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To: geopyg

Amazing!

We have friends here tonight on their way to Naples; are they going to get it bad?


1,658 posted on 10/23/2005 11:33:04 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin

dang....Orlando lost his hat! His cameraman is named "Krispy" LOL

Ice storms are evil, evil things. Here we don't get beautiful snow....we get treacherous ice. Miserable stuff.


1,662 posted on 10/23/2005 11:36:43 PM PDT by Jrabbit (Kaufman County, Texas)
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I'm hoping Naples doesn't get the storm surge too bad, but I imagine the winds will be high. My Mom has a condo on the beach (but she's up north at the moment) and said 15 people in the condo bldg. are going to ride it out. The janitor thought her car would be safer under the carport than out in an exposed parking lot on higher ground away from beach.

The parking lot (and building) is only a couple of steps up from the beach. Not sure if it will be enough - the storm surge is estiamted at 2' to 4' in Naples. I told her not to expect her car to be worth anything (1980's big cadillac). She said - oh - won't they be able to fix it up? I said probably not with the salt water. She gets so worked up over the smallest things. But with her car - "Well, it's just a car. Not like thoses folks in Louisiana that lost their homes, jobs, everything". I guess 87 years of experience sheds perspective on things!

Hope its not too bad for her - she heads back down after Christmas. She did say the Condo just put in all new landscaping this year.


1,689 posted on 10/23/2005 11:49:43 PM PDT by geopyg (I BELIEVE CONGRESSMAN WELDON! (Ever Vigilant, Never Fearful))
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