Yep, here too. A bunch of neighbors I didn't know and myself spent
the better part of the morning cutting our way out to Hwy 59.
It was fun, chainsaws and straps and this one lady brought us breakfast.
If the power is out, we all empty our freezers and start cooking.
Here we were powerless for nine days. It was fine.. we coped.
Grilled a lot. Patrolled for non-existant looters using ATVs.
Fun.
When I lived in Tulsa, same thing. Tornadoes, Hail, Floods. Get to work and help a few others while you are at it.
No point bitching about it. You live in green country and Tornado Alley. Deal with it.
Granted New Orleans was far more devastating but it didn’t have to be nearly that bad. When evacuation orders go up, we evacuate. The thought of 10 feet of storm surge at my back door and 12-24 hours of howling winds, things breaking, hospitals closed, no chance of an airlift, very little law enforcement, no thanks. We leave. If it misses us, good, If not, we come home and begin the cleanup. It’s the price we pay to live in what we consider paradise.
You had quite a lot of damage there from Ike. We don’t have a lot of big trees near roads, but sometimes they have to get the sand from the ocean off of them. Wilma made new beaches where none were before, confiscated some small, islands, filled in some cuts for a brief period of time. I hope to never see another one, but that’s not likely.