Hurricane Jeanne Aftermath

Last week when my brother and his wife were out at Fort Myers beach, he bought her a t-shirt that had three hurricanes on it and said "I survived the triple whammy." Yesterday he remarked how odd it was that the shirt was already obsolete.

I tuned out of most of the hurricane news yesterday and just talked to family. We were wondering what would possess that Miami man to pick up an electrical wire laying on the sidewalk. We had a good laugh at the man who drunk himself to death at a hurricane party. As for the two people killed here in Broward, the Sheriff's Office is already on the defensive as to why they didn't send divers to hunt in a canal in the middle of the storm after a Highway Patrolman found an SUV that had got blown off the Sawgrass Expressway and into the water. The patrolman was making the last sweep himself before he had to get off the road.
That SUV those people were riding in was big and heavy, but the winds were bigger and heavier. Why people are out on roads in a storm is beyond me.

So, basically we congratulated ourselves on our great escape.

Meanwhile, God bless all the rest of the people who did what they're supposed to do, and now their homes are wind-damaged or flooded, and they're having to rough it with no electricity.
For many of them it's the second or third hit.

UPDATE:
An extra hurricane day off for me. No electricity at work.
Let's hear it for the new building standards.

I love a good no-looting sign. This one's from Fort Pierce

A regal little 89-year-old lady in Seminole gets escorted to a shelter by a fireman. It was her third time evacuating

A lucky escape in Tallahassee The oak tree crashed onto his bed. Roommates rescued him through the window at right

UPDATE II:
So the looters have swung into action in Sebring. Nothing like a nice soft target like a mobile home park full of elderly hurricane victims to attract the jackals.