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and we are watching the news on this Ike... SW Louisiana used to have wetlands, areas that have levees that didn't have levees before even are flooding now. Its very messed up down here and I don't think some of the places like Grand Isle are going to recover and flourish to their glory days ever again.
I have an uncle who owns a hotel on Grand Isle, been fixing it up for years and then Katrina/Rita came... they've still been working on it since then. After this storm season, I wonder what their plans are. Insurance claims are insane.
I have learned so much... there is such a huge industry down here surrounding these storms, its insane. The things it does to the economy is wild, the preparations and things people go through to stay down here is crazy. People who lost it all in Katrina are getting hit again this time. Rebuild? suuure.
It only took one evacuation and a a lot of missing shingles upon return for me to realize the consequences of living a few miles from the gulf. And the days since our return, almost two weeks and a week away, all I have dealt with is stores out of products and atm machines not working or out of cash. It is just insane the affect its had on this place. I'm not talking about a couple weeks of problems, there are still shelters open and thousands of people crying about food stamps.
I can't stop purging about it online either, text is just never going to explain this shit.
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