James L. (Jim) Beasley (1967)
Update on our Florida house and Hurricane Ian:
We were at our Missouri house on Table Rock Lake when Ian went through our Florida area on September 28. When utilities got reconnected, I headed back down on October 21, with lots of equipment to clean up our property. I made in 15 miles in Missouri, hit a deer, and totaled our SUV.
It took from then until the first of December to get the insurance settlement-ish, get a replacement vehicle (200 miles away in Tulsa), get the title sent to us in Florida, and get it registered, December 22.
The good news is that when I got back to our Missouri house on October 21, the phone rang, and a church group from Peachtree City, GA, wanted to know if we still needed our property cleaned up. After service that Sunday morning they showed up with chainsaws, a mini excavator, and a crew of workers, and did in 2 or 3 hours what I could not have. They facetimed us around the property before and after.
When we got here last week, our house was the onlyn one on the block that had all the debris hauled away.
Our Snowbird friends came down before us and fixed a few things that still needed fixing, and I'm still working on them. It's still a mess down here, and a lot of what used to be here is gone all around us.
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