Hurricane Katrina Damage

[AL_Josh]

Here are some pics of the damage done to my yard. I live in Mobile, Alabama. We live just north of I-10. We thankfully did not see the damage here as the did in the south part of the county and west of us in Miss. and Lou. We did get wind gust of up to 100 mph. We did stay.

My familly lives in just north of Bayou La Batre and they did fine too. Alot of trees down. I have a friend who owns a ship yard in Bayou La Batre and he says it is unbelievable down there. Boats thrown arround like bathtub toys. I saw pics own the local news down here and he is right.

If you search on this site it is the local news station dwn here. They have some pics and video. WKRG TV5

The first pic is the view from my back porch.

 

[AL_Josh]

This is the oak tree that hit the house.

 

[AL_Josh]

This is the roots of the tree.

 

[Glenn9643]

Looks very similar to my front yard at the place in New Hebron, MS, but I was lucky and the trees went away from the house. Glad you are OK.

 

[AL_Josh]

More tree!

 

[AL_Josh]

I will have to post pics of the pile of debris accross the road from the house I have spent all week making trip to the other side of the road pileing up for removal.

 

[AL_Josh]

Here is the Debris Pile. It is about 100 yards long

 

[AL_Josh]

Another.

 

[AL_Josh]

More work to be done. It is hanging by a thread.I will have to put the fourwheeler winch on it.

 

[AL_Josh]

And here are some of the cleanup tools. Anybody know how to carve with a chainsaw? I think a bear would be nice.

We were lucky here and thank God for protecting us, our families, and our homes.

Our prayers go out to everyone impacted by this storm.

 

[beenthere]

Why did you decide to stay?

I don't blame you, but so many seem to think that those in NO should have been wiser and left. I agree that the school busses should have been driven away with loads of people on them going 'somewhere' (not sure where but the authorities always say to go to a safe place -right!!).

So, not to be judgemental, but why did you stay? (glad you are safe and in reasonably good shape with a lot of work)

 

[Glenn9643]

He stayed because he's in Mobile and the storm obviously was going in near New Orleans. That's a state away! 99% of the time there would have been minimal damage to the Mobile area, but this was a very large storm.

 

[AL_Josh]

As Glenn said It was goinng to make land fall a state away. We are about 115 miles away from where it was going to make landfall. Believe me any closer and it would of been a no brainer we would of left. Also we are well inland. We left for Ivan because land fall was so close to us. It took us 6 hours to drive back home which normally takes 2 hours. We have plenty of options of places to go so we really thought hard about leaving.

I thought I had heard that New Orleans told residents that they would make ways for them to leave. I do not see how but I think more people that stayed had ways to leave.