looking more and more like you get it again from ivan.
gee what a horrible season it has been this year.

--- Elizabeth Thiers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  Port St. John, where we live lucked out again.
> Power went out at our house
> around 2:15 Sunday morning and went back on late
> Tues morning.  We spent
> several days looking for gas because the generator
> ran too high and ice for
> food and coolness.  We couldn't run the generator
> until Frances passed which
> was a long two days for us.  We had a friend and
> John's dad over during the
> storm.  Had fun playing weather man by going out
> side between rain bands,
> figure we need one of those wind gauges.  Played
> with the flashlights, ate
> lots of Oreos.  Luckily had battery powered
> televisions and radios as the
> power flickered on and off a lot before it finally
> went all the way down.
> Lots of trees down.  The Port of Canaveral has lost
> went from being 47 feet
> deep to 27 feet deep.  The beaches in case you
> haven't seen the coverage are
> devastated.  Haven't been to look.
> The Vehicle Assembly Building lost 53,000 square
> feet of metal.  It's built
> to withstand 105 mile/hour winds, gusts were clocked
> at 124 out that way.
> The worst part is my dad's house (he lives where the
> eye went over) lost
> it's roof, the ceilings are falling down and he and
> his wife won't leave.
> We friends who have offered a nice clean house,
> still standing for them to
> use at least at night.  I was down there yesterday
> and had to basically
> threaten him to hopefully make him leave.
>
> We figure the Orlando area can now bill itself as
> the place where 3 out 4
> hurricanes prefer to go.  Time to go looking for
> more water and stress food
> <grin>
>
> Beth T.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> ken barber
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 12:07 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: how's it going in florida?
>
> good to hear from florida. how is it beth?
>
> my in-laws (in my case out-laws) left about 4 this
> morning going on back to
> bradenton.
>
>
> --- Elizabeth Thiers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I believe the trachs they are talking about are
> the more permanent
> > ones that go through a stoma in the neck.
> >
> > Beth T. the OT
>





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