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Florida members update

[greywolf]

Everything's fine here, the worst of the hurricane will miss us, as long as it turns more north, like it's supposed too. If Frances keeps going west, we'll get a direct hit. Still have power and phones or I wouldn't be up at 3am posting this. I'd be up at 3am sitting in the dark.

The weather people are saying our worst time will be later today, lots of wind and rain. But we are on the south side which is the best side to be on in a major storm.


I hope all of the floridians are well and safe.

[bill]

It's actually relatively mild, but I think you can almost surf on my little lake.

I'll let you know how that works out.

[enaxor]

Glad to hear that you all are doing okay. You're in my thoughts. Stay safe.

[grumpyboy]

Yeah, stay safe everyone. Hope everything works out OK.

[joebrent]

If you can, now is the best time to take one of those airboat tours on the Okeechobee, or a kayak trip on the Okefenokee. After a big storm like this, the swamps are really beautiful.

[MageSteff]

I never ever want to go through something like that again.

Frances was the slowest moving storm Evah! She pounded Palm Beach and parts north for over a day, most hurricanes I have experienced were usually here and past within 12 hours or less. It is more than a week after the storm, there are still people without power, still massive piles of tree and other debris piled at the curb, still more trees that need to be cut down or trimmed.

As for me, our house took a pounding but survived intact with all its shingles. Most of the surrounding area there are a lot of houses missing anywhere from a few shingles to the whole roof.

Power: went out Friday night, came back on Sunday night, went back out monday morning as more transformers blew. We were without power until Thursday evening. There are still pockets in Palm Beach that are without power, and a good many in other couties as well.

Telephones: our next door neighbor lost his after the storm while he tried to trim the trees. That is the one small thing I a thankful for, our telephene stayed connected, but my brother's cellular had problems finding a tower to connect with.

Water: we had a couple of line breaks in the town we get ours from so were on boil water until Friday. Thank goodness we filled as many bottles as we did before the storm.

Food: we had lots of little things to eat, but we had to toss a lot of things in the freezer (meat, fish etc.) on Tuesday as things were defrosted. We had lots of cereal, ramen noodles, etc. so we didn't starve.

Ice was a premium after the storm, even after the supermarkets were opening up, at first they only had non perishable things (canned goods, cereal) no bread, no fozen foods (no power either), no dairy. Even after they had their power restored, ice was confisated for the emergency and handed out by the red cross and others at distribution points.

We still have most of the hurricane shutters over our windows, at first that was due to Ivan. In the area, only about 30% have taken down their shutters, and even most of these have left the coverings near the windows just in case. Jeanne is looking like it may come this way.

[MageSteff]

Second Verse Same As the First

[greywolf]

Glad to hear that you're ok, same here. Just alot of wind damage, we got hardly any rain, what's flooding now is the sheet flow. I was really worried when they finally said that it was coming in the same place as Frances, I know we couldn't have taken another hit so soon after Charley. Just be careful, everyone over here is totally storm-weary and tempers tend to flare.