Hey...
I'm in Biloxi at the moment. After bunking down with friends for four days straight, we decided to drive over to Lisa's parents' house, where they have Internets in wide supply.
The damage to my house was minimal, we lost some shingles and part of one of our fences blew down. The tricky part is that it's a fence shared between my property and the neighbor south of me, and I don't know what the story is with that house. Some guy bought it to put his mother up in, but I never actually saw her, and nobody ever seems like they're there, other than two occasions earlier this summer when a couple of people came to mow the lawn...with weed eaters.
We lost power early on Monday morning, and were staying with friends about a mile from my house (they had lost power too). The apartments they live in are three bedroom flats with quasi-garages (a garage door but one wall of the carport is open air), six in a row. They're fifth in the row of sixth, and because of the arrangement, their garage was right in a wind path, and it started to get bent inward during the storm, and then eventually come off one of the rails (and banging up against the cars parked inside). A little later on, we heard some screams from the girls next door in that unit and ran out to check, and the garage had gone completely off the rails and was only hanging by the chain on the opener rail. So Tyler and Andrew rushed in there to support the door while I started dismantling it. It had managed somehow to get twisted around, so I was standing outside in the pouring rain for about 15 minutes while undoing the bolts on the panel hinges to get the door off. One of the girls got her finger stuck in the crack between two of the panels so we had to flex it out to free her, and then in the end part of the door fell on Andrew's ankle, but they're both okay.
It was mostly over by about 7 PM, so we sat in the dark and played Axis & Allies with some of the candles lit. Curfew had been imposed (and to my knowledge still is) from 8 PM to 6 AM.
On Tuesday, I went over to check my house for damage and also to bring the cats back home. It turned out that Andrew's power at his apartment down by campus was already back on, so later in the afternoon we gathered all our food and supplies up and went over to his one bedroom apartment to crash. Kevin decided he preferred to sleep at his house even without power, so it was five of us at Andrew's place through Thursday. In the mean time, I beat Contra, proved I could land the damn plane in Top Gun (first try, eat it bitches), watched Star Trek II-IV since Kristin had never seen them, also watched most of the Dune TV series, and generally whined about how nice it'd be to have Internet access again.
Wednesday afternoon while we were at the house checking on the cats, Lisa wanted to go ahead and start throwing away stuff in the fridge, so I started doing that, but amazingly, the stuff in the freezer and deep freezer was still good. I had started the icemaker in the freezer on Friday anticipating using it in ice chests, but then it slipped my mind. The ice in the bin had almost completely melted, but some was still there, and the melted water was still very cold. We tossed a few of the articles and kept some others, and then I went to the deep freezer. When I opened it I heard some water slosh so I had expected everything to be melted, but no.
See, a few months back, our deep freezer had inexplicably shut down one day, and we didn't discover it for a week, at which time everything had spoiled. After cleaning it out and throwing everything away, I bought three bags of crushed ice to stick in the freezer so that we could turn it back on prior to a trip to Sam's (so that the compressor wouldn't burn up). Well, I had forgotten about that ice, and it was still there, completely frozen, so everything in our deep freezer had survived too. We unloaded it all into ice chests and headed back to Andrew's.
I had to go to work Thursday morning to meet with my boss and go over plans to finish up the project I'm working on, but it's pretty tough to work on most of it without Internet access, so Lisa and I decided to go to Biloxi to spend Thursday through Saturday. We found out this morning that we got our power back and supposedly Cox is "right behind Entergy" with regards to restoring cable, so maybe we'll have Internet access when we get back.
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