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tlturbo
10-27-2005, 07:10 AM
Wilma roared through S FL on Monday. It came ashore in the AM about 30 miles S of Naples and went across the state and out near Ft Pierce.

We lost power about 8 AM Monday and it came back on last night. I'm just S of West Palm Beach in Lake Worth. At least we had county water through out and a cool front was behind the storm so no A/C wasn't a problem. I guess we're lucky, still over 500,000 in Palm Beach without power and they promise it will be back by Nov 8. OUCH.

Being in the eye of a hurricane is weird. All the neighbors were out in the calm looking at damage. About 30 minutes later, the other eye wall hit. Should have been the weaker side but it WASN'T. Lots worse. We lost a tall shade tree in the front yard and lots of damage in the area. BIG trees just toppled over, major limbs snapped off, etc.

Bananas fared OK. It blew over a newly planted Hua Moa and put several others at 45 degree angles. Shredded the leaves on all of them so now I have a yard full of sticks. BUT the darn things are already pushing up through the center.

I hope everyone else in S FL is doing OK but it might be a while before we hear from them. Marc, Media Hound and several others were also in the path. The eye was huge - 80 miles across so hurricane force winds covered several counties. From Miami up to West Palm. Marc probably took a good hit like we did and being in the country, might not have power for sometime. We had winds of over 100 mph here.

I hope everyone else out there is OK, check in when you get power and let us know.

Terry

tropicalkid
10-27-2005, 07:20 PM
My best wishes to all of you affected by Wilma.Check in when you can.

Carlos(tropicalkid):cool:

Marc
10-31-2005, 09:21 AM
Hello all,
I feel very lucky. We had winds of 121 mph. We were about 5 miles north of the eye wall so we never got the calm of the eye just constant hurricane force winds. I had a new roof and boarded up so I was spared damage to my house. We got more rain than expected so trees fell easily. It took 6 hours to clear my driveway so I could get a vehicle out. My mature bismarkias and coconuts were laying on the ground. I lost about 1/2 acre of ground cover and irrigation. I laid most of my containerized plants in the nursery down so I prevented some damage. My 30 or so mature clumps of bananas were broken over and shredded. I lost many 20' papayas.

I have removed all debris, stood up as many trees as I could, repaired ground cover and irrigation and cut back all the bananas and heliconias. We got power back Friday just as I was getting ready to crank up a new generator to irrigate. Power was spotty in Collier which allowed FPL to repair the system quickly and gasoline was always available. Those in Broward and northern Dade are not as lucky. Hopefully we will have a mild winter and the plants will recover well.

I still have to check on my lot south of Everglades City. I'm sure damage will be much worse there.

My thoughts are with Sean and other east coasters who probably still don't have power or fuel.

MediaHound
11-01-2005, 01:19 PM
Still no power here :(

Few K in roof tile damage, lost a huge oak, lost a few palms, everything else flattened (such as several hundred feet of ficus hedge) and needed to be replanted and staked in place. Also had many ceramic potted plants on my patio broken. Not fun.

The bananas I de-leafed the night before the storm, and they all stayed upright. Most all already have one new leaf unfurled, so they're fine.

Hope everyone else made it safe and didn't get hurt.
Check in when you can...

AnnaJW
11-01-2005, 10:22 PM
OMG - how frightening! Hope everyone checks in okay!

Blessings,

Anna