Hurricane Gustav 4:56pm September 1, 2008

We have survived the storm. Everyone in our family is safe. Praise the Lord Jesus and thank everyone for their prayers. There is damage everywhere. We spent most of the morning watching trees fall down and keeping in touch with family and friends. If you look to the slideshow on the side you will see pictures of some of the damage in our neighborhood, you can also find them in the Anders Update photo link to see them fullsize. They are in a folder called Hurricane Gustav photos.

I will give a better report later. Right now we are running the computer, refrigerator and freezer on a generator until the freezer and fridge return to good temperatures. I wanted to take the opportunity to tell everyone we are all ok. It was a little disappointing that all eyes were majorly on New Orleans even though the hurricane did not make landfall there. I understand the flooding issues and think some of the news should have come from there but not 95% of it. There were more strongly affected areas.

I am also quite a bit upset with CNN right now because the President of Plaquemines Parish was on begging people to get out if they had decided to stay despite the mandatory evacuation because the levees are about to break. He was told to hold on by Wolfe Blitzer, one of the CNN correspondents because they needed to break for a news story on the Republic National Convention....like that was more important than saving people's lives. I am Republican and I find fault with CNN for that. Right now my party's convention is NOT what is important. When they went back to the Plaqemines Parish President he was no longer on the line.....hmmm I wonder why. Then when they didn't get him back on the phone they made it sound minimal because it was a private levee. In some areas of Louisiana privately owned levees and public owned are in service together. Naturally I emailed my complaint to CNN but I'm sure they will not think anything of my opinion. I happen to believe other people's lives are more important, go figure. Sorry for my soap box, I'm upset.