Monday, September 06, 2004

Aftermath of Frances

Frances left Florida last night after devastating almost the entire state. They say that the damage cost around ten billion dollars, but I thought so otherwise. Seems that the extent of the destruction could somehow reach around less than a hundred billion. The good thing is, we're safe. We were spared the utmost damage that Charley could have had dealt us if the hurricane swept past us (yeah, good thing God heard our prayers).

I'm planning to post some pictures of the hurricane's aftermath, but since I don't have the photo hosting software, I'll just have to describe the worst part of the storm. Sometime last night, I think, around 2AM--Sas and I were still awake (she was reviewing for her Nursing board exams), when we heard a really loud clang outside the apartment. We thought it was merely one of the monobloc chairs that our Hispanic neighbors put, but instead the wind blew off the rain gutter that ran at the side of the apartment and snapped as it fell. The twisted metal now lay outside, beneath a steady downpour and the cacophony of the roaring wind. Broken tree limbs and leaves litter every driveway, street signs hung helplessly, dancing to the quiet rhtyhm of the wind gusts.

Anyway, will try to have lunch first...

latest musing of Etchie at 11:31