REFLECTOR: Factory damage

[Scott Derrick]

Wow!  what a drag...

I hope they can handle this financially.  This is a major blow to their 
income stream..

Scott

At 06:23 PM 9/28/2004, you wrote:
>For those who didn't see this on the web site:
>
>Hurricane Jeanne hit Sebastian hard...
>Scott Swing just called me with information regarding Hurricane Jeanne. The
>eye of hurricane Jeanne hit Vero Beach & Sebastian very hard with category 3
>winds (much stronger than hurricane Francis). Fortunately all personnel are
>safe.
>
>There are 3 large hangar buildings at the Velocity factory. Both the new
>storage hangar and the original production facility came through Jeanne with
>only minor damage. However, the Service Center hangar was hit very hard.
>Scott thinks a twister may have hit it, as the beams were all twisted and
>feels that that building is beyond repair. There were 6 customer projects
>(kits in various stages of construction) in the Service Center. All have
>varying degrees of damage. Most of the damage was to the wings, since they
>were stored on a rack. Scott said that, with some work, all projects can be
>repaired.
>
>After Hurricane Francis, it took almost 2 weeks prior to power being
>restored. Scott feels it will take at least weeks before power and phone
>service is restored. Factory personnel will be cleaning up debree for at
>least that long.
>
>Needless to say, we need to give factory personnel some time to recover.
>Plan on at least 2 weeks for eMail or telephone communications to be
>restored. Scott said Duane would be calling me soon with more info. I'll
>keep you all posted as I receive updates from the Swings (as I did with
>Hurricane Francis)...
>
>Rick Lavoie 9/27/04
>
>
>
>John Schoorl
>Palmdale, CA
>XL-FG
>
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