Destruction is coming right at you!
You better take cover or even better, get the hell away - as fast as you can.!
THAT WAS OCTOBER 2024!!

We knew it was coming - was following Milton for days it was just a matter of where the monster would decide to enter mainland Florida from the Gulf of Mexico. Sorry for Siesta Key area, that's where Milton made landfall and at least 24 people died and about 3.5 million homes lost power. This was just about one week after Hurricane Helen TOTALLY devastated the Tampa St.Pete area with NEVER seen storm surge.

Because of the way I designed and build the solar array with tracking East - West I designed it so it is easy to remove all panels when storm is approaching, so my wife and I toke all 20 panels down on October 8 and it tog us less then two hours. On the 10th at 2-3am when Milton passed through it was scary to see my neighbors big Oak tree - just to the North of my house (branch bending scary)  NO damage just lots and lots of broken branches on my roof and of course stuck in structure part of the panel stands. We lost power around 2am on the morning of Oct 10th and got the Duke power back on 14th, but because of my 14kWh battery power bank we always had power and I even strong an extension cord to one of my neighbors so thy could have power for there refrigerator, couple of lights and a fan. So after all the roof cleanup, we reinstalled all solar panels on the sunny afternoon Oct.10th. After this experience with NO power for four days I/we really saw the importance of solar power backup and not just that we could have continued our days for many more without Duke power, it was kind of fun.(We were surrounded by noisy power generators) and when started to get out I saw all the lines of people at the gas stations all caring gas canes. Now I love my solar system even more then ever before and it's not just for power backup.    

                  It's for every day use and keeping our electric bill to an absolute minimum.