Emmy is having a very hard time coping without electricity. She has relatives who do have theirs back but won't go and stay with them because of Raz. She does go over for meals now and then. She has no damage to the house so it's just being without A/C and lights that is getting to her. I pray that Ike leaves her alone!! Apparently Gustov is the first Hurricane in her lifetime that has hit Baton Rouge this hard so she has no experience to fall back on. Hopefully she will be able to get a generator before any others hit that far inland again. It is frustrating to have areas around her being worked on without anything being done in her area. We spent Friday getting ready for Hanna (pretty strange when you think that I'll spend next weekend getting ready for Hannah's arrival from England by way of Mima's event) to make landfall a few miles south of us on Saturday. It was pretty wet and quite windy Friday night and all day Saturday(worst gusts to 75 MPH ~ Hanna has a huge footprint!), but not as bad as expected and we didn't lose our electricity thistime, and my post Isabel trees are still standing. Today the sun is out and we are drying out. I hope to be able to get yard things out of the screened porch before English Hannah arrives.
The major worry for both the gulf States and the Eastern Seacoast is IKE!
At the moment it looks like the Keys are in the most danger. Ike is a Cat 4 at the moment and it looks like Cuba is going to really get it. It could be worse than Andrew. If it doesn't hicup it could head straight for the Gulf Coast, if it does, we could be in big trouble.
As all hurricane possible states know, it isn't safe to stand down until the very last minute.
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