Posted on 08/17/2004 4:19:26 AM PDT by backhoe
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Hurricane aftermath big test for president
Finally, a writer who "gets it" regarding America & her citizens:
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Thanks, Backhoe.
I have been looking for any information, reports, and/or pictures of the aftermath/damage to Sannibel Island and Captiva without any luck.
If any one knows of a link please post it, thanks.
Bump!
I have been looking for any information, reports, and/or pictures of the aftermath/damage to Sannibel Island and Captiva without any luck.
I saw those pictures somewhere within the links I posted- hunt around, I can't recall which ones were the correct ones!
My Brother made it thru OK..
great smiley!
Click on the forum button on the main page (has a big red cross) and it will take you to a forum started by Sanibel/Captiva homeowners trying to get info, since they are not yet allowed on the island.
I'm glad to hear that, and have wondered how other members & their families in the affected areas fared.
Maybe we ought to start a "Sound off and report" post devoted to that.
( Fiddlestix was kind enough to provide a couple of smileys to replace the rather antiquated one I used to use. )
Lots of "survivor" stories in today's St. Pete Times.
Here's an interesting one I was just reading about Winter Park.
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/08/17/Weather/Storm_pulls_plug_on_l.shtml
That's not a bad idea, I know a few like JohnHuang2 is safe.
A few others have responded too.
Remember the floods in Texas a few freepers lost their homes.
Appreciate the link ( Can you tell from my usual posts? I love hotlinks! ) and gather you got through OK. I seem to recall you were boarded up with your pets while your husband was in another location with the emergency team.
We fared well, thanks for asking. Hardly a breeze on Friday. My sister lives near us and has one of those fancy weather stations on her roof that hooks into her computer.
The highest wind gust was 20 mph.
They deconstructed the Emergency Team at 9 PM on Friday night, so my husband was able to come home then.
My MIL was evacuated to Sarasota, and actually got a little more weather down there than she would have gotten in her waterfront retirement home on Tampa Bay.
We "unboarded" on Saturday AM. and actually had more weather on Saturday, a tornado supposedly was spotted near the mouth of Tampa Bay moving across the Bayway, and that's pretty close to us.
They talk about how "false alarms" make one complacent...but after seeing those pictures from south Florida, they've made me more diligent about our preparations next time they say a storm is headed our way.
..but after seeing those pictures from south Florida, they've made me more diligent about our preparations next time they say a storm is headed our way.
Yep, I need to get moving and see about reviving that old welder/generator today.
Look for "Punta Gorda/Charlotte Harbor from IKONOS, post-Charley" on Extended News in a couple of minutes.
I did a Google News search on "Sanibel Captiva", and it appears from the articles it found that damage was relatively light. Charley's worst sector went over the largely uninhabited north end of Captiva, a state park, and there are very few people living on Pine Island. With the main part of Sanibel 15-20 miles away from the eye path, it seems to have avoided major/catastrophic damage. One article indicated that there a few boats lying around the island, though.
Does anyone have any info on Sabal Springs (Coconut Palm Ct.), or the Lions Club in Punta Gorda?
I understood that Captiva was split in two by "Charlie the thirteenth". We all thank our lucky stars we were not hit worse inland. Even after we got power back here in Highlands co,there was no gas,no ice,no milk,etc. There are still brownouts,and telephone service is still not all up. A lot of people from Highlands,Hardee,Hendry,Glades,and Charlotte counties are inundating Okeechobee county because they only lost power a short time,and they still have plenty of gas,and supplies.
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