If you are planning or you are aleady underway via the ICW or ocean to
mid east coast of Florida or to FL west coast north of Ft. Meyers and
to Panhandle area of NW FL and west, the best advise anyone can give
and take is to stay away. The people whose marinas and boats were
damaged do not now need your business. They need time and energy to
recover from recent storms.

For your own safety and for your boat's safety, channel markers are
often missing or moved, channels and bottoms have often changed
(sometimes dramatically) from severe silting and and so charts are
useless, debris litters the ICW and channels off of ICW. Many bascule
bridges on ICW are damaged and currently inoperative. Most marinas are
badly damaged or destroyed, electric power is still out, fuel supply
is at best spotty and uncertain, water supply and sanitary facilities
are often unavailable or tenuous, etc. Dredges and barges are working
to make repairs and to recover beached and sunken boats (thousands),
but they need space for meanueverability. They do not now need any
boat traffic to contend with.

If you still believe none of this applies to you, please stay in the
ocean and Gulf along FL coasts and head S directly to Ft, Lauderdale
or to Miami and the FL Keys or N and W in the Gulf of Mexico N of Ft.
Meyers to ports west of Mobile AL.

Most of FL is not now the place to go. Give us a chance to recover our
stressed out lives, properties and businesses. And donate to
charities!

A good portion of us in the northeast would like to make a donation to somesort
of charity, but for me personally, I want to donate to something that uses all
the money for the intended use. Not just 5% and the remaining 95% goes to
clerical.
Please Advise,
Sincerely,
Frank

A good portion of us in the northeast would like to make a donation to
somesort
of charity, but for me personally, I want to donate to something that uses
all
the money for the intended use. Not just 5% and the remaining 95% goes to
clerical.
Please Advise,
Sincerely,
Frank


http://www.flahurricanefund.org/

royalld
http://shibumi.us

You can send me the money, our tour business has been basically nothing for 5
weeks now. I will spend 100% on good things.

thanks

Sterling

What's your tour buisness? I am planning to go to Key West end of Nov and
always enjoy a good tour.

"Florida Keyz" wrote in message
...
You can send me the money, our tour business has been basically nothing
for 5
weeks now. I will spend 100% on good things.

thanks

Sterling