Katrina (Page 4)

I have evacuated further north to the Memphis area (my hometown)...who knows how long I will have to stay here.  Still haven't heard anything about my house.  What an shitty feeling it is to think that I may have all that I own with me in my truck as I move from town to town.  Thanks again for all the thoughts and prayers. 

Lane

Sorry to hear that Lane. Keep us updated.

This could be your chance to come and visit runnergirl and me!

I am alive. I evacuated my CPU tower, but nothing else, I couldn't stand it, I went and bought new stuff today so that I could take advantage of the free high speed internet at the hotel. Just gotta love a $15 monitor from Goodwill right.  

I live lived in Chalmette, and my bike could not come with me so its still there. Looks like I won't be Tri-ing any time soon. It is likely that I lost everything, and a bike will not be on my list of priorities to buy. I will try to continue to run. But my first race will not be until next year probably.

I am tired and sad. I am annoyed with being in a hotel room and feeling completely useless. School will likely be cancelled for the semester which pushes back my graduation date to next December. When I think of the reality of what the storm did to my life it makes me want to cry. The tension is very high in the room where 3 stressed out people have been with each other nonstop for 4 days now.

I am so sorry for all of you who are cutoff from your homes, tired and wondering what will happen next. My heart goes out to you.

Is there anything we can do specifically to help you?

Can I send running clothes to you? I have a bunch of size 6 and 8 cotton shorts I never wear (I buy too much clothes) and tshirts, jeans, tons of socks. Dry goods? Games? Cards? What do you need?

This a picture of my neighborhood. I can almost make out my house. It's  at the top toward the middle right. It's weird. I look at this picture and I can say, hey, that's my high school right there, and there's the civic center, and the home depot, and the regions bank building.

I talked with my aunt this morning for a while, and even people in Baton Rouge and elsewhere in the state are going be hurt by this.  My uncle works for the state, who banks with Hibernia Bank.  My aunt's company also banks with Hibernia.  According to her Hibernia is non-existant right now, so even though they're going to get paid this Friday, it's very likely it will be a slip of paper only. 

I'm half tempted to go join the Red Cross and go help in any way I can.  I don't keep a lot of extra clothes around, but I'd gladly give up everything to help someone going through this.  Well, everything but my bike. 

Hey, I can offer help here. I am a Hibernia employee, and I would think outside of the region it will be business as usual. I know that we have reduced operations set up in Shreveport as that is where I will probably be heading in a week or so. I am not positive though, as I have not yet been in touch with my bosses, but I would think that they should be fine, and for branches outside of the GNO area and Bayou regions, the branches are up and running as usual.

(wow, that made me feel incredibly useful )

Nancy, they're not being ignored. There are people looking out for them. My brother has worked for the ASPCA during natural disasters going into evacuated areas rounding up animals that can be transported and doing daily checks/feedings on the ones that can't. Animal Planet did a one hour special on his team a few years ago.

Yeah, we have our kittie, although I've seen lots of photos of dogs wandering around.

That was my thought. I really wanted to take it but for some reason the people I was with thought that fitting more people into the car was a bit more important than bringing my bike. I put it in the bathroom on the inside of the house, so I am hoping that as long as the bathroom door didn't open it will still be in my house, otherwise it may be floating down the street at this point. I am hoping I can have it professionally cleaned, get a new seat, handlebar tape, and some new cables and it will be good to go. Man, I am really hoping this is the case, it's all dependant on that bathroom door. Well that and hoping that no one steals it before I get home. Hopefully their hands will be full with the tv/radio and such. Yes I would rather live without tv than my bike.

Someone else has a sig line on here that I've been thinking of alot these last few days - something to the effect that you shouldn't worry about what you can't control.