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 10/04/04 Submitted by
Wendy Schmidt
A week ago Sunday as Jeanne passed
us and high tide came at 2 p.m., the waters of Charlotte Harbor rose and
flooded our historic district. For these two shots, I was standing out
in the middle of our street in front of our house using the zoom lens to
take a shot of the harbor. I could see the waves breaking in the park.
What you see right past the submerged car is Gilchrist Park which became
part of the harbor for a few hours. Obviously the white car was totaled!
The salt water wrecks cars! For two days after the waters subsided our
whole yard smelled of dead fish...not that there were dead fish in the
yard....it just smelled like it.
Here's Ed and I wading in the front yard! What fun! Of course we had put
everything in our house as high as we could get it not knowing how high
the waters would rise. It came to the top of our bottom step in the
front yard and leaked in across half the room in the lower back family
room that is at ground level.
Looking out our side door, you can see that
the water rose right up to the garage door, but didn't get inside this
time like it did for Gabrielle in Sept. 01 when we had 4 inches of water
in the back room and garage. The second shot shot is looking out our front door at the neighbor's house. She had
a front screened porch before Charley and a huge plum shade tree
shielding it. She has a "blue tarp" put on by the Corps of Army
Engineers and blue tarp covering her front door because water leaked in
during the rain from Frances. The red flowers line our sidewalk....or
what was our sidewalk before the water took it over.
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