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Re: Watching the Caribbean
      Wed Sep 28 2005 09:05 AM

Hi, everyone. We are at my sister's in Houston. We evacuated to Lufkin, TX and stayed there for
four nights. The hotel, La Quinta, gave us and other evacuees extended stays and then kicked us out and gave our rooms to the State Farm Disaster Relief Team. Fortunately, we had a place to go but some of the people didn't.
Beaumont suffered extensive damage. Lots of trees down and metal buidlings torn up. We were lucky.
We lost one tree and it fell over the driveway. Our fence is down and some roof shingles are gone.
Rita tore down an old playscape I had wanted to tear down anyway. But there is a lot of roof damage and
so some homes are not livable. My friend stayed through the storm and she said it was scary. Supposedly,
we had up to nine hours of 90 mile per hour sustained winds with higher gusts. Anyway, this is one report
I heard. Power lines are down everywhere. My brother--in-law, who lives in Nederland lost several sheds
and his front porch. The storm came in east of Sabine Pass, Texas and so Louisiana got the worst of
it with storm surch. So we all feel lucky. The authorities are not letting us back into Beaumont (although
some are managing to get in). They are saying now it could take up to a month for electricity to be restored.
One of the sad things is we had 16,000 new residents from the Katrina disaster. The kids were enrolled
in school and were just getting used to their new home and now they are displaced again. Another
sad thing is a lot of people still left pets behind and with all of the fences down some were running loose.
One of my husband's friends (who stayed) had made a makeshift fence and was rounding them up. Federal assistance has been SLOW but hopefully the visit by the President yesterday will help. Anyway, I am glad
to have access to a computer again as I missed the site. I am praying for all of the people displaced by this
storm, and especially the ones in Louisiana whose homes were completely destroyed.

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* Watching the Caribbean MikeCAdministrator Wed Sep 28 2005 09:05 AM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean Beaumont, TX   Wed Sep 28 2005 09:05 AM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean Beaumont, TX   Wed Sep 28 2005 12:03 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean Margie   Wed Sep 28 2005 01:09 PM
. * * Katrina's surge... Frank P   Wed Sep 28 2005 07:38 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean MapMaster   Wed Sep 28 2005 04:48 PM
. * * Waveland danielwAdministrator   Wed Sep 28 2005 08:52 PM
. * * Re: Waveland MapMaster   Wed Sep 28 2005 09:46 PM
. * * Re: Waveland Margie   Thu Sep 29 2005 12:59 AM
. * * Waveland K-Mart Photo TheElNino   Wed Sep 28 2005 09:54 PM
. * * Re: Waveland K-Mart Photo Margie   Wed Sep 28 2005 11:02 PM
. * * Re: Waveland MapMaster   Wed Sep 28 2005 09:29 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean Thunderbird12   Wed Sep 28 2005 05:30 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean Rich B   Wed Sep 28 2005 05:48 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean zmdz01   Wed Sep 28 2005 05:49 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean typhoon_tip   Wed Sep 28 2005 07:29 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean SMOKE   Wed Sep 28 2005 07:44 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean Thunderbird12   Wed Sep 28 2005 06:37 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean typhoon_tip   Wed Sep 28 2005 07:18 PM
. * * rita jr, 99L, and the precursor HanKFranK   Wed Sep 28 2005 07:51 PM
. * * Re: rita jr, 99L, and the precursor SC Bill   Wed Sep 28 2005 09:17 PM
. * * Re: rita jr, 99L, and the precursor Ryan   Wed Sep 28 2005 09:29 PM
. * * Re: rita jr, 99L, and the precursor typhoon_tip   Wed Sep 28 2005 11:17 PM
. * * Re: rita jr, 99L, and the precursor Ryan   Thu Sep 29 2005 04:06 PM
. * * TD15--EPAC Ryan   Wed Sep 28 2005 06:49 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean Storm Hunter   Wed Sep 28 2005 03:52 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean MapMaster   Wed Sep 28 2005 04:46 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean LisaMaria65   Wed Sep 28 2005 12:43 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean Lee-Delray   Wed Sep 28 2005 12:21 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean GEScott71   Wed Sep 28 2005 10:41 AM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean Ed in Va   Wed Sep 28 2005 09:41 AM
. * * Tropical System Off of Central Florida Next Week TheElNino   Tue Sep 27 2005 10:41 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean stevie   Mon Sep 26 2005 08:11 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean Ryan   Mon Sep 26 2005 10:51 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean Margie   Mon Sep 26 2005 11:47 PM
. * * watching down the road HanKFranK   Tue Sep 27 2005 01:45 AM
. * * Re: watching down the road Margie   Tue Sep 27 2005 09:04 AM
. * * Re: watching down the road Random Chaos   Tue Sep 27 2005 09:43 AM
. * * Re: watching down the road ftlaudbob   Tue Sep 27 2005 09:55 AM
. * * Re: watching down the road Ed in Va   Tue Sep 27 2005 10:35 AM
. * * Re: watching down the road Thunderbird12   Tue Sep 27 2005 11:19 AM
. * * Re: watching down the road doug   Tue Sep 27 2005 12:31 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road Margie   Tue Sep 27 2005 12:22 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road javlin   Tue Sep 27 2005 01:08 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road HanKFranK   Tue Sep 27 2005 01:50 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road Thunderbird12   Tue Sep 27 2005 02:32 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road doug   Tue Sep 27 2005 03:04 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road Random Chaos   Tue Sep 27 2005 03:15 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road SirCane   Tue Sep 27 2005 03:36 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road doug   Tue Sep 27 2005 04:04 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road ParrishNStPeteFL   Tue Sep 27 2005 04:41 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road satellite steve   Tue Sep 27 2005 05:17 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road Thunderbird12   Tue Sep 27 2005 05:31 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road Margie   Tue Sep 27 2005 06:14 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road oil trader   Tue Sep 27 2005 06:53 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road GuppieGrouper   Tue Sep 27 2005 07:00 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road Reaper   Tue Sep 27 2005 07:28 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road Thunderbird12   Tue Sep 27 2005 09:36 PM
. * * all day in miami they said tomorrow conditions would be favorable LoisCane   Tue Sep 27 2005 10:30 PM
. * * Re: all day in miami they said tomorrow conditions would be favorable Thunderbird12   Tue Sep 27 2005 10:46 PM
. * * no rush HanKFranK   Tue Sep 27 2005 11:34 PM
. * * Re: no rush Beaumont, TX   Wed Sep 28 2005 11:53 AM
. * * Re: no rush Thunderbird12   Wed Sep 28 2005 11:24 AM
. * * Re: no rush Ed in Va   Wed Sep 28 2005 11:40 AM
. * * Re: watching down the road Hugh   Tue Sep 27 2005 08:17 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road GuppieGrouper   Tue Sep 27 2005 07:50 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road Reaper   Tue Sep 27 2005 08:15 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road Convergence   Tue Sep 27 2005 06:22 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road satellite steve   Tue Sep 27 2005 05:59 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road Random Chaos   Tue Sep 27 2005 04:03 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road Thunderbird12   Tue Sep 27 2005 03:35 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road Margie   Tue Sep 27 2005 04:23 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road CoalCracker   Tue Sep 27 2005 04:47 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road Hootowl   Tue Sep 27 2005 06:22 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road CoalCracker   Tue Sep 27 2005 08:54 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road Allison   Tue Sep 27 2005 08:17 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road StormHound   Tue Sep 27 2005 08:31 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road javlin   Tue Sep 27 2005 06:45 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road Reaper   Tue Sep 27 2005 03:08 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road essan   Wed Sep 28 2005 08:45 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road Random Chaos   Tue Sep 27 2005 02:31 PM
. * * Re: watching down the road lennox   Tue Sep 27 2005 12:44 PM
. * * Re: Watching the Caribbean Storm Cooper   Mon Sep 26 2005 07:23 PM

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