OT Charley

[Farrell]

I need to revise my recent post regarding the track of hurricane Charley. I
saw a revised track of Charley from the National Hurricane Center in the
paper today - the strong side of Charley's eye wall came somewhere between
15 and 20 miles from Phil Bondi - no doubt he saw sustained winds well over
100 mph. Measuring distances on the map of the track puts the center of
Charley's eye passing three miles west of Dave Smith's residence - AND THE
EYE WALL, WITH SUSTAINED 145 MPH WINDS, GUSTING TO 160 MPH, DIRECTLY OVER
HIS HOME. Dave's condo is directly on the water. I can only assume his place
suffered significant damage, if not much worse. His shop WAS on the first
floor (ground level) - I'm sure the tidal surge took that out.

I've got emails and phone messages in several source for him to contact me,
but have not heard back yet.

I may be able to help him with housing, so please, anyone that should get in
contact with him, please have him call or email me ASAP.

mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
terry@farrellpiano.com
home - (813) 654-0969
shop - (813) 684-3505

The day before Charley hit, Phil Bondi told me that Dave was in California
at PianoDisc School on Friday, the day of the hurricane. Does anyone have
any information on that PianoDisc session? When was the class to conclude?
What facility was it at? Any contact numbers?

Thanks.

Terry Farrell
In Mercifully Spared Tampa, Florida

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: OT Charley


> 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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