[other tom]

We are generally fine. Midnight Sunday before the storm I fired up the Bertram, turned off the house panel and backfed the home so we could watch TV as it developed. As each band of bright red/orange on the TV radar approached (they had it zoomed in) we could countdown as the windgust would approach and then impact. It was waycool, but then the second floor of the house started to move, and roofs were flyng through the air down the canal. We had the roll-down shutter deployed, so it was hard to see, but pulled them open after the eye to seed the backside NW'rly take the neighbors patio roof and fly through the air into the Bertram's flybridge, tower, etc...bummer.

Many of my buildings are heavily damaged, but in 5 days, we have totally re-roofed 140,000 sf of buildings and dried in 200 apartments. It pays to be loyal to vendors, our roofing guys had spec bought 3 trailers of roofing materials, and we were first on his list. I drove to all our employees houses with 5 gallon cans of gas siphoned from the whitewater, and 2 coolers of ice and swordfish steaks with ice made from the Bertram. we were popular...

Fort Lauderdale and just north got hit hard, but the pains are easing and as soon as power comes on to most places it will be better. My whitewater is fine, we actually ran out last thursday, after powering up the boatlift with the a portable genset, and took the family on a boat ride. Well, we sort of had some rods on the boat, and it sort of looked nice offshore, so we sort of put the gear out and sort of trolled due east. 2 mahi, 1/1 wahoo (daughter wiffed boatside), and then the sun was going down, and I sort of had some frozen squids aboard, so we sort of went swordfishing. 9:15 a little guy darts into the lights as I was pulling the gear in, and I tossed a bait & the fight was on....without much freezer space, we released a 47" r after a short fight and ran home, back to our reality.

Hope everyone else down here is ok.