We lost our shingles & most of the tarpaper in Frances. The eye of both Frances & Jeanne passed dead on right over Hobe Sound. We had water damage inside because of the roof & were still totally vulnerable when the Hurricane center announced we would be getting Jeanne early the next day. The phone rang just seconds after the announcement & it was FEMA saying the guys were on their way to put our blue roof on. It's either laugh or slit your wrists at that point. So we laughed. I think we were pretty punchy by that time. The blue tarp roofs are known to only withstand about 30 m.p.h. winds before they fly off. 3 guys from La. put it on. They did a bang up job. Can you believe that thing held all the way through Jeanne & for 5 months after until we got a new metal roof put on?????!!!!! Course we didn't KNOW it was going to hold. Went out in the eye to see it still intact & only hoped it would stand up to the second half of Jeanne.
