Quoting Eris Reddoch :

> Hello everyone!

Hiya Eris! :)

> We got power back last night, almost exactly 9 days after we lost it and 
> I am luxuriating under the air conditioner, drinking cold water (that I 
> didn't have to boil), listening to a football game on the internet and 
> trying to catch up on almost 2 weeks of emails. The remaining debris in 
> the yard and the impending arrival of another hurricane can wait for 
> another day...besides if another storm hits, it will blow all the debris 
> off the piles along the road back into the yard anyway.  :)

I'm very glad that you're back! :)

> I live north of Escambia Bay, about 3 miles 
> inland and 50 feet in elevation, so I didn't get any water in the house, 
> but we had three huge oaks (2 meter+ diameter trunks) uprooted right 
> around us. One of them crushed fences of my neighbors to the north (and 
> destroyed a swimming pool). One crushed a storage building and put a 
> hole in the roof of a detached garage owned by my neighbor to the south. 
> The third crashed onto the roof of my neighbor to the west's house, 
> penetrating the roof in several places. We had several smaller trees 
> down, or snapped off, and limbs down everywhere, but none hit the house 
> so we were lucky. The biggest damage we had was the roof of an old 
> storage building was blown off...and that roof is still sitting there 
> upside down...I'll have to *eventually* tear the shed down and dispose 
> of it, but not now.

That was very lucky. :)

> The college sent out emails (like any of us could receive them with our 
> power out) on Wednesday saying we're to report back for a "General 
> Meeting" on 9/27 at 9am at the main campus, and the college will start 
> classes on 10/4, so I guess I still have a job to go back to. 

Whew... :)

-- 
Bob K.

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