Update - Phew!

Not our complex, but closer to town

Getting information when there are 213,000 power outages in Sarasota County alone is difficult, but our little town in Florida appears to have dodged a cannonball.

That in spite of the fact that the eye of Milton passed right across neighboring Sarasota. Instead of a 9 to 15 storm surge, reports are that the highest was 5 feet on a beach at the edge of town. 

There was damage in the downtown area, but that was from wind.

In our own area a couple of miles away we were most worried about the surge and possible damage from rising water, but I don’t believe any flooding happened in our immediate area. We’ll find out more when our condo neighbors who live there year round are able to report in.

     Yesterday was book club for the ladies who live in our complex here and we discussed our latest, The Only Woman in the Room, a fictionalized biography of Hedy Lamarr. She was a remarkable woman, who rose above obstacle after obstacle, including an abusive husband and being of Jewish heritage at the outbreak of WWII.

At one point we strayed into immigration, and more implausibly, federal funds for hurricane relief. I managed to keep my big trap shut when the bugaboo-half-truth of $750 disaster relief (only the beginning of possible funding) came up.

Honestly, people. Try reading a newspaper once in a while or at least watch more than one TV channel – you know, the kind that provides news and hasn’t been ordered to pay a $787.5 million settlement for lying.