hopefully not a fluke - slash - hurricane report

So we spent our first night last night with all of us sleeping downstairs. Aidan's room down there is pretty much set up, so his upstairs old room is in complete disarray, but we figured sleeping down there now will force us to keep stuff moving. Liam also took regular (non-soy) formula yesterday for the first time with no puking. Yay! The result? Last night, Liam went to bed at 7 pm, and Aidan went to bed at 9 pm, and I went to bed after that, and NO ONE woke up all night long! Well, I mean, I woke up, but I didn't have to get out of bed to feed the baby or do anything with Aidan all night long. Perhaps it's the filling dairy formula, perhaps it's the darkness or temperature or quiet, but I'm hoping this is the start of a new era.

And for my non-Louisianers:

I talked to Mama this morning and apparently it's worse than initially thought, now that they've driven around. She said that Gonzales got worse damage from this one than they did in Katrina. There are two houses that had trees fall through them on their road, and there are trees down everywhere. Aunt Toni (she's around Baton Rouge) had a tree go through her trailer and take out two bedrooms (and Charlotte and her husband had just moved in, so now they are out of living there for now). Jake took and posted some pics. Here's a house close to Momo's house that got a visit from a tree:


In Gonzales, they're talking about potentially being out of power for two weeks or more. The stores that are open are so packed that you can't get into the parking lots, and there's a line at all the gas stations that are open so you have to wait forever to get gas, because everyone's needing gas for generators and stuff like that. And a few photos of gas stations that won't be making cash any time soon:




I told Mama that she and Daddy should pack up and come out here for a few weeks, but Daddy won't leave everyone there.

The church had some roof damage, and their house had some roof damage, but they didn't get anything bad really.

Mama and Daddy have a generator hooked up at their house, so they have the window unit ACs and the TV, but no cable, so they are just watching movies. Candace, Charlie, and Kimberly and Randall are all there, plus the kids, plus Momo Hazel. There isn't enough medication in the world to make me want to be in that house right now.