One Year Ago Today
Aug. 29th, 2006 04:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamflowerOne year ago today, at 5AM CDST, I sat down to make an update to my LJ, to let everyone know I was still all right. Just as I got ready to post, the power went down.
That was the last almost anyone heard from me for 20 days. A small handful of people were able to reach me by phone, once that became available again.
I think that most people on my flist have seen these. But a few people have friended me since, and might be interested:
My Katrina Diary
http://dreamflower02.livejournal.com/77507.html#cutid1
Katrina Pictures
http://dreamflower02.livejournal.com/104916.html
Hobbit Aid
http://dreamflower02.livejournal.com/84361.html
Where are we now, a year later? The DH and I are doing fairly well. But the area is still devastated. Thousands of people still are living in FEMA trailers or can’t come home yet from where they were evacuated to. In spite of daily massive efforts, there are still mountains of debris.
But things are slowly getting--well, not back to normal--but as close to normal as they can. One of the newspaper editorials talked about a “new normal”. A new normal--the Coast without so much that had given it its unique character as a region. So much beauty and history lost.
And so many people who will *never* again have what they once had. They put a brave face on things, and much like hobbits they speak lightly of the unspeakable. But the hurt and the grief are there nonetheless.
I count myself among the luckiest--my home still had a roof and all its walls, and everyone in my family was alive and well, and with enough time and money, things will once more be ordinary for me.
Except, I won’t ever take any of it for granted again.
That was the last almost anyone heard from me for 20 days. A small handful of people were able to reach me by phone, once that became available again.
I think that most people on my flist have seen these. But a few people have friended me since, and might be interested:
My Katrina Diary
http://dreamflower02.livejournal.com/77507.html#cutid1
Katrina Pictures
http://dreamflower02.livejournal.com/104916.html
Hobbit Aid
http://dreamflower02.livejournal.com/84361.html
Where are we now, a year later? The DH and I are doing fairly well. But the area is still devastated. Thousands of people still are living in FEMA trailers or can’t come home yet from where they were evacuated to. In spite of daily massive efforts, there are still mountains of debris.
But things are slowly getting--well, not back to normal--but as close to normal as they can. One of the newspaper editorials talked about a “new normal”. A new normal--the Coast without so much that had given it its unique character as a region. So much beauty and history lost.
And so many people who will *never* again have what they once had. They put a brave face on things, and much like hobbits they speak lightly of the unspeakable. But the hurt and the grief are there nonetheless.
I count myself among the luckiest--my home still had a roof and all its walls, and everyone in my family was alive and well, and with enough time and money, things will once more be ordinary for me.
Except, I won’t ever take any of it for granted again.
