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We spent most of the day on Saturday sitting on the bed by our window and
watching the sky flow by in a continuous white sheet of vapor. But we never got
the feeling that we were in imminent danger, so we spent the night at home
rather than on a floor at the hospital. Some time after we went to sleep was
when all of the stuff on this and the next two pages took place! |
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At first it didn't look much worse than the day before. But as I walked further
into the Palm Aire Resort subdivisions adjacent to our complex I saw more and
more evidence that this had been a real hurricane. |
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When you consider the fact that cars are sometimes totaled when they run into
trees like this one at high speeds, you get a sense of just how powerful the
winds had been. And we were about a hundred miles south of the eye of Frances at
landfall. |
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Everywhere I looked there were trees laying on the ground, plucked up by the
roots. |
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And then there were others that still had their roots in the ground... but above
the ground they had been destroyed! |
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