[Rhodes22-list] Hurricane Gustav - Hey Ben!

Brad Haslett flybrad at gmail.com
Fri Aug 29 10:44:39 EDT 2008


Thena,

We're ten miles inland and 76' elevation and didn't flood during Katrina
(though some places a lot further inland did) and we lost part of both shop
roofs (only one has been replaced) but our stuff will stay in place.  We've
signed on with a couple of different contractors as "push crews", meaning we
shove stuff out of the roadways for first responders.  Unfortunately, or
fortunately depending on how you want to look at it, very little of the
stuff Katrina destroyed has been rebuilt.  Peoples nerves are a bit ragged
on the MS coast for obvious reasons.  We're not mobilizing any further west
than NOLA or east than Mobile.  Our biggest challenge will be fuel.

Let's hope none of this happens!

Brad

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Thena Carville <thenacarville at bellsouth.net
> wrote:

> Outages were "speckled" throughout the area...I am in BR now and the place
> up here had electricity two hours AFTER my house in LaPlace got power (an
> hour closer to the eye)...it was a couple of days for me but some never
> lost
> power in both locations...I know everyone is going crazy, but you won't
> know
> till Sunday if you will have a thunderstorm or a hurricane where you
> are...haven't looked at just how wide the eye of this one is but that is
> where the punch is...everything else is just varying degrees of
> "windy"...and there is an upper level high in our future that might just
> give it a nudge left...from the last projected path, it looks like we will
> get the northeast quadrant of the storm and that is where the tornadoes
> are...don't like that but they didn't ask me what part of the storm I
> wanted...haven't looked at the surge estimates...once it gets close to real
> land, it drops almost immediately at least one category...most times all
> the
> way down to a "depression" and we are about 90 miles inland...now, my guess
> is you should be okay...doesn't look like you will be getting much of this
> one...I doubt I will even move my flower pots at this point and I will be 2
> hours closer to it than you...besides, we have a football game to think
> about over here...important stuff...most important thing for you to watch
> is
> the surge and how far it extends to the east...and maybe Hanna next week...
> Thena
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Brad Haslett
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 8:40 AM
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Hurricane Gustav - Hey Ben!
>
> Ben & Thena,
>
> Did the lights stay on for you guys during Katrina?  How far north did the
> power outages go?  I'm debating whether to leave Sunday and ride out Gustav
> with my brother (but putting the truck in harms way) and then go to work
> shuttling fuel or wait until it passes and take a chance on US 49 not being
> open. Katrina knocked out power as far as an hour north of our location so
> the shuttle runs could get pretty long. The picture should be a lot clearer
> in a couple of days, depending on what happens after Gustav gets in the
> Gulf.  So far, it ain't lookin' pretty.
>
> My student yesterday is the CO of an Air Force Reserve unit in Texas and
> they're going on full alert starting this weekend for the same mission they
> did during Katrina, staff Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas for refugees.  During a
> break in the Sesame Street show last night I spoke with a deputy sheriff
> who
> is in the MS National Guard and they're spooling-up for deployment to the
> MS
> Gulf, same as Katrina. The info I'd really like to have is WalMart's
> weather
> prediction and their supply-chain logistics contingency plan - they're
> probably the most sophisticated at this.
>
> This will be interesting! The latest NOAA forecast is predicting landfall
> on
> the western coast of LA which would put the outer bands in roughly the same
> spot as Katrina for NOLA. We'll see soon enough!
>
> Brad
>
> Brad
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Thena Carville <
> thenacarville at bellsouth.net
> > wrote:
>
> > You missed all the ones that came up last night?...how do you tell the
> > difference between a tailgater and an evacuator?...the tailgaters came up
> > early to beat the crowd...no sense in letting the beer get hot...
> > Thena
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> > [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of
> > benonvelvetelvis at theskinnyonbenny.com
> > Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 7:47 AM
> > To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
> > Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Hurricane Gustav - Hey Ben!
> >
> > You know it!
> >
> > I'm at Waffle House on College Dr. right now, and I've just spotted my
> > first
> > Rv Tailgater of the season.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > From:  "Thena Carville" <thenacarville at bellsouth.net>
> > Subj:  Re: [Rhodes22-list] Hurricane Gustav - Hey Ben!
> > Date:  Thu Aug 28, 2008 17:49
> > Size:  1K
> > To:  "'The Rhodes 22 Email List'" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >
> > It never rains in Tiger Stadium...
> > Thena
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> > [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Brad Haslett
> > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:31 PM
> > To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Hurricane Gustav - Hey Ben!
> >
> > Ben,
> >
> > Looks like there's a run on food and water in NOLA as well as the MS
> Coast
> > already.  At least one station in Gulfport was out of fuel this morning
> and
> > I just got off the phone with my brother - half the pumps near us were
> out
> > (we're topping all the equipment  in advance).  I'm tankering fuel south
> > out
> > of here (Memphis) on Tues/Weds depending on when and where it hits.
> >
> > In other news, government officials said the Saturday game between LSU
> and
> > Appalachian State will go on as scheduled!
> >
> > Brad
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