Sorry about your soggy bottom, Pat....Mary Lou Orthey lives on the Peace River in Punta Gorda and she just put her house up for sale to return to the NE and then the storm hit. She got demolished! And the storm surge on the Peace River came over her sea wall!

The worrying was worse than the damage I experienced. I have a lot of clean up now because I forgot to tell the tree cutter to haul off the brush (actually, I was being cheap) and I've got the top of a forty foot live oak to haul to the curb and cut in four foot lengths.

Then I have about a cord of wood to split from the trunk unless I put another add in the paper for free wood. But the last time I had every weirdo, wacko, and NYCFTTS reject in my yard loading wood for a week! That was creepy! I'm going to keep it all to myself this time. But at the rate I burn it, I'll have firewood for another five years!

I'm afraid Ivan will hit us full force in about five days...Then I'll just have to check into the NYCFTTS

stay tuned....abbynormal