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10-01-2004, 08:08 PM
Well, folks, it doesn't look good. Just spoke to Lyn Major and was delighted to find out that ECC opened last Wednesday. They don't have power, but felt they needed to provide the distraction of school and a dry, clean, safe place for the children so their parents could take care of business without worrying about them. Apparently Marsh Harbour really took a hit. Most all businesses along the harbor took 2-6 feet of water for some time. Fletcher's pictures of the docks (Mangoes and Conch Inn) are real. The water was so high that Batelco sat in four feet of it for days. There was seaweed at the steps of the ECC building and it's HIGH.
We got cut off, but apparently Central Abaco Primary still houses a number of families. The Mud and Pidgeon Pea are gone and the people who were still living there are left with nothing and, now, nowhere to go. Abaco Central High lost its roof again and won't be opening for some time. Eastern Shores was bad...broke in two, can only get there by boat.
Ironically, harbors took the brunt and the ocean dwellings fared better. They dread a direct East direction because the harbor can't sustain the storm surge.
Lyn said there are no leaves on any of the trees and bushes. It's Floyd revisited. Only in some ways worst b/c buildings that were compromised from Floyd now are gone. Treasure Cay had a hard time. Ocean Blvd. still is impassable.
The library in Hopetown had 4 feet of water. Almost all the books destroyed. The residue is black and stinky. Two of the teachers and some of our students went to help Kathy Weldon straighten and said its really not salvageable. The HT library is a small building mostly consisting of louvered glass windows...they don't hold up too well in driving water/rain.
The wierd part was the sand....blown all over like drifts of snow.
Pam Hepburn drove through TC up to Cooperstown and said all areas up there were badly hit.
Here we go again.
We got cut off, but apparently Central Abaco Primary still houses a number of families. The Mud and Pidgeon Pea are gone and the people who were still living there are left with nothing and, now, nowhere to go. Abaco Central High lost its roof again and won't be opening for some time. Eastern Shores was bad...broke in two, can only get there by boat.
Ironically, harbors took the brunt and the ocean dwellings fared better. They dread a direct East direction because the harbor can't sustain the storm surge.
Lyn said there are no leaves on any of the trees and bushes. It's Floyd revisited. Only in some ways worst b/c buildings that were compromised from Floyd now are gone. Treasure Cay had a hard time. Ocean Blvd. still is impassable.
The library in Hopetown had 4 feet of water. Almost all the books destroyed. The residue is black and stinky. Two of the teachers and some of our students went to help Kathy Weldon straighten and said its really not salvageable. The HT library is a small building mostly consisting of louvered glass windows...they don't hold up too well in driving water/rain.
The wierd part was the sand....blown all over like drifts of snow.
Pam Hepburn drove through TC up to Cooperstown and said all areas up there were badly hit.
Here we go again.