Wilma Beat our WL up, just a little bit.

[Jack and Liz Pearce]

Howdy, Y'all.

We survived our ride through Hurricane Wilma. Our Wanderlodge was beat up a
little bit. Ms. Wilma broke a large tree limb and laid it across the roof. The
smaller branches and leaves were scraping along the driver's side of the coach.
A large branch damaged the driver's side view mirror; cracked its' support and
broke a small piece out of the upper mirror. The domed cover of the non-working
roof mounted antenna was broken. During the eye of the storm, Jack went up on
the roof and chopped part of that limb so that we could pull it away from the
sidewall of the coach. That broken limb is still hung up in that tree.

The wind was ferocious but the Wanderlodge was rock solid with little shudders
once in a while from the gusts of wind. We didn't get much rain from the storm.

When I turned on the center air conditioner on Tuesday afternoon, the fan
rattled. Jack tightened up the fan motor mount and the rattling stopped. Jack
figured that the impact on the roof from that tree limb loosened the motor
mount.

There was considerable tree damage in our park, lots of awnings ripped off of
rigs, one trailer flipped over and another fifth wheel trailer slid off of its'
front supports. Out in the storage yard, a fifth wheeler flipped over, landing
on the chain link fence and destroying it. Yesterday, Thursday, a mega-large
wrecker righted the flipped rigs. That was kind of interesting to watch.

I have photos that I will upload via a separate message. The biggest amount of
debris was the pool enclosure that was totally blown apart; walls and roof.
Amazing!

We lost electricity Monday morning and the park still doesn't have power. We do
have city water but if you want to drink it, you must boil the water for 5
minutes OR put 8 drops of plain chorine bleach in ta gallon of water. Jack
inadvertently refilled our fresh water tank yesterday without asking me about
the status of the water supply.(Gr-r-r-r) So we can't drink our water unless I
treat it. Just another example of the importance of communication. We
started our generator Monday and have been running it ever since. And we ran an
extension cord to our neighbor's house so that they could power their frig and a
Tv.


Regards,
Jack and Liz

Regards,
Jack and Liz Pearce
Fulltiming in a 1993 Wanderlodge WB40
Homesick Texans in SE. FL





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[erniecarpet@...]

liz, glad that nothing major happened to you. Hurry up and retire and get
outta there. Ernie-83pt40 in montana


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