Hope y'all are okay down in Florida...

[ziggy29]

Looks like the worst of it missed Sarasota, but I'm sure it's still a mess there, too. Here's hoping everyone is okay and, barring that, can at least quickly get back on their feet again.

[BillJones]

The storm missed my house by only a matter of miles. I had no damage here, and count myself as VERY LUCKY. Just east of me there was some very serious damage. Charley was narrow, only about 6 miles across with a 30 mile wide hurricane force wind path but within his "sweet spot" he was VERY POWERFUL and DANGEROUS.

 

Still it wasn't much fun wondering if the storm WAS going to hit here. When we moved into our new house a year ago, I kind of chuckled when they talked about walls and large windows that could take 120 MPH winds. It really makes you nervous when you hear that there is a storm coming where that is not good enough!

[kryptonitecomics]

Man........I finnally have power back after 4-days!!!!! My neighborhood was in the direct path of the storm, but fortunately we were inland enough to not take the full brunt of the storm. For those of you who have never been inside a house during 100+ MPH winds....I don't recommend it.

 

My shed outside was totally demolished and my Florida room where I keep all of my comic books and Baseball cards is completely flooded. I saw it as it was happening and quickly began to move everything in from that room to my living room trying to save about $70,000 worth of collectibles...including my coins. The whole time I was praying that a tree wouldn't fall on that part of the house since it's an addition and not structurally as sound as the rest of the house.

 

The power went off Friday night and left me and my wife and kids to ride out the storm by candle light......they were crying and scared and it was a total nightmare. I had to sleep on the floor in my brothers house for a few nights and then call around for day's trying to get a motel room, which we finnally did. Came home this morning and found out that the power was back on.....now I have the daunting task of empting the entire contents of my refrigerator and freezer.......buying a shop vac to start sucking out the water from the flooded parts of the house.,,,clean all of the debris from the yard, roof, etc.

 

For those that got hit harder......my heart really goes out to you.....the neighbor hoods look like war zones and their are thousands of tress down all of town.

 

Take care everyone, we will get through this...

[Hoot]

Kryptonite - Sorry to hear of your travails. Hope that all goes well with the recovery. My best to you and yours.

 

Hoot

[HaydenTubbs]

Sorry to hear of your troubles Kryptonite.

I'm over by St. Pete,and we only got a few sprinkles.A far cry from what was expected as we were supposed to get hit head on.