damn, yeah i heard deland got it pretty hard. im glad all is safe with you (cars and family in no particular order)

 

I live in Sanford, If you need any help please let me know, I have an F350 and a chain saw.
Our prayers are with you and everyone involved in this unfortunate happening.
Wayne

 

wayne, +1 for you - thats mighty nice to offer your services to fellow stang'ers in need

 

wow im glad everyone is alright. good thing i live in california....although....there is still eath quakes here....so its somewhat of a trade off.....

 

Glad to hear your family is OK. Your story sounds eerily the same as the one I could tell about a tornado I went through when I was six years old that nearly wiped my small hometown off the map. Fellas, he ain't kidding about the train. I just left Miami a few months ago where I went to school for two years. Six hurricanes later and I want no more of that state.

 

I appreciate the offer of assitance Wayne. I sincerely do. I have done what I can with a chainsaw and now I am left with the really big, intertwined and dangerous mess. I have put my name in the hat with my tree guy so I am in the rotation and he will get to me as soon as they get through with the emergency work.
Homeowners insurance does not cover tree removal except if it is on the house or another structure so I am going to have to kiss the baby for the cost of the tree work. Man that is going to be one ugly baby.

On another note, I heard on television about FEMA offering help with tree & debris removal so I went on their website last night and filled out the application through a rum soaked haze. This morning I get a call from FEMA informing me that there would be a representative out there in a couple hours. Sure enough, he came and went.

It looks like the only assistance I am going to be able to get will be a low-interest loan through the small business administration. Which, don't get me wrong, is all I need. I am perfectly content with that. There are thousands of people who need the grants, I do not. I have a warm and dry house and nothing to bitch about.

I am pretty much in a holding pattern until my tree guy gets freed up so Iam taking my chainsaw around the neighborhood and doing whatever I can. It is amazing to watch. People you never met but have lived among for years coming together to do whatever they can. It certainly renews your faith in the basic goodness of your fellow man.

Of course the sign on the gate stating that looters will be shot, and then shot again, and once more for good measure keeps the riff-raff out.

 

Fox news reported 20+ got killed. Hellava' storm.

 

as long as him and his family are ok thats all that matters cars are replaceable we aint

 

I live here in mid west Ga. we were following the storms path and the destruction the following morning. You were blessed sir, prayers go got to all in the area.

 

We can all see where this guy's priorities are[8D] I am really glad I didn't get hit with anything other than huge non-violent gusts of wind all night, but I am also sorry it hit a neighboring area.