A follow-up to my previous drawing of the damage done to Oriole Gardens - following the wrath of Hurricane Wilma (in late October, 2005) - depicts further damage a lot closer to home... in fact, said damage took place right above the doorway to my condo apartment!

You see, the front of Building 19 faces west, and Hurricane Wilma came from the Gulf of Mexico (west of south Florida), and headed eastward. Wilma was borderline 'Category 1'/'Category 2', as it did a number on portions of Broward County (downed trees, power lines, wrecked mobile homes, etc.). Miraculously, not a single shingle blew off the roof of my building; however, had Wilma intensified with winds moving 10-to-20 MPH faster, the roof of the entire condo building would have blown off, like a 'flip-top' box of cigarettes!

So, after I had rendered that image of the ficus tree in one of the swimming pools behind the clubhouse, I had discovered what might've been, when I saw this crack along the edge of Building 19, where the wall and the the second-floor eave ceiling meet. So, I drew this close-up sketch of said crack (which has not been publicly displayed anywhere, until now). A further examination showed that said crack ran across the entire western facade of the two-story building's second floor (over the doorways of nearly all eight apartments)!

And here's the 'kicker': It's been five years since Hurricane Wilma attacked my area, and there still hasn't been any repair work done on my building (apart from a replaced broken window or two on the first floor)! So, this sketch of mine still could've been drawn NOW, instead of back in 2005!

2015 UPDATE: The folks at the Oriole Gardens Association decided to repaint all of the condo buildings... but not before repairing any cracks and other forms of damage - done to them by Hurricane Wilma (and the other big storms of 12005). So, it only took those Scrooges 9.5 years to fix the crack over my apartment doorway (as well as the other cracks on Building 19). It wasn't worth the wait!