OT Charley

[Farrell]

No Sarah, it was not as you think. Yes, I was busy yesterday attending to
pianos, but nothing hurricane-related - I had an emergency tuning for a
wedding ($165!!!) and was busy routing out your keys and gluing in center
rail pin inserts the rest of the day (seems to be going well). And BTW, that
work was being done in my DRY shop that has windows and a roof (I am feeling
sooooooooo lucky).

I'm glad to hear Phil Bondi and his family are well. He is Bonita Springs,
and was about 30 miles from Charley's eye wall with the 150 mph winds -
however, he still likely experienced winds of hurricane strength. Phil's
area is only a few feet above sea level, which likely explains the power
outage.

Dave Smith's home is located at the southern tip of Pine Island, which was
only about 10 miles from the 150 mph eye. He has a condo right on the water.
His living room windows face the ocean. I hope the best for him, but I fear
his home may have suffered significant damage. I have little doubt his area
saw at least 100 to 120 mph sustained winds. His condo is three floors and
the lower level can't be but five feet or so above sea level. I hope he
didn't flood out. I hope his windows/roof didn't blow out/off. I hope he
still has a boat (I fear we won't be going fishing for a long time). Phil
told me Dave was out of the state at some function in California on Friday -
don't know his whereabouts at this time. I hope his wife was not at home and
is OK.

Dave, are you out there???

Newspapers are reporting dozens dead, but hundreds are missing - they have
no idea how many may be buried in debris and how many may have evacuated.
The cadaver dogs are out searching. This was truly a terrible disaster.
Let's hope for the best.

Terry Farrell
in intact & very lucky Tampa Florida.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sarah Fox" <sarah@graphic-fusion.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: OT Charley


> Hi Ric,
>
> I suspect Terry is a bit busy right now, perhaps doing first aid on
> unfortunate pianos?  Anyway, he's OK too.  Early predictions put Charley
> right in his back yard, but the hurricane turned east and comfortably
missed
> him.  He had no damage of any kind.  Last I'm aware, he even had power,
> although it's quite possible a tree fell across a power line somewhere and
> knocked him off the Internet for a while.
>
> I can't say I did as well.  Charley dumped tons of rain on us.  I slipped
on
> a wet step and went down.  Ouch!  I'm one enormous bruise right now.  ;-)
>
> Peace,
> Sarah
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 6:47 PM
> Subject: OT Charley
>
>
> > Hi folks
> >
> > Been a quite day on Pianotech, thought perhaps it was a good time to
> > send some good thoughts down Florida way... Terry, Jim, and the rest of
> > you folks down there...hope everything is ok for you and yours...
> >
> > RicB
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