How did you guys fare? I'm not laughing at Isaac now as we had a fatality in Picayune and numerous people are getting flooded. I still don't have power and lost shingles sometime last night. I will need a new roof. The shingles that defied the eyewall of Katrina succumbed to the feeder bands of Isaac. I hear Slidell has major troubles with flooding and am waiting to hear from my niece and her in-laws.
Their all busy knocking their monuments back over about 0.04 feet where they were last week.
I live 8 miles from the coast. The eye passed about 45 miles east of me. No damage to the home just tree limbs down in the yard. the misses and I spent yesterday cleaning up and almost back to normal.
It is amazing 45 miles west of the eye very little damage and 145 miles east of the eye and wide spred flooding.
Lost one branch on my pecan tree, lots of twigs in the yard. Lost house electricity for an hour one morning. Back on campus today, not much of a mess when I looked around yesterday, just soggy.
You were on the "back side" of the storm. With the counterclockwise rotation of these storms, the strongest winds, most rain and most damage occurs on the East side of the storm or the "leading edge". That's the side all of the tornadoes are on too. We were under tornado watches most of yesterday, but we are so far inland that we got off rather lightly. LOTS of rain and a few gusts of wind. My area was VERY lucky!!
