Well, before you start thinking, "Hey, Rob's in Ohio. WHAT'S HE DOING HERE?!" My wife and I arrived in Ft.Lauderdale on Sunday driving her parents' car down to their condo on Galt Ocean. 27th floor. Lost power Monday at 10:42am and Wednesday morning it still wasn't back on -- one building to the north got power back Tuesday evening. No water either. Did I mention 27th floor? Of course, FLL was closed so our reservations for a flight Tuesday got moved to a flight on Wednesday. Still no flights from FLL so we got a flight out of Orlando, but had to take a taxi to N.Miami to rent a car (thankfully full of gas!) to drive up to Orlando (changing the reservation en-route to the last one out 'cause traffic sucked), got to the airport 40min before the flight was to leave, dropped off the car (now with <1/2 tank), but had to go to the rental counter (since the computer had no record of the rental since the N.Miami office didn't have any power either). 3hr layover in BWI, then into Columbus, get our car, drive to Cincinnati, retrieve the kids from the friends they were staying with and got into our house at about 1am Thursday morning. 16hrs door-to-door.
Other than the lack of any generator power in the high-rise (i.e., no elevator, did I mention 27th floor?), there was little damage. Many units on the south side had water coming in around the windows. A few broken windows on the south and east sides. Some cars in the above-ground lot that had been moved around and a couple that appeared to have broken windows (whether by wind only or by flying debris I don't know).
We found that the Winn Dixie (between Galt Ocean and N.Ocean) was about to open on Tuesday morning before 9am and was able to buy more water and fruit. Hiked that up the stairs and distributed a bit to the neighbors (elderly woman, her husband, and her mother). Helped haul buckets of water up to the 14th floor by rope from the pool (MUCH easier than walking water up!). Went shopping Tuesday afternoon with a list from the neighbors (no way that they could get down the stairs much less back up). If it weren't for the kids back in Cincinnati, we'd have probably stayed to help get supplies up to those who are essentially trapped on those upper floors (the building is 29 stories), but we were very glad to have been able to leave when we did.
I hope everyone gets their power back sooner than was being suggested (3-4wks).
-Rob