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Post by RoadWarriorYajuta on Aug 27, 2005 22:13:51 GMT -8
We are in the expected landdfall area when this bugger hits. It is a high level Category 4 right now and they think it may be a 5 when it hits land. Don't know if/when I will be able to get back online. Hope Chris, Amy, and Tara make it through okay.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Aug 27, 2005 22:29:50 GMT -8
good luck Chad- i don't think Amy et al are in the line of the hurricane, but take care.
David
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Post by RoadWarriorYajuta on Aug 28, 2005 6:07:49 GMT -8
Well they say it is going to be on par with Camille which means it is a bad ass storm. We are taking off to my Uncle's place. Even taking the Dog as he is like one of the kids. I will let you know when we get back. I tell you, my Mom is staying, stubborn old maid that she is. She lived through Camille and isn't leaving. My Brother is staying with her, and I just pray there is someone and something to come home to. If the storm stays on projected course we will be in the North East part of the storm which means we will get hammered.
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Post by danthemandmv on Aug 28, 2005 7:17:49 GMT -8
Chad,I'm praying you&your family(as well as Chris,Amy&Tara&theirs)stay safe from this blasted storm.This has been one heck of an Atlantic hurricane season;here it's only late August&Katrina is the 11th named storm thus far.Again all,stay safe!
Let our dichotomy begin.
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Post by RoadWarriorYajuta on Aug 31, 2005 21:12:45 GMT -8
I azm alive and numb as sin. We are staying near Vicksburg with no power, water, or phones. I am only able to post because I am in Little Rock for the evening with my Father in Law. I am very lucky, I have a home to return to and my Mom and Brother are alive, which I just found out. I feel like crying, my home has been gutted. The few chances I have had an opprotunity to see pictures from home it is all I could do not to cry. It is easier knowing that my Mom and Brother did pull through, but the devestation is going to kill me when I get to go home and see it. Thanks to all of you that have prayed for me, God was watching out for me this time.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Aug 31, 2005 22:29:51 GMT -8
wow Chad, let me know if there's anything i can do to help- any of us will if we can. keep us posted as well. our prayers are with you.
David
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Post by Lunkhead on Sept 3, 2005 12:32:15 GMT -8
Chad, I'm so sorry to hear about your home. I am glad that you and your family are ok though. We'll continue to pray for you.
Lunk
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Post by amphiboid on Sept 8, 2005 19:17:12 GMT -8
Glad you and your folks are okay. I've been around different message boards lately, and all have members who were affected. Stay good.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Sept 8, 2005 20:07:01 GMT -8
i hope we hear from Chad again sometime soon. perhaps we could set up some kind of paypal fund for him and the family.
just a thought.
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Post by celamowari on Sept 11, 2005 21:23:44 GMT -8
It's been a hard time for a lot of people. I hope Chad will make it through OK.
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Post by RoadWarriorYajuta on Sept 13, 2005 13:39:27 GMT -8
Hi guys, we don't have Internet where I am staying right now so it will be sporadic at best when I am able to get on. All my autographs, Star Wars figures, Baseball Cards, Wrestling books, Comic Books, and other junk is gone. 95% of my dvds made it as did all my Road Warrior tapes. Hulk 181 bit the dust, but as they say easy come easy go. This storm has put into perspective what truly matters and the old adage of you can't take it with you applies. Thanks for the prayers and well wishes, as soon as I am able to return I will.
Chad
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Sept 13, 2005 14:47:02 GMT -8
well Chad, i'll see about getting some fun stuff ready for you when you get back to your place- do you know if you ARE going back to your place?
please keep us posted.
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Post by RoadWarriorYajuta on Sept 14, 2005 14:22:09 GMT -8
I'll send you the new adress, looks like we will be living with my Mother In Law.
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Post by RoadWarriorYajuta on Sept 26, 2005 6:43:19 GMT -8
We still don't have phone or cable so it looks like it will be awhile before I am back on a regular basis. Weird how my Folks have itr and my Mother In Law doesn't and they only live about five miles apart. www.wlox.com/Global/Link.asp?L=164991These are pics from my home town. |
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Post by RoadWarriorYajuta on Apr 2, 2006 20:10:37 GMT -8
TRhe devestation of Katrina is still being felt today. There is not much left in Biloxi and they are still removing debris and such. People have complained about the way the Federal Governemnt has handled things since the storm, but I have to tell you I think they have done a pretty good job. There are still folks in tents and recovery has been slow for many people. One thing that does bother me is when National news talks about Katrina it is all about New Orleans. I have friends in the Big Easy, but we have been just as affected if not more. I am thankful that that I didn't lose any loved ones, but it has been hard. I went to where my Great Grandma's house was and there is nothing there but a slab. I can still see myself jumping off her front porch thinking I was jumping off a huge cliff and sliding on her stairs. I went to where my Grandma and Grandpa's house was and there is not a building standing in that neighborhood. I remember building forts in the woods so me and my Cousin Joey could take on my Brother and his Brother in War. Point being is the places may be gone but the memories are still there. It is really kind of a shame. Biloxi will be nothing more than Casinos and Condos. The storm has given developers the opprotunity to get rid of all the folks who lived there. Biloxi will certainly lose its charm of being a very old city built upon the shrimping industry.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Apr 2, 2006 22:39:48 GMT -8
man, Chad, you are handling this so well, and it's sad if Biloxi or any area will lose it's local color and flavor.
keep your chin up!
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Post by celamowari on Apr 6, 2006 10:14:47 GMT -8
Hey Chad, be on the lookout for an e-mail from me in the next 2-3 days. I have some stuff I want to discuss with you.  |
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Post by RoadWarriorYajuta on Apr 6, 2006 18:59:12 GMT -8
Uh Oh, hope I didn't do anything to cheese you off Chris.
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Post by RoadWarriorYajuta on Aug 29, 2006 22:34:50 GMT -8
Today makes one year. I got a little bummed, eispecially when they had a kid playing bag pipes and he did Amazing Grace at one of the Memorial Services. It hurts alot because we still have so far to go, but the outpouring of emotion and support has done alot to restore my faith in humanity. Thanks to Robin Roberts as she seems to be one of the few in the Media that stands up and reminds everyone Mississippi got nailed by Katrina as bad or worse than New Orleans did. My best friend lives there so I have spent alot of time there. I am saddened by what those folks have had to endure, at the same time my home got just as ransacked and am disgusted by the Media bias towards New Orleans. We as a region are still recovering, not one city or state. Sometimes I miss the things I lost, but I am just so very blessed to have my family and friends, and they are so much more important than any posession I used to own. Thanks to all of you guys, your support and friendship have done alot to help me deal with this trying year, and believe me, the kind gestures have helped me keep my spirits up and keep my focus on what is truly important.
Oh yeah, good thing W can't run for re-election as he just whized everyone from Mississippi off. That Mother sprocking peice of smeg has the gall to come here, amid all the devestation that is still here and say it has been one year, Mississippi is on it's own and the federal Governement will be focusing on New Orleans. I want to state for the sprocking record, had Kathleen Blanco and Ray Naggin improved the levee system in New Orleans and it held, New Orleans would already be rebuilt. It was the flooding caused by the inadequate levee sytem that tore New Orleans up so bad. All the while, the entire Coast Line of Mississippi still looks like a freakin demilitarized zone and we get told to go sprock ourselves.(This is where many of our buisinesses were, everything is has slowly rebuilt, aside from the Casinos, most of which just reopened, there are no buisinesses because the Federal Governemnt has been making things harder and harder for these companies to rebuild. Let them rebuild, get the hell out of the way because you obviously don't care Dubya) I want the friggin region to recover and I am tired of this New Orleans love fest.
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Post by Zone Fighter on Aug 30, 2006 17:19:01 GMT -8
The responsibility for responding to a disaster rests with the mayor and governor not the president. President Bush obeyed the Constitution, which authorizes the president to send in troops into a state, to restore order only after he is requested to do so by the governor or legislature. And note it is to restore law and order that the president is authorized to send troops in, not to rescue people. It is not the function of the military, including the national guard to act as rescue personnel, they are not fireman, their warriors. It was local government that failed the people not the federal government. I'm sick of the media and democrats blaming the president when it was the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana who failed to do their jobs. And its disgusting that the media puts all the emphasis on New Orleans when entire towns in Mississippi were wiped out. However, it is not the federal government's job to rebuild Mississippi. (or New Orleans) I think our founders would be sickened by how dependent on government we've become.
My brother and a friend drove from Nebraska to New Orleans to work at taking away debris. I think they also worked a little in Mississippi . They left Louisiana and returned to Nebraska because they couldn't stand the racisim. Apparently their employeer was constantly going on about how the whole disaster was the fault of the [n word] and how they deserved it anyway. Once my brother and his friend objected they were n-word lovers.
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Post by RoadWarriorYajuta on Aug 31, 2006 4:14:56 GMT -8
I agree with you for the most part. As I said in earlier posts I feel the Federal Governement did as good a job as could be expected. Far too many folks have relied and expected reparations from this natural disaster. I have zero problem if they want to back off. What I do want is some regulation on property value and rent. I understand fully the concept of supply and demand, but out and out greed disgusts me. yes many houses got destroyed, but the rent being asked is triple of quadruple what it was. The excuse is that there are so few houses which is kind of misreprsented to a dgeree. So many folks did not come back and the area has a plethora of Fema trailer parks. To me it is kind of a push in that regard. I don't want, or expect the Governement to to hand me anything. I just hate the blind eye they seem to turn towards us. After Bush made his comments in Mississippi he went to New Orleans and told those folks he would not turn his backs on them again. Sounds like he is trying to repair his image in hopes that the next Repulbican Presidential Candidate won't face backlash from Voters because of people's dislike for Bush.
As far as the racism, what happened to your Brother is no different than balcks blaming the failure of the levees on the fact that white people bombed them.(Two wrongs do not make a right, please don't think I am excusing anyone here) I used to live up North and it was just as Racist as it is here. Truly sad that with a tragedy like this storm people still choose to show their ignorance. I am not a racist person, and I got real tired of the Media playing up on the percieved lack of action on the Governements part as being inherently racist. It whized me off because when you are issued a mandatory evacuation and you choose not leave, then you are on your own. Race did not keep most trapped in New Orleans, complacency did. The thing about Racism is all races are capable of it.
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