Huricane Isaac

[mcdiver]

Lost power around 7:15 this morning, with no A/C going, my townhouse is slowly turning into a sauna. Back in February I purchased a wireless indoor/outdoor temp & humidity console. Right now it is 77 degrees outside, humidity is at 98% (which is typical), indoors the temp is 78 degrees with humidity at 74%. So you just sit and sweat.

We are presently in the eye of the hurricane with the worst yet to come the Sheriff says. So it is calm outside, a slight breeze and a light rain.

Down south here they typically lose power and it usually takes anywhere from 5-7 days to restore it, depending on the damage. The last hurricane that went through here 4 years ago, they were without power for over a week. So we are in a wait and see mode at this time. With the water table being so high, all power lines, telephone lines etc. go down quite easily. The trees do not have a deep root system, so they tend to uproot quite easily.

I do have a generator, but gas prices are spiking, so I will run mine sparingly, mostly in the evening and overnight so that i can at least run a fan to try to cool me off as I try to sleep.