Wilma

[MustangSally]

Coming live from Palm Beach County. Lost power, but have a laptop and cellular modem.
Just now coming out of the eye, it was calm for about half an hour, but starting to pick up wind again. Really strong winds earlier, many trees and branches down. our neighbor has a little barn thing with aluminum sheeting roof, watched that rip off and disappear. Just as much damage as Frances, a storm that lingered for 2 days, and this all happened today in about 3 hours. Pine needles and leaves and dirt all pasted on the walls of the house. Also a very broad storm, talked to relatives in Miami, and others up in Stuart, and all have lost power, very strong winds.

Very noisy, normal high wind sounds, but then when it really picks up, you'd swear there was a jumbo jet coming in for a landing, it sounds exactly like that, that really low rumbling sound.

Just in sit and wait mode now, nothing too serious, no injuries or structural damage to our house, but we're going to have a lot of cleaning up to do.

To any other ponyfans in south fl, good luck and be safe!

[wheelock]

Glad to hear your holding in there. Now thats dedication, keeping up with your ponyfans.com posting even through a hurricane.

[MustangSally]

yeah, inside the house we're fine, we have a mega generator (besides not working for a little while) is keeping us powered. the backside of the storm, we're in the thick of it now, is easily worse than the front. 100mph winds recorded here, we are picking up some news stations on rabbit ears.

And for now, ponyfans is my connection to the outside world.

Wheelock, you guys have the internet down there now? Did all 8 residents have to vote to get that installed or what?

[Corso]

Stay safe down there. Keep us posted about your well-being.

[DiamondM75]

MustangSally

Haven't heard from you in awhile.

Are you OK?

Did you sustain much damage?

Please, please let us know how you are doing. We worry about our own.

[PK]

MustangSally

Haven't heard from you in awhile.

Are you OK?

Did you sustain much damage?

Please, please let us know how you are doing. We worry about our own.

6 million people with no electicity...could be the problem.

[DallasDiehard]

.... Please, please let us know how you are doing. We worry about our own.

That's very true. Hope you're hanging in there.

[MustangSally]

Doing fine here, actually our power came back on this morning, part of the 20% in Palm Beach County that have power. Just heard it could take until Nov 15th or something to get the majority of power on.

Even though we have our power on, it's still very much a mess. We worked in our yard for about 2 days, sun up to sun down. At 7PM there's a curfew for the whole county, so you can't go anywhere, and most businesses are closed so there's nothing to do anyways. Just sit and wait.

I'm kind of sick of seeing these people on the news crying and screaming, "they ran out of water for us, i waited in line for 5 hours, and got NOTHING!!!". What the heck were all these people doing the entire week we saw this storm coming...not to mention we all saw what happened with Katrina. AND THREE hurricanes hit here last year, with plenty of power outages then as well (we went 2 weeks without power). Even the poorest people in the county can get 3 empty milk jugs, fill them with water and stick them in the freezer a few days before the storm. Unless you are homeless you could have prepared SOMEhow. I can understand if it's been 2 weeks and you don't have any supplies left but these people started whining 6-8 hours after the storm left. They just expect to do nothing, sit through the storm, then get and line and hold out their hands for a bag of ice and some water bottles. And it's been 60 degrees outside so no one's dying of heat.

OK, enough ranting, all my immediate and extended family (some in Miami, some in Martin County) is fine. I don't even know what day of the week it is, it's very surreal, especially at night with the horizon completely black in all directions.

[BarbaraAnn]

It's good to know hat you're still around Phil. And you tell those lazy people what's up.

Take care man and be safe.

-Travis

[Casey]

MustangSally -
Glad you and your family are OK!