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Sep. 2nd, 2005 03:44 pm
Hurricane Housing
Sep. 2nd, 2005 08:57 amThis site is awesome. A good counterpoint to all the despair in the news. 30,072 beds available for donation so far. I see that some of the housing offers are here in Minneapolis. I really wish that we could do this, but we have no spare rooms at all, and only one tiny bathroom for our entire family.
Wish I could figure out what else to do to help from so far away. Except, of course, donating money, which I am going to do.
Wish I could figure out what else to do to help from so far away. Except, of course, donating money, which I am going to do.
Aftermath Katrina
Sep. 1st, 2005 10:26 pmI have been watching the coverage all day obsessively, as I have not since, what, 9/11, or the election maybe. Am horrified, appalled, sickened. Will not try to editorialize; many on my friends list have done such a good job it seems redundant.
I am recognizing signs I must stop watching the news.
I am recognizing signs I must stop watching the news.
This just makes me insane. The hurricane hit on Monday morning. Hundreds of people killed, hundreds of thousands homeless, and he stayed on his ranch, what, cutting brush? Until today? (Edited to add: Oh, my mistake. He was off playing guitar.)
I keep on thinking I should try to find something good in this man, because damnit, yes, he is our President, and I want to model respect for the office to my girls at least, even if I cannot bring myself to respect the man. However, every time I try to find something to respect, he sinks to new lows.
Shame on him.
I keep on thinking I should try to find something good in this man, because damnit, yes, he is our President, and I want to model respect for the office to my girls at least, even if I cannot bring myself to respect the man. However, every time I try to find something to respect, he sinks to new lows.
Shame on him.
What would you take?
Aug. 31st, 2005 08:18 amSince there has been nothing to do at work, I have been following the Hurricane Katrina coverage obsessively. Still worried about ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dreamflower02, of whom there has still been no word, even second or third-hand. Understandable, yet difficult.
What if I were in such a situation? I read about all those miserable frightened people huddled in the Dome and can all too vividly imagine myself and my family in such a situation. (That's the trouble with a writer's well-developed imagination.) How would I do holding my girls together in a situation that starts our like a surreal adventure and turns into something like a nightmare, and you're trying to push away the thought, is there a chance we might actually not survive this?
I looked at Poppy Z. Brite's entry here and wondered what I might do? If you got the weather disaster evacuation order, and you had only fifteen minutes to a half an hour to grab what you could (it has to be able to fit in your car), knowing that everything else you leave behind might be destroyed--what would you take?
Me:
My thirty years of paper journals
The family history/geneology box
Photographs, photograph albums, negatives
Both computers
Jewelry
A suitcase of clothes (very small; I'd depend on the Red Cross for the rest)
Edited to add: Oh yeah. And I hope it would occur to me to take our camping equipment. Tent, sleeping bags, and propane stove would come in very handy. Duh.
The girls I imagine would take:
Their Kit and Kirsten dolls
Their treasure boxes (filled with their favorite childhood keepsakes)
Delia would take her bunny blanket
After that, I'm not sure what they would try to save.
Rob? Not sure.
And you?
dreamflower02, of whom there has still been no word, even second or third-hand. Understandable, yet difficult. What if I were in such a situation? I read about all those miserable frightened people huddled in the Dome and can all too vividly imagine myself and my family in such a situation. (That's the trouble with a writer's well-developed imagination.) How would I do holding my girls together in a situation that starts our like a surreal adventure and turns into something like a nightmare, and you're trying to push away the thought, is there a chance we might actually not survive this?
I looked at Poppy Z. Brite's entry here and wondered what I might do? If you got the weather disaster evacuation order, and you had only fifteen minutes to a half an hour to grab what you could (it has to be able to fit in your car), knowing that everything else you leave behind might be destroyed--what would you take?
Me:
My thirty years of paper journals
The family history/geneology box
Photographs, photograph albums, negatives
Both computers
Jewelry
A suitcase of clothes (very small; I'd depend on the Red Cross for the rest)
Edited to add: Oh yeah. And I hope it would occur to me to take our camping equipment. Tent, sleeping bags, and propane stove would come in very handy. Duh.
The girls I imagine would take:
Their Kit and Kirsten dolls
Their treasure boxes (filled with their favorite childhood keepsakes)
Delia would take her bunny blanket
After that, I'm not sure what they would try to save.
Rob? Not sure.
And you?
Has anyone heard
Aug. 30th, 2005 10:31 amfrom dreamflower02? She lives in Gulfport, Mississippi, and I understand that they have been swamped.
dreamflower02? She lives in Gulfport, Mississippi, and I understand that they have been swamped.
