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okay so im not really the praying sort but hear me out: this hurricane has hit the fam in mississippi the hardest in twenty years. as of 3:00 today, my aunt and uncle and 2 cousins have no more house. their entire house in gulfport mississippi (thats right, gulfport, where the eye of the hurricane stayed the longest and did the most damage) was washed out to sea and there is nothing left but a foundation. my aunt decided to head up to mainland to stay with my grandmother and they waited out the storm in her basement with no lights, no power, no ac, no plumbing or phonelines for 5 hours. they are fine but have a tree in their gerage and are not sure how it got there.
my UNCLE HOWEVER, decided to wait out the storm and STAY in gulfport - he didnt want the looters to steal all their stuff while they were gone(which is what usually happens when people evacuate). well no one has heard from him in three days. after the brunt of the storm hit and the floods came, all lines of communication were lost so my aunt and mother and their siblings have no idea weather he is still there or even if he survived (they are pretty sure that he found shelter in the red cross area but no promises).
ALSO my moms cousin and her mom who lived in new orleans evacuated long ago and are just fine however their houses have been compleatly decimated as well. my cousin sheri lived in a third floor apartment in downtown and if it is still standing when she gets back, well, it will be a miracle.
as far as i know, all the other family evacuated a while ago and are safely in up-state miss. living with other people.
the other danger is if the other levees in new orleans break. if you didnt know already, the city is below sea level and is shaped like a big bowl and with the huge storms and flooding, the bowl has filled with water and drowned people out. well if the other dams break there will be nothing stopping the bowl from flooding over and new orleans will turn into the lost city of atlantis.
this has been total hell for my family at home, espceially my mom. she has called me in tears a couple of times and the saddest thing is there is nothing i can do and nothing she can do. all we can do is wait and hope and wish for the best, although the best seems pretty grim right now. writing about it, talking about it is making me feel a little better but when i turn on the tv all I see are the reporters standing in big rivers that used to be highways and talk about the rising death toll.
i could never have imagined it would be so hard to be so far away from home.
my UNCLE HOWEVER, decided to wait out the storm and STAY in gulfport - he didnt want the looters to steal all their stuff while they were gone(which is what usually happens when people evacuate). well no one has heard from him in three days. after the brunt of the storm hit and the floods came, all lines of communication were lost so my aunt and mother and their siblings have no idea weather he is still there or even if he survived (they are pretty sure that he found shelter in the red cross area but no promises).
ALSO my moms cousin and her mom who lived in new orleans evacuated long ago and are just fine however their houses have been compleatly decimated as well. my cousin sheri lived in a third floor apartment in downtown and if it is still standing when she gets back, well, it will be a miracle.
as far as i know, all the other family evacuated a while ago and are safely in up-state miss. living with other people.
the other danger is if the other levees in new orleans break. if you didnt know already, the city is below sea level and is shaped like a big bowl and with the huge storms and flooding, the bowl has filled with water and drowned people out. well if the other dams break there will be nothing stopping the bowl from flooding over and new orleans will turn into the lost city of atlantis.
this has been total hell for my family at home, espceially my mom. she has called me in tears a couple of times and the saddest thing is there is nothing i can do and nothing she can do. all we can do is wait and hope and wish for the best, although the best seems pretty grim right now. writing about it, talking about it is making me feel a little better but when i turn on the tv all I see are the reporters standing in big rivers that used to be highways and talk about the rising death toll.
i could never have imagined it would be so hard to be so far away from home.