Brandon's Puppy

Katrina aftermath

Hello everyone.
If you've arrived via my dear uncle's BabaluBlog, welcome! Come in, pull up a chair. I hope you like what you see. Can I get you a frosty beverage?

I must say that it was quite a surprise to arrive back home and be faced with a hurricane. We heard nothing about it while in New York, and once we arrived we hardly had time to prepare, so we simply hoped for the best and made due with whatever we had stocked in the fridge and pantry. It was quite scary, especially when the tree branches would suddenly hit against the windows, but thankfully there was no damage, and it passed pretty quickly. Our power was only for about 12 hours. In fact, some friends slept over last night and spent part of the day here. They didn't get their power back till a couple of hours ago. While some of us, including Robert, are pretty much back to normal, there are still some out there in the dark, like Val and Steve. Hopefully, it won't be much longer for them. Slowly, but surely...

It's amazing, we were driving around today running errands, and one store was packed with people and functioning in a normal, Saturday-afternoon kind of way, yet right next door another store was completely empty, not even one car in their parking lot, as if it had been deserted for months!

Here are just a few shots of the damage in our community. We're very lucky because it could have been so much worse. There are still parts of the city where the streets remain under water.

I think if there had been a few more wind gusts, our carports would have been long gone come morning.

A few trees fell right on some of my neighbors' cars. Though you can't see it, most of the damage from this tree occured to an SUV on the left.

This is the entrance to our part of the community, it's sort of a cul-de-sac. This fallen tree blocked us in for the day, until the management company came by and cut some of the limbs and made a path for the cars. Who knows when the actual tree will be removed!

For my regular readers, all 6 of you, I'll probably be posting the pictures of our trip to New York tomorrow. We took over 400 pictures, so I definitely need to go through them and pick a handful to post and write about, rather than putting them in a slideshow format and boring you with 25 pictures of each attraction!

Until tomorrow...

Posted by Amanda at August 27, 2005 8:06 PM