Hi Glen and everyone else, I'm still alive and kicking. Charlie came DIRECTLY through the town that I live in. Windspeed was offically 105 to 115 MPH but I watched out the window as several small tornadoes went through and the wind speed in them was much higher. I watched as the wind would sudden reverse direction and everything took off in the opposite direction or sometimes just went round and round. Some of the trees around here split lenthwise and are now twisted up like a piece of rope! The trees around here took a REAL BEATING! I'd say that OVER 99% of the trees are badly damaged. And this part of Florida has LOTS of trees. A lot of the trees were completed up rooted. Probably 3/4 of the large still standing trees had the tops broken out of them about 15 feet above the ground. The remainder of the big trees are beat all to hell with many major branches broken out. The smaller trees (<10') didn't have the tops and limbs broken out of them but many were uprooted and the ones that weren't have been bent over and are all pointing north! It really looks bizarre! You just have to see the damage to believe it! I'll try to post some pictures later. I have a large pine tree that fell in my yard and landed on the back of my daughter's Daewoo Naubira. The top of it also landed on the roof of my house. The Daewoo took most of the blow so there wasn't much damage to the roof of the house but the car has significant damage. I'm sure that one of the tornadoes got that tree. The main wind was blowing north but the tree fell to the west! I have several sheds behind the house and I lost the roof off of one and all the roof shingles from another (the plywood sheathing held). The door on another one blew open and the doorway was facing directly into the wind. The back and side walls of that one are all bowed out and the corners are split open. It looks like someone inflated a ballon inside of a cardboard box! I'm sure that everything in all three sheds got a good soaking but I haven't had a chance to look and see. An dto tell the truth I'm not sure that I want to know! I had about half of someones roof and aluminium siding all over my yard. BTW there were so many tree limbs down in my yard that you literally couldn't walk through it. I spent 2 1/2 days just pulling out the big ones. Everyone in this area has similar problem and the sides of the road sides all look like hedges now from all the tree limbs and logs that are piled up and waiting to be hauled away. Most of the houses (including mine) here have wooden finces and they're all gone. I'm now seeing neighbors that I haven't seen in years! We didn't have power for several days. My father lives several counties away and has a 10KW generator. I finally got out and went over and borrowed it and brought it back. It wasn't running but I thought I'd try to fix it. That trip took 1 1/2 days and about 2 hours after I got home, the power came back on! You'll never truely appreciate electric power till you've been without it for several days in a Florida summer!!!! I was out of power for about 3 days, Glen's power was out for over a week! and there are still some people that don't have power yet (over two weeks). The first two days after the storm weren't too bad (low 90s) but since them the temperature has risen to the mid 90s and the humidity is well over 90%. Today is the first time that I've spent any time on the net. I've been busier than a one-armed paper hanger but MOST of the outside work is complete. Now I just have to clean inside the house and catch up on all the E-mail, E-bay, phone calls, etc, etc, etc. Joe At 02:27 PM 8/29/04 -0400, you wrote: