Post Hurricane Wilma

[WA5KRP]

WOW! That's quite a story. You fared nicely, glad to say. Do you have any sense of how many people lost their homes during the last two hurricane seasons? Every now and then I'll read a news report that a lot of people have yet to recover from last year's Big 4, some of them living in remnants of their shattered homes. Have a lot of people decided to not rebuild and move elsewhere?

Also, I get the impression there's an extreme shortage of workers to do the rebuilding. Is it that way in your area?

Thanks for your interesting post.



WA5KRP
Texas

[n0jaa]

In Satellite Beach, FL, we fared pretty well here, as we didn't experience the brunt of the storm. Lots of rain, though, but sustained winds were in the high tropical-storm-force range, with gusts into hurricane-force range. We lost power once, briefly. To the north of us, the city of Cocoa experienced a lot of flooding, which I found surprising as they were farther away from the storm center.

Paul, N0JAA.

[w7hn]

Yes, wilma was a bad one. 120mph pretty much everywhere on the penn.

My condo complex is crawling with workers, trucks, etc., from Arkansas, Ohio, Colorado, etc., hauling the broken trees, and hi-rise roofing material blown off.

[KB9YCO]

Thanks for the report Dennis, I spent a winter in Deerfield Beach a few years ago (snowbird) and I kind of wondered how things were there. Hope things continue to go better, 73.