we're still here!

Well, we survived Gustav, but we are still feeling his after shocks.

We lost power at our place around 1:15 pm on Monday. We hooked up the generator around 3 pm. Thanks to Mike's quick thinking skills, we had snatched up about 40 gallons of gas earlier in the week and were storing it in our garage to run the generator in a situation like this. This turned out to be a godsend. We ran everything in the house except for the central air conditioner. We were very careful when we used the microwave and we avoided the stove, oven, washer, dryer, and hair dryers completely. We did hook up a window unit so we had enough air conditioning to keep us from sweating. We slept very comfortably, all piled up in the living room (I will post pictures soon!).

As of today (Wednesday), we still have no electricity. Mike is working during the day and running the generator at night to keep himself cool. Jacob and I came back in to Kenner with my parents to their house since they have complete restoration of power and TV! I do not have to work again until next Thursday, so we may be here until then, or until we have electricity back home. Whichever comes first=)

We drove around town for a bit yesterday and took in all of the damage. It was more wind damage than anything. 100% of the surrounding areas are out of power and it was seriously a mad dash to get gas for your generator. Thank goodness Mike had us well prepared in that area. Walmart reopened yesterday (it had closed on Sunday) and they were only letting a few people in at a time to avoid a stampede. The line of people waiting to get in seemed at least a mile long. We saw tons of trees blown over and a few fences and roofs of homes were damaged. Overall it was not too bad. The worst was/is the thousands of people without power.

Thank you for thinking of us, I will post pics soon!