Posted on 08/14/2004 4:14:41 PM PDT by summer
I meant to add, thanks for the FEMA number. I will get it to them as soon as we are back in telephone contact with them.
You're welcome, but do call FEMA for them. And, the link in my post #48 to the Salvation Army has specific Hurricane Charley info right on the homepage.
Good. :)
Thanks, oceanview.
their normal homeowners insurance policy should cover wind damage - there was no storm surge (flood) damage, I think their insurance will pay off.
All Floridians need to understand that it is only a matter of time until one is hit by a monster storm, and need to prepare accordingly.
Not having lived through a hurricane, or tornado, I just can't imagine the fright and devastation--not just to material possessions, of course....but members of your family, pictures, just everything for some, gone, gone. Very sad.
The State and the Feds obviously learned their lessons; they were a no show for days after Andrew.
Thanks for the info. Just so sorry for my elderly aunt and uncle, even with insurance etc. it's going to be so hard for them to live in a hotel or motel and be like refugees.. such good people, He was retired from one of the big Granite City Illinois steel plants and they were so uninformed of Florida hurricanes. But at least they had sense enough to evacuate.
My dear Aunt Marcia worked in a C-Rations factory in St. Louis during World War II and used to put notes in the C-Rations cans describing herself (with good reason)as a gorgeous 110-pound blonde and wrote to more lonely soldiers probably than anybody else during the war. She was and is a live wire.
I am thinking I should drive to Florida and give them a hand with whatever they need. anxiously awaiting news.
There are hundreds of people around the country who would load up a U-haul truck with chainsaws and generators and be in Florida tomorrow morning if they could make it financially worthwhile.
You can deplore this as greed and gouging all you like, but it is a fact as immutable as the law of gravity. Hats off to the Red Cross and other volunteers, but they will not make nearly as much difference to peoples' well being as some suitably compensated capitalists.
-ccm
Don't worry about your friends. I am sure they are just fine. My husband's daughter lives in Clearwater and they have been just fine throughout the whole thing. She only live a block from where they were making people evacuate. His ex-MIL did not fare as well in Ft. Meyer. She lost the roof to her home. Everyone is safe though and the roof can be replaced.
Prays for those who were not as lucky...
Thanks for your reassurances...I still haven't heard from my friend...but I will continue to pray she and her husband's family are okay.
Prayers, indeed, for all affected.
BTTT with prayers of thanksgiving that YOU'RE OK!!!!
Dear Summer,
Gatorman has NOT posted in FR for over four years ... just lurking ... YOU got me involved in fighting the left-wing libbies, here, in Gainesville . . . have NOT had the time to do much else . . .
However, so very glad to hear YOU are safe!
God Bless and Keep YOU and your FAMILY!
Gatorman
I'm not too keen on the Red Cross which appears to have become as corrupt as the United Way, but I'll make a donation to the Salvation Army. They have been squeaky clean, as far as I know, and I believe my dollars will go to help those in need.
Being without power is a real bummer, especially this time of year, but at least we still have roofs on our houses to keep everything dry while we wait for the lights to come back on, eh? $;-)
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