Well, I have been in Florida for about 9 years now and I can now finally say that I have been through a hurricane. Actually, the eye of the hurricane came right over my place with wind gusts of about 100 mph. The storm has been over for about an hour now (it's 11:00 PM on August 13, 2004) and here are some pictures form the damage around my place.

The winds are still in the 50+ mph range right here with a boat load of rain being dumped

This is one of the pine trees right outside my apartment that was snapped in half.

The small tree ended up like so many around here tonight; uprooted.

I snapped this picture as we drove through a darkend intersection. This signal used to hang above the traffic.

You can see this traffic light, like countless others around here, down on the ground and blown off the street.

I'll post more pics in the morning when there is a little more light.
 
     
     
 

Shortly after I posted the pictures above my cable and cable modem went out. It's five days later and it came back on. I am not in any way complaining because there are people who still don't even have power yet. We were lucky to get away with what we did. Anyway, here are some more pictures that I took the morning after. I only went up to campus and back and here are some of the sights from that trip. Mind you, this is all relatively minor damage compared to some of the other areas that I couldn't even get to because of debris in the roadway.


Well, I guess we need a new vehicle for the hybrid gas/electric project...


We are very lucky that our robot trailer was entirely missed as it was parked just a few spots down from the trailers above.

 
     

 



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