Hi ROger,

On Mon 2036-Sep-29 06:29, Roger Nelson (1:3828/7) wrote to Richard Webb:

 RW> OUr whole area was well forested.  so much so that at night, being
 RW> that our area had no street lights on most routes it was virtually 
 RW> pitch dark when you went outside at night.

RN> There was no electric power from the Louisiana coast to Baton Rouge.
RN> One of my sons was living in Pontchatoula at the time and he ended
RN> up buying 6 power generators for his home.  I don't know where he
RN> got gasoline for them unless a nearby service station was running on
RN> that kind of power.

I'd bet somebody had a gas station on generator power.  Iirc the truck stop
in SLidell was on generator power still two
months after the storm.

 RW> ONe of the first things I did when we moved in was install
 RW> one of those motion lights out front so that as soon as we
 RW> pulled in with the van it came on.

RN> I had to carry a flashlight around because as you already know, it
RN> gets very black at night when no city lights are on, especially in
RN> that area. 

Oh yah it does, all those trees.  We were far enough out of
sLidell that at night back there where we lived without
lights from our house or neighbors' houses you wouldn't see
a thing  YEp, had just moved there three weeks before.  We'd quit managing
 RW> the apartment complexes we managed in inner city NEw ORleans when 
 RW> the management company that we worked for, (Kathy actually on the 
 RW> payroll, me just assisting maintenance man when need arose and I 
 RW> had time) took away her medical benefits and accrued vacation and 
 RW> were doing some other unethical things.  WE'd moved into a small
 RW> apartment (too small) near WAshington and Broad streets which was 
 RW> totally inadequate and a friend of ours had this place in SLidell 
 RW> available which he'd inherited from his dad.  WE were considering 
 RW> buying it in fact.

RN> Ah, Broad and Washington.  A really nice area at one time. 
YOu could tell that, but it's sure gone to hades in a
handbasket these days .  Was a good fresh sea food place
up there I used to stop at.  i"d come back from my work at
the hospital and stop by there for fresh seafood.  PRetty
ratty neighborhood these days though.

RN> Businesses today aren't the way they used to be.  I worked for a car
RN> dealership in New Orleans for 17 years that was run properly, but I
RN> noticed since leaving there, none of the rest of them are. 
RN> Employees nowadays are throwaways, I'm sad to say. 

YEp, that's the way it goes, personnel, the replaceable
commodity .

Regards,
           Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+