Sat Oct 01, 2022 7:37 am by WEW51L110
Everything at our house rode out the storm fairly well. A little bit of soffit material blow out on the house and my shop. (Truck is fine) Found and reinstalled the pieces to the house, but the ones from the shop apparently went on tour. 2.5 million people didn’t need evacuation, that’s someone’s miss-information. 2.5 million people in Florida were without power at one point. The monster storm was a slow mover and enormous in size. Therefore, destructive. It’s path was SW-NE and the eye passed several miles away enough that we were hit by the north-west quadrant where all of the terrible rain was. And it passed us during the night. Our rain gauge overfilled so we didn’t get an accurate total of all the rain, but at least 9” worth. Wind damage, as I said, was minor, and we received more damage when Hurricane Charley’s eye passed over us in 2004. Ian followed a similar path, but we didn’t get it’s eye over us. It had already been raining most of the day Wednesday when the power went off around 8:00pm. We lost cable/internet signal at the same time. Our Generac restored power right away, but we didn’t get cable/internet back until about 6:00 pm Friday. The Generac turned off around 4:00 on Thursday so the commercial power was off around 20 hours. All-in-all we faired well under the circumstances. The lakes on either side of us rose significantly, but not enough to get into anyones house in our area. The folks in Ft.Myers have a different story to tell and we had a cake-walk compared to them. So, when you hear the Weather Channel asking for financial help for those victims, it’s REAL.
Thanks to all who were thinking about us and all the many prayers. Bill
L110 owner since 1974, finally rebuilt 2014.