What's the most bad luck you've had in a day?

**jayboat** · 11-01-2012, 06:09 PM

Originally Posted by Wheeler

Damn Jay! sorry to hear this, did you rebuild?

I was renting. Had only been in town for 10 weeks- still had stuff in boxes. Neighborhood was obliterated- there were about 400 houses there and less that a dozen were left inhabitable (mostly modular and older built-in mobile homes). Local TV station used an aerial photo of the area on the cover of their DVD of the storm.

Several people in the neighborhood were killed- I just got lucky. Worst part was on Monday (storm hit on a Friday) the guy I worked for decided to close the business because everything was wrecked, and take the write off so everyone lost their job. I didn't know a soul in town. I spent the next couple of miserable weeks drying out my chit and packing- moved to Ft Myers.

I thought my hurricane experience would get me by since I went through 6 of them in 10 yrs on a barrier island in North Carolina. A cat 4 storm with 175mph gusts will fix that stupid in a quick instant.

The area had canals, every house had a boat dock and/or lift. There were freakin boats everywhere. The little marina down the block had a 3 story dry storage rack... pics below tell the story- all are within half a mile of my house.

It was a very tough time, but many others had it much worse than me.