10/2/24 UPDATE

Laundry day!  I love seeing reviews of places online, this really helped me pick a laundromat.  YoWash Laundromat it was.  We arrived there at 8:30 a.m. after stopping at Starbucks for breakfast.  Great to be in Bradenton proper!  We left YoWash at 4 p.m.  That’s a lot of laundry I can assure you.  Keeping up with the washers was tough.  We had one here, two there, three together on another row, you get the picture.  We realized tonight we didn’t have everything so I’ll have to stop by there tomorrow and see if they have our things, we believe we’re missing one washing machine worth of clothing.  There were a lot of people from the barrier islands at YoWash.  Some were in situations like us but many had it much worse.  It’s heart breaking, everyone looks exhausted.  Rust had gotten on some of Scotts clothing and a woman overheard us talking about it and told us what to get - Whink rust remover!  I checked the Publix app for the nearest store and they had it in stock so off I went to pick it up.  Worked like a charm.  I received a call from a towing company and they are coming tomorrow morning to pick up the Scott’s Jeep Gladiator and Porsche.  Our A/C technician got to us this afternoon.  Our downstairs unit is shot - both the handler and the condenser.  This was not a surprise given the outside unit was tossed around and on its side and the inside unit took on three feet of sloshy sea water.  Thankfully our upstairs unit is working well.  He did treat it for salt water which should help its lifespan a bit.  We took our dogs for a walk tonight and street after street is lined with everything you can imagine.  What is spooky is the rental units that no one has been in yet, I can’t imagine what those look like inside at this point.  Our beaches are closed but we got pretty close and I took a quick peek.  The roads closest to the beach are filled with sand and they’ve bulldozed it to the sides.  The beach itself has piles of rubbish and was uncharacteristically empty.   Our curfew remains in place.  

Thank you again to everyone who has reached out to us.  We love you!