(09-30-2022, 09:46 PM)Jags239 Wrote: I live in Cape Coral. Everything is destroyed. We have a newer house with updated code and roof is fairly new, so while pretty damaged, it is livable. Everything else on property is leveled. More fortunate than most around us. Just now seeing what what I heard happening to places like Ft. Myers Beach. Had a friend evacuate when water was about 4ft in their single story house. Got lucky as water ended up over the roof.

I'm sorry to hear of all the grief down there. I haven't seen much about it thanks to our internet being in and out. What I have seen, I can't even imagine. I guess the way to look at your situation is, because you still have a place to live you can somehow help those who don't. Helping a neighbor with clean-up or providing hot meals. 

When I worked at Habitat for Humanity of Jacksonville we were building a house next door to a very generous man who kept us warm throughout the day with coffee and a giant pot of chili. That day we were there to shingle the roof was cold. Hell, it was frigid with a low of 25° that morning and it "warmed up" to the mid-40s. Twelve years later I remember the generosity of that man better than I remember pretty much anything else from that year. It truly was a blessing.

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