We were very lucky. If Ike had tracked 30 miles to the west, it would have been much worse on this side of town. There is no major damage on this side of town, just a lot of uprooted trees and damaged fences. The creeks and bayous are all very high, if not flooding. Downtown is a wreck. The same thing happened during Alicia. What broke all of those windows?
It's hard to see due to the poor quality of YouTube videos, but in that last scene a guy had made some emergency patches on his roof. Roofers and fence builders will be very busy for the next few weeks.
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A lucky break -- you need it.
Do you still have electricity as well? That would be pretty remarkable.
The one thing I wonder is whether SW Louisiana will once again be the forgotten land after this storm like it was after Katrina and Rita. There's a bit of news out of there, but not much yet.
Here's hoping your lucky breaks continue!
I still have electricity! Yes, this is a big lucky break. I am stepping out to help some neighbors who weren't so lucky. A tree fell on their house (no apparent damage other than a broken window) and their entire fence was blown down.
Jeanne Meserve just did a live report downtown by the JPMorgan building. She talked to an architect who was staying nearby (didn't hear why he was down there).
He said he heard what sounded like gunshots, so he looked and saw the windows shattering on the lower levels.
Meserve asked him why he thought the windows broke. He figured it was probably too much pressure differential between the inside and outside of the building, combined with the higher wind speed at the lower levels due to the wind racing between the buildings.
So glad you and your family are okay<,Lou.
In Alicia, many of the windows downtown were broken by roof gravel from nearby buildings. I'll buy the pressure differential explanation, though. I was amazed to read about documents strewn around Downtown marked "Highly Confidential". Didn't everyone lock up the important stuff in interior offices? Perhaps it's time to start a disaster preparedness business.
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