Re: Mississippi River trip delayed
Let's just say .... been there, done that, have the t-shirt, the bumper stickers, photo albums, 2-1/2 months of unemployment, 6 more months of commuting 700 miles a week just to get to/from another city to work, having to maintain two households, 30 hours at most at my real home each weekend before having to go back north for the week, putting up a friend in my home because hers had 14 feet of water in it & I needed a housekeeper while gone, army guys all over the place, helicopters all over the place, martial law, checkpoints, M16s seeming so out of place in a civilian environment, the only real violation of the 2nd amendment that I have ever seen - namely lawfully owned firearms being confiscated thus denying the owners personal protection during a time of anarchy, feeling like your home had become "Bagdad without the IEDs," spending $3,000 right off the bat just to come home with a generator, fuel & enough non-perishable food for two months because we were told that we would be forced to remain on our property for that long if we chose to come back, not getting a dime out of FEMA for anything other than the generator just because my home could be lived in after the storm, knowing that some people who never lost their jobs are still living rent free courtesy of FEMA, even though they were renters before, etc., etc., etc.
Do whatever you can for anybody that you know (or might not even know) along these towns on the Mississippi. What they are going through is very hard to describe but suffice it to say that it is heartbreaking and pretty much turns your world upside down. The good news is that it also demonstrates the incredible ability that most human beings have to persevere in the face of very daunting circumstances.
