected to make landfall with 125 mph winds. If it goes up 5 more mph, it will be a Cat 4. This storm is right at 500 miles in diameter and is going to cause destruction inland as far as North and South...