Maybe your inventory will get blown away...

[Jon Tofte]

After banging up - ok power drilling up - shutters for two long hot days straight, I made a bachelor's hurricane supper for my two sons and me, grilling steaks on the last grill standing before I rolled it inside. You can see a couple other grills I also rolled into the house. Good thing my wife is with her family in South Carolina for her safety - and mine!

Here is a short lunch break picture of some of our wonderful maintenance team guys who have given it there all to keep our little community as safe as possible. We even had a group of community kids - some from the Sunday School class I teach - jump in to help wherever they could. They called themselves the "Hurricane Pit Crew!"

Weather is starting to change. We are already getting bands of rain and the wind is starting to blow:

 

[Bruce]

Hang on Jon. Good luck and prayers be with you and everyone else in the "cone".

 

[Greg M]

Praying you, your family, your community, and your grills stay safe.

 

[Chris in GA]

Stay safe Jon. Hope just passes by.

 

[Joan]

After banging up - ok power drilling up - shutters for two long hot days straight, I made a bachelor's hurricane supper for my two sons and me, grilling steaks on the last grill standing before I rolled it inside. You can see a couple other grills I also rolled into the house. Good thing my wife is with her family in South Carolina for her safety - and mine!

Jon, what a way for me to find out where Hobe Sound is. I'm in Boca. Hope God protects us all.

 

[Jason in CA]

Watching the news this morning on the west coast and they are reporting on the path. They are predicting the hurricane is going to turn and head north. Hoping it does sooner than later.

 

[Jon Tofte]

Flooding, but no wind or rain damage to speak of...

Thank you all for your concerns and prayers. Our little community and South Florida overall were spared the catastrophe that has devastated the Bahamas and Abacoa. We actually had minimal wind and rain. However, we are in something called "king tides" and that, combined with storm surge, resulted in flooding in the low-lying areas of our campground community. Water in some people's homes, unfortunately. We will be busy with a lot of clean-up, and our non-profit organization which runs our community (I am in charge of the grounds and finances) will undoubtedly be involved in relief efforts for our friends and even family members of students in our small college who live there.

Here is one street where our canal and the intracoastal waterway just overflowed the banks:

Some of our community kids found a way to have fun anyway!

p.s. Looks like all my grills, including my Skyline and projects survived. At the peak, I had four rolled into my house. Good thing my wife was out of state for more than one reason!

 

[Dan Leighton]

Jon:
Glad Dorian fortunately ended up as a drill in your area. Living on the RI shore all my life, I had never heard of King Tides until a vacation on Oahu a couple of years ago. At that point only industrial areas were flooding and some streets there. Based on the predicted sea level rise, I'm sure it will be a growing problem. Anyways, time to put the plywood away for another day and get back to grilling! Hopefully, those further north from you in GA and the Carolinas fare as well. Fingers crossed that the flooding isn't too bad for those folks.

 

[Greg M]

Glad to know you are safe.

 

[Rich Dahl]

Glad you folks didn't get hit to hard. Could have been a lot worse.

 

[Jon Tofte]

Yes, had we had winds topping 200 like the Bahamas, my grill inventory would be the least of my worries. We still have students and others here with family in the islands whom they have not heard from.