"then as it was, then again it will be"--led zeppelin
hey hey
well hurricane katrina is worse than i thought. yesterday jenni and i were making jokes about how we'd have to drink in the dark when we went on our vacay and now i feel horrible, because 1. it's not funny (i don't think i really understood how bad it was until it really registered that the levees broke and everything was quickly going underwater) 2. these are people's lives that are just being taken away from them in an instant. 3. in biloxi, which is not somewhere i have ever been, but the pictures make it seem as though it was non existant. i was listening to the radio and someone said it was like our tsunami, and that is so true. and not to be ugly, (well i didn't say this) but my dad said this morning, "sure we help everyone out in times of disaster, but you don't see any other country stepping up to offer their help." now i understand that we are viewed as a superpower, but that doesn't mean we have some special powers to snap our fingers and get our own country back to normal. i feel like the rest of the world is laughing at us, and that feels so ugly. this is so much worse than i even imagined, i try to watch the news but i can't. i started crying on the way to work today b/c i was listening to a clip of a man who lost his wife, his painful words, about how she told him he wouldn't be able to save her. and i cried.
i don't really know anyone there personally, we have 3 offices down in those areas, our baton rouge office is open today, mobile is without electricity but fine, and new orleans is closed indefinitely. the good news is that they are all safe...safe, but without anything. it just makes me sick to think of these poor people in this superdome looking for refuge and now they have to leave and you know living in those conditions isn't really that safe either. where is the clean water? food? toilets? or the ones on the roofs? a friend at work is from new orleans, meaning her family is still there. she told me today she hasn't heard from them since monday. she is just hoping that it's b/c all the phones are down, but how do you handle that? i would be sick.
so i am sorry for such a bummer of a post, but this is making me very thankful and want to reach out and help all of these victims. this just happened to come at a time where i have dished out all the money i have earned to a house....which is yes! closing today! *cross your fingers* some weird fax came through yesterday saying we had to wire funds or something. i was like whaat? both my mom and brandon said not to worry. please send your thoughts my way around 4. i can't believe it's actually TIME to do this.
so about my future new orleans trip which was to take place oct. 6 - 10...it will obviously have to be cancelled. my mom tried to call yesterday to cancel or get vouchers or something and they were like "i don't know what we can do for you", well it's not like we can do anything there, and are they even letting people IN? no. so my mom calmly explained this, among other things. i guess they just told her to call back. i don't mean to sound trivial about this. all i care about is those people, i could care less about our trip, it's a very minimal issue right now.
ok well i'm done for this post today. i have a lot of work to do before i leave early, staff meeting at 12 which should be interesting.
prayers.
well hurricane katrina is worse than i thought. yesterday jenni and i were making jokes about how we'd have to drink in the dark when we went on our vacay and now i feel horrible, because 1. it's not funny (i don't think i really understood how bad it was until it really registered that the levees broke and everything was quickly going underwater) 2. these are people's lives that are just being taken away from them in an instant. 3. in biloxi, which is not somewhere i have ever been, but the pictures make it seem as though it was non existant. i was listening to the radio and someone said it was like our tsunami, and that is so true. and not to be ugly, (well i didn't say this) but my dad said this morning, "sure we help everyone out in times of disaster, but you don't see any other country stepping up to offer their help." now i understand that we are viewed as a superpower, but that doesn't mean we have some special powers to snap our fingers and get our own country back to normal. i feel like the rest of the world is laughing at us, and that feels so ugly. this is so much worse than i even imagined, i try to watch the news but i can't. i started crying on the way to work today b/c i was listening to a clip of a man who lost his wife, his painful words, about how she told him he wouldn't be able to save her. and i cried.
i don't really know anyone there personally, we have 3 offices down in those areas, our baton rouge office is open today, mobile is without electricity but fine, and new orleans is closed indefinitely. the good news is that they are all safe...safe, but without anything. it just makes me sick to think of these poor people in this superdome looking for refuge and now they have to leave and you know living in those conditions isn't really that safe either. where is the clean water? food? toilets? or the ones on the roofs? a friend at work is from new orleans, meaning her family is still there. she told me today she hasn't heard from them since monday. she is just hoping that it's b/c all the phones are down, but how do you handle that? i would be sick.
so i am sorry for such a bummer of a post, but this is making me very thankful and want to reach out and help all of these victims. this just happened to come at a time where i have dished out all the money i have earned to a house....which is yes! closing today! *cross your fingers* some weird fax came through yesterday saying we had to wire funds or something. i was like whaat? both my mom and brandon said not to worry. please send your thoughts my way around 4. i can't believe it's actually TIME to do this.
so about my future new orleans trip which was to take place oct. 6 - 10...it will obviously have to be cancelled. my mom tried to call yesterday to cancel or get vouchers or something and they were like "i don't know what we can do for you", well it's not like we can do anything there, and are they even letting people IN? no. so my mom calmly explained this, among other things. i guess they just told her to call back. i don't mean to sound trivial about this. all i care about is those people, i could care less about our trip, it's a very minimal issue right now.
ok well i'm done for this post today. i have a lot of work to do before i leave early, staff meeting at 12 which should be interesting.
prayers.
