One more Florida hurricane, and Lisbon’s Harry Larlee expects his daughter to come home.
Larlee said he spoke with his daughter, Dorrie Peaco on Saturday morning on a cell phone from her Port Charlotte, Fla., home.
“They’ll be all right, but I guess there’s another hurricane brewing,” Larlee said. “She said if that one heads to Florida, she’s packing up her birds and coming back north to Maine.”
Port Charlotte is north of Fort Myers on Florida’s gulf coast and near Punta Gorda – the hardest-hit part of Central Florida.
Peaco, an Edward Little High School grad and former driver for Western Maine Transportation, has lived in Florida with her husband, Warner, for about seven years, Larlee said. Warner Peaco is a former Central Maine Power employee.
Larlee said he spoke with Dorrie Friday night, at the height of the storm. She had taken refuge under a mattress in her house, along with her six parrots. Her husband huddled under another mattress with the family dogs.
“She said she’s never been more scared in her life,” Larlee said. “They lost the lanai to their house, a metal shed out in their yard, the roof to a wooden shed they have, some trees and all the shingles on their roof. They’re having problems with their phones and electricity, but they’re OK.”
Larlee said he spoke to his daughter again Saturday morning after the storm had passed. They spoke briefly via cell phone, and the call was cut short by the phone’s dying battery.
“She said she was going out, looking for a cup of coffee,” Larlee said. “I guess it’s pretty tough to find when you have no running water and no electricity.”
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