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[gwynhefar]

Ok, so life is returning to normal slowly but surely. I'm still without power, and my electric company won't tell me if it will be 3 days or 3 weeks before I get it back. They're being less than helpful. Other parts of the city are slowly getting power back, however, and more and more places are opening, including this wonderful little bar/restaurant that is providing me with free wireless at the moment.

I never imagined that Gustav could be worse than Katrina. And in general, it wasn't, but in Baton Rouge, it was much, much worse. Gustav hit Baton Rouge harder than any storm has in recorded history, narrowly beating out Betsy in the 60s. The entire city, and the vast majority of the outlying areas, lost power, and it is very slow coming back. Yesterday I stood in line for 45 minutes to get ice, and had a cold soda for the first time since the storm. The gas lines are miles long at the very few stations that have power. Thankfully I don't need gas yet, but I'm not looking forward to it when I do.

Work is closed until at least Monday, they'll be 'reevaluating' this weekend. Of course, if I am back at work on Monday that's good in that I'll have a way to get online regularly, and bad in that it's difficult to look presentable for work when you have to get ready before the sun rises with no electric lighting, a complete inability to look at yourself in the mirror, and no hot water for showers.

*sigh* And at least one of the computer projections has Ike headed for us. Why oh why?

Comments

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sure you won't be the only scruffy one at work in that case. :) I hope Ike goes far, far away!

[whitecrow0.livejournal.com]

Take care, Gwyn! I have been thinking of you. Perhaps in your next post you can tell us how the kitties are doing?

[silme.livejournal.com]

Oh, Gwyn, I hope the power returns and that Ike weakens a lot. Probably everybody at work will be in similar shape, but I completely understand how you feel. {hugs}

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm pretty pissed too. It's like they were all watching New Orleans, and since NO came out mostly unscathed, the rest of us don't matter . . . Baton Rouge looks like a disaster zone -- trees down everywhere, lots of people lost their homes to falling limbs and trees and it was really luck that there were so few fatalities. People who didn't or couldn't stock up on non-perishables before the storm are literally starving, because there is no where open to get food. But the Republican National Convention is going on, and that's obviously much more important. *sigh*. Damn media.

[harkalark.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I had to search for an article yesterday to find out how bad things were in Baton Rouge; it wasn't in any of the headlines on my regular news site. And today, the only article I found was from Baton Rouge.

Welcome to the United States of Short Attention Spans.

[tewok.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry things are so bad there, but I'm really glad you're okay. And der kitties.