Re: OT Re: Views of Katrina devastation.

hej there... it's Kellie from Charleston displaced to Houston... was
thinkin about you the other day wonderin where you wandered off to!
How is charleston? i miss it. Been to People Places and Quilts lately? is
it still there? We might get "home" for a visit in January. I am really
hoping we can.

btw, i agree with you on hurricanes. i was away from friends and loved ones
for Andrew and Hugo... in Chas for Andrew and in Miami for Hugo. Came home
asap for the Hugo cleanup. twas awful awful.... And my SIL and BIL and
FIL all live in the Florida panhandle and got wholloped last year by the
September storm.

--
-- Kellie
kjbeanne at yahoo dot com
www.kjbeanne.com/kellie.htm

"niasha" <niasha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:HU8Re.3139$v83.479@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>- While not as devastating as the Asia Tsunami, the impact of this
> hurricane will take a toll on this country never experienced before.
> There
> seems to be a misconception that when tragedy strikes here that the Gov..
> swoops in and sets every thing right or because it occurs in the U.S. vs.
> some third world country that the impact is less harmful, long lasting or,
> in some cases, deadly. I can tell you from having gone through several
> traumatic experiences that is not the case. I know several families that
> experienced Hugo and/or Andrew that have never recovered. They lost their
> homes and sources of income. Many did not have home insurance. Many are
> still in what you call refugee camps (mobile home camps waiting for
> rehousing) .Some spent years living with various family members until they
> could find housing and work and reunite their families.
> - To say that people here are only inconvenienced while their homes
> are
> being rebuilt is not exactly accurate. Most of the people who went
> through Andrew had no insurance. Many of those were service workers who
> supported the tourist industry. Decent people trying to support families
> on
> minimum wage salaries and raise their children to be decent adults and
> were
> generally the first to help or contribute during similar tragedies. They
> knew the difference one day's salary or meal could make in the life of a
> family. Many of them also lost family members, if not initially because
> of
> the hurricane, later because of the exposure to the environment, lack of
> immediate health care, or lack of money for medicine. After Andrew, for
> almost a week I lived and slept in a building that was exposed to the
> elements, no food or water and no medicine. I'm lucky, I lived. However,
> I
> also suffered permanent and progressive lung damage.
> -I guess my point is that we can expect most of the people affected by
> this
> tragedy are not homeowners, or holders of insurance policies, folks with
> liquid assets who are waiting for the waters to recede or electricity to
> be
> restored so they can rebuilt their lives. They are the people who are
> housed
> at the dome in New Orleans, trying to avoid the water from the leaking
> roof
> and trying not to think about where they will house and support their
> family
> after they are told to leave since both their homes and jobs have been
> destroyed. Don't think they will have the cushion of the U.S. Gov.. to
> relocate and help support them. In both the cause of Andrew and Hugo
> there
> were people on the streets who were not helped for months, if are all.
> - So please, be generous when asked to help. Don't get caught up on
> the
> petty comparisons between one tragedy and another. They are all bad.
> Instead, use your energy and time to tell us what you are doing to help
> or
> what we as a group might do. I think in a very short time many of us will
> get on our knees and count our blessing that we did not suffer a Katrina.
> Love you all. Keep safe.
>
> --
> Niasha
> "What doesn't kill you, defines you."
>
>
> "Julia Altshuler" <jaltshuler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:8IGdnc_qo6KgQoneRVn-sQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> BarbQuilts wrote:
>> > I've been watching CNN this afternoon and it is just awful - the
> flooding of
>> > NO and all the destruction. As our newspaper said this morning -
>> > "This
> is
>> > our Tsunami."
>> >
>> > I'm hopeful that all the people in countries the United State has
>> > always
>> > helped will now send their donations here to the Red Cross etc.
>>
>>
>> I've been off newsgroups while I attended to other matters and bopped in
>> again briefly because I wanted news of people fleeing the hurricane.
>>
>>
>> I hope your local newspaper makes some sort of apology for the gross
>> insensitivity of comparing hurricane Katrina hitting the United States
>> to the tsunami that hit Asia. If I knew which one it was, I'd write to
>> them myself. Estimated deaths from Katrina: up to 80 and possibly
>> climbing to as much as 100. Estimated deaths from the tsunami: in the
>> hundreds of thousands. You could site similar figures for the numbers
>> of people inconvenienced and homeless. Here in the United States,
>> people are inconvenienced while their homes are rebuilt, generally
>> within a year or two. In the mean time, they live somewhere else that's
>> clean and dry. That's nothing like what went on and is still going on
>> in the Asian tsunami where people are still living in refugee camps. We
>> lose valued photographs. They lost whole families.
>>
>>
>> I don't like to compare tragedy because each individual's pain and
>> trauma is still their own pain and trauma, but when you (not you
>> personally, the general you) bring up the tsunami, it's time for the
>> victims of hurricane Katrina to get on their knees and start counting
>> their blessings. There's no comparison.
>>
>>
>>
>> --Lia
>>
>
>


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