Bud Boudreaux
Bud Boudreaux
beating building hardly hear imagine pots rattled steel
This building has a steel roof, and Frances rattled it for 30 hours. You could hardly hear a thing. Imagine someone beating on pots and pans incessantly. It was nerve-wracking.
everybody fingers fourth hit hurricane lights power restored snapped third three within
After Frances, everybody around here was seasoned veterans. If a third hurricane had hit us, we would have restored power within three days. And after a fourth one, we would have snapped fingers and the lights would come on.
building conference lived room
I lived in this building for 21 days. The conference room was my bedroom.
floyd hurricane none talk talking threats
You can't talk about Jeanne without talking about Frances. The first one was pretty scary. We'd had threats from Hurricane Floyd and Irene, but none of us had ever been through the big one.