Florida Wilma survivors, please check in? some have posted,

[nofurylike]

but others are still missed.

please let us know you're okay!


peace!

[don954]

1. im here! I just got internet access back today

I had posted photos just after, but the local telephone node went down after that. I’m on generator; the power to my block won’t be back for 3 weeks. Im better off than most on my block, i have a whole house left...!
here is my photo gallery, i will be updating it later.
http://www.boaterspc.com/photos/storm/

[nofurylike]

3. yay! thank you so much for letting us know, don954! and for

your photos!

i'm going to see, right now.

wow, gives me a whole new appreciation for generators.


peace!

[don954]

5. yep! the big problem down here right now is power.

No power to run the gas pumps, no gas to run our cars, public transportation is down, tri-rail is down.

It’s getting better though, im on a major road here, 5 gas stations are running on my road now on generator power, the 2 mile long gas lines are now down to just a few blocks.

I actually saw a running traffic light! I was never so happy to see a red light!

The grocery stores are starting to get running. Publix was a real champ; they were running the day after Wilma.

They say it was high cat 1 when it came through, I along with a bunch of other people down here are worried what will happen if the bad side of a cat 3-5 comes through here....!

[nofurylike]

9. "I was never so happy to see a red light!" brought tears to my

eyes, even hearing that!

i think it was higher than a 1, but i can't be sure right now. anyone remember better than i do? i'm still blocking, as it was quite a shock to see it happen to you all, again. a shock even from out here in safety. i can not even imagine how you there must be feeling!


peace!

[nofurylike]

10. yes, it was a 3, then a 2. 125 mph winds when it hit. i do recall

that number - 125.
did you mean it was a 1 where you are?
who is saying it was a 1?


here's a good article about it:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/24/AR2005102400283.html?g=1

Wilma Slams Both Florida Coasts
Storm Kills at Least Six and Cuts Power to 3.5 Million; Damage Estimated in Billions

By Peter Whoriskey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 25, 2005; Page A01

MARCO ISLAND, Fla., Oct. 24 -- Hurricane Wilma roared across Florida on Monday, its 125-mph winds leaving at least six dead and a swath of downed trees, power outages and blown-out windows that stretched from the tony beachfront neighborhoods of Naples, through the state's rural middle to the downtown buildings of Miami and Fort Lauderdale.

Wilma made landfall about 6:30 a.m. on Monday just a few miles from this island of suburban homes and waterfront high-rises before defying expectations on both sides of the state. Although damage was less than officials anticipated on the Gulf Coast, Wilma remained unexpectedly potent as it moved eastward, wrecking mobile homes, shattering windows and cutting electricity from Miami to Daytona Beach.

-snip-
***


peace!

[nofurylike]

2. i heard from Airmensmom and Maraya1969 that each came

through the storm, but is understandably consumed by handling the aftermath, including phones going on and off, and the same for electric power. some will not get power for weeks, i hear.

i know many will be in that same position, but as you come back on DU, we'd be very relieved to hear from you!

we are all* sending you all much healing golden light and loving protective energy!!


peace!

* i am taking the liberty of speaking for everyone here, thank you!

[nofurylike]

11. oh, and they sent thank-yous to everyone here, too! and that they

will post as soon as that is possible.

each sounds exhausted. i can only imagine...


peace!!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. We're okay over here

Some places in S. Florida look like bombed-out war zones. A huge number remain in the dark. There are curfews. Some areas, people have no water, no electricity, no phone, and FEMA (as usual) has delivered nothing.

Why, if Florida is always in the way of hurricanes, does FPL not have the electric net underground, as it is in so many states? We are constantly without power, they fix it, it goes down, they fix it again, it goes down again, they fix it again, it goes down again, etc. ad infinitum. Ridiculous, really.

[don954]

6. heh... i just asked that question in another thread

You would think that after the 2nd or 3rd or 100th time they rebuild the power lines it would way be over the higher initial cost of putting in underground power lines...

[Sarah Ibarruri]

8. Amen to that!

It's ridiculous... they tell us to put hurricane shutters over our windows so they won't be left exposed, and meanwhile our entire system of electricity is a bunch of wires hooked to poless, exposed to rain, wind, hurricanes, heat that melts plastic, etc. Ridiculous!

[nofurylike]

7. great to hear from you, Sarah Ibarruri!! thank you so much! and

for further news of the area so devastated! sigh...

i agree there is a puzzling irrationality to the electric net structure. in fact, it seems as if many responsible for the infrastructure are in denial - especially of the new storm patterns that are undeniable, even if they still want to deny that global warming is involved.

please feel all the potent healing energy and loving care that's been pouring out of DU, throughout!!


peace!!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

12. From Miami.....

Here in Miami-Dade: Coral Gables has electricity again. The Kendall area as well. A good part of the southwest area. Not all. The poor are doing badly. They don't have gas, or even a car to get to the areas where there is now a bit of distribution of water, ice and rations. They live day-to-day, and can't work since power is out in many min. wage businesses, construction, etc., so I suspect they'll be unable to pay their rents and end up evicted and on the street. I understand FEMA sometimes provides a little stipend, but these people might not even know that, and have no way to get to FEMA, and so on, and so on...

Broward is doing badly. The areas nearest to the ocean are without electric, and barely have a trickle of water. A lot of these areas are very wealthy, so I don't feel as bad for them. Having money helps because one can always find a way to leave and go elsewhere.

Today I heard that Coral Springs looks like a battleground. They're just beginning to get electricity.

Schools are all closed Monday.

Some substations have had to be rebuilt. There's an electricity substation on 163rd street in Dade, that looks like the Jolly Green Giant took a giant hammer to it, and threw all the little broken pieces of it out into the intersection.

I can't even imagine what the New Orleans folks have suffered, and are suffering being displaced. I still haven't heard the number of people who drowned in their homes in N.O. I'm guessing the authorities have been told to keep that quiet so as not to cause a revolution.

[nofurylike]

13. "and so on, and so on..." heartache!! you said it, Sarah!

"The poor are doing badly."
all over, they are, and worse and worse!!!

aaaaaaiiieeeeeeeeeee!!!

like you said, too: "I'm guessing the authorities have been told to keep that quiet so as not to cause a revolution."

first they demolish the planet, then they abandon those smashed in that, then they PROFIT off of it all!!!

kills me, i swear, eats away at me. you too, i see.

yes, no word of a count of the dead in NOLA, and little hope they'll ever do a true one - or tell it, at least. as i recall, they never did tell us the truth of how many perished in florida last year, either. remember how they had to keep * lookin good for the s/election?

thank you for all that news of southern florida, Sarah! i'm very pleased to hear that you've got power and water!!

please hang in and keep us up on how you're doing, and how that area is. so many here on DU are concerned, without cease, how you're all doing!

sending you constant healing light and loving care!!


peace!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

23. We've got to keep on till we've rid ourselves of this scourge

There's no doubt there will be natural disasters, but other advanced nations immediately come to the aid of their people. Our country has too long been run by corporate fascists, and we've got to rid ourselves of this sort of govt. We'll do it.

[KoKo]

28. ((Good Vibes)) to all of you. Glad to see you guys back!

I have family in Boca...still without power in some areas there. Lot's cleaning up but some of the stores are open and restaurants at least. Curfew though.

[LuCifer]

14. And now for a report from Ft. Drum!

Well...got power back on here at around dusk. I was at work so I didn't know until I came home and saw LIGHTS on, and I'm like wait, that shit wouldn't be on if it was a generator, cuz it's not even by a house or whatever...OH HELL NO! THIS MEAN...DAMN! I think (don't quote me!) that MOST of Okeechobee county is back up...so now that y'all are pretty much down out here, I hope they can concentrate shit that needs it BADLY like Palm Beach county and Lauderdale.

I am STILL fuming over that crap Tell Jeb!® BUSHitler our idiot moron retard sorry excuse for a govenor (but what do you expect from a BUSHitler? and PLEASE keep bombarding his sorry ugly ass with tons of hate mail [e-mail] THANK YOU!) and his asinine crack about how we should have been better prepared. Oh bite my ass ya scumbag Jeb! If he wasn't so busy plotting global NWO domination with his PNAC boyfriends and ACTUALLY DOING HIS JOB, this state wouldn't be such a JOKE...but again, what do you expect from these cretins...

Lu Cifer, back to enjoying NOT having to screw around with that damn generator!!!!! FUKU JEB! FUKU FEMA! FUKU DUHbya! DO NOT PASS GO...DO NOT COLLECT EVEN A WOODEN NICKEL, OFF TO JAIL WHERE YOU BELONG!!!!

[nofurylike]

15. thank you, LuCifer! it's great you and Ft Drum got through!! and

you said it best to that scumbag jeb.

there really aren't word to express it, but you did so very powerfully!

thank you for the email info. he will be hearing from me, and from many!!!


hang in! i hope you felt all of us pouring protective and healing light and loving care onto you all!! we still are!!

>FUKU JEB! FUKU FEMA! FUKU DUHbya!

YES!!!!


peace!!

[LuCifer]

20. I'll take a bow now!

HA! So much for MODESTY!

I'm DAMN lucky! I guess my "anti-wind dance" worked AFTER ALL! :crazy: I'm on what was the NORTH end of that sucka. But it was damn peculiar, the winds were almost contant FROM THE NORTH. I thought the way it works, I was supposed to get winds from the EAST? Oh well...

Other than that skirting crap that goes around the base of my place, and a few dead limbs, there wasn't ANY damage here. My neighbor had his barn roof all fukued. It's a roof approx. 12 X 12 feet, made of (I think!) aluminum. Well put it this way, it looks like a soda can after you twist and bend it! Otherwise, my 'hood (aka the sticks out here in BFE!) was alright. See folks, y'all need to GET SOME TREES PLANTED! Natural wind buffer, anyone!? NOW I recall yet another reason I moved the Hell out of South Florida! And gods only knows when West Palm and Lauderdale will get power again. Damn! But, at least it's not HOT as HELLFIRE like last year was. That was unbearable without A/C!

"BUT JEB AND FEMA AM BE DO SUCH GREAT JOB!" Oh cracka PAH-LEEZ! Anyone reading this who voted for that troglodyte anal-retentive sub-human douchebag we have of a govenor: FUCK YOU! I SURE HOPE Y'ALL ARE HAPPY! NOT!

And since I'm a ho, anyone on myspace?! Add me if ya ain't a freepertard! http://www.myspace.com/Lu666Cifer enjoy my blogz...man was a I ever PISSED that last week or so!

Lu

Edit: Trees is spelled with TWO E's! Ok, fine! So I guaduated from the Dan QuaylE skowel ov butcher spelinng!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

16. Thanks for Fat Boy Jeb's e-mail....

He's getting an earful from me tonite.

[LuCifer]

21. NICE! Everyone: PLEASE spread Jebby's email EVERYWHERE!!!!

:hi:

Let him feel the FIRE!!!!!!!!!



Attention George DUHbya BUSHitler and co! You WILL soon be seeing this symbol:
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FOR ALL ETERNITY WHEN YOU ROAST IN THE 9th CIRCLE OF HELL!!!!!!!!!

[newyawker99]

17. kick

:kick:

[scarletlib]

18. scarletlib here and okay

I didn't have phone service until friday evening but otherwise came through storm okay. I worked through the entire storm and got my first day off on saturday. (Palm Beach COunty govt.) I am proud to say this county govt is doing a good job of getting services restored to the county's residents.

Troubleman, my son who lives here, and his family also came through okay. Last year his apt lost its roof. Everything held this year. But Wilma is a nasty storm and Palm Beach took a hard hit.

[intheflow]

19. RagingInMiami is okay but without power.

He stopped into a Kinko's on Friday and let the Photo Group know he was okay. He's one of our regulars, and we were worried for him.

Just wanted to give that update since he probably can't check in himself.

I'm glad that others have been able to check in, and keep a candle lit until we hear from those we still haven't heard from.

[wildflower]

22. kicking and recommending

I know I don't post much these days but I've been worried about everyone hit in Florida. I hope you're all safe.

wildflower

[donsu]

24. Key West here - we got beat up and flooded but doing OK

nt

[wildflower]

25. kick n/t

[intheflow]

26. geomon666 is ok.

He's a Miami resident staying with family until his power returns. :)

[SteppingRazor]

27. Broward County here...

life's a bitch, but at least I still have one!

A life, that is.

And it's not so bad. I have never had so much meat at once time in my life. The amount of grilling I have done over the last week staggers the imagination. No... more.... hot dogs... aahhhh....

[nofurylike]

29. wow! thank you all for checking in!! i'm just on briefly, to see how

everyone is, and so many are back now!!
breathe.....

how kind of you all to let us know how you are!

continued soon...


peace!!