Wilma

[TUGBOAT]

Just got off the landline with Chuck. He has No power, Has water.Staying at His son's with power. Lost screen panels from his screen room. Debris in the SeaCraft. Had a Seafood festival with His stocked Fish's(Many a diff. kind including some eXotics) & crabs(Alaskan) & shrimp & lobster from around the Globe.Too bad Guess he's gotta start fishing & travelling more to re-stock for next year.(before the CSC Get together)Fed the neighbors. Their doing fine just inconvienced.
Got a report on Joey headed up to S.C. Got water damage.
We're eXtremly lucky. Sure is bright here! No tree's ! Cut the neighbors three trees off my house No damage.My biggun & the few palms & bannana trees. Oh well They'll grow back. Just a Lot of CleanUp ! This could have been a Wet storm & We all would've been In Big trouble! No Tornado's Which is Very common on Fast moving Storms IE ;Andrew.We had substained winds at 110 gust in the 120's , for a while(2+ hours).We were in the edge of the eye wall all the way through it.the eye just north. The back end of This gal was really bad. My boat cover got ripped up pretty bad.Whew! Gotta find another one of those.Don't think I'll go custom again.It got cool in the mid 50's ,so its been comfortable for those without power compared to the typical 80+. The Warm front is coming up.
Scream'n Reels'
TUG
Gas is the Big problem down here too.
The lower Keys below the 7 mile bridge is still without power. West of US 1 (baySide) was flooded pretty bad from the storm surge. No word on Reels Smoker or others Down south? Sho do Hope were through for this Year ! Till Nov. 30th !