Hurricane Ian Recovery Update Day 2

The last sentence by Sundance is a keeper, FTA - "However, when I think about fellowship and my community – perhaps we shouldn’t wait for hurricanes." I so wish it were true, Sundance. But based on 9/11 and the aftermath of other natural disasters in this country, the fellowship from outside of Florida will end as soon as the story is out of the news cycle. Then back to the evil and corruption being forced on us by biden and his puppet masters, the dims, the deep state, the msm, Klaus, and the globalists.

We love you back, Sundance. As #1 says, camaraderie and good feelings are too often overtaken by the craving for more political (i.e. more monies) power. Thus, we see even before the storm actually hit, there were Dems hoping to hurt the Governor and Republicans (I'd rather use "Conservatives"). We know how Biden & Co. think. But from family of mine in southern FL (not in the hurricane's bullseye this time) I know that there is a sense of community and caring. I wonder about whether some obvious demographic changes ongoing with people fleeing the grimy realms of NY and CA and IL etc, to Florida, if the camaraderie will be embraced by the newcomers. Can they, will they, leave behind the stultifying politics which drove them out? Praying for you, Sundance, and all of Florida. I hate to put it this way, but too often people who have soiled their home States arrive with befouled shoes and track the stench wherever they go. We've seen, experienced, the phenomenon up here in NH, too.

Excellent report. Having gone through several of these, when we went down to help relatives in 2017 after a hurricane, I brought a generator, extension cords, tools, a chainsaw, spare chain, sharpening tools, my safety chaps, steel toed boots, safety glasses, ear protection and work gloves. And three five gallon gas cans. We filled them well north of the storm damaged area, knowing that gas would be unavailable in the storm area, as Sundance points out. Fortunately, for that one, the buildings weren't seriously damaged, lots of trees down, roads blocked, no power for four or five days, but the water comes from a small town water tower, which can be refilled with an emergency diesel pump. Water kept flowing for those close to the tiny town. Those a mile or less away are on their own wells, and no water, either, without a generator. The whole idea of remaining on a barrier island in a storm like this baffles me. I got an excellent lesson in why barrier islands must be evacuated when Andrew hit the Biscayne Bay area, where I had sailed many times with friends in the 1990s. In 1991 we went ashore on Elliot Key, the barrier island that creates the southern edge of the entrance in to Miami's Biscayne Bay. It is a park, no homes. We went there to gather wild key limes to make a couple of real Key Lime pies. We had to fight our way through a dense forest of trees, trunks closely spaced, maybe four or six feet apart, dark and gloomy at midday and footing was difficult due to the huge numbers of surface roots. We cross the whole key and managed to fill a small bucket with the tiny wild key limes, difficult walking in the dense forest. Trees were about 20-25 feet tall, six to ten inches in diameter trunks. When we next visited Biscayne Bay a few months after Hurricane Andrew came through, we were absolutely shocked. There was Elliot Key, right were it was, but it was an absolutely bare, clean, pristine sand bar, not the slightest trace of a tree, bush or a root. Bare, clean sand. The dock we had landed on was erased also. This is why you do not stay on barrier islands when hurricanes come.