A Visit from Gustav

Gustav made his visit here known. A huge oak tree blew over taking with it a few other trees and part of the fence. Yes, it made a loud sound but at least it fell on the driveway and across the street. We discovered that the guys living across the street had decided to throw a "Hurricane Party" and thought the tree falling down was "pretty cool".

Thankfully a generator had been purchased to keep all of Dr. Dale's machines going if the
electricity were to go out. Yes, the loss of electricity happened and it lasted for about 26 hours or so. Dr. Dale's "world" was perfectly intact except for the brief interruption of unplugging the machines from the wall and replugging them in to the cords going to the generator.

We made several calls to the City reminding them that Dr. Dale was on the priority list. The guys worked all they could to get us up and running. They had explained they had to start from the beginning of the "chain" and work their way here. We stood outside watching the guys going up in the bucket trucks, coming down giving us a false sense of hope, and then going back up to check the power lines.

Finally we achieved success! Electricity!!!!!!!

We thank the many of you who called checking in on us. Thanks for many offers of gas to keep us up and running. Thanks for the many prayers. We survived and are thankful for that.
We are again blessed to have family and friends who are dear and caring and thinking of us at all times.

Rachel