Hey All,

I hope everyone faired well in the storm.  Thanks for the concern, Sudz, we're okay!

We chickened out later Tuesday afternoon, packed our bags and cat and headed to Disney World.   We came back through Friday Morning, (through Pensacola, that was an adventure).   Our home faired better than I thought it would, being a Dobbins home and - in my opinion - poorly built.    We lost a few small (2-3 year old) trees, a bunch of shingles and one of our closets smells mildewy.   So, no real considerable damage to report.  For once, living in an open field apparently was a good thing.   My father in law's place looks like a bomb went off in his back yard, trees everywhere- but his house faired well.    He says that he'll never leave - even for a 5.

A friend of mine that lives a block away rode it out and said he will never do it again - he was - and still is - freaked out by it.  

Early reports from my coworkers say that my workplace on Palafox, right next to Seville Quarter - sustained a good deal of damage, so it will be interesting to see how that plays out in the days and weeks to come.   I hope everyone is well and if the website can be used in any way to assist your rebuild efforts, please use it as such or let me know how I can make it more accomodating to do so.

I  hope you and your families are well, and hope to hear from you and your stories..

-Anomaly

I'm fine as well, though I think I averaged about 2 hours of sleep a day from Tuesday-Sunday. I handled the overnight shift of our 100+ hours of live coverage and spent the days after the storm working around my house. My house is fine, with the exception of a leaky roof in one spot and maybe a missing shingle here or there. My phone line was pulled from the pole, so it will be sometime before I have a home phone... thank heavens for my little cell phone. As of 3pm Monday, I'm still without power, though I guess that's to be expected when you live in the Oak-lined Spring Hill/Old Shell Road area. Happy I am to say, though, the tree crews were moving through our neighborhood today, pulling limbs off power lines. Me thinks the power trucks aren't too far behind.

I lost 3 trees in my backyard... have to call my landlord about that. Other than that, things are great. It will take me a week or so to catch up on my rest... and for now, Tom and I are still sleeping at the station until we get power restored. I'm not a wimp b/c of lack of a/c... but rather, because it's crazy dark at night and he leaves for work at 2am. I'm just not comfortable being without power and alone that time of night with windows open.

Glad to read you guys came through ok. Anyone heard from Viper?