Hurricane Katrina arrives

This morning, we watched the news and saw that the hurricane would hit the land soon. People in New Orleans were evacuating. Sad to say, New Orleans is a poor city and so, many were unable to evacuate esp the African-Americans. So, they had to go to SuperDome for shelter. Superdome is supposed to be structurally strong enough to withstand the hurricane. So, people were lining up to go into it.

Had cereals this morning for breakfast to finish off the milk. At about 11 am, the power was cut. We wer ewatching VCD halfway when the power was cut. So irritating esp when the show was at its climax. Initially, we thought it would come back on..but it did not. CT do not have to go work today and tomorrow. So, when it was cut..we were at a lost as to what to do.

We could only stay indoors as the winds were so strong and it was pouring. We were afraid that our glass windows would be broken because of the wind impact. So, we just sat and talked...and kept taking a peek outside through our windows to see the trees moving furiously. The wind was so strong that we thought our cars would fly. Kok Fong called and asked if we put up the hand brakes in the car...

For lunch, we had no choice but to take bread and ham.

Whole day, what we did was..read book,peek outside window once a while to see the wind damage it did to the trees.

I am glad at about night time, the rain stopped, though the wind was still quite strong..

We heard someone knocking on the door. It was Kok Fong and wife. We were surprised they came over cos the wind was still strong. They told us that Colin's house would be having BBQ. So, we went over and took a look. They were actually well prepared and picked twigs the day before to start fire. His wife does the fire as she comes from Myanmar and she says they still do this at her house. So she is so skilled in starting fire.

We brought rice to cook and leftovers from dinner last night to heat up. So, we had pork rib with salted veggies and rice for dinner. Yum. Though it is only a dish, we enjoyed it so much cos it was hard to come by..since there is no power.

That is Colin's wife from Myanmar. They brought along their 2 kids. The oldest is only 2 years old. Very cute. She speaks Chinese to us. She does not understand English.

They found the black containers few days ago along the road in the apartment. So, they picked it up and used it to start fire inside and cook their food. Well prepared right?? We were all amazed.

The first night without power was not so bad as the weather was cooling since it was the same day as hurricane. There was light rain at night..so we could sleep quite well.

We bought 2 torch lights in Walmart the day before and so we used it to move around in the apartment..used it to give light for bathing..

Slept early since we cannot do much without power. Slept at about 9pm.

Took a peek before we slept outside and it was pitched black since all the power has been cut off in Mobile..oh well..what a day!