Have the Florida farms checked in?

[Frankie]

I was just wondering if any had heard from the Florida farms and how they were doing?

Just heard on the news over 6 million without power.

Was any one in the direct way of the hurricane?

Others?

May be a while if they don't have power. Have you heard from anyone?

 

[CAM]

I haven't heard anything. Hoping someone will know if those in Florida faired ok.

 

[Marty]

My step son and his family was here for the weekend from Port Charlotte. They evacuated because after last year, they did not want to participate getting hit again. They called a neighbor from here today about 3:00 pm and was told it was ok for them to come back so they left and should be there by 4:00 or 5:00am or so. We haven't heard anything from them so far.

We ended up having a great time even though they are not big animal lovers they did find the minis to be a real treat. However the trick was on them since we had an unscheduled cold front move in and sleet to top it off, and they froze to death up here and couldn't wait to get back to the heat.

 

[Barbie]

Hi-

We're fine here - just had lots of heavy wind gusts and rain. The afternoon was beautiful after Wilma moved out and our cold front moved in. Stayed pretty windy though - from the north. Boy does the cool air feel good.

Kristy and Jock of Island Miniatures are fine - they had it worse than we did. Lost a tree that was damaged by Charley last year and lots of branches down, but after last year with the three storms, yesterday was a breeze.

Hope everyone else is ok and I certainly hope this is the last hurricane post for the year.

Barbie

 

[dawnsminis]

Nothing here in north central fl, except a little rain yesterday. Cleared up by noon, but was windy & cold. I hope everyone down south fl is okay.

 

[Miniv]

but after last year with the three storms, yesterday was a breeze.

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Good pun!

 

[Robin_C]

We were on the northern side of the big swathe affected by Wilma. A little over 2" of rain, which isn't uncommon even for a summer thunderstorm. Since we live on a hill, we don't ever have standing water, so rain's never much of a problem. I could do without all the wind, however. Gusts into the 40's, but not nearly as bad as the hurricanes last year, PLUS it went by so fast. The worst wind and rain only lasted from about 4 a.m. to 9 a.m. -- enough to get me out of bed glued to the newscasts and radar. The oddest part of this whole 24-hour period though was going from sweltering heat and humidity over the weekend, then enduring these frightening winds and rainstorm, only to walk out at 6:00 a.m. Monday and have it be in the 50's WHILE you're in the midst of a tropical storm. Now THAT'S one for the record books! We went from body clipping horses over the past two weeks just to keep them from keeling over from heat exhaustion to piling on the blankets for our 40's last night (remember that Florida has wet cold, so feels much colder than 40). Tonight we're supposed to have frost here in Brooksville. In 48 hours we've gone from tropical to arctic!!!!! Florida -- gotta love it

Robin C