Thank You Irma!

I sure hope you and yours are okay after Irma tore through Florida. Sorry for not updating this blog more often but we were all discombobulated for a while. No one on the 'Dead End Canal' died or suffered major damage although everyone suffered some.

Seawalls, trees and pool cages were the worst hit along the canal. Roof tiles and shingles flew around and crashed against the streets and houses. Most of us left. We did too but only to take advantage of our Son and Daughter-in-Law's second story in case those hysterical weather-holes were some how right about the scientifically impossible storm surge.

My wife and I stayed to see all the boats in the canal low and dry. No water, where did it go? Sunday, we split for higher ground, reluctantly. No one had power since early Sunday morning. FPL you assholes! So we sat in front of their open front door and watched the 'cane go by thanks to their recessed alcove!

Cell phone service stopped early Monday morning so we didn't have to respond to all our distant family concerns. The car battery became our savior. We listened to the radio and charged our phones and it helped keep up our spirits as long as certain Meteorologists weren't on.

They say we were lucky because they eye wobbled East as it approached Fort Myers. I agree that we didn't get the worst impact and that areas just adjacent to us got whacked harder but a few older Meteorologists called the turn and weakening while the younger Meteorologists kept up the 'Chicken Little' routine!

I'll agree we were lucky to have 'Chuck the Generator' (purchased 3 days before 'Cane Charlie') on hand to rrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrr all day and night long, until the power returned on Thursday. We were happy to have our family take Grandma's room for a few days so they could be cool. We were happy to learn that we could live like Floridians before AC.

In a bizarre way we were happy that our old, fat, blind dog Roscoe, died a few days before Irma arrived. There was no way for him to understand what was going on no matter how much we had comforted him.

Our house damage may not exceed our insurance deductible and the sea wall probably isn't covered so we'll suck it up and press on and be thankful that we aren't in Puerto Rico! At least they don't have power so they can't hear Trump lecture them!

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