Wilma

[Capt Chuck]

Finally got power restored about two hours ago [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
I'm just about finished with the clean-up and minor damage repairs. That was the worse storm I have experienced yet!!!! I'm thankful I escaped the furry but pray for the people who have lost everything in the recent hurricanes that have hit the south over the last two years [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[NoBones]

Chuckster, happy to hear you came through this one with out
major damage. Any damage is bad enough, to say the least.
We have all had enough.
BTW: On Finster's Coors site, make sure your volume is on
and up [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
See ya, Ken

[Scott]

Yo Chuck

Glad to hear you made it through the storm ... Its good to have you back

Hope everyone else is in the same boat !!!

[Miles Offshore]

welcome back chuck!!!!!!

[Capt Chuck]

Here's a few pictures I took just from my property [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] I'm sure you have seen enough of the damage to South Fla. on the news.....

The first three pics shown were taken from within the house during the initial blow. You can see the screens being ripped out and the 100+ mph winds bending the trees and snapping off limbs. Blinding sheets of horizontal rain pelt the house.. Take notice of the 2'- 4' seas in the normally flat canal in my back yard.







This next shot shows my patio furniture I threw into the pool to keep from being tossed like missals by the category 3 wind gusts....



During the eye (approx 1 hour) the winds die a bit, the rain quits and then WHAM! they pick back up and slap ya hard from the opposite direction... It's kinda an eerie and silent aura!!!



Then afterwards the damage can be seen....









The sky clears and the night falls with a beautiful sunset



I'll sleep good tonight knowing my SeaCraft has yet made it threw 4 Hurricanes safe & sound [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[joey]

Well,Finally back home!As you all know we had a little water down here.I live on the second floor so no damage in the house.The fleet made it through just fine and my truck and jeep,but my wife's E320 seems to have bit the dust.Thank God,I hated that car!We probably had 2 to 3 feet of water.Anything on the ground level got pretty much trashed,but nothing that can't be fixed or replaced.Got news on Monday that I had to go to SC for a family issue and the lines for fuel were incredible,all the way from Key Largo to Ft.Pearce and were just as bad today comming back.
Mark,Thanks for the offer of gas,but filled up in New Smyrna and made to the Keys fine.
Glad to hear everyone fared OK.
The backcountry here is still quite cloudy and the wind is blowing a bit,but I think I'll go chum up a bonefish tomorrow and just chill!

[NoBones]

Hey Joey, Glad you came through the storm good too.
One way to get rid of a vehicle you don't like.
Easier then leaving the keys in it, in Liberty City. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Bet you filled up at Casey's Shell. I bought gas there
Thursday at $2.51 gal. It is coming down. Yeehaw!!
See ya, Ken

[joey]

Thanks Ken,I stayed on beachside so I hit the circle K on the way to 95.But,we did get gas in Georgia for 2.04 at a Pilot around mm29.Now,why can they sell it for 2.04, and I'm sure they are still making money,and everywhere else it's 2.50-2.60?

[TUGBOAT]

Why does a Marina charge .40 + more than a regular Gas station ? They get the Fuel delivered to them the same.The average boat takes at least twice(4 times + + +) as much fuel as a vehicle.So they can't blame it as low consumption.
We've got 2 stations here 1/2 block from each other in sight & their .18 diff.. [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]
Man0Man it's Bright here with No Tree's !! [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] At least We're all here to Bit*# about Her ! [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]
WELCOME BACK ALL it could be worse !! It could be SNOWING !!! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
TUG [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]