I watched a local news broadcast on TV the other day and the reporter was interviewing two women who had come down to Fort Myers from up North three weeks after Hurricane Ian. They had just left a recently re opened restaurant and told the camera how surprised they were at how quickly it all got cleaned up …….
” Just like nothing happened ” said the bubblier one of the two
Well I’m sorry but I’m just going to have to call bullshit on that one as I know a man with a seeing eye dog and the both of them can readily observe that things aren’t quite at the “just like nothing happened ” stage as of yet. Of course the seeing eye dog doesn’t really give a shit about attracting a tourist dollar at this point .
Local kids around here used to call me MacGyver and after I lashed my twelve foot pole with home made plumbing parts hook to a mail box post in order it raise an internet cable high enough to allow traffic to pass the adults do too . But we witnessed the inevitable yesterday when a large debris removal vehicle barreled around the corner to snag that cable . This successfully launched my home made telephone pole down the street like a Zulu spear chased by a mailbox . It was no small miracle that my internet remained up and running but the poor people on the next street that had just got their internet back did not fare so well
It was actually quite coincidental as the owner of the mail box informed me with righteous pride that after three weeks of attempting he had successfully managed to speak with a human at the cable company . And they told him they’d be coming that very day so I needn’t re perform my MacGyver act ….and they did in fact come to repair . Later as we drove home we noticed immediately that the cable was higher but the bright warning flags we had attached were still in place .
That’s when we noticed that the “pro’s” had come and raised the cable with a twelve foot 2 x 4 and a home made hook . Obviously not trusting the reinstalled mail box post the 2×4 was lashed to the nearest palm tree …… and still not high enough for the garbage truck .
” Just like nothing happened ” said the bubblier one of the two
