Surviving Gustav!

So I stayed in BR for the storm along with some friends. Storm started out as a dud but quickly became pretty intense.

Luckily my house fared very well compared to most of my neighborhood. I lost my fence and some shingles. Otherwise, things are fine. Still have some cleaning up to do...gonna do that tomorrow.

Thanks to some creative ingenuity, we were able

to save the 70gal salt water aquarium. After 12 hours without power, the fish were starting to struggle. We plugged up Jacob's tire air pump into my jeeps cigarette lighter, connected some medical tubing to that and ran it into the tank. Voila! Air for the fish! After 2 days Jacob bought a generator from some

guys on the side of the road and the tank was good to go. No casualties. Power came back on Thursday night. Now praying Ike doesn't come anywhere near here!

We basically just ate, drank beer, napped and played UNO by candlelight for those few days. So glad to have electricity again, as most of BR still does not.

These pictures are of some damage around my neighborhood and one of Chris and Jacob in the street during what

was probably a 80mph wind gust. haha

The rest of the pictures can be viewed here.