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Hi. Me this time. I'm in Willow Springs, Illinois with strangegurl16's family and I'll probably see adronai tomorrow.
I'm okay and New Orleans . . . is better than we thought. I can't really stand to watch the news, and I'm sick over the coverage of the flooding in NO East where the levee broke and along the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama, but overall I am relieved. It could have been so much worse. New Orleans is below sea level, and had it hit head on, it would have been the mythic "Big One." It was so strange. We heard about Dennis and Ivan forever before they hit. Katrina came out of nowhere. I remember the signs on the bar windows during Ivan: "We don't run from hurricanes, we drink them." I remember posting about that when I evacuated last year, but it's such a New Orleans attitude - the world is ending, have another beer.
It will be awhile before the power and water are back, and I'll be in Chicago for that time unless it seems like it will be too long, and then I'll head for New Mexico.
Yesterday I was so angry. I was angry at myself for leaving my car there and thus making it incredibly difficult for me to get anywhere I wanted to be and also perhaps ensuring that I will not have one. I was angry at my friends who stayed behind (all but one are now accounted for, but the cell towers are down and it's almost impossible to call in to a New Orleans area code). I was angry at the people around me who were as upset as I was and at the people everywhere else who kept saying "It will be alright," and it wasn't even their fault. I wanted some excuse to hate everything so that I could be angry, because I felt stupid being angry at the storm and if I wasn't angry, then I was just terrified. Now, I'm just drained. The worst case scenario didn't happen and it's . . . maybe not okay, but better than I thought it was going to be yesterday. We'll know the extent of the damage in the next couple of days. The servers at school will be back up and then there will be a plan. New Orleans is resilient.
I may not be online much for awhile. Obviously, there is internet here, but there are also people who are not me who need the computer. And I'm not entirely comfortable with the reading of the fandom pr0n on a friend's parent's computer, you know? I'm not on my laptop because I don't have wireless. If there is something you need me to know, leave it here or send it to the e-mail account on my userinfo.
I love you guys about as much as I hated everything yesterday. My thoughts are with everyone on the Gulf coast and I hope everyone's friends and family are safe.
*hugs you all*
I'm okay and New Orleans . . . is better than we thought. I can't really stand to watch the news, and I'm sick over the coverage of the flooding in NO East where the levee broke and along the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama, but overall I am relieved. It could have been so much worse. New Orleans is below sea level, and had it hit head on, it would have been the mythic "Big One." It was so strange. We heard about Dennis and Ivan forever before they hit. Katrina came out of nowhere. I remember the signs on the bar windows during Ivan: "We don't run from hurricanes, we drink them." I remember posting about that when I evacuated last year, but it's such a New Orleans attitude - the world is ending, have another beer.
It will be awhile before the power and water are back, and I'll be in Chicago for that time unless it seems like it will be too long, and then I'll head for New Mexico.
Yesterday I was so angry. I was angry at myself for leaving my car there and thus making it incredibly difficult for me to get anywhere I wanted to be and also perhaps ensuring that I will not have one. I was angry at my friends who stayed behind (all but one are now accounted for, but the cell towers are down and it's almost impossible to call in to a New Orleans area code). I was angry at the people around me who were as upset as I was and at the people everywhere else who kept saying "It will be alright," and it wasn't even their fault. I wanted some excuse to hate everything so that I could be angry, because I felt stupid being angry at the storm and if I wasn't angry, then I was just terrified. Now, I'm just drained. The worst case scenario didn't happen and it's . . . maybe not okay, but better than I thought it was going to be yesterday. We'll know the extent of the damage in the next couple of days. The servers at school will be back up and then there will be a plan. New Orleans is resilient.
I may not be online much for awhile. Obviously, there is internet here, but there are also people who are not me who need the computer. And I'm not entirely comfortable with the reading of the fandom pr0n on a friend's parent's computer, you know? I'm not on my laptop because I don't have wireless. If there is something you need me to know, leave it here or send it to the e-mail account on my userinfo.
I love you guys about as much as I hated everything yesterday. My thoughts are with everyone on the Gulf coast and I hope everyone's friends and family are safe.
*hugs you all*