[OKDXA] FW: Hurricane Katrina

[Bert Aaron]

-----Original Message-----
From: n5pa at comcast.net [mailto:n5pa at comcast.net] 
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 9:06 PM
To: Bert Aaron
Subject: Re: Hurricane Katrina

Bert:

We are ok and surviving like everyone else.  It was VERY bad here and we had
several friends killed.  We had about 25 to 30 trees down in the yard and
only two hit the house.  We have not power, not water, no fuel, no phones,
no cell phones, nada!  I sent my wife and youngest daughter to Brookhaven
this afternoon to stay with her sister for a while.  I have been at work
since about mid-morning on Tuesday.  We are doing everything we can to keep
it going.  I worked early Tuesday in the yard and it took me about 3 1/2
hours with the chain saw just to get a path large enough to drive out of our
yard into the long drive up to the  main road.  Then my neighbor and I had
to cut the tops of two trees out of the road that fell in his yard.  There
were over 1000 homes totally destroyed and many times that damaged.  There
is nothing like having 80 MPH winds for 14 hours and 125 MPH winds for 4
hours.  I have not eaten today and will have to be back at work at seven in
the morning.  My!
  sister in Tennessee is going to truck some supplies down to us next week.
We have been told we can expect to be without utilities for four to six
weeks.  Let me tell you something, when the sun goes it is totally dark.  It
is going to be a very long recovery.  My tower withstood the storm but my
beam is at about a 70 degree angle and the boom is bent.  All the wire
antennas are down.  Believe me, we were lucky.  W5XX lost all his towers in
Vicksburg and he did not have winds over 60 MPH.  Thanks for asking and I
was surprised the Internet came up here at work.  I will try to keep you
posted.  Let everyone know what is going on here.

73,
Alan, N5PA