We stayed through Katrina, 45 miles from New Orleans. Today is the first time I am able to go on-line as we just got our electricity back on (but most importantly cable for the modem
). The parish (county to those of you not familar with Louisiana) that I live in was one of the areas now considered a disaster area. We always believed that we lived to far inland to get hit hard by a hurricane, but no one ever considered that the hurricane might come in from the side of the state rather than the south.
My husband and I played in the winds until they started really blowing random debris at us. At one point during the storm the door frame was literally showing movement and my hubby had to brace it under the door with a short shovel. We couldn't sleep through the storm so instead opted to peek through a window from time to time to watch our neighborhood being blown to bits. When we opened the door later in the day we were fortunate that my house had not taken any damage. Unfortunately that was not true of the rest of my area.
After 4 days of 98 degree heat and no communication to the outside world, even a landline, we journeyed to my parents house in Baton Rouge where we became refuges. Imagine my horror as I watched CNN for the first time since the storm. I found out that the establishment that I worked at (in New Orleans) would be conveniently inaccessable for months if it still stood at all. Now I am a refuge with no job...figures:brick:. I think the worse thing that I heard in my 3 days as a refuge was all of the wronge information being broadcast about how evacuations went prior to the storm, how things were handled towards evacuations after the storm, and the racial comments made about the decisions surrounding the evacuations.
It really annoyed me that on every national channel I turned to I was hearing about how our state and local governments dropped the ball. What wasn't being reported was that prior to the storm, public transportation buses were being sent to bus stops all over the city to pick up people and take them to the Dome. What wasn't being reported was that no one wanted to get on those buses. No one left those idiots there, it was their choice not to go. It was never a black/white thing either. New Orleans is not an area where you typically need a car. Most people in the inner city don't have one regardless of race. These are the people who needed transport...the city is 65% minority..do the math. It was never about color. Nagin did his best to open the Dome up for the people who could not get out. no one could have ever guessed that the Dome would not stand up to Katrina and by all accounts it should have. That amount of people could never have been evacuated from the city with public bussing before the storm. Had the people that stayed in their homes made the choice to leave, even to the dome, thousands would not have died.
more later on the lies of the media....and boy, there's some whoppers!!
Congratulations to those who weathered the storm. It will only be a half-life for a short amount of time
Hang in there.
). The parish (county to those of you not familar with Louisiana) that I live in was one of the areas now considered a disaster area. We always believed that we lived to far inland to get hit hard by a hurricane, but no one ever considered that the hurricane might come in from the side of the state rather than the south. My husband and I played in the winds until they started really blowing random debris at us. At one point during the storm the door frame was literally showing movement and my hubby had to brace it under the door with a short shovel. We couldn't sleep through the storm so instead opted to peek through a window from time to time to watch our neighborhood being blown to bits. When we opened the door later in the day we were fortunate that my house had not taken any damage. Unfortunately that was not true of the rest of my area.
After 4 days of 98 degree heat and no communication to the outside world, even a landline, we journeyed to my parents house in Baton Rouge where we became refuges. Imagine my horror as I watched CNN for the first time since the storm. I found out that the establishment that I worked at (in New Orleans) would be conveniently inaccessable for months if it still stood at all. Now I am a refuge with no job...figures:brick:. I think the worse thing that I heard in my 3 days as a refuge was all of the wronge information being broadcast about how evacuations went prior to the storm, how things were handled towards evacuations after the storm, and the racial comments made about the decisions surrounding the evacuations.
It really annoyed me that on every national channel I turned to I was hearing about how our state and local governments dropped the ball. What wasn't being reported was that prior to the storm, public transportation buses were being sent to bus stops all over the city to pick up people and take them to the Dome. What wasn't being reported was that no one wanted to get on those buses. No one left those idiots there, it was their choice not to go. It was never a black/white thing either. New Orleans is not an area where you typically need a car. Most people in the inner city don't have one regardless of race. These are the people who needed transport...the city is 65% minority..do the math. It was never about color. Nagin did his best to open the Dome up for the people who could not get out. no one could have ever guessed that the Dome would not stand up to Katrina and by all accounts it should have. That amount of people could never have been evacuated from the city with public bussing before the storm. Had the people that stayed in their homes made the choice to leave, even to the dome, thousands would not have died.
more later on the lies of the media....and boy, there's some whoppers!!
Congratulations to those who weathered the storm. It will only be a half-life for a short amount of time
Hang in there.
. That's okay, they say it's better for you anyway, lol. The restaurants that are serving food are having a tough time because they can't get any food either! Our local donut shop opened for two days with no donuts...couldn't get product in to make them. This thing has really made a mess of things.
