The Johnson's: Hurricane Gustav

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Hurricane Gustav

Well I know it's been over a week since the hurricane was here but I'm just now getting around to blogging about it because we were out of town and then did not have electricity for a few days. But everything is back to normal now. I left with the kids and went with a friend, Angie, to her parents house and another friend, Rebecca, who came to visit for the weekend. Needless to say it was not the weekend Rebecca had planned for Labor Day. Billy stayed and helped at the college. I also need to mention we still had our exchange student, Amazigh. The one who was suppose to be with us only two weeks but ended up being three and probably still would be with us if it weren't for the hurricane. I did not want to have to take care of him when we left and he didn't need to stay with Billy, so Billy had to drive him to Meridian, MS on Saturday night. He ended up leaving after 10:30pm to get him with some of the people from the exchange program. He got home at 8am! long night but thankful he had friends to make the drive with him. Anyway Saturday night was very long because our student did not want to leave and was basically refusing to go. Billy had to talk with his mom in Tunisia to finally get him to leave! We had other people at our house and they didn't want to leave because it was like a soap opera with this student! And the funny thing is he ended up with a family in Caplin, LA which is 2 hours south of Pineville! what?! We drove to Meridian for nothing! oh well. Ok now back to the rest of the story. We loved staying at Mr. George and Mrs. Ann's house. It was like a bed and breakfast. Mr George made us breakfast every morning. And someone was always bringing us supper because we were the poor refugees. It was great! Of course now we are back to cereal for breakfast! Everything was fine at our house no damage except for a tree in our back yard that was uprooted. So it will need to be cut down. We are glad to be home and thankful to all those who helped us!

Mr. George and Mrs. Ann