Surviving Hurricane Isaac

I know you all have probably been real worried about us here on the Gulf Coast (sarcastic tone..cough cough). The hype about this storm has been tremendous, and since Eric has never experienced a hurricane before he wanted to make sure we were prepared. I just laughed A LOT inside because I've been through quite a few hurricanes including Katrina and Ivan, etc. Down here in dixie if its not a cat. 3 we don't stress. Yes, we are in a mandatory evacuation area but you guessed it we didn't leave. Due to Isaac changing course so much we ended up on the the worst side of the storm (the east side) but since it hit harder and more directly 3 hours away from us all we got was a lot of rain, and a little wind. I think Eric was a little let down the storm wasn't more intense since he made us go to Home Depot and buy all sorts of supplies. In a normal week we probably get bigger storms than Isaac was. However, Eric did have work cancelled for 2 days and my University closed as well for 2 days, so we got to have a little hurricane party still. We never lossed power, although the cable did go out so we had to resort to Netflix and pajammas most of the day, while I typed a paper. I honestly can't even remember the last time I've been able to do that because of this nursing program, but it felt awesome. Although I have no idea how people could do that day in and day out. I felt like a ball of mush after 2 days. No bueno! In all seriousness the storm surge was the worst thing of all we experienced so I attached a few pics from our town so you could see it and some of the flooding.

This is the surge down in Gulf Shores, the beach we always go to. It is about 30 min. from our home.

This is a picture taken on the causeway, as its known to us. It is a road that is about 7 mi. long that crosses Mobile bay and connects Baldwin County (where we live) to Mobile County. This is about 5-10 min. from home for us.

This is just another picture of the causeway flooded.

In all seriousness we know our neighbors to the west of us in Mississippi and Louisiana got hit much worse than us, and pray for their safety. 

 BUT…….here in Daphne, AL. this is how we all feel!

We would all like to thank you Isaac for a much needed 2 day break!