Just got off the phone with The Dad, who lives mostly in Fort Walton Beach, FL. He's at the house in River Ridge right now, having left Ft. Walton for the hurricane. Ft. Walton was hit very hard and there is still no electricity. The house is at the end of one of what they call "Bayous" there. It's really kind of a bay, but at any rate, this particular property is pretty low to the water, and according to one of the neighbors, who contacted him via voicemail, his house had at least a foot of water in it (still does, for the most part). He's going to try and get over there on Sunday to take some photos, assuming the sherrif lets him in. There will be a lot of work to do, so I may be taking a little unplanned vacation in a week or two. Last time there was a bad hurricane there, which wasn't all that long ago, he and his wife had a couple of condos on the beach in Destin that were pretty much wiped out, so they sold all of that and bought a little house in Ft. Walton.
Nice training ride this morning. Folks are still a little preoccupied, and with the season winding down nobody seems very interested in riding hard. I think that tomorrow's Giro ride will probably cure that. After almost a whole week of "recovery rides" and rides to recover from the recovery rides, I'm feeling kind of fat and lazy. This is not good. It sounds like it will be nice and cool in the morning for the next few days (like lower than 80F), so that should be nice because right now it's hot as a whorehouse aroud here.
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