After Gustav and Ike

We made it home from evacuating Gustav and stopped by my parent's house to check out the damage. It was a mess. They were out of power for 9 days! Poor Baton Rouge really was a disaster area. Gas lines were 6 hrs long and it was really, really hot. Thankfully, most people that I know have power now. This is my parent's backyard. It's mostly cleaned up now after many hot sweaty hours. Our house was fine and actually never lost power. It's one of those weird things. You never know who will be fine until after the storm. We were very greatful to have power and get back to normal (we had to get ready for Ike! ha ha). Evacuating was great until it took us 14 hrs to get home. Anyway, we made it and everyone's fine now. Pray hurricane season will end soon!