I'm OK. Weakened to a TS before hitting us. Lots of rain and flooding, unfortunately.
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Power went out early in the storm. Came back on for a bit and then went off again an hour later. Still off now. Using battery backed up everything. If still off when the sun comes up we'll start the generator.
Wind still gusting but not as much. Rain still pouring and roads have closed due to flooding. The flooding is pretty bad and will be worse by morning. We are on high ground but must cross the bayou to get anywhere, so...we'll see.
Thankfully it is a lot cooler now than it was back in August for Laura. Cool inside the house.
Neighbor lost his fence early on. It was damaged by Laura and not repaired yet. Delta finished it off. Some of it landed at the back of my property but most of it landed on the railroad tracks.
Same idiots who didn't secure their trash cans last time will be looking for them again tomorrow.
We have a shed for ours. Open on one side but we secured them to the cement pad with bungee cords. The pad was poured with hooks embedded for this purpose.
No bad damage as far as we can tell using flashlights. Tree limbs down in yard, along with assorted debris.
Some kind of animal, a few of them by the sounds they are making, has gotten into the storage buildings. Probably looking for safety. We'll worry about what they're up to tomorrow. The vents at the top sides of the buildings are easily pushed in, I guess. I hope the animals are OK. The vents can be replaced. I'll open the doors so they can get out that way once the sun is up.
Hurricane season ends November 30th. Thrill. Thrill.
Everyone in the house is sleeping, except me. I'm the type that needs to wind down. Everyone else is out the second they hit the bed. Most annoying.
Thank you to everyone for their well wishes!
Solly
EDIT to add: Beautiful, blue sky day today. Got a nap in and then some chores. Animals were raccoons. Sassy and fat. Left when the door was opened. Power is still off but that's life. Generator running, so have power for the important things - coffee!
Thank you everyone!!
Solly
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But how sucky is it that you've been through enough to compare?
I'm a winder down kinda person too, so I totally get that. Try and get at least some sleep.
water this time.
I'm starting to get sleepy. Finally. Damn hubby rubbing it in by snoring. So are the dogs. All three dogs snore.
Glad to hear you and yours are ok. I am sorry for the grief you are going through, but I am glad you made it through. Please take care and try to get some sleep.
Hopefully we won't see much more activity.
Just another month in the season to go. Until next season...
You're a special kind of person to consider the critters at a time like this.
Glad to hear y'all are safe..
I also hope that all the people - and the animals - made it through okay. We're all hoping that this is the end of it and wishing for a calm day for you all tomorrow.
You've been on my mind all day. So glad you made it through the worst of it! I'm writing this two hours after you posted. Hoping you are getting a good night sleep!
You know the drill, keep an eye out for tornadoes! I am glad the storm petered out.
Beautiful blue sky day today. Low 80's. Got a lot of stuff done. Took a nap.
Have they announced when power will be up?
Let;s hope this is your last one for 2020
Fortunately Delta came in as a Cat 2 vs Laura's Cat 4, so the in relative terms, the winds weren't as tornadic-like as seen from Laura, although some of the chasers I was watching speculate there may have been some tornados or funnels that briefly ripped through some areas (there was quite a bit of roof sheet metal stripped from the mobile homes and other buildings in the Lake Charles area). Because the NWS Lake Charles Doppler Radar was destroyed by Laura, there was a "radar hole", and that radar might have been able to confirm "radar-indicated" tornadoes if it had been operational and if there had been any.
The other fortunate thing was that Delta was not meandering/drifting along, cutoff from some steering mechanism, like Laura or Sally (it was moving at a moderate clip and is currently moving at about 16 mph), so that somewhat mitigates the potential for the type of extreme/excessive rainfall that the earlier storms produced. However Delta did produce upwards of (and possibly beyond) 9 ft surge to the east of the eye, notably in Vermilion County (Freshwater City).
It still breaks my heart that as people were still trying to clean up from Laura just 6 weeks ago, in comes a new storm right near where Laura blew through. In many cases, they were set back to square one and in others, Delta probably "completed the destruction job".
We'll be getting some rain from Delta's remnants up here in Philly sometime Sunday night, through Monday, and into Tuesday morning.
I was grateful she weakened even more.
Like you said, there are people back to square one and some saw the rest of their home go this time around.
Looked healthy.
Thanks, Maeve
I actually did find my self wondering how you were faring before I went to sleep last night.
This is nice to see this first thing.
You do know that's because the combined mental thoughts and vibes sent out to the hurricane gods by the DU wizards, gave them a stern warning to do no harm to Solly Mack's family and surrounding areas. Would have stopped it completely, but unfortunately that's beyond our power.
I'm glad to hear that everyone is alright and that there wasn't a great deal of damage. Here's hoping that you finally got some sleep too.
Got a nap. Me and the fur-babies all cuddled together.
Glad you are on high ground too...floods suck.
They know it too.
to normal.
During the recovery phase, I kept having these nightmares where I was trapped with my dog in floodwaters on a highway, and the only way out of there was to walk tippy toe on a guard rail while holding my 30 pound dog in my hands straight up in the air as the water was up to my neck.
Good times! 
Things eventually got back to normal, and both of the dogs were fine.
I ran the dog out about an hour ago and almost took a header in the mud. And, of course, it was pouring.
Good times!