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I actually bought my lot a couple/three days after Frances came through in early September 2004. There wasn't much damage around. A few old trees fell (one severely damaged a house, if I recall corrcetly), many newly-planted ones were uprooted, but TV came through and put most of them back up, right away.

There were at least a half-dozen of the majestic live oaks damaged or destroyed in the grove of them at Stillwater Trail and Buena Vista Blvd (just southwest of Market Square). The area looked as though there'd been a small tornado there.

Eleven or so miles east of us, where my brother lives, there were many houses with a handful of shingles gone, and, it being an aviation complex, several windsocks were also blown away. They were without power for almost ten days, but it's a rural part of Marion County and not high on the priority for repair. So far as I know, only very small parts of TV lost any power, and that maybe for less than a day!

Subsequent storms were less noticeably severe. Our inland position should help us weather anything except the most ginormous of storms!

SWR