HopperFan
"It's a bug-eat-bug world out there, princess."
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- Sep 6, 2003
What a lovely spot. Praying for the best for you and your community.
I understand how you feel. I live on martha's vineyard and the amount of erosion on the glorious clay cliffs that has occurred even in the 6 years I've been here is heartbreaking. it's still beautiful and nature always finds a way to revive itself but when you remember the glory it was before it is very sad. Hoping your condo survives unscathed (sounds like it very well might) and hopefully whatever is damaged/destroyed will be rebuilt. It will take time but it will happen.
Bless you @HopperFan! Hope all is well for you.
@HopperFan if you believe in karma, know that the good you did here helping others will come back to you.
May that karma be in the form of an intact home after Matthew's visit!
Wishing you luck & wishing you well...
@HopperFan, you and this thread were the DIS at its best!
I've been thinking about your worry and your home throughout all of this. Your home is beautiful; your slice of heaven looks perfect. I hope when you are able to make it home soon and find everything is ok. I hope you'll keep us posted. (Although I know it's none of our business and I kind of feel like a strange stalker for asking. Honestly, I'm not!)
@HopperFan Thanks for keeping everyone and everything on track as much as possible and providing a wealth of information. I hope your house is okay.
I LOVE San Augustine ... it's a beautiful, beautiful city. Been watching Weather Channel today and y'all are getting hit HARD! Praying damage isn't "beyond repair" and no loss of life. Hope you'll post "after" pictures...
HopperFan, I hope your good karma translates into an intact beach home. We own a condo at the beach in OC, MD. I was in it during Hurricane Hermine's visit a month ago. Ironic that I found myself enduring another major hurricane whilst on vacation.
As it is, life will quickly return to many tomorrow. The tourists will tour, the CMs and TMs will try to make everyone happy. I know there are still a lot of things to clean up in the region. Power is out in some communities, roofs lost shingles, trees creamed a few cars. I hope all the tourists take a minute to thank the workers around them and ask how they managed. You do not realize how humanizing it is when a stranger takes time out to care about your life.
Those college student CMs had quite an adventure. The full timers also have an experience they won't soon forget. I think everyone in town could use a good week of sleep after that drama.(Good thing is it looks like Matthew has taken the bluster out of Nicole. Hopefully this is the last big hurricane this year.)
Thank you @HopperFan , you have been amazing keeping this thread so updated. We are not there right now nor have an immediate trip (we were there a month ago) but I was praying for all in the path of the storm and hoping for the best for all.
I am so glad all are safe and Disney fared so well through this. Am I the only one who has kids looking at these wonderful pictures of the characters interacting in the hotel lobbies and asking if they can go to Disney in a hurricane?? LOL! I am not kidding. My kids see the pics and say, "Can we go to Disney when there is a hurricane?". No way to plan that but guessing Disney came out of this smelling like a rose
Sending comfort and support for whatever the next few days may bring to you. I hope your thoughtfulness is returned several times over. Good wishes for future travels in happy circumstance.
Thank you for all the information I've been keeping up.
Please do let us know what happens with your home
It's absolutely gorgeous! Let's hope that ridge saved you from too much damage. My family is very fond of the St. Augustine area. The thought of lost and damaged history makes me sick.
We have plans to do the Greek Festival stuff at St. Augustine; hopefully they can get that going after the flooding. The local news reporter said that it may be days before the water subsides. The water was up to her knees on San Marco Ave., near Bridge of Lions.
hopperfan we hope the best for your family and house !
And for anyone who needs humor....we lost power here in San Antonio for five hours....and there wasn't even a hurricane, winds, thunderstorms etc!
Thanks all for the warm fuzzies! SORRY if I missed anyone above.
I got an email from the management team. While the island is still off limits and being blocked by military guys, there are folks out there. They said they have "first hand" information the complex is in good shape. The boardwalks in place (fairly new so hoping well built) and other than landscape damage nothing obvious. Lucky just had our palm trees trimmed back so hoping they just took it. They had worked so hard for days putting anything that moves inside even on our porch. The drained all 5 pools so that they could take in water ... great because at least 4 have many units by them. They rocked!!!! I then was able to catch a live news report of a plane flying up the coast looking at everything and from high up looks good and even our beach was not badly eroded nor our dunes too bad. I know farther up in St. Augustine beach their buffer is smaller and they may have been hit hard.
They may not let folks on island until tomorrow and I hope to get more detailed reports. Of course it doesn't mean there aren't broken windows, leaks, etc. But I will continue to keep my fingers crossed that whatever is minor. I would much rather be spending money at businesses downtown to help them get back on their feet. Downtown was so bad, so deep in water. The buildings all look pretty good (don't build them like they did way back when) but of course the water was deep enough that they will all have great losses and costs inside.
I think the festival coming up, especially the Nights of Lights (which is huge and stunning) will be a driving force for them to hunker down and clean up. If you've never been to St. Augustine - wow, what a treat. Historic, fun, great foodie and drink town with so many things for kids and families etc even if you never go to the beach. http://www.floridashistoriccoast.com/nights-lights
Thank you all for the good thoughts, concern and letting me burn nervous energy on this thread. We feel so very lucky, we will for sure pay it forward and spend in the businesses that will need it!!
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