Aftermath of Katrina
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:06 am
Well some of you know that I live in central Mississippi. So I was right in the middle of the hurricane. 1 hour after the winds started to pick up, our power went off. So I spent the most of the day either watching the storm or throwing on rain gear and having fun getting blown around. After awhile, I drove around (during the storm) to see what was going on and I had a fun time trying to find a way to leave my neighborhood. There were trees in the road everywhere. I decided to head to my friend's house. On the way there, the power was out everywhere, and the wind damage was incredible. I can't put into words, but let's just say that a lot of stuff was destroyed. I saw trees on cars and houses and people trying to fix there stuff. When I got to my bud's house, I soon found out that a tree landed right above his room. The only penetration that was actually made on the inside of the room was a hole about the size of the end of a bat and part of the tree peeking in. But that was enough to warrent the mass raining to poor in. I wended up staying the night there. No electricty, no stove top cooking. We pulled out the grill and cooked some hamburgers, hotdogs and such and just watched the storm. Our only connection to the outside world to know what was going on was a radio. We heard a lot of bad things like 8 feet of flood water on the coast, the roof on the Super Dome in New Orleans was partially pulled back, mass looting, etc. It was crazy what we were just hearing from a radio. So we were bored so we popped a few sleeping pills and got fucked up good right before we doze off. In the morning, after the skies were blue, partially clouded, not even hinting that a storm was just here. I left and drove around to see what bad really happened. There were trees knocked down, being held up by multiple power lines, even powerlines on the ground. At one point, I had to avoid a low hanging power line. So yeah, it's pretty bad here, but not nearly as terrible as those on the coast. Last time I head, the death toll is 110, but I'm sure that's risen as of now. I'm still ok, to those who remembered where I lived. 
