Sunday, August 28, 2005
Do you know where you were four years ago today? I do.
Bryan and I were not in agreement about what we should do as Hurricane Katrina churned its way through the Gulf. I wanted to evacuate. He wanted to ride it out. After all, Katrina was only Cat 3, he explained. We [...]
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This month marks two hurricane anniversaries: Camille and Katrina struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast forty and four years ago, respectively. I rode out both of these storms with my families. If another one heads our way, I plan to be in North Dakota.
I have written several posts about my hurricane experiences. “Hurricane Camille – Forty [...]
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“This is great, Mom,” Nathan said as I pulled in at Lynn Meadows Discovery Center. “It reminds me of my childhood.” Nathan is only eight-years old, but seems to believe he is no longer in his childhood. In a way, I understand his perspective. After all, he was a regular at “Meadows” (Nathan-speak for LMDC) [...]
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For the first couple of years after Katrina, I could not take a ride down Highway 90 without my eyes misting over. You don’t realize how much you love a place until it’s hopelessly gone.
The SS Hurricane Camille seems a quirky place to be sentimental over, but I can’t help it–I miss it. As a [...]
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The bulk of my memoir, Nathan: A Heart, A Storm, A Prayer, deals with the figurative storm we faced while seeking a solution to our child’s health crisis. But smack-dab in the middle of our ordeal, a literal storm dropped on our city like an atomic bomb.
I never imagined Hurricane Katrina, the same storm that [...]
