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
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Anaheim Hills, CA

[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.

[erniecarpet@...]

Brad, thank you for being our resident meteorologist for the forum.

Ernie Ekberg
83PT40
Livingston, Montana

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[brad barton]

All,

While the Western Gulf coast is okay now, Hanna could be a flood producer from Northern Florida up through the Carolinas in a couple days and Ike could be comparable to Hurricane Andrew in South Florida next week.

Brad

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[brad barton]

Thanks, Ernie.

That's about all I can do around the rest of you skilled tradesmen. We're still in the 90's here in North Texas. Montana must be lovely this time of year.

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From: erniecarpet@...
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:45:24 -0400
Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Hurricane Gustav

Brad, thank you for being our resident meteorologist for the forum.

Ernie Ekberg
83PT40
Livingston, Montana

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[Tim Hannink]

They opened my parish (Lafourche) up on Tuesday afternoon - I got
back on Wednesday to find some water in the yard, a big tree down
and no power; but no physical damage to my vehicles or home. Had to
replace the 'lodge genset battery yesterday to get it started -
latest estimate is sometime before October 1st before power is
restored. Drove down Highway 90 toward Houma - there are a lot of
utility poles down - looks like I will be on generator for a while.

Still have a dusk to dawn curfew to deal with and businesses in the
surrounding parishes are starting to re-open as their employees
start returning. The fuel lines are getting smaller and toward New
Orleans things have largly gotten back to normal.

I had evacuated to Long Beach, MS - I had a planned Labor Day
vacation there with friends so the 'lodge stayed home. The house I
rented for the weekend also ended up in a mandatory evacuation zone,
but it had survived Katrina so the landlord let me stay.

I went back to work Thursday to complete damage assessments in the
shipyard and most of it was minimal.

Thanks,

Tim Hannink
1981 FC-33SB
Des Allemands, LA


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> All,
> While the Western Gulf coast is okay now...