A night to top all nights

Friday we went ashore at Grand Key and walked the town. Very nice with golf cart roads of concrete and very nice houses. People were cutting grass and their school goes form 1 thru 12 with about 200 students. Nanc bought bread and a pie and made french toast on Sat morning. We waited for high tide to clear a sand bar and motored over to Double Breasted Key. It is a series of long small islands with channels in between with sandy bottoms to anchor on. We picked up another buddie boat, S/V Hawk, with John and Cindy Hawkins on board. They had drug anchor the night before during the high winds. We all three anchored and the leeway was orientated at 320/140 degrees, and we were expecting a blow on Sat night form 320 degrees. After getting settled, everyone came over for Nanc's shrimp and steak dinner and Carlene broght the rum drinks, pasta, and Cindy brought the salad. Everyone left and the moon was full on the water and beautiful. Sat, John, DK, and I went hunting for lobster. We located many but only three surrendered. They made for a nice dinner for Nanc and I; since they were small. About 1730 you could see a very black line of clouds approaching from the NW as predicted and the heavens opened up, and it poured, with winds up to 40 knots.The wind generator almost lost it's mind and made unbelievable noise as the blades stalled out above 30 knots as designed. I tried to put the electronic brake on, but it would not engage. I had backed down on the anchor and buried it in the sand and it held fine. It then cleared up and the wind dropped down. At about 2330 the wind started picking up and blew at about 25 knots during the night. I checked the anchor several times, and we appeared to be holding until about 0500. When I checked I felt we had drug backwards away from Aviator and toward shallow water. We still had 10 feel under the keel; however I could see we had moved. I started the engine and added slight forward power to take tension off the anchor and reset it, which worked. We departed at 0645 and had a great sail all day to Green Turtle Key today, where we are anchored now. The wind is still blowing at about 15 to 20 knots, and I can here the generator doing it's thing. We are eating on Hawk tonight and will stay here for many days awaiting another big blow coming Tue/Wed. I plan on tying up at the marina on Tue night for sure. We passed a power boat who had been here on Sat night, and he said the winds had gusted to 80 knots here and blew screens in and a electrical pedestal over on the dock. Hope it is not the bad while we are here. S