You probably all know that Guy James broadcasts from WINK in Ft. Myers

...yes?

Unless you missed it the studio, that he broadcasts out of, lost several communication dishes during the hurricane pass.

I hope he gets the chance to give us a recount of the mess tomorrow!

they recover in time to give us our Saturday broadcast.

I guess Guy's area didn't get hit?

That's where Jim Cantore did his big melodramatic wind gust scene about 3:30PM today---

Steph

they were reporting 145mph winds there.

I hope we hear from Guy that he's safe, but I'm not optimistic about a show today.

could he stream on the internet even if the dishes are out for a local broadcast?

If I were a lefty Pat Robertson type of freak. I would say that god is punishing Florida for electing Jeb bush and in turn electing George the all mighty satan Bush.

I haven't tried the station to see if they are on the air...I hope Guy and Mrs.GJ are doing well-

I hope he is OK. Haven't seen Shakeydave on the boards for a month or so.

Michael didn't want to call him in the middle of everything last night; but there is another DUer that doesn't live far from him that just posted---so, ShakeyDave might even have electricity.

Stephanie

I'm on the EAST coast, so, holy Hell were we lucky. (Not out of the woods yet...still got until NOVEMBER for good ol' 'cane season!)

I was looking at the pictures from Ft. Myers paper online. I have one suggestion. If you park under a carport and a storm is coming at
you: MOVE YOUR CAR! My old house used to have one of those things. The
concept of a "car port" is DEFINITELY a Florida thing, cuz, I have NEVER seen it build anywhere else. You only see them on older houses, and I think we now know WHY! For those who have not seen this structure, it's for all intent and purpose an extention of said
house's roof overhanging approx. 20 feet wide by 20 feet deep. BUT, it's only held up BY TWO PILLARS! This would be ok...until you get to wind speeds that are, oh I don't know, THAT OF A HURRICANE! Doesn't look like there is much in the way of building codes for those things. You'd be better off parked under a tree! The more and more I think about this, the more and more I'm glad I MOVED OUT OF THAT OLD DUMP! And just so long as the tree you have your car under doesn't have a shallow root system. Avoid FICUS and AUSTRAILIAN PINES for sure! Problem with those 2 turkeys is, they aren't native to FL tress, and they get DAMN tall (40 to 50 feet is very common) and their
roots aren't all that! I've seen 'em overturned in tornadoes, and you would have thought it was like a house of cards and someone sneezed!

My advice to anyone who has an old "Florida cracker house" that has one of these damn carports: either MOVE or spend the money and finish it off into an actually GARAGE!!! Most of the pictures they had were of these carport roofs collapsed on cars. Now, if an actually CBS (concrete block & steel) structure like that didn't make it, IMAGINE THE TRAILER PARKS! I saw on Palm Beach Post's online thing that in Punta Gorda had a trailer park so badly blown away, they called for at least 60 BODY BAGS.

The one GOOD thing that came out of Andrew was these scumbag building code trolls weren't so easy to get away with just rubber-stamping any old building slapped togehter anymore. I remember a Carl Hiaasen column that blew me away, get this, down in Miami/Dade, these
slimeball builders would sometimes use HOUSEHOLD STAPLES on SHINGLES...INSTEAD OF NAILS! Have you ever heard of such shit?! Honestly, how much does a NAIL COST? These builders don't know that they're sold at Lowes?!

The paper don't have any picture yet from Captiva Island which really got nailed. They are thinking over 100 house could be wiped out. Wonder how many body bags they're gonna be needing?

Well...I don't know about you, but I'm glad I never acted on my urge to move over to the west coast...

Lu Cifer