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« on: Sep 5th, 2004, 12:34pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Baby girl born amid hurricane tumult
Life goes on along Frances' path
Sunday, September 5, 2004 Posted: 10:13 AM EDT (1413 GMT)  
 
 
(AP) -- Amid the tumult of Hurricane Frances, a baby girl was born at The Suburban Lodge in Stuart. A midwife who was staying at the hotel delivered Miranda Frances Bennett at 7:11 p.m. while wind and rain battered the hotel, said Jeorge Filamor, general manager of the lodge.
 
"The midwife took care of everything," Filamor said. "Everybody is happy."
 
Filamor said he called 911 and a fire-rescue team arrived after the baby was born.
 
The hotel suffered only minor damage, and Filamor said he felt it was good luck that the baby was born there.
 
"We just want to give the good news, because we're hearing all bad news and everything with the hurricane," he said late Saturday.
 
Pizza parlor weathers storm
As dusk fell on downtown Orlando, the streets were empty but Gino's Pizza & Brew was a beacon of normalcy.
 
"We're trying to help the people who are weathering out the storm," owner Ben Darwish said during a brief break. "Most people are very happy that we're open and very happy to have some good pizza, so they're patient with us.
 
"And other people are less understanding and want their pizza very, very fast."
 
Customers Bob Messinger, 24, and Jackie McCown, 22, said they had seen a man in their neighborhood carrying a pizza box from Gino's, so they walked about a mile to the restaurant through the drizzly gloom.
 
"And you can eat pizza when it goes cold," said McCown, planning for any power outage.
 
Suspected looters arrested
Four suspected looters were arrested Saturday in Palm Beach County after a high-speed chase down Interstate 95, and two people suspected of casing evacuees' homes were arrested in Pahokee, in the western part of the county.
 
"The jackals are out there and just waiting to pounce on the innocent people of Palm Beach County," Sheriff Ed Bieluch said. "We don't want to wait until we've had 20 or 30 homes broken into."
 
Homeless man finds shelter
Wesley Richardson pedaled his bike around Fort Pierce for several hours Saturday, looking for shelter from Hurricane Frances. After being turned away from three storm shelters, the 41-year-old homeless man set up his sleeping bag in a doorway at a city park.
 
"They just said they didn't have no more room," said Richardson, who said he has been homeless since losing his house to taxes two years ago. "I couldn't believe they turned me down, and they knew there was a disaster coming."
 
There are no homeless shelters in St. Lucie County.
 
But late Saturday, a passer-by noticed Richardson sitting on a bench as 90-mph gusts whipped salt spray into his bearded face. That person offered Richardson a ride to a high school where about 1,000 other people had taken shelter.
 
Shortly before Richardson arrived, the school lost two of its three air conditioners. "We may be hot, but we don't turn people away," Westwood High School Principal Lin Bushore said.
 
Assisted living facility residents relocated
More than 90 people, including 61 patients with Alzheimer's disease, were moved from the Avalon Assisted Living Facility to the Atlantic Nursing Home in Lake Worth late Saturday because of fears that a wind-damaged roof might collapse, officials said.
 
Emergency services officials sent a bus to help move the residents, said Sandy Duncan of the Palm Beach County public safety department.
 
No injuries were reported.
 
Appetite for ice cream undampered by storm
The ominous clouds and howling wind did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm at an ice cream store in Ormond Beach in Volusia County.
 
Among the people standing in line Saturday while they waited for the brunt of the storm were Glenn Rugar and Stephanie Hart, both 43, who had boarded up their windows at the beach and moved inland.
 
"I'm not worried," Rugar said as he and his wife ate ice cream slathered with chocolate syrup. "I feel I have taken all the proper precautions. I boarded up the windows. All you can do is put your faith in God and take precaution."
 
Hart said she was disturbed by the days and days of waiting for Frances.
 
"I'm tired of the whole media hype," she said.
 
 
 
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« Reply #1 on: Sep 5th, 2004, 12:38pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Cool  What happiness in the middle of a hurricane.  
Hmmm, how did I already know her name would be Frances Grin
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« Reply #3 on: Sep 5th, 2004, 5:58pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
What is it that I heard Al Roker say on NBC?  Was it that when the barometric pressure drops, women are more likely to go into labor?  The Miami Herald was calling for all women 36+ weeks in their pregnancies (or with high-risk pregnancies) to report to their area hospitals and to bring with them water, clothing, and canned food.
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