Its a different world out here. I mean for the most part everything is the same as it was 2 weeks ago, but there certainly are some differences. Take last Saturday for example. I went out to lunch in the Business District and saw two soldiers walking down a street with M16s strapped to their backs. Then throughout the week I have seen military humvees regularly patrolling the streets. The other day they even came by to the lowernine.org house and dropped off some Military Rations and cases of water, yet the entire time they were there talking to us one of the soldiers didn't take this finger off the trigger. Not take his hand off the gun, but his finger off the trigger. I mean I understand that the Lower 9th doesn't have great reputation but its the middle of the day and your delivering food to a volunteer organization. Lighten up guys.
Also this week we spent a good amount of the time hoping that we wouldn't get hit by Hurricane Ike. I mean it was such a fear that a lot of people never came back from Gustav thinking they would just have to leave again. I mean even at our house we still left a lot of things boarded up just in case we would need to go. And although we don't need to evacuate I have decided to leave the board up through the weekend since we are experiencing tropical storm conditions from Ike. For those of you that don't know a TS is like a mini and less intense hurricane with one of the biggest differences being lower wind speeds. And even though we are getting a mild storm here I still only managed to get about 3 hours of sleep last night. This was due to the fact that we had a piece of sheet metal from our porch roof as well as our attic door hitting against the side of the house all night. In addition my bedroom is at the end of an alley which intensifies the sound of winds that are 50+ mph like we had. We even had rain that was coming down so hard that it woke me up a few times. Want to hear the true icing on the cake? We then lost power for an hour and a half so that we had no fans or AC in the house. Yeah it was just one of those nights.
And some other news:
*I have a volunteer here named John. He's 23 and here for a month from Kansas City. We are getting along really well so far.
*Mom and Dad's cocktail party to benefit On-Site is tomorrow night. Thank you to everyone who already donated or will be donating at the party.
*Mom, Dad, Pat, and Charlie booked tickets this weekend to come down and visit at Christmas time.
*After spending my whole evacucation in Shreveport with 7 dogs I decided that I need to get one of my own. As soon as I get some sort of regular income (hopefully soon) the I will be getting a (again hopefully) Dalmatian puppy.
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