Felix has no mercy on Airport cars
of Hurricane Felix a week after the storm passed Bermuda.
About a dozen cars at the long-stay car park were wrecked when they were submerged by high seas which ruined engines and electrics and shunted the cars together.
Many have yet to be claimed and their owners remain unaware of the nasty surprise that will greet them when they return from holiday.
This week, Mr. William Madeiros, general manager of Colonial Insurance, said most of the wrecked cars were registered with his company.
"There are only two that can be repaired, a lot of them were badly submerged by the sea during the hurricane,'' he said.
Overall the company is dealing with about 50 claims for hurricane damage amounting about $400,000. Estimates last week suggested Island-wide claims for about $2.5 million would be made.
Meanwhile, experts at Bermuda Cablevision are working around the clock to re-connect homes still without cable television.
About 1,000 individual cable televisions were shut down by the storm, but many more were affected by damage to distribution lines.
Extra crews were brought in from America to work alongside local crews and it is hoped all homes will be reconnected by the end of the week.
"Cablevision was hit extremely hard by Hurricane Felix,'' said the company's general manager Mr. Don Greiner. "Hurricane Dean in 1989 was a lot stronger but Felix did a lot more damage.
"Felix stayed around too long. However, we have worked hard and we have the situation under control.'' When the hurricane struck, all Government workers were sent home for two days and Cabinet Secretary, Mr. Leopold Mills, said all would be paid.
"The decisions to send workers home on Monday and to ask them to not to come in on Tuesday were made in the light of strong, dangerous winds that might have endangered them,'' said Mr. Mills.
"Government does not believe it should penalise its workers in these circumstances which were clearly beyond anyone's control.'' CAR JAM -- Cars damaged by Hurricane Felix wait for their owners to collect them from the Airport's long-stay car park.
