[Sunnyflorida]

Rod, Grab a map. Estero is a section of SW FL. There are people living and working all the way from North Ft Myers to nearly Marco. There are almost a million people living over here now between Collier, Lee and Charlotte County. US 41 from Del Prado to way south of Naples-proper is just one giant nearly contiguous commercial corridor. It is really impossible to tell when you left Fort Myers and entered Estero. Estero is to Fort Myers what Irving is to Dallas. Or how do you know when you leave Boyton and enter Delray.

In fact the event was held at a hockey rink that seats about 9K. Hardly anybody knows that the venue is NOT in Fort Myers.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=26.286028,-81.773987&spn=0.345991,0.561676&t=h&z=11

BTW, the google maps are way, way out of date. Check downtown Punta Gorda. Half the structures shown were blown away by Charley back in 2004.

[rodguy911]

Gotcha, my guess is if the event was held in a bigger place the crowd would have been even bigger.

Just thought I had heard a different report for Clearwater which is part of a huge mega complex population including St.Pete,Tampa etc.millions there as well.Even Sarasota and Bradenton are not that far from Clearwater.