OT: Hurricane Katrina

[Stacey0471]

Bloody hell, that's gone quick!
Yeah, everything's cool here.

[sinnmin]

It has gone fast but it hasn't. Depends on if you're me or not. We'll be in Cbus on the 18th if you guys are around.

I told Bill that if you still lived there you'd be dead b/c you would have been sitting on the beach watching the hurricane.

[Her Vampness]

I dont think Ill be up that way then but I never know anymore.

I prolly would have stayed until the very last moment- and yes I would have been on the beach until I got scared shitless. I am "one of those" that sits on the beach (or close enough to the beach) while storms roll in. I think I learned my lesson with Georges though. Once I saw a roof fly by and a propane tank-----I shit myself. That is some wizard of oz shit. I couldn't imagine how bad they had it.

[Stacey0471]

Hey Sin, it's your birthday sometime soon isn't it? Or did I already miss it? Hope you have/had a good one. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Stacey0471]

Hey Vamp, I looked at those other pics and worked out where my last hotel, the Ocean Manor Inn, was. Like you said, its gone. If I'm not mistaken, all thats left is the pool.

[Her Vampness]

Yeah from the looks of it both Hotels you stayed at are flattened.

Did you see Treasure Bay- It is now back on the water I do believe but it was almost to the highway and the bottom is out.

Biloxi Grand was in two pieces one in the water and one across highway 90. The President was in the Coliseum parking lot. The copa was across highway 90 as well. The biloxi/Ocean springs bridge crumbled as did the Bay St Louis bridge.

Alicia did get out however the rest of her family did not...they weathered it. They are now living in GA because conditions there are unlivable (no food, no water (still), no electriciy, no sewer system, no grocery stores and from what i've heard no gas. They sustained damage to their houses and were told to get out for at least a month. No jobs no money- they just sit and wait.

There were a few thousand lbs of Chicken on the dock ready to be shipped out taht never made it, feces, urine, and dead bodies- the smell alone is making people ill.

In one shelter all but a few contracted dysintary and had to be sent off to hospitals that are already over crowded.

Tomorrow on Oprah they will be on the MS Coast. Iknow they are focusing more on New Orleans because it was much worse but Waveland, Pass Christian, Long Beach, Gulfport, Biloxi, and Ocean Springs were on the east side of the wall. (East side of Hurricane always has the strongest force winds) There is mass destruction there as well.

I really can't talk about this anymore. It is really taking a toll on me.

I am sorry if I have made people mad. I am just in another state of mind as I wait to hear from the rest of my friends/family.

Please donate as much as you can...even a dollar can go a long way. And if you have the means...take a family in. I am taking a family in next week and I believe my mother is also taking a family in very soon.

Stace- I will be going back soon to help somehow- someway. I feel I have to.

[Her Vampness]

http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24333384.jpg

There is a picture for all those interested of where I lived. Its pretty much sand and debris now.

[Her Vampness]

Hey Sin haven't heard from you in ages. Hope all is well. That did go quick!!! JESUS! Just got back from up that way- Should be back after the lil one arrives...We will try and make a trip up to visit!

HUGS

[Her Vampness]

Stace- goto www.wlox.com they have more images. You can see the hotels you stayed...or the place where they once stood. You will not recognize a thing. Quite sad really.

[Stacey0471]

I looked at that big pic and was trying to work it out.

Looks like your apartments over the railroad tracks are still there. I guess the big circular patch is where the Coliseum was. I bet the pub up on Pass Road is gone. [img]frown.gif[/img]