Hi everyone! Just got power restored at my house. half of my roof is gone, my front porch was torn from the foundation and thrown in the back yard. don't really know where my carport is! But all my family is safe, thank God! Several Parishes had more damage from Gustav than from Katrina. Lots of trees down on houses and power lines..some parishes may not get power for several weeks....lots of broken power poles. Power company workers from several states have come to help, so we thank them. So far 9 deaths to gustav. Thanks to all of you great people for prayers and support!

Sorry to hear of all the damage you recieved, but as you said your family are all ok, and that is good news to hear. You are in my thoughts and prayers. May God be with you all.

Darlene

oh LaPepper so sorry to hear of the damage but thankful you are all safe

I hope insurance/FEMA will cover the damage for you



We are dealing with outer bands of Hurricane Hannah today as it skirts up Florida east coast.....many places there are still damaged/flooded with major beach erosion from Fay so Hannah sure is not welcome

and now we have Ike taking aim for Florida and they are saying it is already cat4

Yea, Chemar, just watched it on the weather channel..will be praying for Florida. Ya'll have had it rough this year. Be safe hun!

Pepper glad you are safe, I saw some footage, some very old trees too, sorry about the damage, but am glad to know you are ok,

Yeah yall watch out for this ike one I got an errie feeling its gonna slip into the gulf:: prayers it goes north and out to see

I for one am glad Gustav is gone.

Arkansas got hit hard. I never really thought of us as having hurricane problems. We were flooded in. 3 ways into our house and all were flooded.
Roads are horrible.

My husband finally made it out and into town. He thought if he ever made it off our road, then things would be fine. Our town was horrible.

Tree's down everywhere. Of course they were over power lines.
Arkansas sent 200 of the 400 lines men to Louisianna. Then we ended up getting hit hard. I think they total number without power was around 100,000.

They ended up having to get people from other states, heading to LA. to come help us. Then they called our guys back from LA.

I had to laugh this afternoon when I saw Penn Power on our road.

We were lucky here. We lost power the first day for about 6 hours. They came out quickly and fixed it. We had limbs down and several of my neighbors had tree's down.

My inlaws were 2 1/2 days without power.
Ton's of schools were closed.

It will take a while for us to get back to normal around here.
We are not use to those kind of winds.

I feel for those in LA.

DAY

Hello Day glad you are ok, debs mom had same troubles no power an over night lake out front and in the back and around the side

anyone heard how Hjmom is doing? well I hope

DAY,

Glad to hear your family are o.k. It just seems when they come it is follow the leader. I just spoke to my sister today and she said she was ok, she lives on the coast of Mississippi.

Sending prayers and thoughts to you.

Darlene

Glad you are all safe, Day..... tho losing power is hard

I just heard the latest forecast track for IKE and it looks like it is pointing back to gulf coast, with Louisiana in the center of the cone again

this is so hard...........relief for Florida looking less likely as impact, but so concerned for all who have just been thru this with Gustav


the stress of watching these storms is just horrible nevermind the direct impact they have on health with the air pressure changes they cause and allergens they bring etc

we are seriously considering moving outa the tropics permanently. 17 years of this heat humidity and hurricanes has been enuff!

my prayers are lifted for all of us who live in the hurricane zone and especially for those who may have to evacuate....again

sorry i didn't reply to this sooner. my thoughts and wishes are with you all.