Thanks for the support guys.
Tell me about a Cinderella story man... I was getting sick of the daily water changes already.
Now I am slowly re-acclimating the corals to the light again. I reduced the light cycle to 5 hours p/ day using only 72W. I'm planning to increase the lighting in half hour increments every day until I can get back to the normal 8 hours p/ day with 144W as I usually do.
To add more momentum to the story, I do have to move on the 12th of the month and this hurricane definitely didn't help any by ADDING LOTS OF STREES to the inhabitants. I hope everything makes OK at the end. I am not moving far and I have plenty of buckets, coolers and portable air pumps to transport everything.
I was considering a new sand bed, but I am still debating on it.
Some people recommend that only a new sand should be used when a reef is moved or transferred from one tank to the next, and only a few cups of sand from the tank should be used for live-sand-seeding purposes. When the waste in the sand bed is released into the water all at once, it can cause a reef tank to crash.