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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