Monday, September 15, 2008

Gustav Tears Louisiana a New One

I worked my and my employees asses off before and after Gustav. Talk about stress. First we had TS Faye, remember? The Weather Channel and other media cashed in on that one. Then we had Gustav that ripped all the electricity out of southern and central parts of the state, all the way to Monroe, La. 1. 4 or more were effected and lost their electricity for several days if not weeks depending where your house is located.
This week we had Ike, another storm, extremely large that was 600 mikes across. The biggest one yet. It hit Galveston Island as a high end Cat 2 with 110 mph wind. I live near New Orleans on the west side and we had a hell of a lot of wind for 36 or more hours with heavy rain throughout. New Orleans was 300 miles away from the eye of Ike after it made landall. I should be thankful. Just look what happened to Galveston and beyond. I think the count now is 4 million people w/o electricty in Texas and 1.9 million people up in Ohio! I don't have numbers on the states in between.