RealMickeysGirl
09-01-2005, 07:30 PM
My inlaws are here with us and they would not be if DH had not driven from Montgomery to Gulfport Tuesday morning to get them. Their house had 6 ft of water from the storm surge - their house is about a block off the beach on the Longbeach side of Gulfport. They had been told - from what should have been a reliable source - that the hurricane would be a category 2 with storm surge of 13 ft when it hit - they have stayed under circumstances like that before and were ok. After their power went out they had no way of knowing that the storm did not lose strength or how high the waters would get.
DH was able to drive to their house because the son of a neighbor of theirs has heavy equipment had cleared the street to his mother's house and to the front of my inlaws house. The national guard was setting up road blocks when they left. They know they will not be able to get back in to salvage what little they can for some time. They are not letting anyone back into the neighborhoods - it doesn't matter that their road has been cleared and that their house is sturdy - authorities don't want people going back into unsafe houses.
DH filled his trunk with water and peanutbutter and bread before going down there and passed out what he could to other neighbors who had rode out the storm. Hopefully, they have been able to get out by now. Some had family in other parts of MS trying to get to them to bring them out - I just hope they were allowed to do so.
They have lost most all their posessions but they are safe. You don't know how releaved I was when I got that phone call - when he finally got far enough out to get a cell signal - that said "I've got them and we are heading back, they are ok".
DH was able to drive to their house because the son of a neighbor of theirs has heavy equipment had cleared the street to his mother's house and to the front of my inlaws house. The national guard was setting up road blocks when they left. They know they will not be able to get back in to salvage what little they can for some time. They are not letting anyone back into the neighborhoods - it doesn't matter that their road has been cleared and that their house is sturdy - authorities don't want people going back into unsafe houses.
DH filled his trunk with water and peanutbutter and bread before going down there and passed out what he could to other neighbors who had rode out the storm. Hopefully, they have been able to get out by now. Some had family in other parts of MS trying to get to them to bring them out - I just hope they were allowed to do so.
They have lost most all their posessions but they are safe. You don't know how releaved I was when I got that phone call - when he finally got far enough out to get a cell signal - that said "I've got them and we are heading back, they are ok".