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  1. YachtForums, Sep 6, 2004
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    Hi all,

    There is a 100 mile stretch of Florida's Gold Coast w/o power, including myself so... I took a drive up to Stuart, which is around 70 miles north of where I live (Boca Raton). I hear the hardest hit of all the communities is Ft. Pierce, which is about 20 miles north of Stuart. I didn't have enough fuel to go to Ft. Pierce, as there are no gas stations open.

    These pics are in random order. I don't have enough juice on the laptop to ad lib each one, but a picture is worth a thousand words. Here we go...

    The first picture could have been repeated 100's of times. This is what billboard advertising looks like all over the east coast of Florida (no joke)...

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    This was an auto repair facility just south of Stuart...

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    This is a restaurant with a motel in the rear. The motel was in worse shape...

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    Saw this mobile home going north on US-1 in Hobe Sound...

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    This mobile home was right next door...

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    I thought this was kind of interesting. Look closely... the lights have been smashed out of this traffic light. :confused:

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    These traffic light pictures represent A LOT of intersections through out Stuart and north to Ft. Pierce. There was no wind blowing when I took this pic, they are bent from the force of the wind when Frances came through.

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    This one is hard to believe. This is a 200 foot long section of a concrete wall that was blown over....

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    OK, let's go onto the boats and marinas. This was a rack storage marina in Jupiter.

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    This is Manatee Marina in Pt. Salerno, just south of Stuart...

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    This Hatteras was blown off of its boat stands...

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    Check out the name of this sailboat... "Summerwind". Appropriate, huh?

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    As I'm driving over the Stuart Bridge, I see something that looks like a mast. It is!

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    This is that sailboat...

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    But wait. There's more...

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    Docks along the intracoastal in Stuart. Literally a lumberyard...

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    This gives new meaning to the term "yacht club"...

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    You'll need a dinghy to get to your boat here...

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    Do you want to guess what kind of boat this was? :(

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    A sailboat in front of Sundance Marina, just south of Jenson Beach.

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