[SEL] J.B. Castagnos, where are you

[Paul Waugh]

Thanks JB

Paul - IN
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Subject: Re: [SEL] J.B. Castagnos, where are you


> Thanks for checking Elden, everyone in the old engine group is OK. We got 
> power at the shop and homeafter 9 days, both are on the main line, many of 
> the farther out customers will be weeks away. The utility workers from 
> acroos the nation are doing a great job, things are a mess. They had to 
> evacuate for Ike, even though it's hitting Texas, things got a little 
> rough here. They are living in a tent city at the old WalMart parking lot, 
> one of the tents went down. I had a tree through the roof of one of my 
> buildings at the shop, house is fine, a tree took out the fence. Our 
> municipal water comes from Bayou Lafourche, my house is on the bature. It 
> was dammed around 1900 to prevent flooding, water is now pumped in from 
> the Mississippi. The pumps were shut down for the hurricane and there were 
> a lot of trees blown into the byou. The diesel pumps were started but 
> water was slow flowing and the vegetation in the water turned it dark. 
> Yesterday tap water looked like tea and orders we!
> re given to boil before use, it's geting beter looking today. Southeast 
> Louisiana is experiencing flooding from the storm surge, two of the guys 
> with us at Portland, Eddie Leblanc and Buzz Bradley will likely be 
> affected.
> J.B. Castagnos
> Belle Rose, LA
>
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