Having a very spread out extended family has both advantages and disadvantages. You end up with places to crash in cities you never dreamed you’d get to visit.
You also end up having to worry about things you never thought you’d have to worry about.
My friend Mike went home to Mississippi a week ago because his mother’s health was deterioriating. Together Mike and his Dad decided to take his Mom off life-support. That was Friday. We didn’t hear from Mike until today.
He and his Dad are both fine but they’ve been without power since Sunday and don’t have any idea the extent of the damage that’s been done by Katrina. The sad part is, the worst has yet to come.
Katrina made her way up the the Mississippi River valley yesterday dumping rain on Ohio, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and all that water has to go somewhere. Where it’s going is right into the Mississippi…which passes right by the French Quater in New Orleans.
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Makes you think, doesn’t it? For as much as humans prattle on about our power and our ability to make and destroy things, we don’t have a patch on mother nature.
Hurricane path graphic shamelessly stolen from Weather Underground
Indeed.
STB