This is the news I woke up to first this morning. Like I said with Gustav it is better to be smack in the middle of the forecast track 5 days out than 1. We and our friends to the west in Louisiana could use a break.
As Mr NAAS pointed out yesterday evening large sections of Louisiana are still without power from Gustav.
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I am following Hurricane Ike in the Naples, Florida area.
That track has it coming pretty close. Good luck to y’all in South Florida, especially the ppl in the keys.
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Everyone needs to stay packed – and stay safe…
I think we’re all going to need good luck before it’s over.
There is no good place on the Gulf Coast for a hurricane, but you guys need a break.
My son lives in BR and that is a real mess with the electricity situation. How did you all fare ith damage and power from Gustav?
Thanks, supsalemgr, your concern for people keeps you at the top of my list of favorite insurance people – and no doubt makes that sup translate to super and supervisor.
It’s hard to get big picture on power and damage – obviously the power problem making it difficult for the grassroots messages to get out.
Natchez had major problem, bellesouth has been without power at home. It may be back on but she also was shelter for friends from NOLA so little time to blog with or without power.
Although some in Mississippi are still without power, the situation here is nothing like Louisiana. Baton Rouge situation is very real and very big mess.
I saw something yesterday saying that LA was purchasing $20million worth of generators to give away and freeing up oil reserves so there would be gas to operate them.
There are parts of the state (LA) that will not have power again until October.
I just put up post on related article by Rebecca Mowbray. Am about to check my notes and add more information on problems as comments to that post.
One thing I’ve been thinking about is how lack of power adds to loss – or could – but I’m not certain my information is current. What do you know about the impact it would have on AC/Heating unit, for example, if it sits with power off for a month or so.
another is that we know to expect from those areas without power is a baby boom seems to follow nine months after every power blackout…FEMA may need to rethink what it provides in emergency kits accordingly.
I can’t address the AC/Heating issue. I am sales guy, not a claims guy.
No power is a bad deal. The outage seems massive and Entergy only has “x” amount of resources.
The plus side of those limited resources is that power crews really help one another – even then there are limits, as you say, and with more bad weather to come, the problem is likely to become a matter of limited resources with more area to cover.
Evac of the Keys called off – businesses there cite loss and say it takes about a month to get things back to normal but the upside IMO is that’s a lot less time than it would take to recover from Ike. I’m all for the better safe than sorry approach.