Hurricane Charlie made a path directly over both our current residence and our property in Geneva. We only lost a few shingles at our condo in south Orlando. There was a great amount of damage from downed trees and power lines all over central Florida. Many buildings sustained heavy damage. The damage was made worse by the lack of summer storms which would have normally blown out dead branches and brought down some of the weaker trees. We were without power in south Orlando for 4 days. The power on the road to our property was out for 2 weeks. We went out to the property the following day, and were not expecting to be able to get through the downed trees. However, the local residents were hard at work and had cleared a path through most of the roads before the local county crews had a chance to get through to them. Within 2 days, the county had cleared all but a very few roads. They spent the next few months hauling debris from sunup to sundown, 7 days a week. We had 15 trees down on our new fence and at least 60 - 70 trees either blown over, broken off or leaning badly throughout the property. It took most of three days to remove the downed trees from the fences only. The largest was over 24 inches in diameter. Almost the entire east line was full of branches almost 6 ft deep and was totally impassable. Luckily we had enough fuel for our tractor and chainsaw to get through the mess, as there were virtually no gas stations that were open and they had no fuel. Though all of this mess, our fence sustained little damage, and our equipment was unscathed. It was a great feeling to be able to cut a large tree off the fence and just reach down and pull the fence back into place without having to repair broken wires. I would definitely recommend high tensile fence to anyone.

Through all of this, we didn't bother taking any pictures. We were just trying to get everything cleaned up. We were working from daylight to dark just like everybody else.