This is Thomas outside our apartment about an hour before the real winds kicked in. as you can see he is having a little trouble standing upright.

This picture depicts the chimney across our back walkway, that flappy thing at the top made much racket throughout the storm, hanging on for dear life by what appeared to be 1 and 1/2 screws through the whole storm! And is still currently hanging on.

This is my poor Buick (Big Bess), even thogh she is not my current mode of transportation I still have great memories and a nostalgic connection to her. This fence apparently had it out for Big Bess because it did not fall on her only once but a second time when Ike made his appearance in Baton Rouge, no where near as damaging but just enough to brake the fence on Big Bess' back again.

And this would be our power line. Yes, it is on a state trooper's car, our neighbor. We mistakenly thought that maybe the state would need the car and we would be among the first get our power back. We were very mistaken, we were actually in the two week block for power restoration, and where did our power line stay? On top of the car!

Ahhh and it is me with a wash cloth fresh out of the icy cooler trying to cool down a couple days after Gustav and before we moved camp to Mom and Dad's and our friends Pat and Amanda because they had power and airconditioning.

Gustav

I'm not to sure anyone looks at this page but here is an up date on the Hampton's. Gustav took our power and ruined our food and caused us to become Gypsies for about a week but we have our power back, are still waiting for internet, but at least we are back at home with air contidioning. We had no where to take our poor cats so I would have to say they suffered the worst being in a hot ass apartment all by themselves for a week, they weathered the storm and are now back to their normal happy selves, if you can call a cat happy anyway. Tom and I are both working and putting everything back in order and moving forward. Next on our list is to replace the groceries we lost, I think I will wait and see what Ike is going to do first. I started a diet about a month before Gustav, and I can not wait to get back on track and eating healthy again, eating fast food, canned foods, and other unhealthy things have reaked heavok on my body. I think that is all the latest for now I will have pictures soon.