Thank you!!
I'm good. We had some really strong wind gusts on Wednesday evening from 5-9pm at 100-110 mph. We lost electricity around 4pm that same day and didn't return until Saturday late afternoon.
We lost about a dozen trees and my 15 year-old roof now needs to be replaced (I'm not going to run it through insurance). And a few other small things around the house were busted-up by the wind but nothing major.
I had 2 boats stored in the leeward side of the house and both were unscathed by the storm.
Spend 3 days cleaning up and then helping my neighbors do the same.
The folks about 50 miles to the south of me really took a beating in Charlotte, Lee and Collier counties where life-loss and property was much more significant.
For future reference.... when the NHC gives a cone of uncertainty, and you fall at the very edge of that cone .... you better take precautions as if you are going to take a direct hit. On Tuesday evening, the NHC still predicted landfall in the Tampa area (just as they had predicted for the previous 2 days. On Wednesday morning we all woke up to see the forecast had changed to a Ft. Myers landfall. This gave those folks about 6-8 hours to get ready. All along, Ft Myers was either outside the cone or barely inside.
Again, thanks for checking. We are good!
