By the time we woke up, they were probably well south of here heading back home. I did call Gramps’ and once I forced my way through the congested phone lines, the answering machine did pick up so at least the house had power this morning. All of them live pretty close to the city government facility and you can imagine they’d be very high on the list to have power restored. We haven’t heard from Carol yet to know how she weathered the storm.
Gramps and Aunt Nadine arrive safely home in the evening to find that neither of their houses were damaged (except for four shingles going AWOL from Gramps’ house) and that power was up which is a very valuable commodity right now in Florida. Well, OK…there was other damage at Gramps’ house…it seems that hurricanes have a nasty effect upon the citrus crops (i.e. all of the navel oranges from his tree are gone) and pineapples aren’t much better at weathering the storm. Guess we ought to ring up Honolulu for some more for him… 🙂
Aunt Betty and Uncle Roger’s house also seemed to weather the storm OK so the only unknown at this time is Carol’s house in Ormond Beach.
