Hurricane Advice

[Ursuline Chick]

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

Thanks, but, It's okay, I figured they were either too young or just lived somewhere else in the world. LOL

 

[Ursuline Chick]

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.

May sound cold, but, remember your tax dollars and mine have already paid for these things. You are very welcome to my tax dollars in your time of need. and it is a time of need for all of you who have suffered losses.

 

[lilapot]

You OK still?

Yes, I am alright, pretty sure most, if not all, of the streets around us our flooded. Won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

I need to read back.
I AM EXTREMELY EXCITED.
I am back online...my tv is now working again too.

I've gotta catch up on my local news then I will be back here to get my "job" caught up.


No water in my house still.
Power is still on.

Stay safe Texans/ and any other Harvey victims.

Yay! Glad you're back online! I hope it doesn't go off again.

I've finally got the tv service back on.

I am pretty sure I forgot to mention we don't have a T.V. We do have internet though, so we are getting updates from online. (and here )

 

[NorthTexasWink]

@lilapot Where are you?

 

[Ursuline Chick]

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.

My Daddy and the family men went to help my great Uncle, who had a summer home in the Bay St Louis area, got half way across the bay bridge on foot and found Uncle's fridge. So they turned around and came home, there was nothing left but the slab. In New Orleans, it wasn't to bad, at least not after Betsy.

 

[lilapot]

I am in Houston in my cozy little home with my chickies.

 

[biophiliac]

I am in Houston in my cozy little home with my chickies.

Stay safe! Glad you checked in.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I just got my first cup of coffee

 

[NorthTexasWink]

My old hurticane (yes, my family calls them "hurticanes") story: In 1972-73ish, I think it was Celia(?) that hit land near but not right on Beaumont. That was the storm when I rescued a bobcat kitten with its eyes still shut. Was crying in the brush-choked culvert where I had been watching its momma and siblings the day before. She was moving her babies before the storm, taking 20 minute trips but it really started up blowing and thundering and sheets of rain. She didn't come back, and the culvert was filling fast, so my little preteen soul wouldn't let me scuttle home before I got that baby. So I half swam through the brush into that big metal pipe in the dark listening for the mewls between the thunderbooms till I got hold of it, stuffed it in my wet shirt and dodged home. Hid that kitten under my bed or in my shirt from my parents for over a week. Not hard because the storm had been bad and a lot was going on. Fed it baby formula (my baby brother was still drinking it) and milk with honey and egg like my uncle taught me for regular kittens. I stole one of Daddy's white cotton hankies (back then most Southern men carried them) and would soak a tiny twist of it in the milk for the kitten to suckle, until it learned to lap it. His eyes opened and my mom heard him, and there was a big fight with Daddy (who hated cats), but they let me keep him. My other brother, about 4, named the kitten CattyCake, because he couldn't say PattyCake. CattyCake lived with us about 9 years, grew to about 45 pounds, and was a terrific pet. He was put down after someone shot him with a pellet rifle that damaged his spine. CattyCake was in his fenced enclosure in my yard, soaking up the sun at the time. I don't, now, recommend folks set out to keep wild animals as pets. But my experience with CattyCake the bobcat was wonderful.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Stay Safe, guys! Thinking about you up in Connecticut!!!