Ok so to date my group has been in pensacola florida doing service calls, dish movers, and installs to get the local rsp's and dealers and subs back into the black as far as theyr calenders are concerned. Up to lastnight most of the work had turned into service calls for damage related to katrina, dennis, and even ivan from last year 
Ive only come across 2 dish's that sustained any kind of physical damage ( both were directv dish's ) but I wasnt in a place that I could easily stop to take a picture.
At first I had planned to take photo's of the storm damage but as I had stated in a previous post there was little to no evidence of damage other than a few piles of tree and shrub debri piled up at road sides, that was ofcourse until yesterday. Yesterday I went to south pensacola just above the naval air base and came across a residential beach neighborhood that had sustained storm surge and wind damage. Many of the homes where standing while a few had been taken down to the slabs while on either side homes still stood. At one point I found my way onto pensacola beach and here is where I found the worst damage I would see. Pensacola beach is little more than a long wide sandbar roughly on average 3 football fields wide with one main road and homes and business's at the ends and in the middle as well as a school.
Here it was the same thing, one home completely destroyed while the one next to it looking as if it hadnt even seen a drop of rain and some looked as if a car had been driven through the second floors. Sand dunes spilled over the road way, it was hard to tell how long it had been this way and when the island would return to normal. At the far eastern end there are 3 or 4 high rise hotels under construction with one already open for business, the cranes used to work on these all had theyr booms at the pivot points lowered to the ground so as to avoid any possibility of them being blown over in high winds.
So back to the pictures, I had though about this after seeing these homes and I decided against taking any pictures of any damaged homes out of respect for the privacy of the families that lived in them. It is bad enough that they have suffered the pain that comes with having a home heavily damaged or even swept away, the last thing they need is the humiliation of having some stranger putting up a picture of theyr home after it has been damaged with all of the contents set to the road side.
The daily work is shifting now, about 3 dozen or so techs and managers are headed into lower mississippi and louisiana to tackle the area's that have suffered some of the heavier damage from Katrina and now rita.
One thing has stood out in stark contrast here, there is a living spirit of community throughout all of the region that just amazes me because Ive never seen it or experienced it anywhere else. Its been so incredible to see how far people are going to help one another down here wether they know them or not, regardless of age or gender or race and religion. And many people are happy to see us down here and tell us just that, I've not had one person yet treat me in any way negative for having to wait a few weeks or even 2 months in one gentlemans case. Overall the hurricane relief is going well and should be successful when it comes to an end.
Ive only come across 2 dish's that sustained any kind of physical damage ( both were directv dish's ) but I wasnt in a place that I could easily stop to take a picture. At first I had planned to take photo's of the storm damage but as I had stated in a previous post there was little to no evidence of damage other than a few piles of tree and shrub debri piled up at road sides, that was ofcourse until yesterday. Yesterday I went to south pensacola just above the naval air base and came across a residential beach neighborhood that had sustained storm surge and wind damage. Many of the homes where standing while a few had been taken down to the slabs while on either side homes still stood. At one point I found my way onto pensacola beach and here is where I found the worst damage I would see. Pensacola beach is little more than a long wide sandbar roughly on average 3 football fields wide with one main road and homes and business's at the ends and in the middle as well as a school.
Here it was the same thing, one home completely destroyed while the one next to it looking as if it hadnt even seen a drop of rain and some looked as if a car had been driven through the second floors. Sand dunes spilled over the road way, it was hard to tell how long it had been this way and when the island would return to normal. At the far eastern end there are 3 or 4 high rise hotels under construction with one already open for business, the cranes used to work on these all had theyr booms at the pivot points lowered to the ground so as to avoid any possibility of them being blown over in high winds.
So back to the pictures, I had though about this after seeing these homes and I decided against taking any pictures of any damaged homes out of respect for the privacy of the families that lived in them. It is bad enough that they have suffered the pain that comes with having a home heavily damaged or even swept away, the last thing they need is the humiliation of having some stranger putting up a picture of theyr home after it has been damaged with all of the contents set to the road side.
The daily work is shifting now, about 3 dozen or so techs and managers are headed into lower mississippi and louisiana to tackle the area's that have suffered some of the heavier damage from Katrina and now rita.
One thing has stood out in stark contrast here, there is a living spirit of community throughout all of the region that just amazes me because Ive never seen it or experienced it anywhere else. Its been so incredible to see how far people are going to help one another down here wether they know them or not, regardless of age or gender or race and religion. And many people are happy to see us down here and tell us just that, I've not had one person yet treat me in any way negative for having to wait a few weeks or even 2 months in one gentlemans case. Overall the hurricane relief is going well and should be successful when it comes to an end.
I see satguys had their sweeper out, lol someone went through last night and replied to some threads all one word, sometimes not a word just randome letters! back on topic.
