House Pics - Look Good

This morning when we went into our makeshift office at the hospital, I finally tracked down their data systems guy who quickly produced a nice little 4-port ethernet hub. After cutting us a bunch of cables, everybody was happy and the wireless router that we had put in the day before became unnecessary. After work we drove into Baton Rouge to drop Dr. W. off at the place where he's staying just off Perkins Rd. His house in Lakewood South had, conservatively, eight feet of water. As we neared Baton Rouge and my cellphone got back within digital range, I started getting all of the text messages I haven't been getting out in analog-land. One was from Kenny B. It said "Uptown is dry u can come back now." When we got back to our temporary home in Jackson this evening, we rushed around and assembled a bar-b-que pit, grilled a few chicken breasts, and put together a nice dinner with Dr. Pena and his brother, who are staying here for a couple of days. Afterward, I checked my email and found two reports on our house. One was from the Brother-in-Law ,who had been in to town and taken a good look at our house. He said that although we might have gotten a slight amount of water in the basement, it looked quite good otherwise.


The next message in my in-box was from Adam of Adam's Bicycle World, who had also stopped by. Adam sent me these photos. The first shows mainly the front steps and porch, and as far as I can tell, everything looks pretty normal in that one. The second is of the side door to the basement, along Pine Street. If you look really closely, you can see a light water mark about four inches up from the bottom of the door. There also seems to be a darker water mark on the sidewalk. Whatever, it looks like pretty good news to me. The best part is that the door is CLOSED and not smashed in! Adam reported that his shop had a fair amount of water, as did his house. Nothing really catastrophic, though.

We are going to try and get back to town on Friday or Saturday for a quick assessment and maybe to pick up some clothes and stuff. The mayor is sounding pretty optimistic on the news tonight about announcing a re-entry plan for the French Quarter, CBD and uptown tomorrow, so I think all we really need is to have electricity at this point. Then we will have a lot of cleaning up to do, but might be able to move back in once things are cleaned up and disinfected. I'm sure we might find a bit more damage, but so far it's looking pretty good.