We got power back by the time we got home late Saturday afternoon. Under a water boil and no sewer service. All pumping stations on Manasota Key were down and a few other places where debris covered pumping station equipment. From Englewood Beach to Stump Pass I would guess none of those homes are rebuildable. Ones still standing have three feet of sand throughout.
Worse part is, after Hurricane Helene people had cleaned homes affected and bought new mattresses, etc.. Restaurants across from Englewood Beach had worked non-stop to get reopened and one had been open one day when Hurricane Milton came by.
We now have limited use of sewer meaning the old adage of, if it's yellow, let it mello, and if it's brown, flush it down, applies. Gives someone an entirely different perspective on the trials people in western North Carolina are feeling with nothing other than bottled water and no sewer service at all and prospects of getting service at least five or six months in the future, if that.
It will be a long, hard, road for those people.
