My State’s in Ruins
Some of you know that I have a lot of family in South Mississippi. Most of them are okay. The only person I’m really worried about at this point is my dad’s first cousin’s husband, Ashton Carver, who apparently decided to ride Katrina out in Bay St. Louis. I didn’t watch TV when I got home last night [I went straight to bed], so I haven’t seen the devastation there, but in reading about what all Katrina has done to Mississippi … well, I hope he still had a boat at the house. Their house was a few blocks from the road that runs along the shoreline.
The worst thing, economically, for our little state is that all the Gulf casinos are just destroyed. As has been regularly reported by the AP and rebroadcast by every media outlet, those casinos bring in $500,000/day to the state. They’re a vital cog in Mississippi’s economic engine, and … they’re just gone.
These are sad times.
I’ve spent the last half-hour or so looking at things, and I now understand what my sister-in-law’s mother meant earlier when she called me, wondering if I’d heard from her daughter and my brother: “… and then I went on the Internet, spent a couple of hours reading about it all, and … my assurances that most everything would be okay went away.”
I’m just happy that, three months ago, I had the foresight to give Cindy’s folks my business card, complete with my cell number. I’m the only family of Doug’s they knew how to get hold of that they could get through to talk to. [Doug and Cindy are okay, although Doug's probably working really crazy hours right now covering all the news.]
Glad all your loved ones are okay. I’ll be thinking and praying for them.
August 31st, 2005 at 19:22Katrina
I have a lot of family in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. Fortunately, my closest relatives — my mother, father, step-father, grandmother, plus some aunts, uncles, and first cousins — were not in the most heavily affected areas. Granny was…
September 2nd, 2005 at 12:00I wouldn’t worry too much about the casinos. You can pretty much bank on them rebuilding, IMO.
September 3rd, 2005 at 08:32You’ve probably found out by now, but Ashton is ok. He and Tula are good friends with my parents, and they’re ok. Even though apparently Aunt Tula is fit to be tied and cussed out somebdoy from FEMA so badly that Corinne said it was like being on the Osbournes.
October 19th, 2005 at 11:36Meagan: I think I’d like to have seen that. :chuckle:
October 19th, 2005 at 11:39