Re: Here Comes Ike! Originally Posted by Chapookie 
So true. While I was freaking out about Gustav (it was my first hurricane/evacuation), I heard a news story about how villagers in Haiti could only hear a woman screaming as a mudslide engulfed her and her 5 children. I hate to say it made me feel "better," but we could have it so much worse. Material possessions are just that - material. You cannot replace lives.
As for Ike, my thoughts are with those on it's projected path. I know we're not quite out of the woods here in New Orleans. This stuff sure is scary. Everyone stay safe!
I know! You turn on the weather channel, and wait for the bad news. I think they said today it might not be until Saturday am now. I've been a nurse in Louisiana since 1991 and , even though you get used to it, you never really get "USED" to it, if that any any sense.
I can remember back in the 70's watching my parents and the neighbors sandbagging, wondering if the rain would fill up the street in the culde sac at the end of our street or if the bayou in the back where the sandbags would go would just keep coming and creep in the house. It never did, of course, but as a child, the mind never stops.
I guess the one that stands out in my mind, like almost everyone's, is Katrina and Rita. I hope none of us ever has to see that one again. Some people will never recover from it.
My hopes that we will all stay safe through these next ones, and my prayers for the people in Haiti now.
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