Martaine2005
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I second that!.
I was thinking about (Hop) @hevans1944 . Hopefully they, their family and friends are all ok.
And of of course everyone affected.
Martin
I was thinking about (Hop) @hevans1944 . Hopefully they, their family and friends are all ok.
And of of course everyone affected.
Martin
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Thanks to everyone for your concern!
Wife and I stayed-in-place instead of evacuating. Daughter in Sarasota and her husband are also okay, but I don't know if they evacuated. Our power was off for more than a week, but we had a gasoline-fueled 120 vac motor-generator to run our refrigerator/freezer, a small box freezer, and some small appliances and inside lighting. Gas was hard to find and expensive with long waiting lines.
For entertainment, we watched Ian pass along Pompano Road from our front-porch screened lanai. Not much harm done here, except my favorite flowering bush (given to me by wife as a birthday present a few years ago) was knocked over by the high winds. We hope to prop it back up and have it flourish again. The plant made pretty red flowers all year long, nicely complementing the blue flowers planted around our three front-yard palm trees. Those flowers lost all their blooms in the winds, but they will recover nicely. Vegetation grows REALLY FAST here in southwestern Florida! They don't call this the Sunshine State for nothing.
All around us were houses with roofs damaged and trees felled and plastic fences ripped apart. The wooden fence that I built a few years ago survived nicely with some wooden posts (all were secured in concrete) leaning over slightly. All this collateral damage is why it took Florida Power & Light (FPL) a week to restore our electricity. They had lots of trees to remove and wires to replace from trees that had fallen across power lines. Most of this stuff was behind houses, with no alleys to allow access for the heavy equipment FPL needed. I think we are "lucky" that FPL was able to get our power restored in only a week. Some of those "bucket" trucks can lift and extend their payload an obscene distance from the street where the truck must park. FPL had a LOT of help from other states who flew in crews that worked around the clock. Now we only have to face a massive cleanup effort. Hardest hit in our area are Port Charlotte, North Port, Englewood, Fort Myers, and Naples. The Myakka River overflowed its banks and flooded homes nearby, some as far north as Sarasota.
Hop (AC8NS)
Wife and I stayed-in-place instead of evacuating. Daughter in Sarasota and her husband are also okay, but I don't know if they evacuated. Our power was off for more than a week, but we had a gasoline-fueled 120 vac motor-generator to run our refrigerator/freezer, a small box freezer, and some small appliances and inside lighting. Gas was hard to find and expensive with long waiting lines.
For entertainment, we watched Ian pass along Pompano Road from our front-porch screened lanai. Not much harm done here, except my favorite flowering bush (given to me by wife as a birthday present a few years ago) was knocked over by the high winds. We hope to prop it back up and have it flourish again. The plant made pretty red flowers all year long, nicely complementing the blue flowers planted around our three front-yard palm trees. Those flowers lost all their blooms in the winds, but they will recover nicely. Vegetation grows REALLY FAST here in southwestern Florida! They don't call this the Sunshine State for nothing.
All around us were houses with roofs damaged and trees felled and plastic fences ripped apart. The wooden fence that I built a few years ago survived nicely with some wooden posts (all were secured in concrete) leaning over slightly. All this collateral damage is why it took Florida Power & Light (FPL) a week to restore our electricity. They had lots of trees to remove and wires to replace from trees that had fallen across power lines. Most of this stuff was behind houses, with no alleys to allow access for the heavy equipment FPL needed. I think we are "lucky" that FPL was able to get our power restored in only a week. Some of those "bucket" trucks can lift and extend their payload an obscene distance from the street where the truck must park. FPL had a LOT of help from other states who flew in crews that worked around the clock. Now we only have to face a massive cleanup effort. Hardest hit in our area are Port Charlotte, North Port, Englewood, Fort Myers, and Naples. The Myakka River overflowed its banks and flooded homes nearby, some as far north as Sarasota.
Hop (AC8NS)
