Turns out that I just happened to be in a lucky spot. Only a limb fell at the house I evacuated to... but down the road. GAH. Trees down everywhere, telephone poles just lying on the ground. It was horrible. We lost our electricity at 1:30 am that Friday night almost two weeks ago today.
I spent the next few days helping cut trees apart. Our friend we stayed with at the lake had a lake house closer to the lake... two trees landed on it, a pine and an oak. The pine tree went down into the kitchen. I spent that sunday on his roof on a harness helping cut those two things apart. BAH!
Then we cut up a bunch of trees in the road and headed back home. When we got back I found a tree had landed on my dad's boat and my truck. It didn't dent my truck, but it scratched the backend's paint job up real bad. Hopefully I can get it painted.
There was no electricity, water, or anything. We had a single generator but not enough gas to run it. There were gas shortages everywhere. We didn't even have enough gas in our cars to leave again. BUT, my dad made some calls (phonlines work for some odd reason) and he found a friend of his who had got a TON of gas before the hurricane and brought us 50 gallons. We filled up and headed for Baton Rouge, a 3-4 hour drive. I arrived just in time for that LSU game on Monday night.... the one they LOST.
I stayed there for about a week then came back here. My brother has electricity about 30 minutes away from my house and I stayed with him for a few days. But he had no internet access. So I couldn't get on to tell you all about what happened.
Anyway, the only reason I can get on right now is that I'm on a laptop on it's battery on dial-up. lol.
But that's basically the rough details of my past 2 weeks. I might be able to finally go back to work Saturday. I filed for unemployment during the 2 weeks I couldn't work. I don't go back to school until October 17th... almost a complete month from the Hurricane.
Life is crazy. But. The cels survived! hahah.. I took them with me and they're all ok.
My brother's wife had it rougher than me. We left that Friday before it hit, she left that Thursday. It took her 21 hours to drive a 3 hour drive. They had both lanes open to traffic and it STILL took that long. She had to sleep in her car... she said people were going to the bathroom on the road... eeek..
My brother stayed at the St. Elizabeth hospital in Beaumont (he's an RN there) but they ended up evacuating during the storm because it got so bad. Right now he is back at work, but the entire hospital only has 45 patients.
Ok. Well that's my rant about why hurricanes are no fun. This was my first one and I hope it's my last.
I'll post some pictures when I get my real computer back online. Later guys!
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