Hurricane Gustav

[Curt Sprenger]

Glad to hear riding out the storm worked for you folks! Don't work too hard doing all that clean up.

You folks heading over to Quartzsite in January? I look forward to seeing you folks again.


See ya down the road.

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:02 PM, patticake592000 <"sgureasko@gmail.com"> wrote:

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.

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Curt Sprenger
1987 PT38 8V92 "MacAttack Racing"
Anaheim Hills, CA