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Crap, Mike! We got next to nothing but I was laying in bed that night thinking about you. Glad *you're* OK! Any insurance?

Sorry to hear about all that. I wish there was something we could do to help.

Rick C.

More fitting for a good ship to fall in battle than rust away forgotten somewhere. Give her a Viking funeral, if you can. ;-)

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Burn less fossil carbon. More CO2 in the atmosphere contributes the anthrop ogenic global warming, and the one degree Centigrade warming we've had so f ar means that bigger areas of ocean get above 26 degree Centigrade and can contribute to more intense hurricanes.

You might hope for more hurricanes of the same intensity as in past times, but the modelling suggests that it's much the same number of hurricanes wit h the average intensity at a higher level than it used to be.

It's all much too complicated for Trump and the average Republican, and the people who dig up and sell the fossil carbon make much too much money out of the business to want to stop (even if anthropogenic climate change is ev entually going to trash many of their other assets).

Since that group includes the Koch brothers who more or less own the Republ ican Party (or at least the Tea Party faction) there's no particular myster y about why Republicans are so slow on the uptake.

Damn. Good luck with all the repairs. I bet there are stray pets needing food too.

NT

Sorry to hear that but is it really the end ? Slightly smaller scale for a bit, Keep that demand, and then just grow into your space like last time. You didn't spend the rent on freezers.

Anybody can hawk some shrimp, but you can make money on it because you have developed the connections and clientele. That's your asset.

Might almost want to rent a place for it, free up all that square footage in the house or whatever roof is over it, head for the high ground much as possible and a good size generator. Even solar. But burn that bridge when you come to it.

Connections to buy the shit and connections to sell the shit means it is a business. I would be damn reluctant to give it up.

Good luck whatever you do.

We lost power for 3 weeks in Wilma (both at the house and 2-1/2 weeks at th e office).

Believe it or not, you can actually get really tired of cooking out every n ight on the BBQ grill every night! Plus, no air conditioning or hot water in South Florida... (Well, the water is a little warm.. this is South Flo rida)

Best of luck in your recovery efforts. I do feel for you! But at least you're in one piece.

BTW: I'm reading the industry press that Verizon is taking some heat for s low restoration efforts. Some of their backhaul infrastructure took a beat ing in the storm. (And since AT&T is a company I love to hate - long story - it's disheartening to me that they didn't have too much damage. Only 15

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Wilma isn't in south Florida.

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Waste of time to even attempt to communicate with mindless people like him. The winds storm is the least of his troubles as climate change is killing off all the fish he's stealing from the ocean on a regular basis. Florida i s a mismanaged abomination, and right now they're being hit with record tox ic algae blooms that are killing everything, this due to mismanaged agricul tural runoff. The whole state has been ruined, man's presence there is a p estilence, and nature will crush them.

House insurance, no business insurance, I'm not sure how much of my electronic parts will be covered by my home ins. a lot of it was in the garage and drawers got opened when the wall tipped, and water damage. Mikek

Only the parts I can locate! :-)

We had started trying to sell the business in recent months, thought we would be done by early 2019. It just happened a little early without in sale money coming to us. :-( Mikek

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Shrimps are crustaceans, not fish.

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They are peculiarly vulnerable to sea level rise, so submerge, rather than crush.

Verizon sucks. We had did a test with my wife's cellphone and put it on Republic wireless for $23.91 a month with a gig of data. We are not especially happy with the operation and went to Verizon to change back on Tuesday before the storm, but they were closed. My Verizon phone didn't work, her Republic Wireless phone never lost service. I'm glad Verizon wasn't open that day! Mikek

Oh dear, I'm sorry. Anything we can do? At least you and your wife are OK.

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That has nothing to do with it. They are referred to as a Gulf shrimp fishe ry.

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Pity that Florida doesn't have any big cliffs to jump off.

The Gulf shrimp are the best. They are hard to get here in California, especially with the heads still on.

The Gulf oysters are the best, too. All those nutrients make them fat and happy.

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It's Florida, so some industrious entrepreneur can build something cheap an d artificial, like most of their construction, for them to jump off of.