speaking of little friends the night the storm made landfall i told the wife that while the wind was coming from a safe direction we should try to get some sleep well the chicanos didn't wanna be by themselves so we had 6 chicanos in the bed with us then we seen two noses and heard some whining from the living room so we had to let the lab and pitbull in too. so there we laid with 6 chicanos in the bed and a lab and pitbull sleeping on the floor on my side the bed then the power goes out . let me tell you one thing them little chicanos put out some heat it got warm really fast.my chicanos don't like the wind because of huricane gustav it really messed with them bad and ever sinse then they are scared of wind. i made a video of gustav when it came through i put it on youtube if you wanna see it here's a link to it i cut the sound out because the wind was so strong but this is what 115 mph winds look like and what they do it tore my brothers yard and house to pieces in a matter of minutes.at the end of the video i show a picture of my front yard we had to cut out way into the house with the chainsaws.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkhBdXYkPfw[/ame]
you can see black things fly across the screen thats shingles off of the houses around his house. i'm glad isaac wasn't as bad as gustav in the wind catagory because as slow moving as this storm is i don't think there would have been anything left standing after. right now we are still dealing with rain and flooding .down here we are flooding far two reasons one is the rain the the second is the south wind is pushing water up the marsh and into the homes.the water is to the top of the levee in the back and the pumps have been steady running now for a few days but they are reaching a point to where they are just curculating the water out the bayou and into the swamp only for it to just come right back over the levee and into the bayou. we haven't been able to get outside to start cleaning up because of the wind and rain. not that we would melt or anything but even with small 50 mph gust you don't wanna be out under or near a tree after the storms because of branches that have snapped and sre lodged in the trees are still falling.i wish this storm would have went to texas because they really did need the rain we lost power for about 12 hours but they got it back on when the eye was over us it took almost 6 or 7 hours for the eye to pass over so that helped them out alot on getting out and fixing stuff. there are people down here who are acually calling in and complaining that they have no cable tv service i mean come on there are people flooding and without a house to go home to and these people are worried about cable tv????? i have satelite tv service for that one reason i live down in huricane alley and i know that poles come down and you lose tv but with the satelite tv you never have to worry about them poles coming down and knocking out the cable. i guess with every storm you'll have people who complain about the stupidest things. for me i'm just glad the house is here and everyones safe. my wife wanted to evacuate if the storm got stronger but i have so many little friends that i told here you know we can't take them with us if we go .i told her i would just bring her to her moms house and come back home and ride out the storm with my possie besides to me they are family and i sure ain't gonna leave them behind to be on their own in a storm. if the rain slacks off a bit later today i might take the rhino to the swamp and see whats up back there.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkhBdXYkPfw[/ame]
you can see black things fly across the screen thats shingles off of the houses around his house. i'm glad isaac wasn't as bad as gustav in the wind catagory because as slow moving as this storm is i don't think there would have been anything left standing after. right now we are still dealing with rain and flooding .down here we are flooding far two reasons one is the rain the the second is the south wind is pushing water up the marsh and into the homes.the water is to the top of the levee in the back and the pumps have been steady running now for a few days but they are reaching a point to where they are just curculating the water out the bayou and into the swamp only for it to just come right back over the levee and into the bayou. we haven't been able to get outside to start cleaning up because of the wind and rain. not that we would melt or anything but even with small 50 mph gust you don't wanna be out under or near a tree after the storms because of branches that have snapped and sre lodged in the trees are still falling.i wish this storm would have went to texas because they really did need the rain we lost power for about 12 hours but they got it back on when the eye was over us it took almost 6 or 7 hours for the eye to pass over so that helped them out alot on getting out and fixing stuff. there are people down here who are acually calling in and complaining that they have no cable tv service i mean come on there are people flooding and without a house to go home to and these people are worried about cable tv????? i have satelite tv service for that one reason i live down in huricane alley and i know that poles come down and you lose tv but with the satelite tv you never have to worry about them poles coming down and knocking out the cable. i guess with every storm you'll have people who complain about the stupidest things. for me i'm just glad the house is here and everyones safe. my wife wanted to evacuate if the storm got stronger but i have so many little friends that i told here you know we can't take them with us if we go .i told her i would just bring her to her moms house and come back home and ride out the storm with my possie besides to me they are family and i sure ain't gonna leave them behind to be on their own in a storm. if the rain slacks off a bit later today i might take the rhino to the swamp and see whats up back there.