garage
under a house on Sugar Loaf Key. The owner, sweating out the storm in Switzerland,
tried to get the car transported quickly to mainland Florida, but the evacuation
of the Keys left the Corvette stranded and vulnerable in its small garage below
sea level.
Georges hit as predicted. A nine-foot tidal surge flooded the garage
with at least seven feet of water, which floated the roadster like a fisherman’s
bobber and banged it continuously into the concrete walls for hours. Weeks later,
the Corvette was
