Hurricane Gustav
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:24 pm
First of all thank you resting for your concern about us during Hurricane Gustav. We are next to Terrebonne Parish and both of our Parishes took a direct hit from Gustav. We just got our power back yesterday! We would sleep all in the living room at night with a small window a/c and a generator running, it was hard with the temperature at 92 in the shade!! The shops did fine, some minor damage, our home fared ok, we will probably need a new roof, my son and daughter in law had an oak tree take out a room in their home, they really have a mess and quite a bit of damage, the tree is also sitting on top of her car, so we don't know how bad it will be until the tree is removed. But we are grateful that it is not worse, we are also grateful that the levees held, flooding is so bad!! It will be such a relief to get back some sense of normalcy, we ended up in Hanceville, AL just north of Birmingham, we left at 12:30 Saturday and did not get there until 5:30 Sunday morning, a trip that normally takes 7-8 hours took 17!! We did 90% of it with no a/c because the water temp. in the truck would go up because there was no clean air and we never went over 10mph, that was the road trip from HELL!!! But we Cajuns are a resilient people, we have survived worse storms and by the grace of God we will be fine, it may take awile but we will be fine. I really missed all of you, as for as No S goes, that went out the window for the storm, but now that things are calming down we will get back on habit again, the "positive" is that I managed to lose about 4.5 pounds, stress is not the best way to lose weight. Well I have to go and clean the frig. at work, not a nice job, hope everyone has a blessed day.