I made it through the night.

I'm happy I just woke up and saw daylight.

@RasmaSandra — thankful you’re okay, too!!!

Glad that you're okay @RasmaSandra

I'm glad her home appears to have survived the storm, down trees and lack of power not withstanding of course. While many are anxious to return home, it'll be a slow road going. I've seen footage of flooded neighborhoods and literal chuncks of road washed away and missing.

@MarieCoyle In a lot of places it is. There's a neighbor on the ring app who's got a two month old, house is flooded and they have no power. Kid's on oxygen. I feel for them, but hopefully, the next storm they plan accordingly. I know us here in inland Daytona tend to be more relaxed when it comes to storms, because we typically don't get hit as hard. In my neighborhood we never saw more then tropical storm force winds. The beachside barely saw cat one winds. With those odds and numbers it's understandable that folks had a false sense of security. So many ignored multible warnings to seak shelter elseweare. And, that's what's truely heartbreaking. What adds to this, is when people who've left, aare posting asking about power being back. People who know that it could take hours or days, and other folks biting their heads off. It's tense here no matter what side of the fence you're on. We have a few spots that have high flooding, and we have areas that are unscathed. We run the risk of not getting help based on what's around us. I am thankful we're okay.

@kaylachan She said the damage they have seen so far is terrible and so heartbreaking.

@kaylachan Ah, must be like the scenes we see on the news .

@much2say The news can only show a fraction of the destruction and can't get every place hit. People who live this, know the true extent.

In South Daytona, where I used to live, deep water rescues were going on and people crossing streets in boats.

Always good to say.

@kaylachan

Sadly, there've been eight confirmed deaths across the state, two within my county. As rescue efforts continue and clean up begins, that could climb.

@anya12adwi Yes, but some chose to shelter in place and stay home. Myself included.

@kaylachan RIPs! Were people not evacuated??

No, my wi-fi is up-and-running. I switched to fiber internet, which is less prone to outage and damage. But I did get a text letting me know there was an outage in my area and it'll be repaired as oon as it's been deemed safe. Even if I'm not affected.

@somewitch Spectrum cut out once, and there are rolling outages for internet, too. I also recently decided to try wire3, and it never cut off. Got a text from them about rolling outages in the area, though. We also had power all night. Small mini surges when it would switch from grid to backup power. But we had it all night. First surge we had, I turned off the AC. It was cool enough I didn't need it.

@kaylachan Wow, that's awesome!

@kaylachan .......These extreme storms are so scary. We have fires here and that's about all. Different scary.

Thanks.

Thank you.

I knew people would be asking about me, eventually. Considering how I've activly been posting keeping folks in the know.

Thank you.

Same here.

Thanks.

@kaylachan welcome

We have a line of leaves right in front of our driveway, and that's about it as far as I can see. Looking out the windows of the house, I couldn't tell if our yard had anything. From what I can tell, trees are still standing. Some smaller ones might've fallen over in-between my fence and my neighbor's, but it looks like they were placed there. My one neighbor has his dumpster on its side.

Might have some stuff in the back yard, but doesn't look like it.

Thank you.