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Home My WebLink AboutCC 2002-10-07 Advertisementgrandfather settled here 80 years ago. The wide, green expanse of sugar -cane stalks lay shredded, tangled and, in some cases, bro- ken — a word only whispered in these parts. "This little sucker was a mean one," said Gonsoulin, 54, who hid four generations of his family from Hurricane Lili in a Bay of Pigs -era military bunker Thursday. Lili had dissolved by Friday 'afternoon, leaving in her wake a 11 Hurricane forecasters no longer Time 11 P.M tracked a weakening Lili. Movement 9 mph Direction NMI From Miami 665 miles From Cape Hatteras 365 miles MAA100502 THE HERALD few Ohio Valley storms and an estimated $600 million in dam- age, mostly in Louisiana, according to the Insurance Information Institute in New York. 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"This storm did more dam- age than any other storm," said Gonsoulin, who expects his 2,300 acre farm to lose about half of its yearly net profit. "This thing was directly on top of us." Lili, blamed for a dozen deaths in the Caribbean, took no lives and caused two reported injuries along the Gulf Coast. But the storm flooded low-lying homes, streets and farm land across southern Loui- siana and knocked out power to half a million people. STEPHAN SAVOIA/AP FLOODWATERS: Holc ng her 4 -month-old s.rl i -acey Ledet waits in the i boat to take her to 1'er flooded home in Flo Itegut, La., on Friday. L it lid extensive damage to t' - nunity of 4,000. Some 21,000 �:u ;tomers were without pour et Friday afternoon, prompting n adio ads for power generators n stock. Utility officials said tepairs could take up to a we el in some areas. Utility trucks flood !d Inter- state 10 westbound in a miles - long procession to hell I restore power to affected arew. . Florida Power & Light Co. an:.iounced it will send a team of 300 employees and 550 ,:ontract workers to assist. Mastec has sent more than CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING PLEASE ALL TAKE NOTICE THAT an Effected Officials Legislative Workshop will take piare on Monday, October 7, 2002 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the Orange Bowl Athletic Club located at 1501 NDN. 3rd Street, Miami, Florida. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the City of Miami's ' Legislative Priorities for the 2003 Florida Legislative Session. Members of the public are invited and welcome to attend. For more information regarding the Workshop, please call Ronda A. Vangates at 305-416-1025. #10922 Priscilla A. Thompson City Clerk PUBLIC HEARING HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD will hold a public hearing on: 1. Proposed Designation of the Jane Gray Archeological Zone (8DA1651) Township: 54N Range: 39E Section: 7 Unincorporated Miami -Dade County 2. Special Certificate of Appropriateness Application 2002-0005-03-S Whilden-Carrier Cottage Historic Site 9100 SW 67 Avenue Pinecrest, Florida Cottage and Oolitic rock relocation 3. Special Certificate of Appropriateness Application 2002-0005-04-S Whilden-Carrier Cottage Historic Site 9100 SW 67 Avenue Pinecrest, Florida Lot #5 Development 4. Special Certificate of Appropriateness Application 2002-0005-05-S Whilden-Carrier Cottage Historic Site 9100 SW 67 Avenue Pinecrest, Florida Construction Trailer and Dumpster The Board meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 16, 2002 at 2:00 p.rn. at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 West Flagler Street Biscayne and Caribbean Room Miami, FL 33130 Public Hearing items will be heard at 3:01) pm following Board business items. A person who decides to appeal any decision made by any board, agency, or commission with respect to any matter considered. at its meeting of hearing will need a record of the proceedings. Such person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, including the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based. Multiple members of individual community councils may be present. Miami -Dade County provides equal access and equal opportunity and does not discriminate on the basis of disability in its programs or services. For material in an alternate format, a sign language interpreter, or other accommodations please call 305-375-4958 at least five days in advance. Office of Community and Economic Development 4 Historic Preservation Division 305-375.4958 t 135 personnel and other resources. The :Federal Emergency Management Agency sent dam- age assessment teams through- out the region Friday. Damage from flooding caused by rainy Isidore rine days earlier totaled $100 million. "We will be here a long time," said FEMA Director Joe Allbaugh, who offered a dam- age estimate of "in the mil- lions." Signs of the departed storm abounded: tree -spliced houses, roofless ?businesses, shattered glass and roads packed with returning evacuees. On farmland, the signs of damage were less obvious to the casual observer. For the state's roughly 400,000 acres of sugar cane, it was a phenomenon of double flattening: first Isidore flat- tened fields in one direction. Then came LilL "The cane that was down to the left is now down to the right and twisted, said Windell Jackson, senior agronomist with the American Sugarcane League in Baton Rouge. "Things are in such a mess." The state's sugar -cane grow- ers, who produce an estimated 15 million tons yearly, already faced between a 5 percent and 10 percent loss after Isidore swept through nine days ago — at the height of the state's sugar harvest. Sugar mill processing — already halted a week from Isi- dore — faces another week's pause because of electric short- ages. "When you take $130 million out of the economy down here, that's a pretty drastic blow," said Bob Odom, Louisiana's commissioner of agriculture and forestry, who flew over the fields Friday to assess the hurri- cane damage. "Any profitability is just gone." Odom plans to lobby Con- gress to give aid to the sugar cane, cotton and rice farmers that have been affected by Lili. South Florida sugar growers said it was too early to assess whether the damage will increase demand on Palm Beach County's cane fields — the heart of Florida's sugar industry. It can take "a little time to really understand the damage," said Jorge Dominicis, vice pres- ident of Florida Crystals, a major sugar grower in western Palm Beach County. `Tb�, storm did mw ah damage Min any other Stla rn.l.' — RONNIE GONSOULIN, sugar -cane farmer W ! n Hurricane Irene hit the ; , r g is to in fall 1999 "every- body thought — gosh, this is terra'.: 'When it was all said and :loon , it really ended up havii:v: a minimal impact" on crol J. -Ids. T"1 ar U.S. government's sug- ar-fs.l :Inn support program regu- lates I:yrices, so the industfy does:;clot expect a price spike in the wake of Lili. For Gonsoulin, the damage looks bad. But not as bad as it coul t1 have been if Lili had remained a Category 4 storm, witli.a13 mph winds, instead of , touching land at 100 mph. "']['he question we all had was why?" Gonsoulin said.14 don't have the answer to that: Divine intervention, baby." Taking it on faith duriAg hurricane season is a way of life in. bayou towns where houses sit on stilts, alligators sun the selves in the road and itis ofi hard 1:o tell where the Gulf erM and the land begins. "I'nu very spiritual and i really do think it was by the grace of God that we were spared," Susan Price said Fri- day as she walked away from her family's boatyard in Chau- vin with four dogs that had rid- den out the storm. "Once I boarded up my house, I prayed," added Thad- deus Rouhilliard, who found himself fishing Friday in beauti- ful sunshine along Bayou Petit Caillom "I put it in God's hands and what happens happens. He came through. I know he came through." i� :, Louisiana Gov. Mike Fost!r also credited "divine interven- tion" and Price agreed, rattling off a list of vulnerable bayaii towns. "For Cocodrie and Boudre4p Canal and Chauvin and Monte - gut to have been hit by a Cate- gory 4 would have been truly catastrophic," she said. "So;1 mean, how else do you expli it?" 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Some models may not be avEitable at all store locations. 21.9% APf with approved credit. on the coattails of Tropical Storm Isidore, but for farmers, the wet and windy duo may prove disastrous. State officials predicted Friday a $130 million loss for the sugar -cane industry — the state's top selling crop — and a 50 percent to 60 percent loss for cotton growers. "This storm did more dam- age than any other storm," said Gonsoulin, who expects his 2,300 acre farm to lose about half of its yearly net profit. "This thing was directly on top of us." Lili, blamed for a dozen deaths in the Caribbean, took no lives and caused two reported injuries along the Gulf Coast. But the storm flooded low-lying homes, streets and farm land across southern Loui- siana and knocked out power to half a million people. STEPHAN SAVOIA/AP FLOODWATERS: Holc ng her 4 -month-old s.rl i -acey Ledet waits in the i boat to take her to 1'er flooded home in Flo Itegut, La., on Friday. L it lid extensive damage to t' - nunity of 4,000. Some 21,000 �:u ;tomers were without pour et Friday afternoon, prompting n adio ads for power generators n stock. Utility officials said tepairs could take up to a we el in some areas. Utility trucks flood !d Inter- state 10 westbound in a miles - long procession to hell I restore power to affected arew. . Florida Power & Light Co. an:.iounced it will send a team of 300 employees and 550 ,:ontract workers to assist. Mastec has sent more than CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING PLEASE ALL TAKE NOTICE THAT an Effected Officials Legislative Workshop will take piare on Monday, October 7, 2002 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the Orange Bowl Athletic Club located at 1501 NDN. 3rd Street, Miami, Florida. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the City of Miami's ' Legislative Priorities for the 2003 Florida Legislative Session. Members of the public are invited and welcome to attend. For more information regarding the Workshop, please call Ronda A. Vangates at 305-416-1025. #10922 Priscilla A. Thompson City Clerk PUBLIC HEARING HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD will hold a public hearing on: 1. Proposed Designation of the Jane Gray Archeological Zone (8DA1651) Township: 54N Range: 39E Section: 7 Unincorporated Miami -Dade County 2. Special Certificate of Appropriateness Application 2002-0005-03-S Whilden-Carrier Cottage Historic Site 9100 SW 67 Avenue Pinecrest, Florida Cottage and Oolitic rock relocation 3. Special Certificate of Appropriateness Application 2002-0005-04-S Whilden-Carrier Cottage Historic Site 9100 SW 67 Avenue Pinecrest, Florida Lot #5 Development 4. Special Certificate of Appropriateness Application 2002-0005-05-S Whilden-Carrier Cottage Historic Site 9100 SW 67 Avenue Pinecrest, Florida Construction Trailer and Dumpster The Board meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 16, 2002 at 2:00 p.rn. at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 West Flagler Street Biscayne and Caribbean Room Miami, FL 33130 Public Hearing items will be heard at 3:01) pm following Board business items. A person who decides to appeal any decision made by any board, agency, or commission with respect to any matter considered. at its meeting of hearing will need a record of the proceedings. Such person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, including the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based. Multiple members of individual community councils may be present. Miami -Dade County provides equal access and equal opportunity and does not discriminate on the basis of disability in its programs or services. For material in an alternate format, a sign language interpreter, or other accommodations please call 305-375-4958 at least five days in advance. Office of Community and Economic Development 4 Historic Preservation Division 305-375.4958 t 135 personnel and other resources. The :Federal Emergency Management Agency sent dam- age assessment teams through- out the region Friday. Damage from flooding caused by rainy Isidore rine days earlier totaled $100 million. "We will be here a long time," said FEMA Director Joe Allbaugh, who offered a dam- age estimate of "in the mil- lions." Signs of the departed storm abounded: tree -spliced houses, roofless ?businesses, shattered glass and roads packed with returning evacuees. On farmland, the signs of damage were less obvious to the casual observer. For the state's roughly 400,000 acres of sugar cane, it was a phenomenon of double flattening: first Isidore flat- tened fields in one direction. Then came LilL "The cane that was down to the left is now down to the right and twisted, said Windell Jackson, senior agronomist with the American Sugarcane League in Baton Rouge. "Things are in such a mess." The state's sugar -cane grow- ers, who produce an estimated 15 million tons yearly, already faced between a 5 percent and 10 percent loss after Isidore swept through nine days ago — at the height of the state's sugar harvest. Sugar mill processing — already halted a week from Isi- dore — faces another week's pause because of electric short- ages. "When you take $130 million out of the economy down here, that's a pretty drastic blow," said Bob Odom, Louisiana's commissioner of agriculture and forestry, who flew over the fields Friday to assess the hurri- cane damage. "Any profitability is just gone." Odom plans to lobby Con- gress to give aid to the sugar cane, cotton and rice farmers that have been affected by Lili. South Florida sugar growers said it was too early to assess whether the damage will increase demand on Palm Beach County's cane fields — the heart of Florida's sugar industry. It can take "a little time to really understand the damage," said Jorge Dominicis, vice pres- ident of Florida Crystals, a major sugar grower in western Palm Beach County. `Tb�, storm did mw ah damage Min any other Stla rn.l.' — RONNIE GONSOULIN, sugar -cane farmer W ! n Hurricane Irene hit the ; , r g is to in fall 1999 "every- body thought — gosh, this is terra'.: 'When it was all said and :loon , it really ended up havii:v: a minimal impact" on crol J. -Ids. T"1 ar U.S. government's sug- ar-fs.l :Inn support program regu- lates I:yrices, so the industfy does:;clot expect a price spike in the wake of Lili. For Gonsoulin, the damage looks bad. But not as bad as it coul t1 have been if Lili had remained a Category 4 storm, witli.a13 mph winds, instead of , touching land at 100 mph. "']['he question we all had was why?" Gonsoulin said.14 don't have the answer to that: Divine intervention, baby." Taking it on faith duriAg hurricane season is a way of life in. bayou towns where houses sit on stilts, alligators sun the selves in the road and itis ofi hard 1:o tell where the Gulf erM and the land begins. "I'nu very spiritual and i really do think it was by the grace of God that we were spared," Susan Price said Fri- day as she walked away from her family's boatyard in Chau- vin with four dogs that had rid- den out the storm. "Once I boarded up my house, I prayed," added Thad- deus Rouhilliard, who found himself fishing Friday in beauti- ful sunshine along Bayou Petit Caillom "I put it in God's hands and what happens happens. He came through. I know he came through." i� :, Louisiana Gov. Mike Fost!r also credited "divine interven- tion" and Price agreed, rattling off a list of vulnerable bayaii towns. "For Cocodrie and Boudre4p Canal and Chauvin and Monte - gut to have been hit by a Cate- gory 4 would have been truly catastrophic," she said. "So;1 mean, how else do you expli it?" Herald staff writers John Dbrschner and Douglass Hanks III contributed to this report. Struggling with Knee or Hip Pain? If you're between the ages of 18 and 80 and suffer from symptoms of osteoarthritis of the knee or hip, you may be interested in a clinical research study for an investigational medication. The study includes medical evaluations, investigational treatment, and compensation for your time and travel. Lifespan Research Foundation m Aliazni and University Clinical Research in Pembroke Pines are participating in this study. Call toll free 866-677-3228