Hurricane/Tropical Storm Isaac
Isaac's finally blown through my area. And I mean finally! At one point, it was moving a 10th of a mile in 3 hours which is why St. Tammany and Baton Rouge got pounded.
My area seriously lucked out since the storm landed and shifted in such a way that we were 15-20 miles outside of the strike zone. We got about 3" of rain and A LOT of wind with gusts up to 50mph.
The only damage was to our poor trees; they were stripped of the majority of their leaves, and there were a few downed branches we had to chase down. (Some of those branches were a full 1/2 miles down the road!)
Once everything dries out a bit, we have mounds of leaves to rake up. The downside to having 20 trees on the property. :P
We never lost power completely, but did have more brown outs then I could even count. We were extremely fortunate there considering half the state is without power at this point.
My area seriously lucked out since the storm landed and shifted in such a way that we were 15-20 miles outside of the strike zone. We got about 3" of rain and A LOT of wind with gusts up to 50mph.
The only damage was to our poor trees; they were stripped of the majority of their leaves, and there were a few downed branches we had to chase down. (Some of those branches were a full 1/2 miles down the road!)
Once everything dries out a bit, we have mounds of leaves to rake up. The downside to having 20 trees on the property. :P
We never lost power completely, but did have more brown outs then I could even count. We were extremely fortunate there considering half the state is without power at this point.