Friday, October 17, 2008

Hurricane Gustav

Brandon enjoying the storm,He thought it was cool when the tree in my in-laws front yard fell.
The view from our front door, afer the storm. this little tree was almost completely uprooted.
Our big 'broken' oak tree in the front yard.
Carson napping. It was so hot he usually just wore a diaper to sleep and he still couldn't stop sweating, niether could the reast of us.
An old oak tree next to our church building was comletely uprooted.
On September 1st Hurricane Gustav hit Baton Rouge, La. We were very blessed not to have too much damage. As ya'll can see, our home survived, but we had a lot of trees 'broken', we were also without power for 5 days. Now you say 5 days can't be that bad, think about no air conditioner, no cold food, no T.V., it is also very dark at night! On top of that Leslie worked 8 days straight (he is a firefighter) and I couldn't work because there was no power at the office where I work, Brandon's school was closed for 2 weeks. It was worse for us than the time Hurricane Katrina hit.




2 comments:

Katy Truman said...

Sorry you had to deal with the hurricane but glad everyone was okay.

Anonymous said...

whoa, we really are spoiled to have the luxuries of electricity that our ancestors didn't have. I'm glad every one is ok, sorry you had to go through those long 2 weeks.