This is what used to be our sign...

This tree fell on our picnic area on the West side, and snapped the railings.

The legs of the canopy were also snapped off when the tree hit the picnic area, and the canopy ended up in the pool.

Here's a better view of the canopy in the pool...

...and here's where the canopy took a bite out of the tile on the edge of the pool when it went swimming.

This is where the awning on the North end of the Sun Deck used to be attached to the building...

...and there's the awning. You can also see here that we lost some fencing in the back yard on the West side.

I have to wonder if it was the awning that took out the spotlight, the cover of the light on the right, the cover of the fire extinguisher box, and a piece of the box... or if whatever took all that out was what killed the awning...

We lost the awning above the Canada House West sign, too, and as you can see the sign was damaged, as well. Our trellises also bit the dust.

This was one of several palms that went down in the East parking lot. And let me tell you, those suckers are HEAVY! It took SEVEN of us to move one of them a few feet to get it out of the middle of the parking lot! (Thank God it didn't hit any cars when it fell!)

These are the trees in the back yard on the East side, by the lagoon. You can see they're just gone...

Here's a closer view of the palms by the lagoon...

So even if we'd had electricity, we still wouldn't have had A/C on the West side, since most of the piping was gone and the water tower was leaking...

This is cosmetic damage, but the concern is whether any water got inside...

This is also cosmetic, but still a concern. See the other A/C unit behind this one, toward the top left hand corner of the picture? See the nice dent in it? That unit was installed 12 days before the hurricane.

Slats missing from our new fence around the West spa equipment... (I noticed the other day that Manny had already fixed this...)

This gate is about six months old. It was ripped off its hinges and thrown over the fence into the neighbor's yard.

There's the fence between the parking lot and the East pool heaters... Our guys have put it back, but a couple of slats will still need to be replaced...

This is the fence between our parking lot and the public beach access. Notice how all the trees are falling down, taking the fence with them...

This is the new fence we spent all spring working on with our neighbors to the south... Ready to topple...

The tar skid marks on the railing and the wall behind it led us to believe that a piece of roof did this.

I'm guessing this was also caused by pieces of flying roof...

These lights are only a few months old... The globes that weren't missing were all filled with water.

These parking lot lights, which were about 20' tall, were also only a few months old. None of the four survived, but the others were bent over or had their tops torn off... This one, snapped off two feet from the ground, was the one that scared me the worst.

Wilma is evidently not a fan of doors. This is one of the NINE doors she broke, removed, or ruined. Notice she also took the door handle from this one...

We really did used to have a door on this stairwell entrance...

See? There it is now!

This is what's left of the door that used to be on the pool pump room on the East side...

We had a LOT of windows that were cracked, but this is one of the few that was actually GONE.

This is the difference between regular windows and impact glass. Notice that the glass is still in place, which keeps the water out and isn't nearly as dangerous (no flying glass!)

Another one of the windows that was completely gone. We think this one was probably taken out by either a piece of the roof, or the nozzle from one of our flying fire hoses. Whatever the cause, the result was a very wet lounge, covered in shards of glass.

This is one end of the hall that runs next to the lounge. That used to be a glass and steel door.

Again, not to worry... we know exactly where the door is!

This is the ceiling inside the lounge. Actually, that's directly above where my desk used to sit when I worked here in 1988 as the Activities Director (just call me "Julie")!

Good thing we had a hurricane shutter on this window! Too bad something hit it from inside after the window on the "protected" side of the building was broken!

*sigh* And here's our roof. Or what's left of it. It's tarped over right now, while we wait for someone to come fix it. (Us and 40,000 other folks...)

If you look closely, you'll see a small white object on the down slope of the roof between the second and third balconies from the right -- toward the right of the picture, sort of in the middle. Remember it -- you'll see it again later.

See that bare wood? The other side of that is the ceiling of the unit below.

The whitish/greyish part of this is the only part that looks like it used to.

Again, the whitish/greyish part is the UNdamaged section.

Thanks to broken windows and a leaky roof, we will be replacing carpet in 9 units. Carpet in another 14 units got damp and had to be pulled back, but should survive.

If the carpet hadn't been taken up before, it would have had to after this... After almost a week of beautiful weather, we had rain. Outside AND inside.

See where the water ran down the walls from the ceiling? Remember when I said the other side of the wood showing on the roof was the ceiling of the unit below?

This is what happens to furniture when water gets inside a unit and blows around for several hours during a Category 3 hurricane.

It's a little hard to see if you don't know what you're looking for, but there's a bulge in the ceiling, where the water came in from the unit above.

Water seems to have gotten into the walls and made them soft, causing the blinds to fall down. This lovely chunk of paint that was removed has already been repaired by our valiant maintenance man, Asley.

This ceiling was repaired about six weeks before the storm. Evidently the leak is back. Or was, anyway... Manny's pretty sure he's got the leak fixed, and the ceiling is almost finished, too.

Remember when I said it was raining inside? I bet you thought I was kidding...

I can't imagine how bad this would have been if we hadn't finally been able to get our hands on some tarps for the roof!

I wish I could say all these pictures were taken in one unit, but unfortunately we have about a dozen that are having water issues because of the roof.

You should have seen the staff running like crazy trying to save carpeting and drapes when the rain started...

Obviously we'll need some paint after the roof is done...

Remember the bare wood on the roof? This is the inside of it. Three beautiful, sunny days AFTER the hurricane.

Wilma is quite the trickster. She took out five of the glass panels in our fire hose boxes. I'm thankful for the staff members who safely removed what she left in some of them.

And of course, in some of them, she left nothing.

Sometimes literally. This fire hose was hanging over the railing, tangled in the trees.

That's a concrete bench. She took off a table top, too, but I don't find my picture of that one.

At least she left the other one there... We have no idea where this one is -- neither the bench nor the legs!!

I guess if she could take a concrete bench, it shouldn't surprise me that Wilma could snap my wrought iron railing!

I'm guessing this part of the wall was pelted with roofing materials...

We have FIVE sets of sliding glass doors that were pushed in past their frames. Two of them can't even be opened. (For anyone who cares, this is very similar to what happened at my own house...)

Remember the little white dot on the roof? When we got up onto the roof, we found that it was a five gallon bucket. It was upside down. When Natalie kicked it over (those are her little bitty feet), it was packed full of sand. Did I mention it was upside down?

Wondering where all that broken glass went? When we found a 3"x4" piece of it in the pool, we figured we'd best drain it.

Turns out we were right. This is the bottom of the pool after it was drained and before we swept it.

And finally, the beach... Wilma took a lot of the leaves from the bushes, but she also added a lot of sand to the berm. Maybe in time it will be tall enough that the storms can't even get to us... Meanwhile, we've got work to do!