We were without water for a week and power for two weeks. There wasn't even a breeze during that time to cool us. By nine or ten in the morning, it would be so hot inside we would be forced to go outside.

We had to take baths and wash our clothes in dirty swimming pool water and flush our toilets with dirty hot tub water. At night, it was pitch black as far as the eye could see. The first night or two, it was also an eery dead silence. Two things I absolutely despise. I would cry myself to sleep.

We were completely cut off from the outside world. then we got to a radio and portable tv and started hearing and seeing what had happened on our coast and in New Orleans and it was absolutely heartbreaking. It was too much to comprehend. So many lives lost. So much destruction.

To this day, our coastline isn't right. And the news always calls Katrina the hurricane that destroyed New Orleans. I can't understand that. Our entire coastline was virtually wiped off the map. In fact, Most counties in Mississippi were declared disaster areas (including mine). I live in Jones County and that is app. 90 miles inland.

The timber we lost is staggering. I forgot exactly how much now. But it was more in this state than anywhere else. To this day you can see dead pines standing, debris in hundered old oaks, etc... And those were the ones that are still standing...

We almost lost our home. Had it not been for two pines that caught the tree that fell (it lodged between them) our bedroom and kitchen would have been destroyed. We were fortunate. Many were not.

This was a picture taken of Katrina coming in from people at Keesler Airforce Base

Post edited by: Fighter76, at: 06/17/2008 10:34

with Katrina it was so widespread it was mind boggling.

It's quite an experience to stand in line in the parking lot of your local grocery store in 95 degree heat with poeple who havent had a bath in days. Lol It was certainly an experience.