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atgep
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Initially Posted - 08/13/2004 : 20:25:39

I hope everone is ok after the worst Fri the 13th I have ever seen. How did everyone fare.

I know Suzie is pretty close to the storm. It looks like a real mess.

Tom.

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Response Posted - 08/13/2004 : 20:37:50

Where are you, Tom? On the radar I was watching, it looked like Sarasota stayed on the fringes as Charlie went directly over Charleston Harbor and is now headed just about at Orlando. He's expected to go off the beach around Daytona, but then go inland before gathering too much new steam. If so, it'll just be very wet and blustery all the way up the coast to where I am. If he slips offshore, it could get worse.

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atgep
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Response Posted - 08/13/2004 : 21:30:54

I am in Jacksonville. The boat is in the back yard. The only thing that could happen would be a tree falling on it. Jerry(Frog) and Ben are also here but in the water. It is still on the way but should pass safe to the South. I am sitting here with my fingers crossed.

Tom.

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Response Posted - 08/14/2004 : 12:40:37

Made it through the storm OK. The center passed a few miles to the north of me. Horizontal rain beat on the windows, the wind howled, rattling the windows. Just before dark, part of a wooden boat dock floated by. I could see the wind whip nearby power lines against each other, causing them to arc and send off trails of sparks like fireworks as my house lights flickered. A few blocks away a transformer or something burned, giving off an erie blue-green sputtering light for quite some time.

Next morning, the yard was littered with palm fronds, tree leaves, and a few broken branches. Some screens blew out of the screen porch. (I suspect that the screens first became covered with wind blown leaves and other debris, and then the wind pressure on that tore the screens.)

The boat in the canal did fine. The storm winds were from a direction that didn't drive large waves into the mouth of the canal, so the boat didn't move around much at all. I had folded and lashed down the bimini top before the storm arrived. I also doubled the number of dock lines, and tripled up on fenders.

This morning the neighbors and I are busy cleaning up storm debris.

-- Leon Sisson

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atgep
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Response Posted - 08/14/2004 : 13:26:25

I am glad to hear of your good fortune. This storm moved so fast that not many people experienced the 360 deg winds as the storm passed. My friend here in Jacksonville Pulled his boat out of charter last month near Burnt Store. He is perhaps the happiest guy in Jacksonville! Good luck with the cleanup.

Tom.

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Response Posted - 08/14/2004 : 15:17:38

Leon, glad to see you made it through Charley with out and major damage. Being on the East side of Charley I am sure you had stomach aches, I know I sure did, when they expected it to go West of Jax. and we would have been on the East side. As it turned out we not only did not get the winds or surge, but only had an inch of rain on Doctors Lake, but I had 11 lines on PennyII just in case.
Good luck with your cleanup.

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Response Posted - 08/14/2004 : 19:19:08

Well just got back home. I had to leave the condo complex, and boy what a sick feeling that is wondering if when ya get back will everything be under water, or worse....gone. Sarasota dodged the bullet, up to about 130pm yesterday they had us in the eye of a cat. 3 hurricane, and all of a sudden it crossed land at punta gorda which is south of us. Missed us by miles leaving us on the safer west side of the storm. Boy what devestation is left there and in its inland trail up and across the state.
I tied 11 lines to Tropical Sleigh and wondered what shape I'd come back to find her in. I can now breath a sigh of relief but cry for so many who are currently not so lucky....What a tragic Friday the 13th.
Glad to hear you fellas are safe and sound.

Edited by - sailgal on 08/14/2004 19:22:25

frog0911
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Response Posted - 08/14/2004 : 23:14:25

We were all worry about you also and I wondered if you had a trailer and just took Tropical Sleigh to higher ground. Happy to see you had no damage. The General is still trying to find some info on Burnt Store. It appeared the eye went right over the top of it. I would bet it is a mess.

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Response Posted - 08/15/2004 : 11:29:25

Who do we have in Charlotte Harbor? Whoever it is, they may not be doing much with computers right now... What a mess!! I guess with the broadcast media all waiting up in Tampa for landfall there, we didn't get to see it happening--just the aftermath. It looks a lot like Andrew, but not in a media center.

Up here, after I took off the mains'l, taped over the louvers on the hatch board, and prepared other things for 50 mph wind-driven rain (due around midnight), we got <i>nothing</i>--a few sprinkles. Charlie did a hard right off NJ and staggered up to Boston, where he's about to die. No complaints here, but it ain't over...

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Response Posted - 08/15/2004 : 13:11:06

Pat and I left the condo (house) at 2PM after my stepson and I put plywood over most of the windows. We went to the local school shelter. By 6:30 PM we were on the way home, winds maybe 40 plus, some rain. The storm came thru anbout 4-5 and blew maybe 60/70, my son stayed in the house (testosterone poisoning). When we entered the shelter we expected to get the full monty, and then suddenly iut turned east and just mangled Punta Gorda and Charlotte Harbor, we have friends there and have no word yet of their fate. ORION was tied up with three lines to every cleat, stanchion, etc, but I was limited as to how far UP she could rise, I figured eight feet over high ok, anything more goodbye, and I have a powerboat guy next to me who was totally unready so he would have destroyed me. All is well, no damage, god bless you all, ron srsk Orion Venice, FL

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Ben - FL
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Response Posted - 08/15/2004 : 14:46:46

Friday morning before dawn I went out to Chick-a-pea and shortened her moorings so she would not hit the dock. As mentioned, Charley was to be to the west of Jacksonville. My dad called me at work and said the storm had moved east. So I left at four o'clock and headed home to batten the hatches there. Chick-a-pea would have to lay to best she could. I filled water containers and six jerry cans with gasoline and cranked the generator. Also charged the trolling battery for the 12v TV and made an extra food run.

Turned out to be another practise drill. Jacksonville is way past due. I was here in '64 when Dora came through.

I stayed on Chick-a-pea last night after a lovely sunset sail and she is fine. Hope everyone else fares as well.

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Response Posted - 08/15/2004 : 21:01:56

The Neuse River in North Carolina really dodged the bullet. We had about an inch of rain and winds up to 70 mph but no damage.

Langiappe sk #1549

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Response Posted - 08/18/2004 : 00:50:37

First post since pre-Charley. Still without power at our condo so am staying with sister-in-law whose power came back on yesterday. We've got about 200 large trees down in our community and a number of units had windows blown out and roof tiles/shingles torn off but compared to our neighbors just to the north in Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte, we're just pretty darn lucky.

Thanks to our top-notch harbormaster who organized dock committees early and had us tie up each boat properly whether the owner was here or not, the 191 boats at our marina came through with flying colors. We also had let the air out of all trailer tires so boats on the hard didn't go anywhere.

Don't want to go through another one of these any time soon.

Steve

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sailgal
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Response Posted - 08/18/2004 : 10:33:28

Steve glad to hear you are ok, Man we got lucky, I really feel for those folks between us. I watched some footage of Pine Island and their marina and dry storage was destroyed. I hear you have a new inlet thru Captiva.

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Response Posted - 08/18/2004 : 12:27:32

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I hear you have a new inlet thru Captiva.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Yes, there used to be Upper Captiva. Now there is Lower Upper Captiva and Upper Upper Captiva. Charley created a new 200 yard wide pass. Should be lots of cart changes all through that area.

We just got word that power will be restored to our condo units by 11PM Thursday.

Steve.

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Ben - FL
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Response Posted - 08/26/2004 : 14:16:43

Sure am glad you came through it OK Steve. I've been holding my breath because we had a thunderstorm here Wednesday a week ago. Lightning struck real close to home. My power went out for 3 hours, but Ma Bell took eight days to get my phone back on.

They finally got to it yesterday and then had to come back today and put a new box on the pole. This was the third time they had to dig up around the pole in a year and a half. So now the box is on the pole and not under ground. And I am back online.

I was going through withdrawals.

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Response Posted - 08/31/2004 : 20:50:03

Fasten your seatbelts 'cause here we go again. This one's gonna be close...

Tomorrow I'm moving my travel trailer out to my sister-n-laws in McClenny. Then I am headed out to Chick-a-pea to unstep the mast and lash it down.

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Response Posted - 08/31/2004 : 22:42:15

And sometimes it doesn't have to be a hurricane. The remnants of Gaston sat over Richmond yesterday and gave us 10 - 14 inches of rain in the Richmond area. Five people drowned, some of them trying to get out of their cars caught in rising water downtown. We've had over 40 inches of rain since June 1.

Brooke

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frog0911
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Response Posted - 09/01/2004 : 10:52:51

Looks like they have changed the forecast again with Frances scheduled to make landfall were they orginial had it. The only major difference is it will not be in the JAX area until Monday instead of Sunday and 80-90 miles West rather than over the top of us. Maybe if the winds come up and the thunderstorms stay away I'll just do the Beer-Can race today and then worry about taking the boat apart tomorrow. Hope I can get the lock on the engine to release so I can take the motor off.

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Response Posted - 09/01/2004 : 16:58:53

Frog and others down there... You probably know more about this than I do, but don't forget that the cone is the area within which they suspect the storm will travel--the line in the center is just the "most likely" at the time. As of 5PM today, all of Florida, Georgia, and S. Carolina are within the cone. Look at where the center is now--it takes only a few degrees of variation from the centerline to put it in Jacksonville or Miami, and it could easily end up going ashore in SC. If I were you, I'd pretend I was in the bulls-eye, and then be pleasantly surprised when I turn out to be on the fringe. This one looks bad.

Best wishes to all in Frances's path...

Edited by - Dave Bristle on 09/01/2004 17:07:07

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Response Posted - 09/01/2004 : 22:09:45

My number came up today for the Hurrevac. We are fying the planes out in the afternoon tommorow. I have the boat in the back yard safe under the canopy of 110 ft pine trees! I will pray for a north turn. Hope everyone hangs on, it looks like a rough time.

Tom in Jax.

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Response Posted - 09/01/2004 : 23:38:57

UGH

.... Wish everyone the best!

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Response Posted - 09/02/2004 : 00:15:15

Being a native Floridian I can just about guarrante that those of us who have been in an witness to, will get ready. Charlie was the prime example of what one can do. Thats why experience says if it starts to slow down an wobble lookout for a shift. Which is exactly what Charlie did. So we are hoping that it just keeps on moving at 14-16mph until it makes landfall. If this happens Vero Beach will get it and so will my Daughter in Orlando, again. Jax will be on the East side of this one so we will get the high winds and heavy rains plus the torandos that spawn in the southeast quadrant.
Please keep all of us in your prayers, we will need all the help we can get.

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Response Posted - 09/02/2004 : 08:11:47

Our prayers are with you all. We were in Jacksonville Tuesday for an admissions interview at Jacksonville University. I asked what they would do if Frances comes visiting, and they have a whole plan for either shelter in place or evac that they are briefing all students on. BTW, son Ted was very impressed; JU is definately on the A list.

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Response Posted - 09/02/2004 : 08:39:58

I have a proposal that would save a lot of lives and save the Insurance companies a lot of money in the long run: Farmers, AllState, State Farm, and Aetna should go in together and literally buy the entire state of Florida, move all the people out to other states in the Southeast, bulldoze everything that stands higher than 6" above the ground, then deed it all to the National Park Service - in effect extending Everglades National Park to the entire State. It would cost a lot up front, but save these companies billions of $$$ in Florida insurance claims every Hurricane season in perpetuity.

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Response Posted - 09/02/2004 : 10:54:51

Larry: How about the same for CA--everything within 50 miles of the San Andreas line and everything S. of San Louis Obispo--for quakes, fires, mudslides,...

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