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To: Howlin

1500 active National Guard, and 5000 reserves called up to respond to state of emergency in Florida. 400 state law enforcement too. In Charlotte Co., the police dept is non-functional, fire departments--50% of them destroyed.


2,779 posted on 08/14/2004 9:13:00 AM PDT by NautiNurse ("I served in Viet Nam, and we have better hair"----John F'n Kerry campaign platform)
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To: NautiNurse
Here is a note from my son:

We came through fine here in DeLand. Couple of trees down, couple of traffic lights out, and I get the day off of work. Other than that we're business as usual really. Fort Myers, Punta Gordo and Port Charles got slammed pretty bad though, around 60 dead in Punta Gordo, so say a prayer for their families. Jenn's dad had trees come down all around his house and one or two on top of it, so we're waiting to hear from him again. We still haven't gotten word from Jenn's brother to see if they made it through ok. Keep us all in your prayers, thanks for the support guys!

Josh

2,780 posted on 08/14/2004 9:16:38 AM PDT by CFW
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