- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I may have not been at the coastal area myself in person, but I was caught in the tail end of it. I live in Central Mississippi, and I just want you guys to remember alot of us as well. The storm destroyed (raped to be correct.) many homes here as well. My home caught only a small amount of it, but a tree took out one of my close friend's homes. Many more lost vehicles received major roof damage, and a whole plethora of other damages.
I spent alot of time in Biloxi and neighboring cities here in MS. and I will miss going there greatly for the time they spend rebuilding. If I were not in college at the moment I would be there working my ass off using what construction skills I posses. One of the greatest things about Biloxi was Coast Con, a gaming, Anime, and Roleplay convention held there around the beginning of April or the end of March every year. Those memories will remain with me for many years to come.
One of the major consequences of losing the ports on our coastline is the lack of gasoline shipments. It has been madness here for the past week. So many people have come from out of state and locally and taken all the gas they could hold, not taking into consideration those of us whom have to go back and forth all of the time. It's not that it angers me, but that it is foolish to take advantage of having so much money. In given time shipments are coming, they just have to get enough vehicles.
As of New Orleans, it breaks my heart to see and hear about what happened. I also enjoyed visiting there, not just for the drinking and partying for I am guilty of it, but more for the culture, and the art. One thing that amazed me the most was the cemetaries. Their architectural (forgive the spelling errors, for I just woke up from a nap.) designs amazed me. However in due time New Orleans, Biloxi, Gulfport, and the other areas decimated will be rebuilt, but, they will never be as they were. All we can do is hope and pray for the best. We all should do what we can to help, be it go and help clean up, rebuild, donate funds, even buy that really awsome shirt. I am most deffinitely getting myself one when I get paid for my work-study job. Just do us a favor, don't forget those of us who were affected here in the upper regions, we may not have lost our cities, but we did get a pretty bad peice of the pie.