Hurricane Advice

[Ursuline Chick]

So far we have learned to prepare for natural disasters ahead of time, think ahead about what to do with pets/livestock/special garden plants &seeds to keep them safe, and find ways to keep ourselves informed and our kids occupied.

What else have we learned?

Make sure you have enough food and drinking water available for at least a few days and have floatation devices on hand. cheap life jackets, usually on sale about now, work fine.
also want a way to get pets out if water rises if possible.

 

[007Sean]

So far we have learned to prepare for natural disasters ahead of time, think ahead about what to do with pets/livestock/special garden plants &seeds to keep them safe, and find ways to keep ourselves informed and our kids occupied.

What else have we learned?

That Texans have BIG HEARTS and helping hands. And as always A BIG HOWDY & WELCOME!

 

[lilmarie84]

Weather channel says New Orleans is going to get lots of rain, but nothing the pump system can't handle. HA Has anyone told them we are operatering on less than 50% turbine power for our pumps? Couldn't hold up to normal heavy rain event a few weeks ago. We will flood, unless we get very little rain. Can't pump it out!

Its no different then from 12 years ago Kenner didn't get it as bad then as New Orleans is now but with Kenner back then we flooded cuz the evacuated the pump station with the pumps off when Katrina hit that is the only reason we flooded not much but is was still enough to require gutting once we were able to return home

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Its no different then from 12 years ago Kenner didn't get it as bad then as New Orleans is now but with Kenner back then we flooded cuz the evacuated the pump station with the pumps off when Katrina hit that is the only reason we flooded not much but is was still enough to require gutting once we were able to return home

1 inch or 10 feet doesn't matter, your house is still messed up

 

[rjohns39]

@NorthTexasWink How are you holding up? Folks are worried about you.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

@NorthTexasWink How are you holding up? Folks are worried about you.

X 2, but have gotten some likes from her this am I believe last time about 15 min ago

 

[lilmarie84]

That's good. never heard of Betsy.

Another hurricane story for another day, she was a cat three that did loop de loops too.

Anyone in the New Orleans area no matter how old you are has heard of Betsy and/Camille either they were there for them or they had family that were and have heard the stories I'm one of the ones that heard the stories of both

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

So far we have learned to prepare for natural disasters ahead of time, think ahead about what to do with pets/livestock/special garden plants &seeds to keep them safe, and find ways to keep ourselves informed and our kids occupied.

What else have we learned?

Have faith. Don't fear.

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

Anyone in the New Orleans area no matter how old you are has heard of Betsy and/Camille either they were there for them or they had family that were and have heard the stories I'm one of the ones that heard the stories of both

I didn't go through Camille because I was in summer camp in another state when it hit. We couldn't return along I-10 due to the damage, so we had to travel back roads though Mississippi off the coast a bit. I saw empty concrete pads where buildings had been and their vertical steel girders were bent at a 45 degree angle.

 

[NorthTexasWink]

Snap ebt HOT food use extended to Sept 30! So I edited my post above.

Handy links:

FEMA
Https://www.fema.gov
Https://www.fema.gov/states/texas
Www.disasterassistance.gov
Follow FEMA on FB, Twitter, YouTube
1-800-621-FEMA(3362)
TTY users 1-800-462-7585 VRS users 1-800-621-3362

Texas state info and lost assistance cards
Https://hhs.texas.gov


I'm fine, y'all. Thanks for the concern! >hugs<. Just busy with guests and getting them online to get their business of recovery started. Learning as I go, since I've never dealt with this stuff except on behalf of my patients on rare occasions. (certainly not bragging, but I've never even drawn unemployment benefits. Just never did, nothing against it and we pay for it for a reason, dangnabbit!).

I've also called to pick the brain of a social worker friend to get prepared for helping my friends through this. Looks like most lost everything, might be a house standing, but it'll be totaled. their communities are largely wiped out. Businesses and homes gone. Starting to lay the framework for helping them emotionally as well as intellectually and physically getting things back under their own control. Apparently loss of control is a big basis for lots of the issues folks can have later after these life changing events. I'm just feeling my way, trying to be supportive and helpful, not obstructive.