Had a couple of people that knew I lived in the path of Custav, ask about us and the storm. Have been more interested in finding out what the storm has done to the islands we fish, then to old Cats.
I live close (< 15miles) from the MS/LA line, 200 ft from the beach, and stayed here through the storm. The eye center hit about 80-90miles southwest of us. Wind here was 70 +- and loads of rain, I would say 10+ inches yesterday morning. Little destruction here, just a lot of trash and limbs. A few boats, a couple of cars, and a couple of house trailers destroyed. Several houses damaged. For them the storm was horrid. One truck was lost because this idiot drove down to the beach during the storm to see how bad it was, and the beach road is only 4 feet above high tide level. He needed to have his truck destroyed. (Some people are only alive because it's against the law to shoot them.)

We had about a 6-8 ft sea surge with 6 foot waves on top of that, so water level maybe 12 ft higher than normal.

I had a tree lean over onto one of my houses, but a CAT trackhoe will take care of that in the morning.

However, the marshes of south LA are the ones that got hit bad. I checked the bouy data from around Grand Isle LA and the wind there was 100+ with gust over that, and 17' waves.

I think a lot of planning went into the preperation for this storm so things were not as bad as they could have been, but like I said, for those who lost a house, this storm was the worst ever. However, if you want to live next to the sea you must be prepared to accept what it brings. This includes taking care of yourself and your property when things go bad.

Glad to hear you made it through in good shape!

I was traveling yesterday on I-20/59 near Birmingham and met a stream of Asplundt and various utility tree trimming and line repair trucks. I mean every few minutes for the hour I was on the interstate, there would be another convoy of 4-10 trucks heading south/west. I even saw some from Minnesota when I was heading back south late in the afternoon and could read the license plates!

They're on their way to you! I guess it will be like always, hardest hit areas will be the last they start on when they have to cut their way in first! I expect the most of the ones I saw would have arrived today after spending the night along the way somewhere. Not sure where they would have stopped, perhaps there are some shelters etc reserved for utility crews.