16
Sep
post Ivan
We were lucky, as you can see from the pictures. An hour’s work with a chainsaw, nail a couple boards back up onto the fence, clean the pool, and we’re back in business.
Besides the tree down in our backyard, I see only one other tree down in the vicinity, and it took out a section of somebody else’s fence. Some people lost a few shingles; even that rotten pecan tree that I predicted was history is still standing outside the neighbor’s front door.
We never lost power, which is a first for me and hurricanes. Our ‘hood’s powerlines are all underground, so that helped. The local news station says that 50,000 or so on the MS coast are without power; we aren’t some of them.
Ivan turned just enough to the east to keep us from getting creamed. I hope people in Mobile and Apalachicola and such places are digging out okay.
