Hurricane Katrina - IV

Moondance,
Your house looks fine. You may have a loose screen, I will have to double check. I was in a hurry when I looked, but overall, nothing to report at your house.:clap_1:

Dang, dang, DANG!! :bang: :bang: I can't believe I'll have to NOT repair that screen, again. (It was already torn... I have no worries personally, but I am grateful for the information).

Now, we (SoWal.com) should focus some energy on those that DO have very real worries and see how we can help... SJ, I sent you a PM, so just let me know. 😀

Please contribute goods, blood, time or money: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp

American Red Cross Launches Largest Mobilization Effort in History for Hurricane Katrina

http://www.redcross.org/pressrelease/0,1077,0_314_4473,00.html

Kurt and SJ, what would we do without you? As usual you have provided peace of mind and sanity to those of us who are not in SoWal. You 2 are priceless! How about a frosty beverage sometime soon?

We'll be down to celebrate my birthday beginning the 8th of next month? 😀

Yes, I agree -- thanks much to Kurt, SJ, and Camp Creek Kid, too, who tends to give us updates on stuff out on east 30A (and all the others who are giving updates). What a community we have!

We left the area on Saturday after a wonderful week. We have guests in one of our cottages and I spoke with them today and they said they were fine and not worried.

SJ, KURT and others it's so nice of ya'll to keep us up to date, to take time to check other properties. There are few people who would give their time as ya'll have. :cool: :clap_1: 😀

SJ, Kurt and others it's so nice of ya'll to keep us up to date, to take time to check other properties. There are few people who would give their time as ya'll have. :cool: :clap_1: 😀

FYI, Kurt is still giving, but he lost internet connection last night or early am today. He posted pics from my house. When he is back up and running, he may have input or answers to some of your questions.😀

SJ, Kurt and Camp Creek Kid, thanks for eye witness reliable reports. :clap_1:

All of what has been said on this thread by others about the lack of damage to our beaches is all true! It's no worse than after Dennis. There are places where the scraped sand piles are still there or at least partially still there (old Seagrove, BMB), and I didn't see any damaged walkovers. The new one that was just built near 395 is still there. The water just did not get very high. We couldn't find any further erosion and we were very surprised given that the ocean was lapping at the base of the dunes on Sunday. It is still very windy and you get sand blasted at the beach. The waves are impressive, but they aren't hitting the dunes. 30A was closed most of the day at Oyster Lake, but it's open again now. The yellow house on the beach at Fort Panic has a bit of water under it, but it looks no worse than it did 3 days ago. The bay water did rise to the level of our dock, but that's not too bad. If there was flooding from the bay, it was probably in just very low lying areas. If you have a house here, I know it's hard not to worry, but you really shouldn't. Everything looks very good and we didn't see any houses that were obviously damaged.

The yellow house on the beach at Fort Panic has a bit of water under it, but it looks no worse than it did 3 days ago.

Looks like one of those Star Wars at-at walkers.

So, how's everyone doing?

Anyone else watching abc news right now? Horrible footage of the New Orleans suburbs completely flooded.

"Does anyone know if Seagrove has lost power since yesterday afternoon, and if so, for how long? I'm trying to decide if I need to throw anything in the refrigerator away when I come down this week. Of course, like a moron, when I unplugged the TVs yesterday, I also unplugged the answering machine. I usually know that if it answers, we have power."

Old Seagrove didn't lose power. Occasionally the lights flickered. Dune Allen lost power for a little while this afternoon, but only for an hour or so.

Please contribute goods, blood, time or money: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp

American Red Cross Launches Largest Mobilization Effort in History for Hurricane Katrina

http://www.redcross.org/pressrelease/0,1077,0_314_4473,00.html

Not trying to be heavy-handed on this, but I put my money where my (big) mouth is and made a donation online. If you spend 60 seconds on the link above and make a donation, you get this cool little message from American Red Cross (oh yeah, it's tax deductible):

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The new private beach walkover that our neighborhood in Seagrove built was damaged - time to fork out more coin yet again. The sand is quite eroded. Oh, well, it could have been worse - the storm could have right-hooked into us.

Thank you, Kurt for your information...My Dad was worried about his house in Grayton...We have seen more damage and erosion since Ivan than anytime in the last 25 yrs!!

Good to know that we have dodged the bullet this time!! :clap_1:

I'm just glad all you sowal"ers are ok :wub: