Hurricane Gustav

[Leroy Eckert]

Happy all went relatively well for you folks. Come the the GA mountains and wait for the daisy train to stop. It is 85 in the daytime and low 60's at night with deer around. I only have 15 amps but have a basement with two beds, and a wide screen. I need help with three kids. lol Leroy Eckert 1990 WB-40 Smoke N Mirrors Dahlonega, GA --- On Wed, 9/3/08, patticake592000 <sgureasko@...> wrote: From: patticake592000 <sgureasko@...> Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Hurricane Gustav To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 10:02 PM 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.