“Some dishes were more successful than others,” says Kratish, a magician whose title now is Chief Wizard and Wand Washer at the South Florida Magic School. “The parents were delighted as trick-or-treating was too dangerous, with virtually no streetlights and so many foreign obstacles blocking sidewalks and streets.”Īnd Alan Kratish, who with his brother, Marty, ran the Sauce of Life Café in Pembroke Pines, last week was remembering the creative ways he used food left after Wilma to make three meals a day at home – without electricity – for almost a week. “More than 600 people showed up, the majority being kids in costume,” he says. Friday, we decided, what the hey, we’re doing it anyway!”

“We couldn’t get the word out, canceling the event,” he says, “but, by 5 p.m. “We had to use chainsaws just to get inside the cinema through the fallen oaks. “It devastated Las Olas Boulevard and Cinema Paradiso ,” he says. 24 – the Monday before Halloween, on Friday. “I lined up horse-drawn hay rides, petting zoo, costume contest, scream contest, face painters, called The BOO-Tacular. “I had been working all summer on a free Halloween event that FLIFF would produce on Las Olas,” he says. The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival was able to hold it’s Halloween event just days after Hurricane Wilma hit in 2005. Gregory von Hausch, president and CEO of the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival, last week was remembering a show-must-go-on moment after Wilma in 2005. We’d put mattresses into one room, candles, board games and we always had a party.” “Every time there was a hurricane, we got together. “My mother turned every hurricane into a party – she was a little nutty like that,” Gherman says. In the shambles after Irma in Hollywood last week, Shari Gherman chose to think about her mom trying to turn every hurricane into an opportunity for fun for her kids. “My very expensive window treatments came falling down,” she says, “and my mother, in her best Scarlett O’Hara voice, said, ‘I’m going to make a beautiful gown, with matching hat and purse, and go find Rhett!'” But all I choose to remember is my son saying one of his first words.ĭenise Corbitt-Coppola, who went through the same storm with her mother, husband and son nearer the eye in Homestead, last week was remembering a scary moment during Andrew that turned into a funny memory for her, too. “They all fell down – Boom.”Īndrew ripped us apart all those years ago.

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