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I've been here many times. It would be great if you could get the trails cleared off after a Storm within a reasonable amount of time. I've seen trails blocked off for months because a limb or tree fell over it. I quit going here because it's already a small place, and with trails blocked off, it's even smaller.. This is an excellent place for kids to learn. But for more expierenced riders, Go somewhere much larger. You can cover thos entire park in 30-60 minutes easily. It is a nice facility. But not for anyone who's wants a days adventure riding new and fun territory. It's just too small, IMO.
Paul Womble and Billy Abernathy have made a HUGE impact on the growth of emergency management professionals in the State of Florida. They were exceptional mentors to me and I thank you both.
I've sat in that milk truck on many rainy days and nights. Walls are full of holes but the roof was good then. All these city slickers have built gazebos and pick nick tables. I was there when the canal still had mounds on the banks and hogs would be standing on top of the mounds. God knows I miss the old days.
I'm glad I found your history tale of the river land. I wish I could save all the land because the money hungry vampires of today has no love for the land. I'm 70 yrs old now and had the grace of owning an air boat for 16 years and road on zippers properties hunting ducks with Dick Poke owner of Cypress Gardens Ford De Haven owner of Gulf State Signs. My they rest in peace. I'm friends with the Cosises that own Camp Lester next to camp Mack. Y'all are my kind of people. My family were from Chattanooga Tennessee. I've lived in Polk county 70 yrs and worked and watched the Citrus industry flourish. I miss it. Now I hate all the land being raped. God Bless all y'all's families. Thank you for your history lesson!
I live in a mobile home park in Lake Wales and my weather man of choice was Tom Terry. I remember that we weren't going to evacuate but Tom said he didn't believe it was going to come in where other weather originations were saying and then he laid out his path and why he thought it and I don't recall exactly what he said but just his conviction on this and his explanation made total sense. I got scared and I remember standing up from the desk and saying we gotta get out now so we scrambled to get all the animals together (I'm in the front yard with one of my pet Silkies (breed of chicken) looking at a black wall of clouds coming in and a funnel cloud trying to drop putting her in a kennel and just my mood or vibe or something cause all 3 of them went dead quiet and super meek and hunkered down when they were out in the kennel. Animals know things) and 4 vehicles squared away with only 2 drivers (taking a guess on where to park the other two we chose to leave to try and minimize any potential flying debris damage), grab the most important stuff and we left. Unfortunately we had to go further into Charley's path to evacuate and went to Homeland into a house that had withstood Donna. As we got partially settled we turned it to Tom again and it's like 4:15 about and he said where you're at at 5pm is where you have to stay to hunker down. It was right about this time we realized we left the gun. Had our place been destroyed and someone had found it we would have been liable. I told this in another video about all this last week, but let me tell you, when there's no cars and you ignore traffic lights and speed limits and you're driving some early 70s Ford flavored American Muscle you can get from Homeland to the Waverly side of LW back to Homeland in 45 minutes about (I just got a flashback to that. When we pulled up to the trailer, well I slide into the yard, I yelled, "3minutes!" And we're grabbing other needed items beyond the firearm) . 👍 We pulled back into the driveway at Homeland a few minutes after 5 and the weather we endured coming back and just getting back into the house from leaving the car was incredible. Charley was incredible. Francis was nothing and Jeanne was just nasty. Numb is the best way to describe it after Jeanne (storm #3) came through. We went to our friends place in Homeland all three times and after it was all over everyone's just going around shell shocked. That's another way to describe it too. I think everyone was like that for some weeks afterwards too.
It will be quite interesting to see how it goes with another big one or some back to backs with so many people here now, much more land developments.... Good video .... Would have been nice to see actual more damage, flooding and empty shelves to drive the point home.... Generator & heavy duty extension cords was the best investment I made after 2004 for hurricane supplies.
Ya know, hurricane season here in lake Wales is a secret fear of mine(or rogue tornado..."knock on wood"(I don't think many or any homeowners have a basement underground here on top the scrub).. but 2 years ago the wind had me and "all" my four cats jump on my bed,and we huddled kinda like thinking we were on a safety raft,and I had to literally move all my furniture against my windows,cause we all got so scared how violent it got..Then the power went out!!... We were sitting ducks,I was not prepared,I couldn't find a workable flashlight,my cats were quiet and we just stayed on our imaginary life raft(my bed!)... I remember praying as their ain't no nonbelievers in a foxhole quote crossed my mind!!!....
Fifteen days without power, a week without water then three weeks of boil warnings. Prepared for about ten days of fuel for the generator and a couple months worth of water. Plenty of food. We are more prepared now. Many folks ridiculed the "doomsday" mindset then. I suspect many will do so now. We are more prepared today because of it but I doubt one in twenty has even a couple of days worth of water on hand. The government may even try to be of help but they are ***not*** going to be there when ***you*** need them so do what you can for your own self. Peaceful Skies
I have a theory that if you are diabetic the mosquitos want you more than other people because of the increased blood glucose and I think they like more sugary blood in general.
