Wednesday, December 10, 2008

I have a new blog entitled "What Is Truth? " I took notice that when I started the new blog that many of my faithful readers of "Camille and Katrina Were Not Ladies" and "I Will Make Everything New" departed. You came, read and left most times without a comment, sort of like a voyeur. Not a sexual voyeur by any means but one just peering into another's life. I willingly permitted you to look in but then I uttered a hard saying? I declared my catholicity. Already I have received an attack there from someone who talked in the first person as though he or she was God. I answered as I will continue to do no matter how vicious the attack. Come and hear the truth or tell me what you think is the truth. Do you live your faith, do you observe the commandments, I do!

Friday, November 7, 2008

At the present time, I have been on the internet for 12 1/2 yrs.. I started at Geo Cities with a website entitled "All In The Family". As the title should suggest it was about myself, husband, children and grandchildren. I displayed pictures of our yards with all the beautiful landscaping, flowers etc. All of that was good but I found that my finest contribution would be on my husband's illness during his fight with a cancer of the lymphatic system known as Non Hodgkins Lymphoma. I received many replies from people who had the disease, most of them served in Vietnam and had been in contact with Agent Orange. George's story gave them hope that, with treatment, they could extend their lives. My husband lived for 9 yrs. with the disease and lived well until a fast growing brain tumor caused his death in 1999 from glioblastoma. After his death I took the site down.

From December 1999 to January 2001 I took care of our business affairs along with my daughter, Anita, without whom I couldn't have made it through. In May of 2003, I came back to my hometown in Pascagoula. . In August 2005, Katrina smashed into the coast causing massive damage and because of severe lack of media coverage I began writing about what happened to us with a blog entitled "Camille And Katrina Were Not Ladies. Later I was to add another blog entitled "I Will Make Everything New". This will be my last post to this blog too as now I see a need to reach out to True Catholics not Cafeteria Catholics. So watch for my new blog which I hope to start very soon.

Thanks to all of you who have faithfully read my writings.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

A Nation Divided

Today I returned to the real world, after many days of listening to all the speeches from both candidates. As I listened I felt that I wasn't in America anymore. I heard kill the unborn, let gays have the same privilege of a lawful marriage, bring our troops home and a mention of the need to form a military militia here in America. Who would they be fighting against? Us?

It seems that a Democrat is still a Democrat but a Republican is no longer a Republican that votes on the issues at hand. but simply a Racist.
I have learned something pretty late in my life from this campaign .. being born in Mississippi, I have heard our state called racist many times and I would soul search and ask myself "Am I racist"? The answer is no. I have videos on my site of Alan Keyes and Alonzo "Zo". I would have voted for Keyes in an instant and had Alonzo been on the ticket, he would have gotten my vote too. Why? Because they have the same values I have.

The final tally of votes shows that America is divided. Oh! We have always been, in a sense, divided because of different issues but now we are presented with horrific issues that most certainly divide us. It is said, that a nation divided against itself will fall and I fear that we will.

Aftermath

Friday, October 24, 2008

Death Wish Part 1

Death Wish Part 2

Commentary: Liberals let loose on Palin and Joe the Plumber - CNN.com

Commentary: Liberals let loose on Palin and Joe the Plumber - CNN.com: "SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- I thought liberals were supposed to be good-hearted, open-minded and non-judgmental.

Tell that to the angry Left's favorite pi�ata, Sarah Palin. As far as liberals are concerned, Palin can do no right just as Barack Obama and Joe Biden can do no wrong. In fact, Biden is catching more passes than an NFL wide receiver.

As Palin herself pointed out in a recent CNN interview, imagine if she had been the one to imply that electing Obama would invite calamity. Biden does it, and the media shrug."

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

The New Generation Versus America

Usually, when I put a post up, I talk about everyday life which probably isn't of interest to anyone but me and the people who live that life. Today I want to talk about the "fracas" that is taking place in our country. I consider myself up-to-date on all of it as, by now, we all are. I have listened to all the incumbent speeches, the last was from Senator Joe Biden.

No, I am not going to talk all politics, I also want to speak about the hard times that are in our future. Not too many years ago, we could have handled this crisis but now there seems to be a great divide between us as fellow Americans. We are now labeled "right wing" or "left wing", there is no other choice or so it seems. What about those who, like my Mother often said, use their Common Sense? Has that gone by the wayside? Do we just follow whatever we find that appeals to the eye and only lean toward those we call "intellectual"? In my opinion, that is why we have no working class, they are all in college. Our children need to learn how to work and work hard like their ancestors before them did. A couple of my children had said over the years, I won't work for $5 dollars an hour... they believed from all the propaganda taught them in our schools, society and television entitled them to their unrealistic expectations. We, as they, are reaping the consequences of that behavior. How do I know? I have children as old as Palin and Obama.


Our unborn are not protected by a caring America anymore, they never had a chance to chase the American dream. Because of my age, that I disclosed above, although in good health, I feel that I am in danger too. What about the feminists that want equal rights for women etc. but have not stepped up to defend the vicious attacks against Sara Palin? Something is amiss.

Wake up America, so many of us are counting on you!

Thursday, October 16, 2008

WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - Building South Mississippi Together |Mississippi soldier killed in Iraq

WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - Building South Mississippi Together |Mississippi soldier killed in Iraq: "JACKSON, MS (AP) - Army Pfc. Christopher A. McCraw was an energetic young man who was looking forward to coming home from Iraq and marrying the mother of his young son. The 23-year-old Columbia native died Tuesday when he came under attack while on a patrol in Baghdad, the Department of Defense said Thursday."

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Friday, October 3, 2008

I think that when I occasionally spoke about agendas and smoke screens as a cover up for what was coming in the future came to light yesterday when the government "sold" us out of the American existence we have known for many years. Am I one of those misinformants as they call bloggers? No, I am speaking about what I know. Most of my life was lived in the "middle class". If you don't know who middle class people were, I will tell you. At one time, they were called the backbone of America. All were hardworkers who paid their taxes and bills without having the government or collectors prod them. They didn't want what the "Joneses" had, they lived within their means. Those independent people didn't rely on the government to save them and thus be owned by them. That's what is happening now, the federal government is taking over and that will lead to socialism. I don't want that, do you?

I complained, as most people say, about the hype that was being put on us doing the hurricanes and our voices of experience were not being heard ... we don't need to get out for every storm that enters the gulf. The same tactic was used with the Wall Street crisis, panic the people and they will submit. Well, we didn't panic, in Mississippi alone there were many emails and calls jamming the circuits to our state representatives saying, "We don't want this, let it crash"! People from all over the country were trying to stop the bail out as majority rules but, in this case, the majority was completely ignored. Even though we weren't heard, $22,000 will be added to each taxpayer and will have to be paid back in three years. Wall Street didn't crash, America did!

For days now, I have had this tight feeling in my chest as a result of what has transpired. It's not a pending heart attack but one of impending doom. If this could happen, what comes next?

An interesting quote below:

I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
Nikita Khrushchev, Speech in Yugoslavia, Aug. 24, 1963
Russian Soviet politician (1894 - 1971)

Thursday, September 25, 2008

My Birthday

Since I love Fall so much, to have been born in September was perfect. I awakened to a gorgeous day, the morning temperature was a cool 59 degrees. I made it through another year that brought only a few tears and lots of laughter. Things are definitely looking up. Thanks to Dave and Anita and Bruce and Peggy for a perfect celebration.


Saturday, September 20, 2008


Do you know what this is? "A vacuum cleaner that matches the recliner"? It is a product made by "Shop Vac" whose products are usually great. It vacuums leaves and mulches them too. We tried it out today and it works well, of course there will still be some raking because the trees in my yard are huge and drop a mountain of leaves. My birthday is fast approaching so Dave and Anita gave me an early gift. Anita and I ran it through a test and laughed as we vacuumed, the leaves were falling the entire time. I will update you on how I determine how to put this sharp machine to a productive and work lessening usefulness.

As for hurricanes, I haven't even tuned in to the weather channels as I am just living a normal life at this time. Yesterday I returned all the things I had inside since August 30th to the back porch. I also watch the New Orleans Saints football game every Sunday .. on September 7 they won over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 24-20 and on September 14 they lost to the Washington Redskins 24-29. That's the Saints, win one lose one. We go from elation to the bottom of the pit but still we stay loyal to them.

I haven't much to say at this time .. just stepped out of my "glass" house and put on my "rose colored glasses" long enough to say hello.

Will be back!

Saturday, September 13, 2008


Washington Avenue

Washington Avenue
Although we were spared a direct hit by Hurricane Ike, we had flooding in low lying areas. No major damage to report. Ironically, on two major anniversaries we had two hurricanes to contend with. Katrina struck on August 29, 2005 and we found ourselves in a mass exodus on August 31, 2008. as we sought refuge in Atlanta, GA until Gustav made landfall on September 1, 2008. Another hurricane named Ike became a threat as 911 drew near. On September 11, 2008, we were feeling the effects of the storm. That evening as I lay down to rest a feeling of peace surrounded me. The sound of the wind lullabied me to sleep.

We have gone through too many things to mention here over the past three years. A minority of people and the media criticize every decision that we make in regards to our safety and under that guise they take the liberty of insulting us. While America is still free, we have the right to think for ourselves.

Yesterday, my daughter, Anita and I drove around taking pictures and videos. We walked all the way down to Pascagoula's new pier and as we turned around to go back we had to keep our eyes closed because of the blowing sand. Later we discussed how free we felt as we played and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. The scene was awesome!




Scalloped Lace





As We Played Building Went On

Friday, September 12, 2008



Our Brush With Ike

The last 24 hours have been absolutely exhausting. Just leaving my house to be with my daughter and her family meant I had to pack up once again what I would need. I have not quite recuperated from our trip to Atlanta, Ga where we made an attempt to put distance between ourselves and Gustav ... then along comes Ike. I am very happy to say that we came through very well. Last evening the winds were gusting at 30 to 40 mph as it passed us. There was not much rain in our area and personally I am very glad as I live off River Road and the Pascagoula River was rising and spilling over its banks. Had I stayed in my house I would have been trapped as the bridge to my left went underwater and the road to my right was beginning to flood when I left the house but I knew that I could return for a couple of hours and relax as we were at low tide. I returned to daughter's house about 6PM last evening. After a relatively uneventful night, at 10AM this morning I packed and started winding my way back home and this is what I found on the same road I came out on. I made a feeble attempt to drive a short distance through the water before I backed out ... there was a current.


A little later Anita and I went to take pictures. I have still shots of Beach Boulevard but I can't top her video. My video lasts a minute and the syrupy voice you hear is mine but don't let it fool you, "I am tough as nails". "smile" Will post a few more pictures tomorrow.

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Thursday, September 11, 2008

Hurricane Ike


These are pictures I took before noon today of how Hurricane Ike is affecting our area. I am at my daughter's house as the area I live in has been evacuated because of the rising of the Pascagoula River. I might add that I am dictating and Anita is typing on her laptop as we speak. I miss my computer.

I have such an aversion to water that I can't even look at a glass of it. I have told you before that Moss Point's water is so dirty and brown that I have a hard time bathing in it - I jump in and jump out. But I think it's more that because I am afraid of water that I complain about the color of it.

Two weeks ago we found ourselves evacuating to Atlanta, GA because of Hurricane Gustav and now I have had to evacuate from my home off River Road because of rising water.

We were always sorry that during Katrina the Terrible that we were not able to take pictures. So I have my camera this time and a fully-loaded battery. If worse comes to worse -- I'll have pictures.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

EAST INVASION - Featured Story - SunHerald.com

EAST INVASION - Featured Story - SunHerald.com: "PASCAGOULA -- Jackson County residents felt the effects earlier this week when thousands of Louisianans clogged Interstate 10 and U.S. 90 instead of taking the contraflow route north in evacuating from Hurricane Gustav.

Emergency Management Director Butch Loper said Friday that what happened made evacuation more difficult for his county. Luckily, the storm stayed on course and spared Jackson County a major hit.

Contraflow is designed to route all traffic from New Orleans north into Mississippi on I-55 and I-59."

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Evacuees return to battered New Orleans

Evacuees return to battered New Orleans: "Meanwhile, other residents are returning to a city that has been shaken but by no means devastated to the extent it was by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. That storm and its aftermath damaged or destroyed thousands of homes in New Orleans; it put 80 percent of the city underwater. By contrast, enforcement inspectors had found eight collapsed houses in New Orleans by Wednesday and 57 others in danger of collapsing."

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Not all unkempt people are evacuees but all evacuees are unkempt


I can say this without rancor nor am I poking fun at a serious situation but merely pointing out my perspective on what it means to find, that because of a disaster, you have become an evacuee. In an earlier post, I talked about carrying our luggage and other paraphernalia to our rooms without hotel assistance. The elevator did work so that eased our predicament in that we didn't have to climb the stairs to the 16th floor. To lessen how many trips we would have to make I had three tote bags on my left arm and a cardboard box full of snacks for the children braced against my right hip. My son-in-law held the door for me using his left hand as his right arm was weighted down with what he was transporting to our costly retreat. I dropped the box and the management stood there and watched it all without lending any assistance. My daughter has always told me that there is a dignity surrounding me but, after over a 10 hour harrowing nightmarish drive, I arrived looking more like something "the cat dragged in". I checked my shoes before we went in to make sure that I wasn't trailing toilet tissue behind me. There was a strong possibility that could be after all the dirty restrooms we stopped at on the way to our "vacation retreat".
Any makeup I started out with had melted away in the heat. My slacks were wrinkled and my shirt sported various stains, my hair was covered with a scarf but still it was an unruly mess.

In my life, when I prepared for a "vacation" there were new clothes, shoes etc. and I stayed well-groomed but we weren't preparing for a vacation, we were getting out of harms way and should something unforeseen happen on our trip we had things like flashlights, batteries and food that did not need refrigeration. Lots of cash in case places wouldn't accept credit cards or checks. If I could name only one thing that we learned from Katrina .. that would be .. we know how to survive. On our return trip, when we arrived in Mobile, AL, Mississippi cars were side by side in the two lanes going home and many of us will never leave again.


A Safe Haven


Today I am walking around "zombie like" after driving more than 10 hours to get to safety and more than 7 hrs. to get back home. Turns out, it wasn't safe at all in many ways. We were involved in a mass exodus and unless you have been in one there should be no comments like, "Well even though the storm didn't do what it was predicted to do, you did the right thing." Since I love doing new things at least once and survive, I am sure that after I recuperate that I will say, "Never again but I have that notch on my belt too." We were trapped, no way out, all we could do was go with the flow. In spurts, the traffic would start moving until you were forced to travel at 75mph to 85mph and you found yourself flying to "safety". I remember that I hydroplaned a couple of times after the rainstorm but Hey! What the heck! I was safe. Another incident, a semi in the far left lane came to a stop and another semi that was near moved next to it and stopped. Our lanes started moving slowly and as I glanced to the left there was a car laying on its side. My daughter asked later if I saw the man that ran in front of her and she almost hit him. Because we had to keep moving, we don't know if he made it or not. In another wreck a 2yr. old child was killed. I am sure that there were many more that we didn't hear about. I wouldn't let any of the 5 grandkids ride with me but I took Judge, the family dog. I worried about him but thought maybe if I had a wreck that possibly he would survive as he was asleep on the backseat and thus relaxed. As for me, I was tense and if I wasn't killed from the intial crash the 300lbs. of pressure from the airbag would have finished the job. Later we all talked about the nonsense of running from predicted danger to real danger. We concluded that for us, it is safer at home.

Our lodgings were a big disappointment, we found ourselves still trying to survive. When we arrived at the hotel and were paying for our rooms, we were told that if any of you smoke in the rooms there will be a $250 dollar fine. I could almost hear the cash register bells going off. Dogs can stay in the room and we all know that no matter how clean the dog, they smell like a dog but the smell of a cigarette is more offensive to what seems like the majority of people. Many hotels serve a complimentary Continental breakfast and the one we stayed at did too but we arrived late, 130AM Monday morning and missed the breakfast because we needed sleep more than food. So Tuesday morning when we were preparing to leave I went to ask if the breakfast was still being served and it was so I told the man that we would be down shortly and he called after me, "It is no longer complimentary, you have to pay for it." I didn't see any security at all. A couple of times I had to go to my car for an item and a feeling of dread would wash over me that there was no protection for me but I am sure that if I had drank one of the three bottles of water in my room that were tagged with a note that said, "If you drink this bottle of water, it will cost you $3.", that a siren would have sounded. I think that FEMA is still reimbursing these hotels and they are being fleeced but the people who are fleeing to maybe find a safer place are sometimes being mistreated.


I was anxious to get home to assess the damage and this is all I found in my backyard.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Well, We Did It Again - We Evacuated


Against our better judgment we evacuated but never again. It was the most dangerous thing I have ever done in my life. A wild ride with 2 adults and 5 children in one car. I drove my car and had as my companion, Judge, their dog. We were on our way to Atlanta, Ga and certainly were not lonely for companionship. We must have had the two million people that evacuated from New Orleans alongside us. My car idles 5mph without my foot on the gas pedal and we did lots of idling, stopping, starting, fast braking that took us close to the rear end of cars. We went through a heavy rainfall that became as dark as night so we pulled off to the side of the interstate and waited as the two million people passed. How could they see anything, we couldn't? We arrived in Atlanta at night and all we had lighting our way was the red tail lights of the cars. Anita was driving and I was right behind her and every signal she gave me to go right or left became actually perfectly synchronized as we weaved our way to the west side of Georgia to find the hotel where we had reserved rooms. Dave had drawn a map and so finding it was no problem.

We went inside to pay for our rooms and were told we had two rooms on the 16th floor. 16th
floor? I looked to see if they had elevators We asked for a cart to bring our belongings from the car and were told they only had 3 carts and they were in use. We had to carry all our things up and it took several trips. We were at a "first class" hotel that, in my opinion, certainly was not. We settled down finally and looked for news of the coast hurricane. CNN was following the storm closely and just like it was when Katrina devastated the Mississippi Coast, only New Orleans was mentioned. Of course, we could tell from the pictures shown that nothing devastating happened as in 2005. A neighbor called to tell me that my house was fine. Whew!! Dave and Anita's home did okay too but I will let her tell you about it. We arrived in Pascagoula at 2PM this afternoon and everything was as it was when we left. My neighborhood had some tree limbs down and I had a half of a limb down in backyard. No devastation here. There is no way that we can continue to just pack up and evacuate elsewhere and risk our lives on the interstate. Monday was Labor Day and it passed without our giving a thought to it. We should have stayed home and grilled hamburgers and enjoyed ourselves.

So now there is Hannah, Ike and Josephine and maybe we will get all three of them or none of them. Either way I am staying home. I can't take the panic anymore, it is not living the life you have been given when you run away from it. If I am to die in a hurricane, I will go out praying not running.

Friday, August 29, 2008




On August 28, 2005, in preparation for a hurricane that was in the Gulf, I left my home to go stay with a daughter and her family that lived about 1/2 mile from the beach in Pascagoula. I could have stayed at home but I chose to be with them rather than staying barricaded (plywood on windows ) in the house waiting to see what was going to happen. Well, most of you know what happened ..... we were to be participants in the fury of a storm named Katrina. The night before the storm none of us slept very well and were already exhausted the next morning when Katrina was going to pay us a very unexpected visit.

I am almost ashamed to say that we were heckling the hurricane and saying it probably was all a bunch of hype. My daughter and son in law were not born when Camille hit the Gulf Coast but I was. I resided in Gulfport at that time and had already experienced the unexpected and the unprecedented but somehow the old cliche "experience is the best teacher" didn't hold true for my not forcefully suggesting that we leave.

It was about 930AM when this fast moving water started rolling down the street, filling the yards very quickly and continued rising to frightening heights until it seems it was in the house in a matter of minutes. God was definitely with us as the plywood on the windows prevented glass breakage and the raging water from rushing inside and possibly collapsing the house. Had that happened, we have no doubt that we would have died that day. We huddled in an upstairs hallway at the top of the stairway with the four little children, a dog and five cats (four newborn kittens). We had seen the neighborhood houses, when looking out an upstairs window, with water reaching their roofs and their cars parked in driveways completely submerged as was the son in laws truck.

After no response from 911, we began praying without cessation. We learned later that what we each asked for was that the children's lives be spared. We remained in a state of terror until finally the water began to recede and we felt that we were going to survive. We didn't know then the extent of the widespread destruction all along our coastline and that the aftermath was going to take a lot more courage to survive than the actual storm.


CELEBRATING? THREE YEARS OF KATRINA

AUGUST 29, 2005 to AUGUST 29, 2008

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Not only will the projected President of the United States have a strange and foreign sounding name, our hurricanes at this late date seem to be following suit. As Gustav decides whom it will wreak havoc on, I know that I should be making preparations just in case it is our area but I can't. Strangely, I have become lax just trying to figure out what is happening. There is a phrase that plays and replays in my mind, "the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming". We can't seem to get back up from the blow that we took here from Katrina. There are no shelters for us .. in vain we try to find rooms in hotels that are miles away. I, for one, am tired. I will not board up the windows etc., I intend to just close the door behind me as I leave my house and go to my daughter's as I did doing Katrina. Will we be safe? Who knows? Maybe as safe as one can be having Chevron refinery so close to my daughter's that now puts out 365,ooo barrels of oil a day. There's that haunting word again, "Oil". It seems to be prevalent in the news today.

Three years later and not much progress. I read recently that one of the coast's cities put their country club back that cost millions of dollars. A lot of "hoopla" was made over that accomplishment. I apparently am different in that I see the suffering of the PEOPLE and , yes, they do suffer. There are still 4000 in Fema trailers or mobile homes. Do they hope for their world to get better as President Elect Obama says so often or should action be taken? I go for the latter.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - Building South Mississippi Together |Another Mississippi Soldier Dies In The War On Terror

WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - Building South Mississippi Together |Another Mississippi Soldier Dies In The War On Terror: "GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) - The Department of Defense says a soldier from Greenwood has been killed in Iraq. The military says 40-year-old Sgt. 1st Class George Stanciel died Aug. 19 of wounds suffered when the base he was at came under mortar attack."

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - Building South Mississippi Together |Mississippi Soldier Killed In Afghanistan

WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - Building South Mississippi Together |Mississippi Soldier Killed In Afghanistan: "JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A 101st Airborne Division officer from Oxford was killed in Afghanistan after his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb and attacked by insurgents, military officials said Tuesday. Army 1st Lt. Donald C. Carwile, 29, died Aug. 15 along with another soldier, Pfc. Paul E. Conlon Jr., 21, of Somerville, Mass., the Department of Defense said Tuesday in a news release."

Monday, August 18, 2008

WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - Building South Mississippi Together |South Mississippians Remember Hurricane Camille

WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - Building South Mississippi Together |South Mississippians Remember Hurricane Camille: "BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - Sunday people all over the coast remembered the lives lost during Hurricane Camille. The storm of 1969 devastated the coast and nearly 200 people were killed or never found as a result of the storm."
Publish Post

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Bush to visit Gulf Coast as Katrina anniversary nears | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger

Bush to visit Gulf Coast as Katrina anniversary nears | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger: "NEW ORLEANS — President Bush will visit New Orleans and the Mississippi Coast on Wednesday to check out the recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

The White House said Friday that Bush is expected to deliver an afternoon speech in New Orleans, then travel to the Mississippi Coast for dinner with community leaders.

Katrina struck August 29, 2005, flooding 80 percent of New Orleans and wiping out Mississippi coastal communities. At least 1,800 people died.

The federal government has poured billions of dollars into the rebuilding effort.

Local officials plan commemorative ceremonies August 29."

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Bush says Russia must 'keep its word' - The White House- msnbc.com: "WASHINGTON - President Bush, expressing his concern over Russia's military actions against neighboring Georgia, on Wednesday said he is sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Tbilisi to show support for the Georgian government."

Thursday, August 7, 2008

It's raining here tonight but I think it's too late to save flowers or lawns. For the past three years we have had droughts and very high temperatures ... today was 96 degrees. I love a rainy night with the roll of distant thunder. It's very pleasant to me. Yes, sometimes we have what I call normal weather and sometimes we have had fierce hurricanes. On August 29th, it will be three years since Katrina came into our lives and devastated our cities. Not any one area in Pascagoula is completely rebuilt and spruced up. I drove around today and I noticed only a few cars or none on the route I took. Where are the people? Well, if they are like me, they are staying close to their homes. Why? I haven't the vaguest! Could we just be tired of surviving, waiting and apprehensive that something that shouldn't have happened may happen again? Will another hurricane take a "swipe" at us and destroy what we have struggled to put back? I am able to ask all the above questions because it is the way I feel. Maybe the handful of people I see in Wal-Mart or in grocery stores and gas stations is an indication that people are having a rough time making ends meet. And maybe, like me, they stay home to protect what they still have.


Post Office

Fema Trailer In Back

Market Street

Market Street Crossing Hwy 90

You can see from the pictures why I ask, "Where are the people"?

Saturday, August 2, 2008

I believe that if I had been locked in a room for the past three years with no communication to the outside world that I would have been able to tell each year that the anniversary of Katrina was drawing near. I can't speak for anyone but myself so I am going to try to tell you how I feel. I, my daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren should have died that day but we didn't. Somehow I had the sensation that we were lifted above the tragedy that was happening below We prayed incessantly, the Divine Mercy Chaplet, our voices loud and clear as we asked for God's mercy. What has happened to me is that I still feel like I am suspended in air just waiting for the other shoe to drop and then I will make my descent. Is that anyway to live, of course not, but that is how it is for me and maybe many more people. They call what has happened to us mental illness but I call it an emotional illness. Death can come suddenly as in a car crash where many are killed instantly or from a long illness where you are under heavy sedation. To be alive and vibrant and KNOW that you are going to die was nightmarish enough but the way you knew you would die was even more horrendous. The house would have eventually collapsed or you would drown. You know how most things that happen in our life are recalled by what we call a "trigger"? A song or a word might bring the event back to you to relive. That's what the month of August is to many of us now ... a trigger.

My new PC is great. My old one couldn't burn music CD's but this one can so I have been purchasing songs from Amazon I have to be careful as I have what I call an obsessive personality and I know that I will have zillions of songs before I finally tire of it or Amazon has no more to sell me.

Until later.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Installation Underway
Back Soon


SunHerald.com : 'Just put him back in jail'

SunHerald.com : 'Just put him back in jail': "PASCAGOULA --
The Jackson County Board of Supervisors will ask Gov. Haley Barbour to put Michael David Graham back in the prison system."

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Obama Campaign Contacts GulfCoastNews.com

Obama Campaign Contacts GulfCoastNews.com: "GulfCoastNews.com apparently has the attention of the Elect Barack Obama team. This past Friday, July 25, a staff member with the Obama campaign in Chicago, Illinois called GCN in Biloxi and asked if GCN was planning to send a reporter to the Democratic National Convention in Denver."

WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - Building South Mississippi Together |All Three Drivers Walk Away From I-10 Bridge Accident

WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - Building South Mississippi Together |All Three Drivers Walk Away From I-10 Bridge Accident: "JACKSON COUNTY, MS (WLOX) - Mississippi Highway Patrol Corporal Johnny Poulos couldn't believe what he was seeing Tuesday as he approached the I-10 bridge over the Pascagoula River. It was an 18 wheeler dangling dangerously off the bridge."

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The following pictures of construction were taken in Pascagoula today. They can't possibly show the vastness of what is there, I was impressed. Location is Old Mobile Highway that crosses over Chico Road heading West.