Arent we lucky that we dont get cyclones like they do in the states.  This last one 'Katrina' is really bad.  I feel so sorry for all the people involved.  We were caught up in the floods last year in Manawatu and that was bad enough.  If they dont have cyclones, they have tornadoes.  We are so lucky living in this country in more ways than one.  Good luck with the games everyone  

yeah its pretty freaky aye. Just watching the news and its pretty full on


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I cannot believe the city of New Orleans is lower than sea level,  How freaky is that.  It's a good thing the cyclone downgraded before hitting the coast, other wise it would have been a hell of a lot worse.  

Hey thanks for the luck in the games.  
I need it.

so glad i live in windy welly lol

I've been to New Orleans several times.  It was just one continuous party.  Every night Bourbon Street would come alive with festivities, crowds of people dancing and laughing, always willing to talk to a complete stranger as if they were long lost family.  It was just off the planet.

To see images of that place now is devastating.  The pain and hurt is painted so vividly on the faces of the locals.  Their world has been destroyed.  But the spirit of New Orleans will go on...the people will build again, they will learn from this disaster and make New Orleans a better and stronger place!  It's the American Government that failed to be prepared for the worst.  'Don't be complacent' they said...was the government the most complacent?

An on line friend of mine lived in a Gulf Port city, she opted not to evacuate (foolish maybe, but a choice she didn't make lightly).  Her town was up there with the hardest hit.  The town no longer exists.  I got news of her survival several days after Katrina made land fall.  She was lucky, she lost her pets and an uncle.  The rest of the family survived - including her three children.  She is now upstate in a shelter and is likely to be there for some months.  Her feet are badly blistered from walking on scorching roads (she lost her shoes during the storm) and she is badly sunburned...like I said she is lucky.  It is soooo much worse for others.

Sorry to waffle on but I know it is hard, from most of our locations, to understand the full extent of the tragedy.

I have donated to the American Red Cross I can only ask others to consider the same.




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I cant believe the news that is coming through from there now.  There are still people trapped in buildings etc and it is a week on.  All those poor people just dont know what to do and where to go from here.  I know what you mean about their community feeling and yes they will get it rebuilt and it will be a great place to visit again but right now they are all very confused and I feel that neighbouring state and the goverment are not doing enough right now to help.  I just heard that they finally got some drinking water in for some of the residents that they havent been able to shift right now and that is disgusting because of how long it has taken.  They are a huge country and have alot more resources at hand thn what we have.  I was caught up in the middle of the manawatu floods last year and the army was on our doorstep within 24 hours of the floods happening and giving us drinking water.  Someone needs to be held accountable for what is NOT happening there at the moment.  I better stop ranting now as I am getting more and more angry.

The stories are tragic...really tragic.

This one brought tears to my eyes...

A 73 year old woman who was trapped in her house in water chest high. When rescuers eventually helped her out THREE DAYS LATER they dumped her and her husband of 53 years on the side of an interstate highway. She was there for two days. She was ignored as she tried to flag down countless numbers of police vehicles and army vehicles while her husband lay at her feet having seizures. He eventually died there. The reporter telling this story says she was still there yesterday...her dead husband still by her feet.

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That is just so awful.  How can they be so inhumane?  Yes the stories are getting worse.  The worse part about the whole thing is there is nothing we can do about it.  Everytime I turn on the tv or the radio there is another horrible story.  It gets me so angry.

We have children and grandchildren in Rienzi Mississippi, and Hurst Texas. Rienzi is a few hundred miles up North from the devastation but even so they got the tail end of that dreadful storm and were hit by very strong winds. Only minor branches off of trees, and things outdoors blown about. They are so grateful to have got off so lightly. We visited them for three months earlier this year, and it isn't til you visit America that you realise just what a huge country it is. Have been talking to our Texas family today, and they are still very upset by all the dreadful devastation that has taken place. Even in their area they have a lot of the survivors camped out in different stadiums in places near them, and they say that it was definitely a long time for help to turn up and perhaps this could have arrived quicker.       They say it will be a very long time before that area will be fit to be lived in again. Can't say that I would be too keen to go back there to live. It must be an enormous job ahead to get all those survivors housed and settled again. By the way thought you would be interested to know that they were complaining about their petrol prices. Would you believe that they are only $3 per gallon. When we were over there,   petrol prices were just under $2 per gallon. How lucky can they get.