We got everything power washed, killed the weeds poking out of the pavers, unpacked the casita, and unpacked our trailer to get set up for the season. Due to the onset of hurricane Milton, we repacked everything up and since it was projected that we would be hit with the storm surge we sandbagged our doors.
We are truly Floridians now since we have sandbagged for a hurricane. We decided to head over to the Prince John Campground located outside of Palm Beach as the hurricane looked like it was going north of Myakka.
It was the same campground where we rode out hurricane Ian two years ago. It was nice and close to our friends Rhody & Barry Hausauer. Our first night there we headed over to their house for a very nice dinner. It’s great to have friends in times of need!
During the following day we watched the weather and fretted about what Milton would do to our casita. As a distraction, we went out to dinner with the Hausauer’s and friends of their, Stuart & Jane Watt from Siesta Key, who were also evacuated and in hiding from Milton. Rhody booked reservations at Table 26:
Nice place with great food!
During dinner we received notice that our campground ordered an evacuation and we needed to be out by 11am the next morning. Since it was late we could not book new reservations somewhere.
Panic started to settle in but there was nothing we could do until the next morning.
After hours of trying to find a place, Katrina worked her magic and got us a spot at the Aztec Motorcoach Resort in Margate, FL. So we headed there at about 11:30am. The only problem about the spot was that we had to pay for a five night minimum at $145/night!
I can only hope that our Myakka River Motorcoach Resort would be more accommodating to fellow RV’ers in their time of need!
Again, since there was nothing we could do except watch the hurricane Milton slam into the gulf coast we went out to dinner at Houston’s with Rhody and Barry.
Watching and fretting!
We got back to the coach and stayed glued to the tele…
Dawn, a new day. Heard from some people who were able to get into Myakka to assess the damage. We survived fairly well. Our casita and lanais are fine, no water. No power yet. The resort has some damage with branches and fencing down.
We will have to wait and see more when we get there.
We thought that evacuee traffic would be lighter if we headed back to the west coast on Friday morning as we had heard that the power was back on.
It was backed up through the toll booth and then it opened up all the way home. We arrived back at the Myakka River Motorcoach Resort we found that our casita was just like the picture above and that the only damage that we suffered was a broken screen door.
Power washed everything again and brought our the furniture – hopefully we will not have to deal with another hurricane!
In the resort there were many palm fronds down – eight trailer loads that we cleared the following day. Our outstanding Resort Manager had already repaired the downed fencing! Joe is fantastic! All that is left to deal with is some broken lights and picking up of small branches. A good lawn mowing would make the place look like it was back to normal except for a lot of smaller vegetation dying from the sea salt on the branches. We will have to wait and see if they recover.
All-in-all we feel very lucky and blessed!
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