This says a lot. It took me several hours to fill out this form. And this is what I got. I live in St. Tammany Parish but apparently the tree in my house isn't a big deal. Most people in our parish have zero power and yet it isn't a disaster. We were told it was a MANDATORY evacuation, but we don't qualify for disaster assistance.

I forgot how much I hated FEMA. If you call them, you go through several minutes of touch tone service and then it tells you they are busy and "you will now be disconnected". During the automated info, they tell you more than 10 times about the fema.gov website. If you try to use the website you get this messae. However, just to mess with you more than normal, they let you get through the website at various pages THEN it throws that message in at you again.

Luckily, it was only one tree that fell onto the house. We have many more pictures in the gallery section. Go to, Gallery---->Hurricanes----->Gustav

We also have a live feed at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gustav-live-feed

When we evacuated for Katrina, I didn't take any pictures or CD's etc. This time I packed them up and took them all. Wouldn't you know it, Kenny's car leaked and several of my pictures are now ruined. Odd how things work.