Hurricane Gustav...**Update -- we had no damage!!!!

I am really starting to freak out. It looks like my DH and I (and other family members) are going to have to evacuate this weekend. I know some people think we are stupid for living in New Orleans after losing almost everything in Katrina, but we started over and have been doing good. I really don't feel like starting over again. :hissy:

Oh Amy I'm so sorry hun! :hugs: :hugs: I hope everything turns out okay. I'll be thinking of you this weekend! :hug:

:hug: Take care of yourself....hope Gustav misses you

oh my god i am so sorry, i hope it passes you by

ah hun i saw this on the news and was thinking about people on here hoping u would al be ok. xx

i hope it passes by hun huge :hug:

Thanks ladies. It is just really upsetting b/c today is the 3 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and here we are talking about evacuation again! The city that I live in is actually a suburb of New Orleans called Harahan, and we did not get any flooding for Katrina, and very minimal damage as a whole.... The problem we had was that at the time, we were renting a townhouse, and our roof caved in, so almost everything got ruined, but my parents lived the next street over, and they had no damage at all, so we moved in with them for about 6 months. We were able to bounce back from that, saved up money to buy our own home, and just got finished fixing it up.
The latest forecast has the eye of the hurricane making landfall to the left of us, but that can change b/c we are still a few days away... Even if it does go to the left, the right side of the hurricane is the worst when it comes to wind and rain.
We are planning on going to my aunts house, who lives about an hour north of us. If it looks like is going to be too bad, we are heading to another relatives house in Dallas, TX... I HOPE we don't have to go that far!!

I am praying for you, Honey! Please keep me updated here or on Facebook, ok?! :hugs:

I have faith it will be okay! Surely you will not have to go through that stuff again, right? :hugs:

Come to Alaska! That is far enough from any Hurricane in the Gulf! :rofl:

Oh no, i hope everything turns out ok hun

What the hell am I going to do without my BnB "fix"?? It will be bad enough dealing with the hurricane bullshit, but to not be able to come on here is going to be torture...Hopefully my aunt will still have internet access and I can update you guys.

OR better yet, the stupid hurricane can keep going West and hit Texas... not that I would wish it on anybody, but..............

:( oh hun thats awful :nope: I hope you are all ok first and foremost and then I hope all your houses remain ok too :hugs:

I hope it misses you guys :( My brother lives in Biloxi MS on the beach, and they plan to come here on Sunday

I hope it misses you guys :( My brother lives in Biloxi MS on the beach, and they plan to come here on Sunday


I hope your brother makes out okay! If he lives in Biloxi, I am guessing Katrina hit him pretty hard too.
How did you do with Fay? I know most of Florida got hammered with rain.:hug:

:hug: I hope and pray that everything will be ok!

Oh no..storms are so scary. I freak out when we get the tail end of the hurricanes here, I cannot imagine being smack dab in the middle of it.

I hope you get missed, truly :hugs:

Sometimes i'm so glad i live in the UK, hope you guys are all ok x

Sometimes i'm so glad i live in the UK, hope you guys are all ok x

my thoughts exactly.

Okay ladies, I am going to be packing most of the afternoon today and may not be online again if we end up leaving tonight to go to my aunt's house.IF we don't leave tonight, we will probably end up leaving tomorrow morning. Either way, traffic is going to be killer (will probably take us at least 4 hours instead of the normal 1!!) I know my aunt has internet access, but I don't want to take over her computer (unless she is cool with it)
HOPEFULLY I will be back online in a couple of days telling you about how we evacuated for nothing!!!

oh if anyone wants to keep an eye on whats going on locally here, a good local news website is www.wwltv.com

I will miss everyone
:hug:

Hope you and your family keep safe!

Hi Honey! If you see this, I am praying for you guys and keeping an eye on the news. :hugs:

:hugs: x x

Keeping my fingers crossed that you are okay ...

:hug:

Well, we are at my aunt's house glued to the TV. It looks like we are going to stay where we are and ride it out.

take care! Hope everything is ok!
x

good luck , praying the storm doesnt hit nola again, we have family who lost their house in katrina, they have already left, but its not easy leaving everything uve just re built behind.

Batten down those hatches so to speak, and take care of each other. Hope everything is okay.

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Im glad you made it to your aunts hope it passes quickly!

I hope it doesnt hit you , please be careful x

Hope it's not going to be as bad as what they are saying on the news, keep safe xx

We are still just hanging out....waiting...eating all kinds of junk food. All the windows are boarded up here, and we should start getting some heavy winds and rain tonight. The latest track has it going a little more to the West (which would be a wonderful thing!!) so hopefully it keeps going West, but it is too soon to really know where exactly it is going to make landfall.
Several of my neighbors were planning on staying b/c our area did so well during hurricane Katrina, so I am praying that they are okay.

I hope it passes quickly for you and everyone living in the path of this hurricane, i have been watching the news here for updates. Take care :hugs:

keep safe hun.

i have been in hurricane before on a visit to florida soi know how scary they are wishing u lukc xxx

Oh,I'm sorry!
But it went weaker,it went to level three the other day! I'm hoping it doesn't get up to level 4 again like they predict!

Thinking of you! :hugs:

Hope you & your family are safe & well x :hugs:

Bloody hell hun, scary stuff. I've been watching this on the tv and seeing those roads out of New Orleans just full of cars leaving. One of the UK news people was stood in the French Quarter at about 7am UK time (I think thats about 1am your time) and it was a ghost town, apart from the National Guard.

Apparantly it should be hitting in about 7 hours, so I'll keep praying for you and your friends and family hun.:hugs:

Hope everything is ok for you hunx x :hug:

how are you feeling hun i have been glued to fox news on sky here in the uk all day babe and am thinking of you and everyone who have to go through this it`s looking truly awful on the tv :hug: hun thinking of you :hugs::hugs:

man i really hope those levees (sp?) hold, come on levees!

:hug: Hope the damage isn't too bad

Hope its ok xx

Been watching the news since very early this morning. Looks like the levees are holding up right now. Pray that they will continue to do so!

praying for the levees to hold for you xxxxxxx

keep safe hun.

i have been in hurricane before on a visit to florida soi know how scary they are wishing u lukc xxx
I'd pee my pants and never go on holiday again!!!

I hope she s alright! :(

Any news/updates girls?

Fay gave us alot of flooding about 12-19inch's. How did your house do? My brother is on his way home right now, but he doesnt know if he will be able to get in because 90 is flooded, so we are waiting to hear from them. Hope your family is okay :hugs:

Looks like Hannah will pass by us end of this week....getting really sick of this :(

I really hope everything is okay. This just seems like a huge string of never-ending hurricanes with more developing. We sometimes get the tail end of them if they're going in the right direction, and that is bad enough. Hope all you in the States are safe and doing okay, wherever these stupid things decide to hit :hugs:

praying everyone is ok, thinking of you and everyone else caught up in it :hug:

Thank you so much ladies for all of your kind words. We were truly blessed. My aunt's house lost power on Monday (I think it was Monday- all the days are running together-lol) so I have been unable to get online. We had lots of wind and rain at my aunts house, but my house had NO DAMAGE AT ALL!!:happydance::happydance::happydance:
I will update more shortly, just wanted to let you know we are okay
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So pleased to hear you're okay hun and there was no damage.:hugs:

yay thats great news x x

Thats great news so pleased that nothing got damaged
xx

Thank you so much ladies for all of your kind words. We were truly blessed. My aunt's house lost power on Monday (I think it was Monday- all the days are running together-lol) so I have been unable to get online. We had lots of wind and rain at my aunts house, but my house had NO DAMAGE AT ALL!!:happydance::happydance::happydance:
I will update more shortly, just wanted to let you know we are okay
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I just spotted you on another thread and came searching what happened as I'd missed you were back online!

Im so glad your house has no damage at all & lovely to see you back x

awww thanks Wobs! It is good to be back. My aunt STILL does not have power at her house!!!! It was killing me not to come on here while I was at her house.

Will it take long for her to get it back on?

I'm guessing in these circumstances people are glad to still have a roof? x

Well, the city that she lives in is a pretty remote (aka "middle of nowhere - LOTS of trees!) so it was not really a top priority for Entergy... but they are supposed to have it on by the end of this week. They have a generator hooked up to their fridge, freezer, TV and some fans, but the amount of money they are spending on keeping that thing running adds up quick!

Will it take long for her to get it back on?

I'm guessing in these circumstances people are glad to still have a roof? x

and yes, people here are counting their blessings that they still have a roof! This could have been another Hurricane Katrina, and the city was just really starting to bounce back from the first one.
I don't think mentally I could have handled losing everything again....at least not yet..... I know people probably think I am crazy for staying here being such a high risk for hurricanes, but this is HOME and I really cannot picture living anywhere else.

I'm really glad you didn't have any damage to your house this time, it must be so hard losing so much to something that just cannot be controlled. I hope your aunt gets her power back soon.

Also, i hope you don't mind me asking but i know that over here a lot of insurance firms won't pay out for "acts of god" so things including weather etc. When Katrina hit, or any other hurricane were people able to claim on insurance or not? God, i feel so ignorant for not already knowing the answer to that!

I'm really glad you didn't have any damage to your house this time, it must be so hard losing so much to something that just cannot be controlled. I hope your aunt gets her power back soon.

Also, i hope you don't mind me asking but i know that over here a lot of insurance firms won't pay out for "acts of god" so things including weather etc. When Katrina hit, or any other hurricane were people able to claim on insurance or not? God, i feel so ignorant for not already knowing the answer to that!

Insurance when it comes to hurricanes is a JOKE!! At the time, my DH and I were renting and did not have renters insurance (yes that was our own stupidity) so we ended up having to take out a loan. I know of some people who owned their homes and lost everything, and got completely screwed by their insurance company. I also know someone who barely lost anything in Katrina, and got enough insurance money to pay for completely remodeling their house (which it did not need) and had money left over to go on a cruise, PLUS put money in the bank!!
The thing is, a lot of people here do not know you need to take out a seperate flood insurance policy, so there were many people whose homes flooded that thought they were going to be covered, only to find out they were not.