First of all, thanks for asking!
Yes we did, even though it hit about 40 miles south of the most recent projection prior to landfall. It came ashore just South of Naples over Isle of Capri and Marco Island and while the winds were nowhere as bad as any of the previous storms, the flooding on those two islands was pronounced, with all the attendant power outages etc, of course.
I'm smack right on the gulf and our sea-walls were really never breached to any meaningful degree although the 8+" of rain made for some standing water through the afternoon. We never lost power (and btw, yes we sure do have our own generators!) through the full 60-70mph wind pounding for a change, but two of the main North-South arteries paralleling 41 on the East were flooded and under water until the late afternoon.
There has been no loss of life reported as of my last check of the Naples News website, and while there will end up being some property damage of course, it's not anywhere near as bad as the last string of episodes by any means.
Collier County in general has come to be extremely wary of the entire hurricane situation, and has a nicely designed and well implemented infrastructure in place just to mitigate to the greatest degree possible whatever comes along. The "it can't happen here" thought process that characterized much of the human travail surrounding Katrina is simply non-existent here, we've been up close and personal too many times in the last four years to have any illusions whatsoever about just how bad it can be, and have been prepared to take the high ground in say Georgia or Iowa or the like if the situation were to arise.
I'm not trying to sound politically incorrect or in any way cold to the plight of the Katrina survivors, but the once a week hurricane run for the 4 weeks in August of 2004 made believers of us all.
