These are two brand new houses on White's Road, just across from Kellar St. I know these families aut to be very happy. They are truly blessed to have such nice houses built for them.
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Top picture is whats left now of the store and house that was there.
This is the store and house after Katrina hit. It's also a half of a trailer that they had to cut because it was blocking the road.
The trailer that was cut in half came from the left side of the restaurant below. Which was on the other side of 604, and down the road a bit !
Things are never going to be the same in Pearlington again !!
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This is whats left of the Houseboats now, they were on old Hwy.90 going South, just before the Right turn onto Freemo into Slidell. They were in the Pearl River. In the middle picture thats what Katrina did to them. Now they're sitting in a pile on the side of the road waiting to be taken away. Alot of things, well I guess everything, is never going to be the same around here.
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This is ,or was the store just across the green bridge, just over the Ms.-La. state line. It was in La. They were there for many, many years. They sold Lottery tickets, so people came from miles and miles to get their lottery tickets there. It was the closest store to go for the Lottery, unless you went to Slidell, or some place else in La. It's sad, I guess they'll never rebuild. It looks like soon the Pearl River will just take it completely over. ..................God Bless.........................................
Well it wasn't the best I ever had, but it's what we did. Will had to work all night on Wednesday, and didn't get home until 6am. And I was up all night , so neither of us went to bed until 6:30am. We had been invited to several different friends houses, and Laginappe Church in BaySt.Louis had called and invited us to their dinner also.
But Will had to be at work again that evening at 6pm, so we just didn't feel like going thru all that. I didn't feel good, and him either. I'm sure I had phemonia, and didn't go to the doctor and am still trying to get over it. Anyway he woke me up around 2:30pm, and asked me if I thought the AeZ Serve was opened. I said yes probably, call them. So he did, he ordered us each a pizza, and for dessert got us some ice cream. It did the trick, and we were together so thats what mattered. So later he went off to work, and I talked to family members, and lazed around. So it was a quiet day.
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Pictures in Pearlington.
I'm hoping to have another nice day or two so I can mossy around and try to get some pictures. There have been alot of changes around here , and other places too. So be watching for them.. Maybe as soon as tomorrow !!
The picture with the well thing, now has a new trailer there. I'll get a picture so we can compare them. Nov.25th, at the top.I got the picture. It's the one with the trailer and the well. So they now have a new home! God Bless them. ...................................God Bless................
Well the guys are back in Pearlington from Charlottesville, Va. The ones that are building the sheds for people here, "Sheds of Goodness", that I talked to a while back. I know I've been on that list for a long, long time, I signed it at the Recovery Center.. I stopped the other day and asked them will I be getting a shed, and I wasn't surprised when he said, "NO"
I just can't figure... Some people have two sheds?? I thought the elderly and the disabled were getting some sort of recognition for things? I can't help it that I became disabled at the age of 41, almost 12 years ago. People don't realize that I live in CRONIC PAIN every day of my life, and have to take STRONG Pain Pills everyday just to cope with everyday things. But people will look at me and say "Whats wrong with you?" I wouldn't wish my pain on my worst enemy , but people need to realize when you get Social Security Disability , you are Messed Up, HURTING. Well most people, some of them do fake it and can go just as if they have a regular job everyday, but yet they can't work!! Ha, I wish I could work. At least then I'd have some HOPE of having a house again before I die..............
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This is a wonderful lady. She came down here to Bay St. Louis a week or so after the Hurricane and couldn't believe what she saw. She went back home to N.J. and got a U-Haul and packed all her stuff and came back here, with her son Tony. She gave all her belongings to the Hurricane Survivors and moved into a trailer, and started helping people. She is a Gulf War Veteran. She retired, but says she still has the Gulf War syndrone. But doing this is medication for her. She wants nothing in return, and takes nothing in return. I say they need more CC White's in this world. God Bless her, I know she has a very special place when she goes "HOME" to the Lord. I know she will receive ten times fold what she has given to others. She should run for PRESIDENT of U.S. !!
Please look at her web site, it's very moving. The pictures and the little girl will bring a grown man to tears.
http://www.ccherehope.org ................God Bless.............................
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY !!!
I hope everybody has a day off from the hectic life we are enduring here in this raveged land. I hope you find some peace somewhere in all this choas. If you are able to enjoy the holiday with your loving family and friends, then God has blessed you and given you a great gift. Or if it is just you and your mate, thats a great blessing too. I know I've spent a few Thanksgivings and Christmas's by myself. It's not a great feeling. One Christmas Eve I put the television on a channel that had a fireplace that filled the whole screen. It had a beautiful fire going , and made me feel so warm and cozy and home sick. I lay there for hours watching that fire, crying, and wishing things were like they used to be when I had a big , fine, family growing up. But things don't stay the way they used to be. If it did then there would be no tomorrow's or yesterday's.................
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This is the last Palm Tree among a group of three that grew along the roadside going to the boat launch at Logtown. I can remember seeing three of them years ago, "25"or so years ! They had to be about 40' tall or maybe more. I'm sure they had to be old also. Probably some of these old timers around here could tell me more about them. Or there might be something in the book they did on Logtown, if anyone still has the book. But this is the last of them! She stood thru many storms, blowing winds, and freezing winter nights. If only she could tell us stories of what see saw standing so tall looking at things for miles and miles around her. There is alot of History concerning Logtown. I've seen a White headed Eagle going down that road. It flew from tree to tree all the way down the road. It would fly 50' or so, then sit on a limb, then it would take off after a minute or so, and fly to the next tree. It just kept doing that for at least a good mile. It was beautiful. I wished so bad I'd had a camera with me.I've walked those woods and found alot of old bottles and peices of china. All kinds of stuff where the old homesteads were. I know where a Judge is buried there too. Judge Freeman Jones, I think is his name. I used to go there and put flowers by his headstone.I hope Katrina didn't move his headstone. When we found it, it was turned over, so we stood it up, and put some bricks around it. Katrina sure was a destructive Bitch. All the devestation she did that you don't really think about or see.It's a shame she had to take the last PalmTree..........God Bless..........................
LIFE AND FRIENDSHIP
The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.
Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.....
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives...When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying......
Please tell the people who mean something to you, to those who have touched your life in one way or another, to those who make you smile when you really need it, to those that make you see the brighter side of things when you are really down, to those who you want to let them know that you appreciate their friendship, and their love, and standing by your side.
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These are Newspaper articles of people surviving the Hurricane. And photos, alot of different articles on the hurricane, mostly in N.O. and Louisiana.
http://www.nola.com/Katrina
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This is a Guest book of the people that lost their lives during Katrina.
http://www.legacy.com/nola/katrina.asp? or www.legacy.com
.............God Bless the families and friends of these people..........................
May they rest in peace. You can sign the "Katrina National Guestbook", for the people that lost their lives due to Katrina, and Rita. And you can also look up a person if you knew someone that died.
In the Legacy.com they list newspapers across the U.S., for the obituaries and also records from the Social Security Death Bureau . Here they also have deaths from September 11,2001.
And also Military personnel that were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. You can add people or search for people and sign the Guestbooks for free.
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This is really neat ! It's a video drive thru with a 360* video camera mounted to the roof, and you can pan it around as it drives thru the rubble as if you were really there !! It requires flash and the latest browsers to be able to use it. Boy the things they are coming up with these days, the new technology is great !! It has alot of different things to look at. Some of them are: The Bay bridge, A Soldiers mom, The casino Magic, A tour along the beach, tours of streets around the beach area, The Court House, The Old Houses, Fema trailer parks, It's just amazing to look at all the videos. Hopefully it will give you a better insight of what its like around here.
http://risingfromruin.msnbc.com/tour.html?roadzoom13btn3
I hope you are able to use it. Hopefully it will give people a better look at the devastation here on the gulf coast. ...............God Bless............................
Well now the Recovery Center came out the next day and says they made a mistake.
Yes, the church is giving the $250,000 but it's designated for ten families. So that isn't anything new !! Figured there was some kind of catch to it. But I wonder why he doesn't post that on the Pearlington Recovery Center web page?? He just sent out up dates in emails?? In a web page or a blog or any writing it seems like he would have all the details right before it's written. In fact I just copied the email and added it here! So ?? It's from Canada Jon, Director of C.O.D.R.A.
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Good morning, All,An important note of clarification concerning the American Baptist Churchgrant to Cooperative Baptist Fellowship in Pearlington:Like ALL grants, there had to be a very specific application made in orderto receive the money. Projects had to be pre-identified on the applicationand the funds granted are NOT open-ended or available for anything otherthan the projects identified in the application.These funds are designated for 10 re-building projects currently beingundertaken by Charlie Holmes and CBF in Pearlington. Under the terms of thegrant, these monies may not be used for anything other than these 10projects for which the grant was earmarked.CBF will continue to search for sources of additional funds and requestsyour patience and understanding in these matters.Thank you,Jon White,Director, C.O.D.R.A.
Well I've been doing alot of research. Boy it takes a huge amount of time to look at blogs and research things. I never really got into as much really deep research on my computer that Katrina took from me, as I do on this one now. But now all I do is research on Katrina, and Katrina related things. My blog, and the hours I've got in here on it are unbelievable also. I do have to unwind every now and then and go play my games! Thats mostly what I used to do. And pictures !! I had well I don't know how many thousands of pictures I had on my Katrina computer. But it was a whole lot !! And me like a dummy should have at least took my tower with me, but no room for it. And I'm sure it would have just burnt in the fire. Oh well...
Anyway I read in the Pearlington Recovery Center blog yesterday that two people came here a couple weeks ago to look at our town. They are involved with the Presbyterian Church Group of the USA !!! I hope I have that right!!!!!! And they are giving the residents of Pearlington a $250,000 grant to help us get some things going around here. I know it's all the praying we all have been doing . I know there are people that still do care and want to help!! It's just "TOO BIG" of a tragedy and so wide spread that it is going to take some time. But God Bless these people and Thank-you Jesus for the blessing !!! They don't know the details on it yet, but I know and finally have a good feeling in my heart that things are going to work out and it will be ok. It still may take a while but now I truly feel it and believe.
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I came across this video site and it's a good site!! Lots of videos. Not only on Katrina, but on lots of subjects !!
http://www.youtube.com/ if you want to go there and pick your video subject
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query-Katrina if you want to go there and look at katrina videos
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Hurricane Relief For Pearlington MS
Check out this site for Katrina help.............................God Bless..............................
Well I've been doing alot of research again. I've found a organization that does research on charities and katrina in general. It's called Guidestar. it's a clearinghouse for information about non profit organizations. their link is;
http://www.guidestar.com They will let you compare legal charties to donate to.
Also go to : http://www.charitynavigator.org and they will check a charity for you and let you know if it's legal or not. They also show research on where the Donations of the $4.25 Billion went to !!! And what the impact Katrina has done to the land and society !!!! It's very interesting. Example: " Katrinas destruction stretched across 90,000 sq. miles. " Govt. officials estimate 500,000 people may need mental health assistance to deal with anxiety, depression, and hostility caused by Katrina. In Hancock County , BaySt.Louis , nearly every business and home was destroyed or heavly damaged. Today some salvagable homes are being repaired. But 70% of businesses remain closed.
They also give good pointers on giving to charities.
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Katrina Aftermath
This is a article I found , it's a gallery of thoughts, Images, Photos and sounds in response to Hurricane Katrina.
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Rocky Pullmans House and our Mailboxes !!
This is a poem I found in the newspaper also. Written by : Mrs. Hazel LaFont-Russo
"MONSTER STORM "
Oh, Beast
Where are you
that
comes to devastate my land.
The sea looks so peaceful,
but what does it hide--
the monster that dwells deep inside.
Life plays so happily
on her sunny shores--
children laughing and playing--
Then gives rise to hear the roar !
The Monster wakes, fear abounds.
The wind, the waves, the terrible sounds.
It's coming--It's coming--the children scream--
Mothers and Dads running to and fro-
Save my children--
they asked no more.
Our home is gonie, what will we do--
help us Jesus, this I pray--
help us to see another day.
Bring back the sunshine--
bring back the rain--
but help us dear Jesus--
to never see that monster again.
This is sombody's own feelings and I'm sure they lost everything also. There was nothing else written besides this poem. So I can't give any details. It's a beautiful poem. So I thought I'd share it. And God Bless Mrs. Hazel LaFont-Russo and her family.......................................
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I was reading the Times Picayune online a while ago and I read about a man that killed his girlfriend. And he also killed himself. He jumped out of a 7th. level window or balcony of a hotel in NewOrleans. He had notes on him that said where to find his girlfriend. Her head was in a pot on the stove top. Her arms and legs were in the oven. And her tourso was in the refrigerator. WOW !! Now that was a real wacked out guy to have done that to someone you love !
A restaurant owner where they often went said," they seemed like a happy young couple." "And were planning for a long life together." They were in their 20's.
The landlord said they had just moved into the apartment.
People are just LOOSING it every where. I heard on the news last night , if you think you are going crazy , your not !!! Because everybody is going nuts , so you are normal. WOW !!! It makes you wonder ?? What has this country come to? What's going on? Why are all these weird things happening ? And it's not just here, it's all over the world.
But there are alot of bad things happening since the hurricane to people. I guess its too much to bear.
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_This was in" USA Today "-9-8-05--- {Source; State Department } -Where did it all go???????
"Foreign countries have responded generously to Hurricane Katrina. " "Donor nations and their contribution." This was right after Katrina hit !!!!!!!!! It makes you wonder ...........................
COUNTRY____________ SUPPORT
Afghanistan-----------------$100,000
Armenia------------------$100,000
Australia------------------$7.6 MILLION
Azerbaijan---------------$500,000
Bahamas ------------------$50,000
Bahrain-----------------$5 MILLION
Bangladesh------------ $1 Million
Belgium-------- Medical/logistics teams
Canada--------- 2helicopters, 32-person rescue team, evacuation flights, medical supplies
China--------- $5.1Million cash, and relief supplies
Djibouti- -----------$50,000
Finland----------- Search & rescue team, 3 logistics specialists
France------------ tents, tarps, MREs, water treatment supplies, cleaning equipment
Gabon-------------- $500,000
Georgia----------------$50,000
Germany--------- MREs, high speed pumps, forensic experts
Greece----------2 cruise ships
India-------------- $5 Million
Iraq---------- $1,000,000 cash
Ireland------------$1,000,000 cash
Israel-------------tents, first-aid kits, baby formula
Italy---------------Generators, water pumps/purifiers, tents, medical supplies
Japan------------$200,000 cash & $844,000 in relief supplies, $1.5 Million in private donations
Kuwait------------$400 Million in oil, $100 Million cash, $25,000 cash
Mexico----------Transport vehicles, 1 helicopter, ambulance & medical teams
Mongolia----------$50,000 cash
Nepal----------$25,000 cash
NewZealand--------$1.4 Million cash, search & rescue teams
Nigeria-----------$1 Million cash
Norway--------$1.54 Million in relief supplies
Qatar---------$100 Million cash
Republic of Korea------$30 Million cash & in-kind donations
Saudi Arabia------$5 Million from Aramco, $250,000 from Agfund
Singapore--------3 helicopters
Sri Lanka-------$25,000 cash
Taiwan--------$2 Million cash, medical supplies
Thailand-------Forensic experts, blankets, food
UAE---------$100 Million cash
UK--------- MREs
Venezuela------ Up to $1 Million
Thats on the list dated 9-8-05 !! I wonder what the total is as of today?? I'll try to find out!!
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This is a beautiful poem written on Aug.27th, author: Nan Patton Ehrbright, of Waveland, Ms. But now residing in Winter Haven, Florida. E-mail: Npebright@aol.com Her and her husband lost everything. They lived in Waveland for 24 years, and are elderly and just can't rebuild. I found the article in the SeaCoastEcho newspaper.
" Katrina left me alive, but took my life"
I breath, eat, sleep, and eliminate waste.
Sometimes I laugh-- sometimes I cry--
But Katrina took my life.
MY life, those things--yes, just "things"--
but things that made me uniquely me.
Among other things, Katrina stole:
a framed 55-year-old doily that my paternal grandmother crocheted while she taught
me that long-lost skill; my mother's pearls, a gift from my father; the numerous self-
typewritten essays my father wrote; a box of recipes from my mother, aunts,
cousins and friends, many hand scribbled; my daughter's baby pictures; the
misshapen ashtray my eldest daughter made for me in grade school; the black-and-
white ink drawing of a tree created by my middle daughter; the Brownie badges that
my youngest daughter earned; the Christmas ornaments from my childhood when
I always told Daddy I wanted a tree that went "all the way up to the wall"; the
beautifully written letters in brown or purple ink from the years-long
correspondence I had with my beloved 6th. grade teacher, who taught me the
beauty and joy of poetry and encouraged me to write, write,write; my husband's
love letters and birthday and anniversary cards; dozens of newspaper articles,
poems and short stories and three plays that I cherished--because I had written
them--me, only me.
Katrina left me alive, But on the bad days, I wonder; "Where am I?" "Who am I?"
since Katrina took my life.
Ah, if I could only smash her , as painfully as she smashed me!
She's gone, leaving behind rubble and ruins and hurting hearts.
But she didn't leave empty handed, Katrina took my life............................ "END"
No matter our race, gender, age, or where we lived, everybody feels the loss, hurt, anger, pain, the heart break, the sadness, emptyness, that Katrina took away
from us and left us with nothing but our nightmares, our losses, and our lives.........
And some didn't make it thru to know all these feelings...
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Well another day has come and gone. I went and got my flu shot today. This town is changing day to day. I don't know where the people are getting the $$ or the help but just around me there are 4 to 5 brand new houses being built. I'm beginning to think because I don't have a bunch of kids to get the help, or what it is. I am disabled but I guess I have to be 70 or 80 before anybody will help me because of my disabilities. Most of these people had shacks before the storm and they're the ones getting brand new houses! I just don't understand it. I guess thats just the way it is. The corp of engineer wanted me to demolish my trailer, maybe I should have. Then if I have nothing maybe somebody will help me? I just don't know. I do know I'm getting very tired and just about ready to give up on it all. It just is very depressing and it's the same stuff day after day. And there seems to be no end in sight. And the grant we're suppost to get is going to take a very long time. The people in phase 1 haven't gotten their grant yet. And I'm in phase 2. I've got some new web sites I'll be adding to my blog. I just have to go thru my notes and find them. Oh one of them is the youth group from Felton ,California. They're the ones that helped gut my trailer. A great bunch of young people! I still keep in touch with a few of them, one young lady , Bree and I became friends right away. They bought my dog a stuffed monkey toy. This is their web address: http://www.feltonpresbyterian.org/youth.htm They are suppost to be coming back on Dec.26th. I hope to see them !!! Well I'm hoping some of them that helped me before will come and I'll be able to see them ! I hope they're prepared to see my home in the same condition as when they left here after gutting it. Nothing has been done to it since then. Except I did finally get it put back on the blocks, so that is a big difference than when it was on the ground !! .........God Bless.............
me taking a picture of myself on the train ride home!! {bored} my mom's grave. me & my son. my grandson & Harley their dog. And I cut off Timmy's head again! And at least I did get a good picture of Timmy , my grandson , I had a really good time. I miss them so much, I want to go back !! Hopefully I'll be able to take the trip again!
I had a wonderful trip! I loved riding the train, it was my first time. I wasn't feeling very well the whole time I was there tho. I've got a cold or something. Thank-God I got rid of the rash. I must have had a allergy flare up. It was so wonderful seeing my son, daughter-n-law, and my grandson. And I did go to my mom's grave. The traffic was a diaster, it took me 10 hours to go from Stephens city to FallsChurch and back to StephensCity. I did stop at a store to buy flowers but that was all.There was all kinds of construction and just car after car and truck after trucks. I'm not used to that anymore! The weather was real nice and NO mosquitos!! The mountains were beautiful. I didn't want to leave there. I'd like to go again but stay 2 weeks or so the next trip, or move there for good!!! The camera I got isn't too good. I think I'm taking this one back too. Everytime I took a picture it would be all messed up. I was cutting everybodys head off. And I'd have the thing I was taking the picture focused real good and it would be in the upper or lower corner of the picture. I'm going to bed. I'll try to add a better post tomorrow. .....................God Bless........................................
I'd like to thank-you Judy b for the nice comments you have made to my blog. I'm so very glad to hear your going to write about Pearlington, and its recovery. We need all the help we can get, as to getting help and spreading the word, the more the merrier!I have read your Slidell blog, and a few others also. They are very informative and great works. I'm getting ready to go read your new one now. Well I went and read it some, and its GREAT ! I love your Woman page. It's all Great!! I wish you good luck. I'm assuming you lost all your stuff also, according to where you said you live on Bayou Liberty. God Bless you and I will keep you in my prayers. I hope you don't mind, I'm adding a link to your blog..................God Bless...............................
http://angelfire.com/la3/judyb/pearlington.html
It is so sad what happened at the Amish school, and everyone involved.You all are in my prayers. Lancaster is where my mom was from.I have relatives that still live in Pa. My grandmom lived in Coatesville.My cousin worked for the steel plant all his life. It was beautiful there. My grandpa and greatgrand ma lived in a real old farm house around them. He was friends with some of them too. I can remember seeing them riding all over in those horse and buggys, the horses wearing the blinders. Once in a great moon a few of the children from the farm down the road would get to come and play in the alphilfa field with us. Or we would go in the pasture and chase the cows ! And sometimes the men folk would come to my grandpa's and visit. I was young when we used to go there and visit. We lived in Va. My mom and Dad met in Pa. and married. My grandfather, worked at a Hardware store there, for years, and years. There are alot of Amish people that have already and still are coming to this area to help us all rebuild, and do what they can. They are caring and great people. I pray for God to give them the strength to make it thru this terrible situation.....................................God Bless............................................................
I'm having a great time, but figures, I've gotten a cold, or the West Nile ! And I hope it's not the latter, but I've got a rash so it's making me wonder. I haven't stopped since I got here it seem's like. I'm so home sick for this place and wanting to move back. But I know I can't. If I do get the state grant , I think they make you rebuild where your at, or in one of the six counties around you. It really doesn't make alot of sense to me.But thats the govt. for you. I've taken some pictures but I think I need to get a better camera. Here are a few. This one is the first mountain I saw heading toward Front Royal, Stephens City, Va. I'll post some more. One is my son and daughter-n-law on their motorcycle! My son, daughter-n-law and me, and his dad, they are going riding. My grandson sitting at the computer, but I cut off most of his head!! I'll get some better one's tho. I hope! My son is trying to get me to stay thru next week-end, I want to!
My son with his leather skull facemask ready for the cold ride ! I'll add some more pictures as I get them. I'm hoping to go to Falls Church to put flowers on my mom's grave. And go to Spotsylvania to see my little sister. But she works nights at the FBI in Quantico, so she sleeps in the day. And I want to see my house in Woodbridge where I grew up in Marumsco Hills. Boy I've got a lot to do in the short time I'll be here. .................God Bless...............................................
Last Wednesday before I left home I saw some people in Pearlington at the location where they build the sheds. I stopped and talked to Micheal. He is from Charlottesville, Va. He said they will be back in a couple weeks to build some more sheds. I sure hope they get to my name on the list. Their web address is www.buildinggoodness.org if you want to read about them.
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My Grandson and my daughter-n-law !!
I took a train from Slidell ,Louisiana to Va. to visit my son and my daughter-in-law and my grandson. Today is my son's birthday. And I really needed a break from the devestation at home. I caught a train in Slidell, La. on Thursday morning, the 28th, and got off in Manassas, Va. on Friday morning. I rented a car from there and came here to Stephens City. My son had no idea I was coming at all !!! I really pulled a good one over on him. When he came home from work I was sitting on the sofa when he walked in the door !! I was cooking some spaghetti and had just gotten me a glass of ice tea and sat down. Their cat jumped up and knocked my glass over and that was the same time my son opened the door !! We were both so Happy tho to see each other. It sure is nice seeing these mountains again. The trees are starting to change color. I'm in the area of Shendoah River & valley & the Blue Ridge mountains !! It's beautiful here!! I lived in Front Royal when my son was only 1 or around that age. I wish I could move back here! Maybe one day. When I get home I'll post some pictures that I've taken here. I'm staying until Friday , the 6th of Oct.. I'll be taking the train home, getting in Slidell Saturday. It was a neat trip. It was the first time I rode a train. I slept alot of the way , I hadn't had much sleep before I left home. I was so excited about the trip and getting things together. I'll write more when I can............
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Here is a good picture of a wave, really I think it's the water overflowing a levy in N.O. east. The picture caption says BaySt.Louis but thats wrong and they tell you about it in the article. He has a link to look at alot of other pictures he took also.
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Http://www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/surge.asp.
Now headlines on the news : Dog the Bounty Hunter Jailed & son & associate !
Very ironic considering the job they all do. I can't wait to watch the special about it on t.v. tomorrow night.
And Willy Nelson, his bus stopped by police in Louisiana. When stopped there was a strong smell of "WEED" when they opened the door !!! They had 1- 1/2 lbs. of weed, and 1/2 lb. of mushrooms , the tripping kind !!! They gave him a citation and were let go.
Speaking of "WEED" you need to see what is growing wild around the waveland area near the beach. You need to go read about it, here's the site, it's unbelievable : http://208.62.60.4/40/article_454.shtml It was in the - SeaCoastEcho on Aug. 30, 2006 Ok, I'm going to play games a bit............................God Bless...........................................................
I'm going to try to post some more pictures : the one with the crane sticking up is the Bay bridge, rather whats left of it. The rest are Waveland just a block or two right off the beach.
.......................God Bless...........................
