Here are some posts from people I know who live in southern Florida (Hard Rock Cafe pin collectors). There is a big pin collectors get together in at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas this week, so many of the Floridian's were trying to catch flights... ======================================= We are very lucky to still have power. Over half of the residents in Broward county are still without power. The storm is still coming through north of us, our prayers are with you guys. The airports in South Florida (Miami and Ft. Lauderdale) are opened this morning, so hopefully my flight to Vegas will leave. See you all in Pindex, and those of you in Florida, hope you got as lucky as we did here in Broward. ======================================= I was also lucky because I only lost power for 1-2 minutes. However, my cable service got zapped early this morning. I couldn't sleep because of the howling wind, so I turned the TV on to drown out the noise a bit. Then we had a power surge, and goodbye cable. I live in north Broward county, and it looks like my neighbors just to the north in Boca and on up the coast suffered much more than we did. This was my first hurricane in the 4 years I have lived here. I also hope other Florida collectors are okay. ======================================= Frances was a crazy storm for us in Palm Beach and very scary last night. They call it, you ride it out, well we rode it out as they say in the closet, in the den, in the bedroom, at times the winds were over 100mph with sustained winds of 90mph+ for over 4 hours. The rain was hard, debris were hitting the back of our house very hard. Tree's were falling everywhere in our community. One landed on my car!! We still have no power, no phone and no water pressure. They expect to be out for days. We tried to leave for vegas on 7 different flights all to be cancelled, The WestPalm and Ft Lauderdale airports are still not open. We drove to Miami tonight to try to get on their only flight standby. If we didn/t make it we couldn't go back home because of curfew. Needless to say we made the stand by flight and are now in Las Vegas in air conditioning, TV, internet, phone service all those things we take for granted... ======================================= Steve