INSIDER WILMA REPORT: Florida is not okay--PERIOD!!!

11/1/2005 6:50:39 P.M. Pacific Standard Time

Florida isn’t ok--PERIOD!!!

Florida Power and Light (FP&L) is Florida’s primary source of power. Their giant grid suffered great damage. [link to www.fpl.com]

The storm came into Florida below the West Coast version of West Palm Beach—the exclusive winter retreat, Naples—as of today (11/01/05), there are still major portions without power. There is no word coming out of Florida City where the main damage as it entered landfall, was done.


The center of the state, being less inhabited, gets no press, but it has been severely damaged. A Naval captain passed through Pahokee (along the east side of Lake Okeechobee) and said it is “GONE”, flattened—“I don’t see how it can ever recover”. The water tank is on the ground hundreds of yards from the where the tower stands.

Okeechobee, on the top of Lake Okeechobee, is severely damaged. The greenhouses there are almost all destroyed. “Why didn’t you cut the plastic I asked?” The answer didn’t surprise me—“Because we heard for days that what would come through would be 60-70 MPH winds.” He lost all his greenhouses in Ft. Pierce. Another individual in Ft. Pierce lost 3 out of 5. He too stated that the weather reporting mislead him, and, like the other person, didn’t cut his plastic, taking down the frame structures also—destroyed—crops also.

Oak trees broke, twisted, snapped. Limbs embedded house roofs, walls. The wind intensity was ferocious. The United States Coast Guard in Ft. Pierce remarked to a worker trying to raise boats at an exclusive marina, “Our instruments showed a sustained 120 mph wind with gusting to 160 mph.” We haven’t heard that anywhere except these “unofficial” statements. (Now clammed up) Trees that survived 2 direct hits from Francis and Jeanne blew down. Stuart, [link to www.suncam.tv] immediately south of Ft. Pierce was really impacted—it seems the majority of the storm passed on the North side at Ft. Pierce, and the south side….into the keys on this diagonal “slice” through Florida—over a 100 mile corridor of destruction, fast paced, out of the East and Northeast, changing to North and Northwest. The surprise is, everyone thought it would come out of the West and South West—it didn’t.

Miami, next to the “Gables” (Coral Gables) is still without power. Cell phones are almost non functional in certain areas and times. Power is not expected to be restored for weeks—November 22 is quoted often.

A tool salesman reported today that his clients—Machine Shops—from Boca Raton to Stuart are either destroyed, or the workers are not in because they have no power at home and cannot be away from their homes to work. Manufacturing in these areas has stopped.

There is NO news coverage of this in the media. National news has dropped it. All is OK—Jeb Bush even stated before the storm that he had trailer after trailer full of ice, water, and food—all he needed to have was where he needed to send it. Well, it was 4 days after the storm and FEMA wasn’t in Miami. They gave out ice and a little water for a day or so in Ft. Pierce and left. This has been the story across Florida—many, many, still need help. Many have lost their homes—homes that withstood 2004, 2005 storms……


Major only storms from 2004-2005. Has Florida been SLAMMED?

By the way—Wilma was a CAT 3 across all of Florida—not what the news said. People, we are on our own.