we’re alive!

Hello everyone. We’re fine after hurricane Rita. I would’ve checked in sooner but we evacuated to Alabama and didn’t have any internet. We almost advanced our moving plans! We have returned and the house took no damage. It was an interesting trip. Sorry I don’t have much time to write. I’m afraid blogging has taken [...]

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here we go again … Rita

Just a quick note – Rita will pass to the west of us, and there’s a small chance she will be right on top of us. In either case, we will have severe weather and possible flooding. The east side of a hurricane is where the worst weather is. It’s time to batten down the [...]

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Katrina causata

It’s hard to describe how Lafayette has changed since Katrina. I don’t think anyone can really understand the immensity of the exodus that has taken place out of the New Orleans area. Lafayette was a city of about a hundred thousand, maybe a hundred and twenty thousand. Now we are housing tens of thousands of [...]

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Katrina devastates New Orleans, Biloxi

80% of New Orleans is under water … bodies floating in the streets … levees breached, a 200 ft. breach at one point … Slidell doesn’t exist as it used to … There are 25,000 people now housed in NO’s Superdome (total seating capacity is 72,000), Superdome officials say conditions are filthy, and they are [...]

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