Hurricane Gustav

What a week this has been! You always think that tragedies and disasters can't happen to you. Gustav hit on Monday with a vengence! Thankfully, the only damage that was done to our house was a couple of small crepe myrtles are leaning over quite a bit and the copper roofing on our dormar window upstairs blew off along with some shingles. We did lose power on Monday around 10:00 a.m. It finally came back on sometime Friday afternoon! We were so grateful! We were blessed to be able to stay with Mike and Cindy Ragsdale Monday night because they had the generator setup. We found out Tuesday morning that my brother-in-law had power so we ended up staying with him for two nights. We decided it was time to come home, clean out the fridge, try to get some order back in our house. We managed to find a generator at Home Depot and an a/c unit at Gorman's. We froze during the night Thursday night and then we got our power back on Friday. Here are a few pictures of this week:

It's hard to tell how hard the wind is blowing in a still photo. This is a tree behind our backyard.

Lance is putting the copper roof on the side of our house after it came off during the storm.

This is in the Broadmoor subdivision. Compare the size of the car to the tree's root system.

I'd gladly lose a few shingles compared to this. This is also in Broadmoor.