I drove over to the 7800 block or so of Burthe, Freret, Maple, etc.
Bad stuff over there: roofs off of some houses, the entire front of a house gone (you can look into the open front, which has been peeled off, like a weird dollhouse). Wires and sheet metal strewn about.
The tornado(es) really did seem to skip about--a hit here, a miss there.
Even on River Road at Uptown Square there are trees uprooted. One large tree (or piece of one) had been picked up and deposited on top of a parked SUV.
That's the thing that bothers me about living in a recovering area: Life don't stop. Tornadoes still happen; people still have cancer and heart attacks.
Wish we could get a pass from the regular garbage that people usually have to deal with.
I hope the people in Carrollton, Westwego, and Pontchartrain Park who got hit have help and are feeling like tough mofos today.
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Even though I'd seen that there'd been rough weather through Westwego and Carrollton, I was still kind of shocked to see one of the gutters hanging off of my house when I stepped out of my FEMA trailer in Gentilly Terrace. Apparently we didn't miss worse by much, as I heard reports of a trailer shifted into the street about five blocks away, and the firehouse that was hit was only a couple of blocks beyond that. Funny thing is that the weather woke me up, but aside from a little more lightning than usual I didn't think it was much heavier than a normal thunderstorm--no wind noise to speak of, no hail, etc.
Thanks for the report, C.
we are tough mofos here in carrollton
and we got no help from anyone we elected..
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