by marykmusic » Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:39 pm
Another eye-witness report, from the cloudbusters yahoo forum:<br><br><br><br>I am about 5 miles north of Lake Okeechobee, [the<br>large lake you saw the<br>storm encompassing on the IR maps] and about 5 miles<br>from the ocean in a town Fort<br>Pierce. The hardest part of the storm hit here at<br>between 9-12 am and I<br>highly doubt that there were any winds greater than<br>60-70 mph. I live in a trailer<br>park, some 100 homes. One home lost part of its roof<br>and I think we may have<br>gotten some 7-10 inches of rain at most. Lots of power<br>lines down, ours back up<br>today and took them only 10 minutes to restore power<br>to the entire park,<br>certainly nothing like what we experienced last year.<br>I would be surprised it it<br>were a category 2 when it hit us. Thanks to all who<br>participated in mitigating<br>this storm and rubbing FEMAs noses in it again. The<br>day after the storm we<br>were swamped with Nat. Guard units and there was<br>nothing for them to do so they<br>spent their time in the parking lots of local<br>supermarts trying to look<br>important while twidling their thumbs. F-Fema once<br>again!<br>--JP--<br> So it's a bunch of bull, what the MainStream Media is reporting. --MaryK <p></p><i></i>
