[South Florida DX Association] Jupiter Report

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I have seen a few reports from a few of the members and how they survived 
WILMA.  I thought I would add my contribution to the information pool.

All is well at W4QN all things considered.  No power in Jupiter, but the 
standby generator is doing fine.  But because of the wide spread power outage 
there is no Cable.  The damage to trees and power poles is worse then the combined 
effects of Francis and Jean of last year.  The "backside" winds were more 
devastating then the front and was the cause of most of the damage I have 
observed in my area.  We were in the "eye" for about 2 hours, things very quiet, 
neighbors outside viewing the damage and in some cases picking up some of the 
debrie.  For naught as it turned out because the back wall of wind sweep those 
efforts away.

Cubex building did well, but no power so we have very limited operations.  
The now 60deg temp. will help during the clean up phase.   

I hope no one has suffered any serious damage .

Norm W4QN