Hurricane Gustav roared ashore this morning in Louisiana. Unfortunately, Baton Rouge was on what is considered the worst side of the storm to be on. We had sustained winds in Baton Rouge at 61 mph, with gusts of 91 mph. The good news is, we are fine, our families are fine and accounted for and except for being without power, we're good.
The bad news is, we weren't in our new concrete house yet. At our old house, a wood frame house, we did have a tree uproot in our back yard and hit our house. From what we can tell, it did not cause a lot of damage, but we haven't really been up to assess it closely. Rick called us this afternoon and offered to come by and help us remove it tomorrow (once again, can I say AWESOME builder?)
We don't know if there was any damage at our home under construction. Rick and his crew were out to prepare the construction site for the storm on Friday, locked down the doors, picked up debris, etc. We feel reasonably certain the house is fine, we'll try to get out tomorrow and get a look at it. Our only real threat was from the construction site across the street where their trash container had not been emptied in weeks and posed a real debris threat to the house... and we only expect that debris may have damaged our windows or shingles.
But we are fine. We wish we were in our new house because we'd be a lot better off... we'll have a backup generator there and much more significant walls (and very small baby trees). Our hearts and prayers go out to all of those affected by this storm tonight and we pray for a quick recovery as we thank God that there wasn't significant flooding like what happened with Katrina.
