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After dining at the Orange Box Cafe in Frostproof, Linda Wagoner explains her experience during the 2004 hurricane season. Crystal L. Lauderdale/Tampa Tribune
By Julie Pace
9 a.m., Frostproof
People have been calling the Orange Box Cafe all morning to see if the restaurant is open today. They are, says hostess Marilyn Thornton, who has been working at the cafe for 15 years.
On the menu today is eggs, bacon, biscuits and gravy. There is also fresh squeezed orange juice for sale in a refrigerator.
Among the diners inside is Linda Wagoner, sporting a T-shirt that reads “I survived Hurricane Charley.”
Wagoner’s double-wide mobile home was destroyed during the 2004 storm, and she wears the T-shirt with pride every time another storm heads this way.
“I figure this might be the only storm we have this year, so I better wear my shirt,” she says.
