Hurricane Gustav

[patticake592000]

Well, we survived the hurricane. Thanks to everyone that offered
shelter. Next time, we are going to take up someone on that offer.
The Quonset style building was great, and I parked my pickup
against the door(on the inside), so the door(the weak spot) wouldn't
move.
Lost electric at about 8:30AM Sun. Got to love La., hot and
muggy.
Spent that nite with nature. Not enough ventilation to run the
generator. After the wind died some and the rain did the same, I
pulled it out and started the genny. It's hard to realize how
spoiled we are. The A/C felt great, and to be able to take a hot
shower,was wonderful. Power was restored at about 2:30PM today(Wed),
and I was able to shut the generator down, and go the house. Thank
you Blue Bird, the gen ran 69hrs without a hicup and it's got over
7000hrs on it. Used about 1qt of oil.
The area here looks like a war zone without bomb craters. Trees
and limbs down everywhere. Some trees lost their tops(twisted off
from the wind). One of my pines(a 100footer), went through my
neighbor's shed.
We had sporadic phone and internet service.
Needless to say, we had fun! Also, this was the first hurricane
that I didn't have to report to work.


Steve Gureasko
90WBWL40 Jus Chillin
Ponchatoula, La.