pontalba

Hi Stephanie, I'm on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, actually about 25 miles or so NE of the lake and the lake is almost 25 miles wide, so in all approximately 50 miles NE of New Orleans. We're in the "tropical storm" winds, won't get the worst till this afternoon, sometime in the next 6 hours or so. The rain and wind comes in bands that cross as the storm passes. It looks bigger on the satellite image than it actually is I think. They are getting some wind and rain even to the east of us, but nothing spectacular by a long shot. I think the highest winds we'll get are about 45-60 MPH at most. Nasty, but not the 150 MPH they were predicting Saturday night. That scared me. So far so good, the worst will be the losing the electricity as we are on well water and the pump is electric, so we have plenty of water stored. /all fingers crossed/