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ALL: Just received a text from Vic, he and Sherry (Tampa) are OK: no damage to the house, cars or garage, but lots of large trees down. His property has (had?) lots of large trees surrounding the house. He will be busy playing Paul Bunyan and "driving" a chain saw for a while.

No news from other members, except my Daughter and Grandson in Palm Bay: Damage to their storage shed, but nothing to the house, and they are well.

Anyone else with news??

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Marcus, thanks for the update. I have been wondering about Vic and others in Florida.

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I heard from another owner at my condominium complex in Marathon. He said there was no major damage there, which is kind of a miracle, given the storm's path.

Edit : I spoke to a person that does not live in our complex, and from what she said, Marathon itself is devastated.

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Marcus, thanks for taking the time to report. We're thankful for those reports of well being.

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Hi Marcus. Everything turned out ok for us as well; we only lost one small tree. The lights dimmed a few times but we never lost power. It certainly could have been a lot worse had the storm crept up the west coast. I hope the other barners in the area are ok.

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Steve, I'm glad you all are OK. Anyone heard from Mike?

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I heard from my brother in Bradenton, Fla. and he had no damage other that two trees and he was planning on removing later this year anyway.

I also heard from three other members of our car club and their Winter places came out of the storm with no damage.

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Flooded streets but not a lot of property damage here in Sanibel

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My brother in St Augustine texted they're OK but no power. Didn't say anything about damage though.
CT, MA and NH sending electric co crews to help. Some say it will be WEEKS brfore all power restored.
Paul in CT

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Scary stuff ,great to here people are safe ,Thanks

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ALL: Wonderful news all around! Steve and Vic, any word on the other Florida 'Barners who have not checked in? My daughter also stated that it might be weeks before full power is restored. She has a generator, grill and plenty of gas - at least does not have to worry about cold weather........

MS also sending power assist crews: quite a moving sight to observe our Highway Patrol "bluelighting" the service vehicles - had a patrol unit front and rear. Did the same for LA and TX.........proud of our guys!

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I just got pictures of our place in Dunedin (Tampa area) Just across the road from the sea. The early forecast was scary and we were sure we would lose the house. Anyway, no high winds or sea surge. And our place is fine, but surrounded by small tree limbs.
Glad to see some good reports from around the state.
John

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By late Saturday night, literally HUNDREDS of crews and trucks had already staged at various points in Florida, including the Daytona 500 lot and at the Disney lot in Orlando. At THAT time, crews had arrived from 33 states. Nobody can say anything derogatory about the preparations and pre-planning by Trump and Scott. DD

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My son Brandon and friend Mike are heading up some crews from Maryland to help with power outage down there.My God be with all involved.

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PMSNBC will.

Glad to hear good news from Florida.

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Silly me, here I thought this was a thread rejoicing in the good news about how some came through Irma better than hoped. Instead, it is really about grinding meaningless political axes. Hope all you grateful people find somewhere else to celebrate cause there's important posturing that needs to happen.

By all means, proceed.

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Grinding political axes???? Where???

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Marcus...All is well in Lakeland...at least at our house. Just a large Live Oak tree that landed in our driveway from across the street. Never liked that tree anyway! The city removed it yesterday...I am told. Hope you and Margretha are fine!

Pat

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Since you asked, posts 13 and 15.

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I am just glad fellow Fordbarn folks are safe with minimal damage. Now it's time to think about the many, many others who did not come out of this so well ....

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We made it through without any major damage. Lost power for 32 hours. That's good considering the crews are not allowed to use bucket trucks until the winds are below 35mph.

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Well, I'm over here right about where I-4 crosses the St. John's River in DeBary.
It took me about 3 hours to dig out so I could get out of my driveway. I had a good sized oak come down that covered both sides of the circular drive so I was stuck. No power yet. One of my neighbor's oak trees came down as well and took the lines down with it. Unfortunately, these lines only service 6 homes so I think it will be a while before it gets fixed. Looks like the St. John's River is going to flood somewhat. It rose about 3-4 feet since last Friday and is now just about over the seawall. No big deal except for the jerks in boats that don't know to idle through a flood zone.

My office also had moderate flooding.

This is what my entire yard looks like. There is actually a driveway under all of that mess.
You can see that oak at the other end of the driveway. Second pic is the hole I cut so I could get out. I ain't looking forward to cleaning up this mess but everyone is safe and sound so I'm happy.:)

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Congrats on everyone being ok. Good luck on the cleanup....... Mark

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I'm sorry to hear that some of our friends in Florida have suffered property damage, but really happy to hear there were no personal injuries.

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Glad to hear the Florida barners are ok, I don't envy anyone having to clean up that mess.

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We just received a message from Ecklers (Mac's Antique Auto).

1. Their warehouse is OK.
2. Their area was one of the harder hit, many employees are without power or have significant damage to their homes but everyone is ok.
3. Their office is trashed, they are relocating their call center and other staff functions to the warehouse.

Best wishes to all

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We here in Cornelia GA were hit but not like Fla we have a lot of trees an power lines down some on houses. I had a large tree come down at the lake an a metal bld i had a 47 ford cope in that blew up hitting my big metal Bld with 16 cars in it , it came back down an is resting on the bumper of the 47 only minor damage to the big Bld. The coupe is not damaged. worse storm in this area in my 71 years.

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Thanks to all for your concern for all Barner's in the wake of the storm. We lost power Sunday night at 11PM and just got it back an hour ago. Still have no water as a tree fell and took out part of the well... Vic

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my power went out Monday morning and got it back yesterday at 6 30 .Everything in freezer and ref goes in dump now.But having a whole house gen installed now.Not going through this again waiting on the ice storm now

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X-2 on the whole house generator.

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One toilet that works ... A flush beats a full house generator.

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It takes Ga Power 7 hrs to get any little outage fixed on the end of the line.All the egg plant and corn from garden all gone along with strawberrys and blue berries.This is not he first time.Another insurance policy only