I had to go back to work today at Nokia but I kept an eye on the Internet to see when Gustav hit Louisiana and what happened next. My cousin Susan Elizabeth Wells in Atlanta reported on her Facebook page about our family in New Orleans -- where they were, were they safe, etc. That has been such a comfort to me. My friend Brenda in Jackson, Mississippi, has been sending me reports too. I know she won't mind if I share this email she sent me earlier. I love the enchanting human-ness of her reaction to events:
It's starting to rain here in Mississippi, and I just made a big pot of coffee to put in a jar and save in case we lose power. I can live for a couple of days without food but I MUST have morning coffee!
I was watching the BBC, and they interviewed a New Orleans blogger who had bought a house in the flood area, painstakingly refurbished it, and then had to leave it because of Gustav. At the time of the interview, she didn't intend to leave. I figured today that she must have been forced to go so I searched the Internet for her blog. I found it, and it is so interesting. Check it out if you have time.
Katrina in New Orleans
Monday, 1 September 2008
Still watching Gustav
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This is indeed a terrific blogsite; I read a lot of it, and it reminds me of Samuel Pepys diary, in the sense that through this blogger (Sarah Hand) we get a really up-close look at what might otherwise just be an interesting event in a history book! Her story of leaving food and water, placed high on a porch shelf, for a poor stray neighborhood cat, was heartbreaking, and I must confess that, as I sit riveted before the TV watching the levee by the Industrial Canal continue to hold, keeping water (so far) out of the Lower 9th Ward, my prayers are with THAT CAT---poor creatures cannot evecuate as humans can (if they have any sense, which some don't!)
Things are much better up here, 250 miles inland, than they were last time; rain, rain, rain but no wind.
,,,make that "evACuate." Eliz, Mr. Universe is punishing me cruelly for my sneerings about people who can't spell!
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