Another long day

DavidsCJ7 · Sep 10, 2008

My day started at 4 am Tuesday morning and it just ended, 21 hrs. In the past week I have had several 16-18 hr days and one 26.5 hr day. I love hurricanes.

On another note, I passed through B'ham twice today. Did y'all see me waving?

wngrog · Sep 10, 2008

We sure are not hearing much about the hurricane's destruction in the media, however, i tried to get a hotel in Baton Rouge on tuesday and they said they were closed from damages from Gustav.

What are you guys doing?

DeleriousII · Sep 10, 2008

Gustav effects in Baton Rouge are similar to Katrina in NO....maybe not quite as hard but still a lot of damage

DavidsCJ7 · Sep 10, 2008

wngrog said:
We sure are not hearing much about the hurricane's destruction in the media, however, i tried to get a hotel in Baton Rouge on tuesday and they said they were closed from damages from Gustav.

What are you guys doing?

There are about +/- 5000 electrical crews working to restore the power in S LA. We are assisting in fueling all of the electrical crews. Lots of power outages between Baton Rouge and Houma. If I rememer correctly 2,000,000 people were without power. Several main transmission lines were also destroyed. There was also some structural damage but most of it was caused from falling trees. I drove from BR to Houma the other day on Hwy 1 and it was overwelming the number of HUGE oak trees that were pushed over.

You dont hear about it in the media because, with the exception of New Orleans, the majority of the folks in LA don't expect handouts. They take care of their own business. They don't have the time or the desire to bitch to the media about what the government is not doing. They are too busy working, getting their lives back to normal.

DeleriousII · Sep 10, 2008

David said:
There are about +/- 5000 electrical crews working to restore the power in S LA. We are assisting in fueling all of the electrical crews. Lots of power outages between Baton Rouge and Houma. If I rememer correctly 2,000,000 people were without power. Several main transmission lines were also destroyed. There was also some structural damage but most of it was caused from falling trees. I drove from BR to Houma the other day on Hwy 1 and it was overwelming the number of HUGE oak trees that were pushed over.

You dont hear about it in the media because, with the exception of New Orleans, the majority of the folks in LA don't expect handouts. They take care of their own business. They don't have the time or the desire to bitch to the media about what the government is not doing. They are too busy working, getting their lives back to normal.

That is what I find so damned amazing is that somehow the media finds a way to only put the "most retarded, whining about everything, thinking the gubmint should give them **** for free" citizens of NO on TV. What about the millions of other people that just suck it up and do what tehy have to to get back to normal? sure as hell won't see them on tv. The news crews only go to the places where they are giving out free ****...what type of person do you expect to be standing in line. If the tv crews would go to neighborhoods where people are taking upon themselves to cut downed trees and haul debris out of their yards I bet people would see NO a little differently.