Glad to see everyone is ok so far :) Man just to see all this happening on tv and what not is so unreal :(

It started when we were all down there. I doubt if I'll go down there again that time of year. |sad|

Hmmm… They drive a Ferrari GTB 308 and live in a trailer.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/wea...dlines&index=2

Ferrari and a trailer thats just plain good living :)

it's all about having the right priorities.... |rasta|

I wonder if Lisa will change her mind and come for a visit to Florida?
http://weather.sun-sentinel.com/trop...0413_5day.html

Evening all, we are back online after 13.5 hours.

We are VERY lucky, we are hearing on the news Melbourne got hit pretty hard with heavy damage.

The worse seems to be over for us at the moment.

|buddy|

I was just at another board, and another Melbourne webmaster posted some pics of our area. We got nailed pretty hard. Looks worse then what Frances did, so I feel VERY lucky to have power.

If anyone is thinking of coming to FL for the beaches stay home, all the beachs we go to are no longer there.

|sad|

I rode this one out in Homestead to return to a house with no power and no phone. Since DSL worked through Frances, I figured I would get lucky and have DSL this time, but, no go.

Want to be the most popular guy in the neighborhood? Show up with bags of ice. haha Worked around here.

Phone/DSL was just restored -- still without power, FPL claims next Tuesday for our area. I knew I should have ordered the extra gas cans after Frances. haha

A few neighbors had damage, but, again we came out relatively unscathed. I can't remember the resistor to cut on the UPS to make it behave with my generator -- argh.

Note, a 5500 can make 50 gallons of hot water in 1 hour. :)

We are very lucky here.. Although my power has been out since yesterday at noon. Ice cold shower here i come! |angry|

Those photos are insane. This whole season of extreme weather reminds me of that movie, The Day After Tomorrow. |sad|

Wasn't that yesterday?




|couch| |escape|

Just got our cable back. |bananna| I had no idea how reliant I was until I didn't have web access or local news. We didn't lose power at all. I was watching my huge bamboo trees bounce on the ground and come back up through a tiny hole in my plywood. Amazing how flexible they are. Caught up on my reading. Baked chocolate chip cookies from scratch...It was not fun and we only had 75 mile an hour winds. I can only imagine what it was like on the East coast. Glad everyone else is okay.

Oh well, back to the grind and watching the tropics. Seems like we should have a clear weeked here for a change. Yay! |bananna|

Thank you so much for your thoughts and words here!

We made it through Jeanne. We just got power back last night. More fencing down and more screens around the pool. But the house stood up real well.

The storm was still nailing us the next morning when we got a call from the hospital telling us my brother had a rough night and would probably pass away that day so we needed to get down there. No one was on the roads, it was still too soon, but we rushed over there dodging downed trees and powerlines only to find out later that the nurse was a little premature. His body is showing all the signs of the beginning stages of shutting down. But he's a physically fit & healthy 24 year old. It can take awhile to fight it even without brain function. So, now we wait. We go to the hospital, because we can't seem to make ourselves realize he's not really there anymore, it's just machines making him breathe, etc. His temp was 105 degrees last night, I can't see his body taking that for long either. There's nothing else anyone can do for him, but keep him comfortable until his body accepts that his brain is done.

But, I'm taking a lot of comfort knowing he's really gone, this is just a shell. I know he'd be pissed at us for hanging on, so I got to start thinking differently. And I've got two bottles of Arbor Mist chillin' in the fridge for tonight with my name on them! I'm thinking...take the pool net out there with an ice bucket and relax, sip, and skim.


Enough of the depressing stuff...any other Jeanne/Frances/Ivan/Charlie survivors needing food, shelter, ice, showers, laundry...you know all those minor conviniences my place is open and waiting. I know just how miserable it is, so please don't think twice.

Porn Princess I'm glad to see you are safe and sound.

Sorry to hear about your brother, I had to go through that with my mom. |sad|

At least we don't have volcanos and earthquakes.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science...ens/index.html