A COUNTRY BOY SHALL SURVIVE
We are far enough away from the coast that we didn't have to worry about the flood waters, just 90mph wind! I live in the country at the end of a 1 1/2 mi private road, off hiway 90; we had 80 trees down across the road between here and the hiway. Brought in a big backhoe and grabber thing on tracks to clear the road of BIG & smaller oak, pine, gum & tallow trees. There was a BIG oak & two smaller gum trees with tangled vines laying across the bridge over the creek. It took some work, but we got it off with no damage to the bridge. That is one tough bridge, it isn't very big, but has steel I beams base and handles logging trucks with no problem.
We were only about 20 miles from the center, and the storm was 200 miles wide with a 85 mile center! We were extremely lucky compared to 100's of others down here. No damage to the house other than losing the carport, a tree down across the fence and many limbs in the yard. When the carport went it knocked the rear window out of Mintas new car and put 2" of water in the floorboards. We replaced the roof on our house after Rita with a "20 yr" roof, and it was well worth it, as we didn't loose any shingles this time.
We are still without electricity, and my 10 yr old generator gave up the ghost. Friday I bought a new 6500 Honda generator and we are running the water well pump, fridge, freezer, washer & dryer, some lights & fans off of it. We have a propane tank for the stove & oven, & hot water heater & plenty of food; so not doing too bad. Could have had a nice Krieghoff for what that baby cost!
They say we may have electric power by the first week of Oct! No TV yet as the wind moved the satallite so we are not receiving a signal. I just got time to plug in my computer to see if that satallite is messed up also, and lo & behold, I am on line!
Thanks to God that our prayers were answered and he protected us from major damage this go round!
Hugh