Just a short post to catch you up on what I have been doing especially to explain the montage video posted below. We are still rebuilding and will be for a long time. I drove around for only a short time yesterday and today snapping a few pics as it seems when gas prices rise the additives that give good mileage are no longer "added". Personally, my fence that was burned back in December by a neighbor's explosive attempt at burning trash was repaired less than a week ago, by HIM.

I will write later about all the pros and cons happening down here. Until then...!

Pascagoula, Mississippi

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

FOXNews.com - Scuffles Break out Between Wisconsin Flood Victims in Line for Food Vouchers - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

FOXNews.com - Scuffles Break out Between Wisconsin Flood Victims in Line for Food Vouchers - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News: "MILWAUKEE — Pushing and shoving broke out among some of the 2,500 people hit hard by recent floods who lined up outside a county office early Monday in hopes of collecting free food vouchers."

Arte Y Pico at http://arteypico.blogspot.com/

My daughter Anita at "Did we Survive Hurricane Katrina or Not" received the above award and was to choose five of her favorite blogs and, wonder of wonders, I was one of them. I don't know if this proves my blog worthy but it sure proves I am loved. Thank you Anita.

WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - Building South Mississippi Together |Red Cross Volunteers To Assist Midwest Flood Victims

WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - Building South Mississippi Together |Red Cross Volunteers To Assist Midwest Flood Victims: "GAUTIER (WLOX) -- The American Red Cross holds many disaster response workshops through out the year. But the group meeting Wednesday in Gautier was one of many across South Mississippi getting ready to take what they've learned on the road."

SunHerald.com : The trees laugh last, start growing after being sculpted

SunHerald.com : The trees laugh last, start growing after being sculpted: "'There is an old saying about how you can't fool Mother Nature,' said Vincent Creel, Biloxi public affairs manager. 'Mother Nature can sure fool us.'"

Cong. Gene Taylor Sends Sharply Critical Letter to FEMA Over Agency's "No Ice" Policy

All this talk about FEMA taking ice away from disaster victims prompted my memory of a happening in my life. It was in mid June of 1983. We had moved from our home in Gulfport to the Lumberton area and put the vacated home up for sale. We hired a landscaper to maintain the yard until it sold. The house was devoid of all furniture and the utilities had been turned off. We drove down one weekend to check on the house and the yard was in bad shape. My husband was livid but I said that when he drove back down that Monday for work that I and the young daughter would come with him and I would get the yard in shape again. So we packed all the necessary equipment in the bed of his truck and he dropped us off at the house. I put the ice chest inside the house to keep it out of the sun and within 3 hrs. I had the yard looking pretty good. My young daughter had worked all this time with me so I sent her inside to rest. I never seem to know when enough is enough. The yard was full 0f pine trees and the shingled roof looked like a thatched one as it was thickly covered with straw. I couldn't take the blower with me as it would be a hindrance as I tried to get off the ladder, so I threw a broom up on the roof. Now I must tell you that I have always been able to climb "up" but I have never been able to climb "down". Rather quickly I had all the straw off the roof and it was time for my descent. I called over and over for my daughter to come hold the ladder steady and she didn't hear me. She had fallen asleep. So for over 2 hrs. I was on the roof with a blazing sun sapping the life out of me. I became dizzy, nauseous, weak and finally disoriented. I laid down on the roof and that's how my husband found me. I have no memory of how he got me down but I remember he propped me up against a shed that was in the yard and got the ice chest and started cooling me down. He put ice all over me .. head, chest, arms, legs, back of my neck. He had the daughter hold cold drink cans to my head. It took awhile but I rallied, his quick response saved my life that day. Heat stroke or heat exhaustion happens very quickly.

Somebody pinch me please! What is happening to America? Most of this morning I have been speaking the name of our probable next president, you know, sort of testing with what ease it might roll off my tongue. ... President Barack Hussein Obama. It was strange and foreign coming after such presidents as Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton to name a few. I also was thinking of suspected terrorists, detained in Cuba, that have been given a constitutional right to be tried in our courts. One of them is thought to be the mastermind behind the 9/11 attack. Have we forgotten?

Foreign Terrorists Have Constitutional Rights

I was also thinking of the terrible tragedy in Iowa which scientists have basically said is no big deal, it's a 500 year flood. How do they know that with any certainty and why do they seem to minimize a tragedy when they say it has happened before? How many people from the 1500's are here to lend credibility to their statement? Global Warming is not acceptable as being the cause of most of our "nature gone wild" tragedies.

Oh well, maybe I think too much!

Weather Manipulation?

I had gotten into a pattern lately of posting on Sunday but for the past couple of days since I find myself homebound because of a sinus infection, I have more time to write. What I am going to write are my thoughts on the severe weather we are experiencing. You who read this will probably say I am nuts and you may be correct but all the same I love intrigue and possible conspiracy on the part of maybe not our government but definitely something or someone is manipulating our weather. My thoughts have gone back countless times to Hurricane Camille in 1969 where in an attempt to lessen the storm's fury, hurricane planes were sent up and "ice crystals" were dropped into the eye wall. Well, the rest is history ...wind velocity meters broke at 200MPH. How about those contrails in the sky and the very strange looking airplane that we have seen fly over many times while the contrails are being formed. There was one that really unnerved me ... in the clear blue sky there was only one contrail ...a huge X. We have seen so many that we now call them chemtrails. There are many of us who "look up" and are amazed at what we see. I am reminded of the fantastic laser show at Disney World in Florida and how much more advanced we are now. In 2005, Mississippi and Louisiana lost their homes and 3 yrs. later the entire Country is finding themselves in the same boat with floods, tornadoes and looming foreclosures. etc. Those on the Coast who have managed to put a roof over their heads again will possibly meet their demise by the unfair taxation that is being put on them by the counties and if they should get past that ... insurance premiums will do them in. Regular gasoline is 4 dollars a gallon and rising each day but we are told that we need to evacuate if another storm threatens. For those of us who need assistance, State buses will transport us to God knows where. I was born during wartime years and I will not be transported to unknown destinations. I realize writing this that I have joined the ranks of the "kooks" but so be it. I think we all need to be more vigilant.

SunHerald.com : FEMA getting heat on ice

SunHerald.com : FEMA getting heat on ice: "Ben Smilowitz, executive director for the Disaster Accountability Project, said Friday ice brought in for the public is a necessity after a hurricane and criticized FEMA's decision to deliver it only for medical emergencies or life-saving reasons."

YOU GOTTA SEE THIS

I have put a link to an article that is in the newspaper this morning on the home of my daughter and son-in-law, Peggy and Bruce. It is absolutely gorgeous!

WELCOME TO PARADISE

SunHerald.com : FEMA: No ice after a storm

SunHerald.com : FEMA: No ice after a storm: "'We want to make sure we're providing ice as a life-saving item and not a comfort item,' she said. 'We're not insensitive to comfort. That's why we're pushing people to get prepared and be able to help themselves.'"


"Ice is a comfort item? I think Country Fried Steak topped with white gravy would have been a comfort. Ice is not a necessity when heat stroke was very prevalent here? They are pushing people to help themselves? FEMA you have all the answers, tell us how to make ice with no electricity so you won't have to decide, does this require us to be sensitive or insensitive ?"

SunHerald.com : Celebration day: Beauvoir reopens on Davis' 200th birthday

SunHerald.com : Celebration day: Beauvoir reopens on Davis' 200th birthday: "The incongruity of people and sounds was obvious - women in hooped skirts, men in Confederate gray and cannon fire contrasted with moms in shorts pushing 21st century strollers and loud road repair machines. It would give Davis pause if he were to miraculously return on his 200th birthday, but he'd feel right at home. The house looks as it did when he left in 1889 and died in New Orleans."

WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - Building South Mississippi Together |Rock Pioneer Bo Diddley Dies At Age 79

WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - Building South Mississippi Together |Rock Pioneer Bo Diddley Dies At Age 79: "JACKSONVILLE, FL (AP) -- Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive 'shave and a haircut, two bits' rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79."

Bo Didley TNT show

Hurricane seasonal warnings almost useless, experts say | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Hurricane seasonal warnings almost useless, experts say | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "They can pretty accurately predict an above- or below-average season, even predict the likelihood a major storm will hit SOMEWHERE along the U.S. coast. Beyond that, they're not promising anything."

Today is Sunday and I am almost "boarded up" in the house. The weather has been very hot and is in much need of rain. Friday Dave and Anita cut the grass for me as I sometimes am not quite up to the chore. Anita came in after cutting the front yard and said the noise of the lawnmower had chased a snake out from the monkey grass which lines the front walkway. While Dave was cutting the back yard small newly hatched frogs were jumping up into the air. Lots of them. I don't want to turn on the sprinklers as more will come for water. Poor creatures.

I read again that the state, in case of a hurricane threat, will send buses to pick up people if they have no way to evacuate. Taking your own vehicle is sort of frowned on as it always causes traffic congestion and now, with the price of gasoline, it's a good time don't you think for all of us to board a State bus that will take us away from the coast? I certainly don't feel that way. There are catastrophes all around us and for some reason Mississippi and Louisiana are the two most singled out states that they say do not prepare for disasters. Everyone should know that no matter where you live, you can't stock up on medication. Luckily, for a lot of us, one lone pharmasist gave us what we needed. We had a lot of non perishable food and water but all that was destroyed. In my lifetime, I have been in a couple of shelters and many times what is predicted to happen doesn't happen. Those of a certain age with health problems will not make it out alive or later it will hasten their death.. It's miserable. You are just as hot, hungry and thirsty. Dave, Anita and I used ingenuity and survived. We were in control and found a way. If I read one more article on us being complacent, I will explode.

On a lighter note, about the weather and strange things happening. Every Christmas, I have always had a couple of poinsettia flowers which never lived past Christmas. They usually shriveled up and died before the season ended. This past year I put the two I had outside in freezing weather in their pots. No big deal there as they like cold. Even when the heat arrived and stormy weather blew them around the driveway, they survived (Like Katrina). They are now planted in my yard, one is still "red"... I took the picture this morning.