Hurricane Wilma Damages

It's Marty again from Wonderful Palm Beach Florida.

My Cessna was destroyed on Sunday by Hurricane Wilma, and I'm heart-broken.
I've uploaded some photos of Lantana Airport, with 3 images of my ex-pride
and joy.

www.worth.net/lantana

Updates to come.
ps. If anyone has a Cessna they're not using much ...

"Marty from Florida" marty@-x-x-x- remove -x-x- worth.net wrote in message
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It's Marty again from Wonderful Palm Beach Florida.

My Cessna was destroyed on Sunday by Hurricane Wilma, and I'm heart-broken.
I've uploaded some photos of Lantana Airport, with 3 images of my ex-pride
and joy.

www.worth.net/lantana


Wow, that is really sad!

Hi Marty

Very very sorry to hear that.
Let's hope that the insurance doesn't give you too much grief, so you
can at least start again. That is really lousy news,

Best wishes

Tony

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Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

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"Marty from Florida" marty@-x-x-x- remove -x-x- worth.net wrote:

It's Marty again from Wonderful Palm Beach Florida.

My Cessna was destroyed on Sunday by Hurricane Wilma, and I'm heart-broken.
I've uploaded some photos of Lantana Airport, with 3 images of my ex-pride
and joy.

www.worth.net/lantana

Updates to come.
ps. If anyone has a Cessna they're not using much ...

Sorry for your loss, but why didn't you move it?

I sure wouldn't let my plane sit there and risk it.


"Marty from Florida" marty@-x-x-x- remove -x-x- worth.net wrote in message
.. .
It's Marty again from Wonderful Palm Beach Florida.

My Cessna was destroyed on Sunday by Hurricane Wilma, and I'm
heart-broken.
I've uploaded some photos of Lantana Airport, with 3 images of my ex-pride
and joy.

www.worth.net/lantana

Updates to come.
ps. If anyone has a Cessna they're not using much ...

In a previous article, "John Doe" said:
Sorry for your loss, but why didn't you move it?

I sure wouldn't let my plane sit there and risk it.

We've been through this already. You get what, 3 or 4 days notice that a
hurricane is coming. In that time, you've got to face huge lineups at the
stores to get plywood, tarps, water, canned goods, and other stuff. Then
you've got to nail up the plywood and tarps to protect your house. Then
you've got to drive you and your family out of the danger area. At that
point, even if you had time to come back to the danger area to get the
plane, would you? The conditions are getting dangerous, and even the act
of returning is placing your life in danger, never mind trying to fly out
again.

It's stupid to put your life at risk to protect things. Things can be
replaced, your life can't.

--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Hardware, n.:
The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.

Paul,

Sorry to hear about your loss.

I'll point out that YOU have FRIENDS here on usenet.

I suspect there are about 100 of us who (if asked on a usenet
posting) would find another buddy, fly down, pick up your airplane
and drop it several hundred miles inland, safe from harm.

Of course, you don't know me. You don't know if I would meet
the open pilot clause of your insurance policy. You don't
know if I would steal or destroy your airplane. You just
don't know.

Yet, I am here in Colorado, and I would have done this
for you if I had just known that I could be of some help
to a fellow rec.aviator.

Best regards,

Jer/ Eberhard, Colorado Pilot.

Paul Tomblin wrote:
In a previous article, "John Doe" said:
Sorry for your loss, but why didn't you move it?

I sure wouldn't let my plane sit there and risk it.

We've been through this already. You get what, 3 or 4 days notice that a
hurricane is coming. In that time, you've got to face huge lineups at the
stores to get plywood, tarps, water, canned goods, and other stuff. Then
you've got to nail up the plywood and tarps to protect your house. Then
you've got to drive you and your family out of the danger area. At that
point, even if you had time to come back to the danger area to get the
plane, would you? The conditions are getting dangerous, and even the act
of returning is placing your life in danger, never mind trying to fly out
again.

It's stupid to put your life at risk to protect things. Things can be
replaced, your life can't.


Best regards,

Jer/ "Flight instruction/mountain flying are my vocation!" Eberhard

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Jer/ (Slash) Eberhard, Mountain Flying Aviation, LTD, Ft Collins, CO
CELL 970 231-6325 EMAIL jeratfrii.com http://users.frii.com/jer/
C-206 N9513G, CFII Airplane&Glider FAA-DEN Aviation Safety Counselor
CAP-CO Mission&Aircraft CheckPilot BM218 HAM N0FZD 235 Young Eagles!

Did the ramp tiedown anchors or lines fail? Were any of the tie down
rings in the aircraft broken or pulled out? Were all 4 tie down rings
used (for that matter are there that many in your 152?)

Obviously a lot of damage was due to loose aircraft blowing around and
into each other, but the number that ended up inverted is staggering.

Assuming many A/C took a major storm wind blast from the front as well
as the rear, might exterior wood clamping systems on the control
surface have helped? There have to be some lessons here.

It is terrible to have to tie an airplane down outside. Really sorry
for your loss.

I originally planned on taking the plane north to Georgia, with a departure
on Friday, Oct. 21st. On Thursday the 20th, the storm had stalled and was
weakening over Mexico, with a possible landfall someone near my front
driveway at 2:00pm on Monday. Saturday the storm broke into the Gulf, and
NWS predicted it would weaken, arriving on Florida's west coast as a CAT one
hurricane. This normally means as it moves over land to our shores, it would
slow to a tropical storm. It didn't. The storm surge came in Sunday morning,
and by 11:00am the eye was over my kitchen. No wind, almost sunny. 30
minutes later, the backside of the storm rolled over, with an enormous
force. At least we don't get earthquakes (yet).

In terms of tie downs, I have one under each wing and at the tail. I used
nylon strap similar to seat belt material, and doubled up with nylon boat
rope. The wind was strong enough to tear all six straps. Never seen this
before. The entire field at Lantana was smashed.



"nrp" wrote in message
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Did the ramp tiedown anchors or lines fail? Were any of the tie down
rings in the aircraft broken or pulled out? Were all 4 tie down rings
used (for that matter are there that many in your 152?)

Obviously a lot of damage was due to loose aircraft blowing around and
into each other, but the number that ended up inverted is staggering.

Assuming many A/C took a major storm wind blast from the front as well
as the rear, might exterior wood clamping systems on the control
surface have helped? There have to be some lessons here.

It is terrible to have to tie an airplane down outside. Really sorry
for your loss.

In terms of tie downs, I have one under each wing and at the tail. I used
nylon strap similar to seat belt material, and doubled up with nylon boat
rope. The wind was strong enough to tear all six straps. Never seen this
before. The entire field at Lantana was smashed.

There has to be better tiedown material than nylon.
It elongates 20%-30%. Not good when you want to keep something in place.

"Marty from Florida" marty@-x-x-x- remove -x-x- worth.net wrote in message
...
I originally planned on taking the plane north to Georgia, with a departure
on Friday, Oct. 21st. On Thursday the 20th, the storm had stalled and was
weakening over Mexico, with a possible landfall someone near my front
driveway at 2:00pm on Monday. Saturday the storm broke into the Gulf, and
NWS predicted it would weaken, arriving on Florida's west coast as a CAT one
hurricane. This normally means as it moves over land to our shores, it would
slow to a tropical storm. It didn't.

Marty is exactly right. Using exactly the same logic after listening to
the same forecasts, I initially came to the decision to leave the shutters off
of my patio door (I live just east of Lantana airport). At sundown the day
before the storm, I came to my senses and installed the shutters in the dark.
Someone in Boca Raton left the shutter off of their patio door (like I almost
did) and was crushed when it blew in. Marty took a risk with an insured Cessna;
I was about to take that same risk with my home and my life. Which one of us is
the smarter?

Aircraft ownership cuts both ways. While preparing for our FIRST hurricane
last year, I was reflecting that I was happy to be a renter pilot because that
was one less thing to worry about. Three weeks later when the NEXT hurricane
was bearing down on us, I was thinking how nice it would be to own a plane so
that I could fly me and the Mrs. out of the path of the storm (the roads were
hopelessly jammed).

Sorry Marty. Glad you are OK. There are more airplanes out there.


Vaughn (Lantana FL)