No power since 4PM today. The rest of the park has power, but our section is out. Florida Power and Light thinks it's a blown transformer and they won't send a crew out till wind gusts fall below 35 MPH. I don't blame then. Handling hot wires is calm weather work.
The afternoon wind blew the tarp off our roof. The wind went calm at 4:30 and Pat let me go up on the roof to check and brush on a couple gallons of roof coating my neighbor gave me just before Charley. Good thing I went up. The tarp was covering, among other faults, an 8 inch hole in the roof. I patched it with the plywood ROE sign for Army corp of engineers who were going to tarp the whole roof. They hadn't shown, and I used the ID sign to patch the hole in my roof. Then I used the remaining roof coating on other spots and came down off the roof and went to supper up at the club house. The kitchen crew had a good warm meal for us. Good News.
Please note the times on the Posts are Pacific Time due to the location of Google. So I'm talking Eastern Daylight Time, and the Posts show something different. Confusing, no?
Tropical force winds are expected to start at 11PM tonight and last for 12 to 24 hours. Won't that be interesting?
I'm using my laptop on battery and my dial up connection to make this post. My broadband goes down with power. It's slower to use dial up, of course, but I'm happy to be able to keep blogging. I'll be back on later.................bye for now. henry
