Live from Germain Arena

Sports writer Andy Kent is covering Hurricane Wilma events at Germain Arena for the Naples Daily News.

• Passing The Taste Test Posted 10/26/2005 at 1:53 a.m. 0 comments

  Answer: Corned beef hash, baked beans, ham and cheese and white bread.
  Question: What are foods you won't find in The Ritz-Carlton dining room.

• Hard Lessons Posted 10/26/2005 at 12:31 a.m. 0 comments

  Short-term memory apparently gripped the masses at Germain Arena on Monday morning a mere four hours after Hurricane Wilma blew through.

• Wilma makes landfall 22 miles south of Naples as Category 3 storm Posted 10/24/2005 at 8:11 a.m. 0 comments

  Hurricane Wilma made landfall this morning in south Collier County as a Category 3 storm, knocking out power and ending a weeklong journey through the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.

• All Quiet On The Germain Front Posted 10/24/2005 at 3:02 a.m. 0 comments

  The latest head count just exceeded the 5,000-mark (5,020), but you wouldn't know it based on the sounds -- or lack thereof. Most of the people are either asleep or carrying on quiet conversations, and you could almost hear a pin drop.

• Halfway There Posted 10/23/2005 at 9:25 p.m. 0 comments

  As of 9 p.m. there was an even amount of 3,500 people registered inside Germain Arena, which is slightly more than 50 percent capacity as per the Red Cross. They will cap it off at 6,500.

• Rink Filling Up Posted 10/23/2005 at 4:47 p.m. 0 comments

  Coinciding with the end of the early NFL football games, the flow of people coming into Germain Arena intensified.