Hello All. WE HAVE POWER! I was doing the We have power dance in the driveway today along with the rest of our neighborhood. Went in and danced with the ferrets -- they loved it. Took it about 2 hours to cool down in the house but we have air conditioning. Twelve days without air conditioning in Florida does weird things to people and animals. Ferrets were very disappointed that they did not get to take showers today. It's 6 days and counting till the insurance people come. The back of the house looks like some drunk with duck tape and air conditions conduit tape went nuts (a hint here, first tape the breach with duck tape and then get air conditioning duct conduit tape and tape over that it hold a seal and will not let water in. Due to rain today or tomorrow so we will see how bad the roof is. Ferret room, one bedroom, the bathroom seem to be O.K. Not sure about the rest of the house and of course the screened ferret play porch is a complete wreck. The inside of the house looks like a Hurricane came through. I won't let anyone in the house they would trip over coolers or furniture of stuff packed in hundred of box's. Ran around procuring food today and some MRE's at the fire station. Am going to the grocery store tomorrow and get Milk, bread other necessities. Countryside the mobile home community I live in has been great. In the last 10 days they have picked up debris cut down the trees in the road and our community looks better than anyone else's; well maybe not the two houses across the street have no roofs at all and they a demolished. Each day we see, fiberglass insulation and aluminum from the house's that people put out on the road. Larry is going to ask the man across the street if we could have a couple of his shutters as they are the same color as the ones on our house -- and we lost a couple of those. We think he will let us have them after his insurance people come -- his home is a total loss. Some of the people in our neighborhood (average age is like 75) just couldn't take it anymore and went to find hotels because of the heat. They were delighted when they came home today and there was air conditioning. Picking up the ferrets from the Humane Society tomorrow, 5 in all. Lots of people did not act smartly and left their dogs tied up outside, or let their cats out during the storm. Debbie House and I did animal patrol today and also went to a horse farm to help some very skittish horses. Sad to say the groves along our runway are a total loss with the Grapefruit. Some oranges still remain. Have loads and loads and loads of wash to do for the ferrets -- use to be a chore -- now it's a blessing. I am going to e-mail thank you notes to all of you who have donated money and articles to us and continue to do so. It will be a couple of weeks as I have to get the house in order and the new ferrets to the vet and then see what IVAN does and what support I can give there. Will have to coordinate things for IVAN as I cannot be on site due to the damage at home and Citrus Grove Aviation, Inc. due to Frances. We are talking to our creditors and asking for 30 day extensions till we can get on our feet again and get help from FEMA. It looks very possible that we will qualify for the 3% government loan. Well, that's all for now, I'm using someone else's computer till I can get my back over to the house and up, don't want to put it back in the spare bedroom until I know that is a safe area. We still need your help so contributions can go to paypal to Agedog1 or by snail mail to the below address. I am so saddened that I have to ask -- usually I can do this on my own -- how embarrassing this all is. Pray for those who are in the path of IVAN. Chere McCoy Ferret Friends of Indian River County 8775 20th Street, lot 614 Vero Beach, FL 32966-3065 A "NO KILL" shelter since January 1991 [Posted in FML issue 4636]