Everything is OKAY! The storm brought its fury and passed in the night. Toppling trees, flattening fences, and cutting power lines, Ike definitely left his mark. Thankfully, power has been restored after only 14 hours. Water is still undrinkable and has little pressure. As for physical damage, my unit is relatively unscathed. A metal hood on top of the chimney blew off, but that's better than a couple units where the whole chimney was knocked over. Some stucco was ripped off the sides of buildings, but no leaks into my place. The bayou is perhaps the most telling gauge of the storm. As I've mentioned in the past, I normally bike along the bayou (see the photo below on a 'normal' day). The water rose well above the bike path and threatened to take out the bridge overhead, spilling into the streets that run alongside it instead (see the picture taken from the flooded street looking across the bayou). Hopefully, the video works.
3 comments:
We're glad you made it through the storm unscathed. On another note, your cat is pretty famous huh? I saw a commercial about him the other day, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbGw3A9Dg-Q. Wow, a celebrity cat!
Wild! Glad you're safe and sound!
Bubba,
What a huge relief! You were lucky - didn't have to draw on all your Thailand experience...living with no air conditioning in a hot place with bad water!
Mom
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