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Tropical Storm Ernesto

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Teresa Jarchow, left and Christy Lison unload their shopping cart at the Home Depot in Bonita Springs as they prepare for Tropical Storm Ernesto on Tuesday. The pair were stocking up on last-minute supplies for the residents of Encore Senior Village, an assisted living center in Naples.
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Umberto Gallegos, a Bonita Springs resident, prepares for Tropical Storm Ernesto on Tuesday by topping off his truck fuel tank and filling up extra gas cans.
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Joushua Parkes, left, carpenter for Continental Construction, readies an unprotected side of a home under construction to be boarded it up with plywood while foreman Jon Cecil, carries another 8-foot sheet in preparation for Tropical Storm Ernesto on Tuesday morning in East Naples. Insulation had just been installed on the back side of the home under construction and could not be exposed to even moderate winds. The crew had already boarded up a business and a few homes by 11 a.m.
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Khris Germany, a sales and deliveryman for Pepsi Co. makes his normal deliveries at the Gator Market Wednesday morning in Everglades City despite the adverse weather from Tropical Storm Ernesto.
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Exit Gulder Real Estate general manager Phil Dodd and receptionist Jane Bain take down the flags in front of the Bonita Beach Road business in preparation for Tropical Storm Ernesto. “I don’t think its going to be horrific,” Dodd said, “but no sense taking any unnecessary chances.”
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Alfredo Ferdin, 48, listens to a handheld radio outside of Santos Corner in Immokalee on Tuesday, waiting to hear the forecast for Tropical Storm Ernesto. Ferdin, who has stayed at Santos Corner on and off for the past 20 years, says he thought he would be safe staying but was monitoring the situation with the storm and relaying the information to others.
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The premium and mid-grade gas pumps are empty at the Sunoco at the corner of US 41 and Bonita Beach Road as area residents fill their gas tanks in preparation for Ernesto.
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Robert Rech, 42, of Everglades City, secures shutters over the windows of his rental unit and those of his landlord's unit in preparation for Tropical Storm Ernesto on Tuesday, August 29, 2006. Rech didn't want to take a chance after what happened last year with Hurricane Wilma, and wanted to cover the windows.
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Susie Chunat and Rodney Raffield, of Chokoloskee, move old wooden doors from Raffield's home in preparation for Tropical Storm Ernesto on Tuesday, August 29, 2006. Raffield had moved the doors outside while he was working on redoing part of his home, but wanted to get rid of them today to dispose of anything that could fly and hit his home.
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Captain Roger Parcelles, left, assisted by crew members Stan Sutphen, center, and Don Oakey, secured the 84-foot Marco Island Princess as a precaution in case Ernesto got ugly.
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Marco Islander Jeff Guziar enters SCUBAdventures on Marco Island’s Bald Eagle Drive midmorning Tuesday. Small businesses housed in converted, older homes stretching from the Snook Inn to this building were boarded up as a precaution.
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Aboard a smaller boat, Marco Island Princess pleasure boat Captain Roger Parcelles directed operations to secure the vessel from being buffeted.
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Joe Avila of the Marco Island Post Office is pelted by a squall precipitated by on-off Hurricane/Tropical Storm Ernesto as he brings in the last of the evening's mail on Tuesday.
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Robert Bishop takes down isinglass from the helm of his boat while preparing his 43-foot Marine Traders boat "Miss NanSea" at the Naples City Dock on Monday afternoon. Bishop and his wife Nancy, originally from Venice, who live aboard the boat full time, tied-up at the City Dock to wait for Tropical Storm Ernesto to pass the area while en-route to North Fort Myers. Owners at the City Dock were asked to double-tie their boats and put out extra bumpers as they prepare for Ernesto, which could affect Southwest Florida by the middle of the week.
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Chris Bethuy, left, and Jeremy Horchler, both employees of HyPower Electric, push a shopping cart full of gasoline containers, water and other emergency supplies Monday afternoon through the parking lot of the Home Depot on Airport-Pulling Road. "This is stuff to get our shop up and running if the hurricane hits," Bethuy said.
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San Carlos Park resident Chet Livingston wipes his brow while installing storm shutters on the windows of his home Monday. "I'm going to have to do this sooner or later, so I might as well get them up early," Livingston said.
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Jim Phillips, manager of Barefoot Boat Club, guides a fork lift into the boathouse at the club preparing for Tropical Storm Ernesto on Monday. "It takes three of us a whole day to bring in all the boats for a storm," said Phillips.
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Jeff Johnson fills sandbags behind Bonita Springs Fire Station One in preparation for Tropical Storm Ernesto on Monday. "I've thought about turning all these sandbags into a sandbox for my kids if I don't need them," Johnson said jokingly.
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Bonita Springs and Estero San Carlos Park residents prepare for Tropical Ernesto Monday. Ernesto is expected to make landfall in Florida late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning.
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Beverly Heenan, left, and her mother Janet Morton, both of Bonita Springs, loaded two gasoline cans for a recently purchased generator into their van Monday afternoon in preparation for possible effects from Tropical Storm Ernesto.
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This is what Ernesto looked like when he passed just past the western tip of Haiti on Sunday.
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Satellite image of Ernesto from NASA
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Tropical Storm Ernesto
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On Monday, many Marco Island residents were seen at gas stations, including the Citco station at San Marco Road and Barfield Drive, filling up portable gas cans to fuel generators in preparation for Tropical Storm Ernesto.
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Charter fishing captain Kurt Beattie of Marco Island prepares to fill up gas in anticipation of Ernesto being in the vicinity. Beattie said he was just being precautionary, but not paranoid.
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Doyle Bias of Bonita Springs fills up his gas cans and car Monday in preparation for Tropical Ernesto.
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Bonita Springs and Estero San Carlos Park residents prepare for Tropical Storm Ernesto on Monday.
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Firefighter Josh Beatty was helping his coworkers put this truck back into service for the storm. The station received it back from Bradenton on Tuesday after it had its rear axles repaired.
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With gas containers in each hand Ron Mostel searches for a price tag before heading to the checkout line Monday afternoon at the Home Depot on Airport-Pulling Road.
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Home Depot lumber associate Ed Hubbard, left, helps Bonita Springs resident Carl Davies to rip plywood for home's windows at the store at 11941 Bonita Beach Road on Monday.
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The Super Target at Gulf Coast Towne Center in San Carlos Park took early precautions for Tropical Storm Ernesto by hanging their storm shutters on the top half of their entrance windows Monday.
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Bonita Springs and Estero San Carlos Park residents prepare for Tropical Storm Ernesto on Monday.
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Robert Bishop takes down isinglass from the helm of his boat while preparing his 43-foot Marine Traders boat, "Miss NanSea," at the Naples City Dock on Monday afternoon.
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Home Depot lumber associate Kenny Kurner leads a load of plywood into the store at 11941 Bonita Beach Road in preparation for a wave of customers seeking hurricane preparation supplies on Monday.
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Bonita Springs and Estero San Carlos Park residents prepare for Tropical Storm Ernesto on Monday.
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Celia Cruz and her daughter, Belen Lopez-Cruz, watch the fish her husband, Manuel Lopez, right, caught as they flop in the bucket Tuesday evening on State Road 29 between Everglades City and Chokoloskee as Tropical Storm Ernesto prepared to make landfall in South Florida. The family was cast-net fishing for their dinner.
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Chuck Fields of Naples ties up his sailboat "Good as Gold" at the Naples City Dock in preparation for Tropical Storm Ernesto on Monday afternoon.
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Walter Carcamo, left, and Naples city councilman John Sorey install storm shutters on the second floor of Sorey’s house on Gulf Shore Boulevard in preparation for Tropical Storm Ernesto on Tuesday morning.
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