Re: Florida's not alone
I think everyone missed the picture. The original picture was a landscape photo - you know the big part of the picture going sideways. If you look at in this light. The chair is staning up right and the rest of the stuff is really blown over!<br /><br />Seriously, though. I delivered a generator to some family in Vero Beach yestderday. Wow is a word that comes to mind. It was as if a bomb went off there. Concrete steel reinforced electric poles snapped in half- cleanly. Anybody and almost everybody in single, double or triple wide mobile home had damage or were destroyed. I honestly can not and do not understand why "mobile homes" are even legal to sell in our state -they are death traps and insurance losses waiting to happen. Nearly every broad leaf tree stripped clean of their leaves. Most interesections lost multiple traffic lights. No power and lines for gas where power was. It was sobering to say the least. We tried to get on the islands there and we were only turned away as we do not live there. <br /><br />While I got a good chuckle from the storm damge in Sweden, I spent a day near the heart of a Cat 3 hurricane landfall and it was no joke.<br /><br />Locally - the St. Johns River is going to flood at record levels since we have kept them. The 5 acre pond in my backyard is now a real lake that you could boat on and is getting bigger daily. There were a couple of ponds connected by a natural depressions. It is one big lake now almost 2 miles long and up to 1/2 mile wide It is quite interesting what over 20 inches of rain will do over a couple of weeks.
