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Re: Charley

To: soavero@yahoo.com, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Charley
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 18:43:28 EDT
In a message dated 8/17/04 4:29:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
soavero@yahoo.com writes:


> We were in Melbourne (Satellite Beach) on Friday,
> thankfully it was tropical storm force where we were
> and we were fine.  We flew home Sunday night out of
> Orlando Sanford airport, and Sanford looked like a war
> zone.  The airport was amazingly open, but there was
> no signs of power, gasoline, etc. anywhere nearby.
> 

I just returned home to Tennessee this afternoon after working cleanup for 4 
days on Ft. Myers Beach.  They are digging out--there are piles and piles of 
wet garbage and junk along the roadways as people pull out the ruined 
appliances, clothing, furniture, personal items, and anything else that was on 
the 
ground floor.  Many, many things impressed me while there, not the least of 
which 
was the resolve of the people, the waves of armies that kept sweeping though 
to help (National Guard, Red Cross, Power and Light guys from all over the 
Eastern half of the US, a convoy of dump trucks pulling end loaders, local 
establishments providing free food, water, ice, and more, to mention a few), 
and the 
resiliance of the building structures themselves.  The sea-stench is bad, but 
improving, and we were involved in scraping, liquifying, and shop vacuuming 
out the stinking sludge the surge that swept over the island left in the ground 
floors.  Lots to do there, but they will be back.   

I heard the comment many times, as the residents with whom I talked looked to 
the north, about how lucky they were, in a comparative sort of way.

--David C.

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