Ike and Gustav (more personal this time)
Sep. 15th, 2008 03:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iesikaWhat you are seeing on the national news about Ike is exactly what happened here during Gustav. Three times as many people are directly affected, but the situation is exactly, exactly the same (Gustav knocked out power to 1 million customers, Ike to 3 million people). I'm going to stop talking about it now (and focus on more personal stuff). Except to say that NY Times article is crap and Baton Rouge is not resentful we got hit instead of New Orleans. I am personally quite glad that New Orleans didn't flood again. And that now, maybe people will stop implying that Louisiana only got hurt so badly during Katrina because the state administration did something wrong. (And also that I am very, very relieved that the disasterous loss of life I was expecting in Galveston when I heard how poor their preparations were did not in fact come to pass).
So, a more personal update:
Our power came on Friday evening while my mom and I were doing a puzzle, and we didn't notice until the streetlights came on. Until that point, the entire family was living in one room downstairs, sleeping on the couches and floor, because the upper parts of the house were unlivable due to heat. Mostly we spent a lot of time outside. Macie (who is usually terrified of storms) did not react at all to Gustav, and she loved the aftermath - all her favorite people sweaty and in one room or out in her yard, getting to visit all the neighbors, etc. She learned quickly that she could enter and exit the house via our front windows, when they were open, and we now have no fence on one side due to the tree removal crane, so she pretty much came and went as she pleased, when we weren't watching her. This would normally be a dangerous situation, but no one was able to drive faster than about ten miles an hour anywhere near our house. The neighborhood streets are still largely blocked, though we can come and go on a more major road that fronts the neighborhood (it no longer has three lanes blocked by fallen trees! And some of the signals are actually working!).
I've never been so happy to do laundry in my entire life. You cannot imagine what we (and my house) smelled like. We've been cleaning like mad since the power returned, and things are much improved. We never lost water or phone. I still don't have an internet connection at home, and probably won't for a week or so. We've lost power once since Friday, but it came back on within half an hour, and we figure they were hooking up another street or turning on a traffic signal (though it was during the winds and rains from Ike, so we're not sure).
Ike pushed a lot of water up into Louisiana (which is, of course, a bit like a sponge). Cameron Parish is underwater (worse than after Rita), and the water at our camp is higher than it's ever been recorded. The camp is on a hill and was perfectly safe, but we nearly lost our deckboat which was in the boathouse when the water rose and could have been crushed if it hadn't drifted half out of the slip (and probably would have ruined our boathouse in the process). Some of our dock came up, probably because of things trapped under it when the water rose. Macie, who normally has to use a ramp to get out of the water, really liked the new situation, what with being able to start swimming halfway down the yard.
And now off to class.
So, a more personal update:
Our power came on Friday evening while my mom and I were doing a puzzle, and we didn't notice until the streetlights came on. Until that point, the entire family was living in one room downstairs, sleeping on the couches and floor, because the upper parts of the house were unlivable due to heat. Mostly we spent a lot of time outside. Macie (who is usually terrified of storms) did not react at all to Gustav, and she loved the aftermath - all her favorite people sweaty and in one room or out in her yard, getting to visit all the neighbors, etc. She learned quickly that she could enter and exit the house via our front windows, when they were open, and we now have no fence on one side due to the tree removal crane, so she pretty much came and went as she pleased, when we weren't watching her. This would normally be a dangerous situation, but no one was able to drive faster than about ten miles an hour anywhere near our house. The neighborhood streets are still largely blocked, though we can come and go on a more major road that fronts the neighborhood (it no longer has three lanes blocked by fallen trees! And some of the signals are actually working!).
I've never been so happy to do laundry in my entire life. You cannot imagine what we (and my house) smelled like. We've been cleaning like mad since the power returned, and things are much improved. We never lost water or phone. I still don't have an internet connection at home, and probably won't for a week or so. We've lost power once since Friday, but it came back on within half an hour, and we figure they were hooking up another street or turning on a traffic signal (though it was during the winds and rains from Ike, so we're not sure).
Ike pushed a lot of water up into Louisiana (which is, of course, a bit like a sponge). Cameron Parish is underwater (worse than after Rita), and the water at our camp is higher than it's ever been recorded. The camp is on a hill and was perfectly safe, but we nearly lost our deckboat which was in the boathouse when the water rose and could have been crushed if it hadn't drifted half out of the slip (and probably would have ruined our boathouse in the process). Some of our dock came up, probably because of things trapped under it when the water rose. Macie, who normally has to use a ramp to get out of the water, really liked the new situation, what with being able to start swimming halfway down the yard.
And now off to class.
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Date: 2008-09-16 07:40 pm (UTC)I miss you guys and I'll see you on Aim.^^(retardamater08)