One of my workmates is anxiously watching for updates on Ivan as her daughter's booked to on a cruise in the Carribbean next week!

Kat

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From: Elizabeth Thiers <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sep 9, 2004 10:12 AM
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Subject: Re: how's it going in florida?

Keeps ruining our weekends.

Beth T.

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From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
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Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 8:46 AM
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Subject: Re: how's it going in florida?

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.