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Archive of entries posted on 13th August 2004

More on Hurricane Charley

In my last post, I forgot to mention the other things in FL to worry about besides my parents.

My grandparents are snowbirds and own a trailer (with an addition) in Fort Myers. They spend 6 months out of the year there. Thankfully, they are in IL for the northern part of their yearly cycle. However, I wonder how their place is doing.
Also, my Uncle Mark is building a house on Captiva or Sanibel, I forget which. I think its Captiva. I wonder what shape that is in.

According to CNN, many places in Fort Myers have lost part, if not all, of their roofs. Among them are the Cape Coral Hospital and the post office.

Still no word from my parents at Disney World. However, I didn’t expect to hear from them until tomorrow.

It’s a small shelter after all….

My parents have a vacation scheduled at Disney World. Unfortunately, the vacation started today. They flew out of O’Hare at 7am this morning. Appearently, with the Hurricane Charley coming their flight still flew this morning. They also deceided to still go on it.

They called my brother a little bit ago saying they made it to Florida safely. They also report that they are at Disney and have been put into a shelter there. They said they’d call tomorrow to let us know all is good.

Thanks to Mike Maggio for the post title.

Update 7/15: My parents called my brother this morning. All is good. They didn’t call yesterday because they didn’t have any cell signal yesterday. They said 7/14 was really enjoyable at EPCOT, if only because they were the only people there. No word on what the shelter was like. I guess we’ll know more next week.