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.