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This is my SOS, if I get washed away at sea
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I almost had to activate that. Mark Lafave, better known as Tunes, is from the Marquette, Michigan area
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and described himself as a true Uper. He shows us his property in Fort Myers, at least what's left of it
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This is a fence with 15,000 brads, 8,000, 8 penny ring nails
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and all out of blood, sweat, and tears. It held up in the winds, but the wave pretty well took it
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Things here and there washed up in his yard, including this boat, and the water destroyed his makeshift stage
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He's never met an open mic he didn't like. Playing music means a lot to him, but the storm also impacted that
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Blues Deluxe Fender Amplifier destroyed. And inside the house. The water stayed right here for many, many hours
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And if you look here, if you peek around the corner here, we spent 14 hours
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in that little attic and the water went all the way to the second and the last step at the critical moment and stop about here for 10 hours There are a few things that were left undamaged
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The spam survived. Spam. It's food of the gods. Pirate hat. Pirate hat survived
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Ready for the pirates. But mostly all that's left is mud. After the storm, his family used a dingy to evacuate
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That same dingy is from a boat he would. sail around the Great Lakes in. Now he's concerned about what it will take to rebuild his home
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he puts so much of his own work into. He works seven days a week for well over a decade to buy
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the property. And I don't know if there's enough in me yet to go through that level of physical
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exertion. He says he hopes to get back his home as it once was and he's already starting to put
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the pieces back together again. Step one. We're on our way back. We got our bird
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In Fort Myers, Florida, Rachel Knapp, reporting
