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Subject:        Re: More Florida Hurricane News]
Date:   Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:15:38 -0400
From:   Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>



HelenJane,

Thank goodness you have been spared some of the worst out of all three
hurricanes! Thanks for sharing your status with us all, and may the
blessings of God continue to protect you down there!

Paige

At 03:23 PM 10/4/2004 -0400, you wrote:


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: More Florida Hurricane News
> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 16:35:25 -0400
> From: HelenJane Armstrong <[log in to unmask]>
> To: MAPS-L (E-mail) <[log in to unmask]>
>
> This memo is the next chapter of Hurricanes versus Florida Map
> Libraries and
> Librarians.
>
> Thank you all for your good wishes and concerns.  The University of
> Florida
> Map & Imagery Library made it through our third Hurricane with only a
> minor
> leak in the ceiling.  The eye of Hurricane Jeanne pasted about 30 miles
> south of us which means we were on the bad northeast side of the
> hurricane.
> The winds were approx 70 mph at the worst and extended 130 miles out from
> the Eye.  There were a number of tornados and the winds and rain took out
> many of the remaining  huge oak and pine trees.  We had enormous power
> outages, damaged homes and flooding.  I had to evacuate my home again
> for 3
> days because of sewer water in my home and power outages.  The land
> already
> soaked from Hurricane Frances could not absorb all the rain from Jeanne.
> This weekend I hope to get the large tree limbs off my house and
> yard.  I am
> luckier than many of my friends who are still without power, have holes in
> their roofs and/or live near the major rivers that are flooding.
>
> Hopefully this is the last time this year that I will need to post a
> message
> to Maps-L about Hurricanes in Florida.  As you can imagine many people
> with
> little left have still shown strength and humor.  I have tried to post a
> copy of the new map of Florida that has been circulating.  For those
> of you
> outside the United States, a little explanation probably is necessary.
> Every time television shows hurricane preparedness or hurricanes in
> Florida
> they show pictures of people standing in line to get plywood to cover
> windows or they show people putting up plywood on windows--thus the
> caption
> on the map.
>  <<NewestFLpostcard2.jpg>>
>
>
>
> Thanks again to those of you who emailed me.  With any luck the rest
> of the
> 2004 hurricanes and tropical storms will all die at sea!
> Helen
>
> HelenJane Armstrong, PhD
> Head, Map & Imagery Library
> George A. Smathers Libraries
> University of Florida
> P.O. Box 117011
> Gainesville, FL 32611-7011
>
>
>
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