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THE PALM BEACH POST THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2005 7C Share your Wilma stories and damage reports on our blog at PalmBeachPost.com RIVIERA BEACH Wilma siphons fridges, dryers, doors from Tiara condo i BOCA RATON Mayor's home hit hard The Blue Tarp Club welcomes a distinguished new member. Mayor Steven Abrams of Boca Raton. His home in the Palm Beach Farms neighborhood lost one of its three roofs; it was raining inside bedrooms. No one was home when the roof blew away, said his wife, Debbie. Wilma tore apart the back yard and tipped over the front gate.

"It reminds me of Tara after the war said Debbie Abrams. Tara, the mansion gutted in Cone With the Wind. Gone with the wind. Tania Valdemoro The Tiara condominium on Singer Island. Near-catastrophic damage last year with Frances and Jeanne.

It couldn't get any worse, residents figured, Of course it could. 'And did. Refrigerators, washers, dryers, a grand piano sucked out of the 42-story oceanfront tower during Wilma. More than 400 sliding glass doors and windows, some still covered with plywood, blown out of the building. i "Here we go again," said condominium President Eddie Kisco Wednesday.

After a year and an estimated $120 million on reconstruction, Kisco said he hoped he had put hurricane wreckage behind him. With a $2 million deductible, he said it is likely property owners will be hit with another assessment estimated at $7,000 on top of the $170,000 to $250,000 they have already coughed up for repairs from Jeanne and Frances. Engineers and other building experts are still assessing the new damage. The completion date, once set for June, will likely be pushed back at least two more months. "Very candidly, the novelty is wearing off," Kisco said.

JaneMusgrave 1 SUBURBAN LAKE WORTH As sun sizzles, lines and confusion mark distribution site DEERFIEID BEACH Motive marine shed collapses, damaging boats worth millions "It's pickup sticks," said Thomas Tyghem, owner of Marine One, a yacht club just across the Hillsboro Canal from Boca Raton. A shed collapsed, more than 150 boats inside millions of dollars worth stored for owners. You can see it from his large concrete and glass headquarters across from the smashed shed. Inside it, boats can barely be seen. Tyghem said some are untouched, some torn to pieces and about half repairable.

Some new boats on trailers for the Fort Laudefdale boat show are also damaged, and some are total losses, he said. Tyghem said local authorities had not allowed him or his staff into the collapsed building because of concerns about leaking gasoline and other hazardous materials. He expects whatever boats can be salvaged will be pulled out as the building is demolished. Marine One has insurance, of course. "But if never enough," Tyghem said.

Eliot Weinberg I y-T. 1, I YT-W -iC. -ffikll. LANNIS WATERSStaff Photographer Volunteer Zisquina Bennett, 13, gives out ice at a distribution center at Palm Beach Community College Wednesday. People also got water and food.

WEST PALM BEACH Wilma works wonders for courthouse-leery Trump Note to Ivana: Thank Wilma. Ms. Trump, ex-wife of The Donald and part-time Palm Beacher, has been trying to shirk jury duty ever since her number got The cool. Tingly, blessed cool, i Gone. It's just after high noon at Palm Beach Community College.

Full i' squinting sun. The 220 people in line pulled. Trump earlier wrote the Volunteer Mike Keady. is concerned the walk-up line might be closed altogether. "We can't let that happen! These are the people who need it the most" A little bit later, the forklift full of little white meal boxes rolls up.

The palette of bottled water. The line begins to move, just as the officers shut down the nearby entrance altogether. Susan Spencer-Wendel problems. There's talk of closing the walk-up station altogether. Richard Payne of Lake Worth rode his bike to the site.

He rides up to a 1 reporter and photographer. The National Guardsman at the entrance is saying only people with cars can get in. Only people with cars can get water or food. "It definitely seems discriminate-' ry. Definitely Payne, 51 says, hot, gesturing.

chief judge asking to be ex- i cused because her presence tor water ana tooa aren cool at all. 1 The lady in the silver jogging suit feels woozy in the heat, leans against a pole. These are the people with no cars. Or people who parked their cars and walked up. This mix is causing a stir.

People parking willy-nilly cause traffic in a courtroom would cause too much of a spectacle and disrupt proceedings. No go, Palm Beach County Chief Circuit Judge Kathleen Kroll decided. Report the week of Oct. 24. Trump PALI BEACH COUNTY At one crossroads, a bit of heaven Wilma Week.

On Wednesday, court officials announced that all court activities except first appearances for new arrestees are suspended the rest of the week. Jurors assigned to serve this week are excused from duty altogether, Kroll said. Ivana included. Jurors scheduled to appear for jury duty on Monday, Oct. 31 should call the jury hot line at (561) 355-2930 to check on their status, f'v ti' -sm- Christine Stapleton ordered.

Bread, fruit flashlights, first aid supplies stocked. Cold things on the way. "It was a blessing," she says with a smile, standing in front of the store. A white car pulls up. The driver is furious, her expletives A red light! Hallelujah! A green a yellow a red.

Stop. Go. Stop. Go. Wheeee.

At least one sane intersection in Palm Beach County at Jog Road and Forest Hill Boulevard. And on the southeast corner a Winn Dixie with full power. FULL power. Came on early Wednesday morning, said manager Deborah Jones soon after. "You could hear the people in the store yelling," she said.

The perishables have been echoing across three rows of cars. "I've been waiting in the $-ing car," she screams at a man, a husband, one presumes. "We just keep smiling and move right on," the manager said as she walked back into her divine charge. Susan Spencer-Wendel OCA RATON Hurricane sculpts new shapes at south county beaches Escarpment Hurricane vocabulary. A steep slope or cliff formed by erosion.

Like at South Beach in Boca Raton. Michelle Savran and her two girlfriends tried to figure out the new look of the beach they've frequented their whole lives. "It used to be flat," said Savran, 22, who came out because she was tired of being inside Wednesday. "Either this sand went up there or that sand came down here." Beach employee Patrick McGlamery said the escarpment is about 25 feet off the shoreline. Four feet.high in some places.

Sand blew all the way past the escarpment, up the stairs, into the parking lot and onto State Road A1A. Beach renourishment was to begin next month on and just north of South Beach to replace the sand lost in last year's hurricanes. No word Wednesday on the status of that now. In Delray Beach, renourished this past spring, lifeguard Conor Gorman said the city lost about 40 percent of its beach. At least a half-inch of sand covered the beach dunes, the sidewalks and the entire length of the street along the beach.

"I was surprised that we lost that much," Gorman said, from the South 1 tower. Pilar Ulibarri de Rivera STUART Condo owner lands in high, but far from dry, spot in storm There are so many places you don't want to be when the torrential rain and 100 mph winds of a Category 2 hurricane come barrelling into town. One of those is suspended from a ladder three stories high. But that's where 86-year-old Joe DiLorenzo found himself Monday when the second half of Hurricane Wilma, easily the most destructive part of the storm, roared into Stuart. "If I'd known better, I wouldn't have gone up there," DiLorenzo said Wednesday.

"But this isn't really a story." As Wilma's eye passed over South Florida, DiLorenzo assumed the calmer winds and rain in Stuart meant the storm was ending. So he pulled out his ladder, intent on clearing clogged drains on his condo roof that were causing floods in his atrium. After he got one foot onto the roof, the other slipped off the rung and he fell into the ladder. He was stuck, holding onto a ladder rung that was now between his legs. "Me and my big fat butt couldn't get out" he said.

Thirty minutes later, deputies from the Martin County Sheriffs Office arrived on scene, pulled DiLorenzo to safety and drove him to Martin Memorial South. DiLorenzo suffered several bruises and received 14 staples to close a cut where part of the roof came down on his head. Michael Bender AUN EYESTONEStaff Photographer A crew of 27 Jehovah Witnesses works to reroof the Haverhill home of Jonathan and Melanie Scroggins Tuesday. The crew just returned from fixing roofs in Mississippi. HAVERHILL Helpers make roof work rapid 100 roofs in the last year and are just back from Mississippi, where they did 10.

The foreman, Moe Senechal, said if it has the materials, his crew, mostly young people, can repair three or four homes in a day. They take photos for building inspectors. When it came to the Scroggins, there was no time to wait "They had no roof, and we know the codes," Senechal said. John Pacenti Bare boards were all Jonathan and Melanie Scroggins had left of a roof on their Haverhill home. One big rain and everything inside would be lost One day later and 27 people on their roof repairing it.

Divine intervention? Could be. Their group of helpers were fellow Jehovah Witnesses. The local group has repaired as many as wo.