Been unpacking all day, going through bills, doing laundry, trying to remember what I was doing two weeks ago before I went on vacation.
I've also been glued to the TV to follow the progress of the hurricane. My family in New Orleans suffered so badly from Hurricane Katrina, and I can't believe that we are here again three years later. This time though, I have Facebook, and my cousin Susan Elizabeth is posting updates on the family's evacuation there. With Katrina, I only had a phone!
My aunt Susan did send me an e-mail yesterday saying they wouldn't evacuate if they didn't have to. But they had to, and now Susan Elizabeth, her daughter, reports that they are stuck on the highway outside the city in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
My aunt Susan told me in her e-mail that she thought this hurricane was going to finish New Orleans.
Everyone so patiently repaired their houses, lived in FEMA trailers, put up with so much -- my aunt told me they didn't even have regular mail deliveries for almost two years after Katrina -- and now it happens again. Who will come back and rebuild yet another time?
Sunday, 31 August 2008
My family in New Orleans
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Our neighbors had gone to New Orleans for the weekend, but turned around and came back---they said that it's a ghost town down there! They went to Riverwalk to shop and found nobody there but National Guardsmen. Their car trip home took 6 hours (it's usually a 3-hour trip.) Things are bad!
Terrible. I saw on the news that people are dragging their old FEMA trailers down the little highways to Mississippi and really slowing down the evacuation. FEMA said to forget that and they would give them new trailers, but you know those old trailers are carrying all their precious worldly goods.
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