surviving katrina
We are safe. I was extremely fortunate to purchase the generator and chainsaw. We have had no power or phone since monday, and only got running water yesterday (but you can't drink it).
It is survival time. Hattiesburg wasn't hit as hard as the coast or New Orleans. Even so, time to turn swiss family robertson and macguyver yourself a living. I don't get a lot of the people I see sitting around waiting for who knows what. i'll take care of myself, thank you very much.
we had lots of trees down, but fortunately none hit the houses enough to cause serious structural damage. let me just give you a readers digest condensed timeline:
- when the storm hit, we immediatly had a large pine tree fall between my fence gates and hit the porch to the middle house. this caused us to go to Laser Mania about a block away. it it a laser tag arena in an old theater that my friend owns. myself, my wife Janet, our three kids Keighly, Ian, and Emily, and my friend Virginia and her mom all quickly went down there and watched the storm though the glass doors.
-for the next 8 hours or so, we watched the environment tear apart. high winds and rain dessimated everything within view. we had a battery tv and was able to keep up with weather updates that way so we would know when katrina had passed. we ate boiled peanuts and snacks and played games to pass the time and keep the kids entertained.
-after awhile of seeing cars go by and checking the weather, I went back to check on the houses. it took me longer than I thought because all roads were covered with trees. my truck couldn't get back there. I finally jumped out and ran back there. it looked bad, trees were down everywhere and I wasn't sure if any of them hit the house or not. I heard my dogs bark, so I knew they were ok. I went back to laser mania and we started gathering our things.
- once we got back, I started clearing the road with the help of a neighbor. I got soaking wet, but used my new chainsaw to clear the road. I then got my generator going and we assesed the situation
It is survival time. Hattiesburg wasn't hit as hard as the coast or New Orleans. Even so, time to turn swiss family robertson and macguyver yourself a living. I don't get a lot of the people I see sitting around waiting for who knows what. i'll take care of myself, thank you very much.
we had lots of trees down, but fortunately none hit the houses enough to cause serious structural damage. let me just give you a readers digest condensed timeline:
- when the storm hit, we immediatly had a large pine tree fall between my fence gates and hit the porch to the middle house. this caused us to go to Laser Mania about a block away. it it a laser tag arena in an old theater that my friend owns. myself, my wife Janet, our three kids Keighly, Ian, and Emily, and my friend Virginia and her mom all quickly went down there and watched the storm though the glass doors.
-for the next 8 hours or so, we watched the environment tear apart. high winds and rain dessimated everything within view. we had a battery tv and was able to keep up with weather updates that way so we would know when katrina had passed. we ate boiled peanuts and snacks and played games to pass the time and keep the kids entertained.
-after awhile of seeing cars go by and checking the weather, I went back to check on the houses. it took me longer than I thought because all roads were covered with trees. my truck couldn't get back there. I finally jumped out and ran back there. it looked bad, trees were down everywhere and I wasn't sure if any of them hit the house or not. I heard my dogs bark, so I knew they were ok. I went back to laser mania and we started gathering our things.
- once we got back, I started clearing the road with the help of a neighbor. I got soaking wet, but used my new chainsaw to clear the road. I then got my generator going and we assesed the situation
posted by Matthew at 8:20 PM
4 Comments:
Happy to know that you and your family are OK...my friend left hattiesburg a month back...to his home country. If he had been there, i thought i would have surely picked him up before katrina! :) I visited Hattiesburg twice this summer...
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