new modem

8/31/2005

I have more pictures now

what they’re showing on the news is bad
From talking to refugees in wal-mart (yes I know I have a boycott of it, my grandmother wanted to get out of the house for awhile, there isn’t much there, as pictured above) and stores it sounds a whole lot worse than what they’re showing on the news
Like bodies floating in the street/stuck in attics bad… I’ve heard whispers of death tolls rivaling 9/11, many NO firefighters are missing (presumed dead or fled) and all the BR ones are being sent down, they have attested to flagging houses with bodies in them with red paint so that refrigerator trucks could come by later. They had one woman in the paper with a picture of her dead husband wrapped in a sheet like a mummy. They have shown a few pics on the national news of this stuff(local is focusing on the positive material….like aide efforts and recruiting volunteers, which I think I might do as we don’t have school until at least Tuesday (if SJA is still going by EBR parish listings)) oh but wait…that’s right, there have been several carjacking/shootings by NO punks!! In the area of, what’s that, every social place in BR, and there aren’t many folks!! ,Goody -edit- gumdrops, I finally get my license and all hell breaks loose…. Gov. Blanco was on earlier, she sounded like she is about to put the smack-down on the looters and jerks. Supposedly, many of the thugs and not so nice people set up a tent city on LSU’s campus, I don’t know if that’s true or not but its rumor…. I wish we had a boat… we’d be down there in a heartbeat… they had people who were saying its our fault for living near the water… its not like we control the weather…its not like it’s ocean front condo, the Mississippi River and the Lake and the Gulf of Mexico aren’t exactly pretty, in fact the Mississippi has the wastewater from Minnesota on downward, it is NOT the Riviera, many of the people who got stuck had no means out and of course some were just ignorant to the coming doom but that doesn’t mean we should disregard them.

I’m going to have to put in more hours to pay for my transit money (gas/insurance) X_x
And I get the feeling my second film is about to have to be scrapped :’(

On a much lighter note, Joe (yes my cousin the LSU cheerleader turned nursing student but still straight Joe) came over here earlier (he’s staying at his friend David’s around the block) any-who he managed to lighten the mood. he did his impersonation of what a good looter should look like, shown above…. Please note! the hat over the eyes and dishtowel over the face and carrying food NOT plasma screen TV’s unlike those pictured on TV…. he is also quoted as saying to his “young republican” aforementioned friend “If John Kerry was president, Teresa Heinz would be buying us all new homes and bottles of ketchup, or houses made from ketchup….. I bet you could get a lot of ladies with a house made of ketchup. Or at least 1 out of 100.”… he also went on with ‘the next nickel sent to Iraq is too much, we need it here more now than ever.’
We love Joseph

They got the breaker box fixed next door… when they cut the power off JW darted to the door which was amusing… my grandmother is getting testy about having to stay in the same house as a black woman (JW’s girlfriend is Creole and my grandmother is a semi-raging racist) hell, everyone is the house is tense =cliché alert= the air is so thick with tension you could cut it with a knife, I swear to god I keep biting heads off and I don’t even mean too… I was able to control the bitchygirlomgpmsevilsatanwoman stuff through the last few days and now that it’s all over is bubbling back like mad with me and everyone

As I’m typing this I don’t know when I’ll be posting…Freakin’ Cox is down and this time it was not I who sneezed… I just need something to pass the time before I go crazy from boredom and syndicated news overdose… I went and fought with our server in the back room office last night acting by proxy for my father who was at work and on the phone with me… it was fun, I got to play with free bsd command prompts!!! and I didn’t mess them up like I did last time!!! I didn’t get anything working either so it’s Freakin’ Cox’s problem to deal with

JW doesn’t know if he has a house, Tina doesn’t know if she has a sister (they may be here for awhile), Aunt Puggie (who had (has?) 40-50 people at her camp in Toledo Bend (10 is a lot for there, they had tents in the backyard)) is looking for a job in Texas so they can live out there until whenever (as they are out of money, left it all in their house in haste) even though Brian (who is in construction) is probably about to have a boom, Leah has no house, grandma and uncle Skippy don’t know when they can get back to access and such (they have confirmation the houses are still standing… also my mother is kicking him (her ex-brother in law) out for being a general ass, he gets to go to Alison’s, Joseph’s work/school (at Charity Hospital) is unsure as the hospital has been flooded and looted so it may end up taking him 2 years to get the last few bits of his degree and his first floor apartment is presumed gone… I haven’t been able to get through to Scott or most of my friends on the phone, I’m sure they’re fine, but I’m also sure he’s giving himself at least one aneurysm from worry and anxiety… and I’m worried about some of my NO contacts who said they were staying….

Margie was moved to a nursing home in Alexandria…we think. And pat and patty live in areas that aren’t supposed to be too bad… and besides they’re such Jesus nuts I’m sure the wall of holy candles protected them…

The eeriness is enough to give you goose bumps. It still feels so empty and barren, like there’s something that needs to be filled. it feels so surreal, unreal… its like when you die near the end of a video game and you aren’t sure if you should quit or try again…defeat and resignation. I don’t know how to really describe it, it’s probably just the stress of knowing that this storm will be my Betsy… my Audrey….my Camille… even though it was bigger…worse than any of those……... you just feel so helpless and unable to aide… its six thirty but feels like 11:49… I’m scared to drive into baton rouge and see if school is still standing, I’m sure it is but just to see it would bring some comfort… I know I don’t have it bad, it’s still stressful though…even through literal tons of supplies have been donated and so many are giving all they have to help their fellow man, I’m loosing more hope in humanity and my optimism is souring to the darkest cynicism I’ve had in awhile…which is a bad thing.

I need to get the phone post thing from blogger so I can get stuff up when there’s nothing like this… even though our phone is doing the freaky tango of “on/off”edness

Screw it… I’m going to go read Beowulf/history text, watch Totoro or play dolls or something with Emily (so meh >p)


9/1/2005

‘everything’s gonna be alright’ mr. chucklehead newsman on ch 9

he was about to go home and get some sleep as he was getting delirious… those were his signing off words. And it felt so reassuring.

Sam left this morning, no one has heard from him. He pushed my mother a little too far in talking about how her sister, his ex had done nothing for their children… which is not in the least bit true. Alison said she’d take him, but he’s pretty much fallen off the face of the planet.

As far as all the punks, the national guard is being deployed to all the cities where refugees (and yes, they’ve been classified as federal refugees) have moved to. Gov. Blanco is on TV… she looks worn and tired, but then everyone does right now.

I’m sitting here with the tub cat (see picture) who is the last cat here from the clinic, the only reason she’s here is that she has no home and we’ve had her at the clinic for 2 years.

I called Taylor Chutsz a little while ago. She was talking to her farther who works for one of the groups trying to restore the wetlands. He’s coming back from a meeting…. They’ve used 500 body bags and are requesting thousands more. She can feel it too, the disturbance. Her sister drove in from Tennessee (I think that’s what she said) to help out. Every other pine tree was blown down and an elderly couple was attacked by gators (not bitten, the gators just went after them) When school restarts, the first girl to complain about not having power or the gas prices is going to hear holy hell from her or me.

Still no internet…we’ve been sitting around talking and flipping through the TV. Tina is from the clan Honerė, she still hasn’t heard anything about her sister but is doing a good job denouncing the criticism her California friends are bringing up, like how the local government isn’t doing it right. The government is doing a damn good job considering the conditions. I would be all for martial law right now though… its just chaotic.

Helicopter flyover count: 47 (I saw a black-hawk and grandma and Emily saw a Chinook) Our house is practically right under their path…. I think I’m going to make a big sign and stick it in the backyard tomorrow morning because you know those guys are tired (and their crotches are probably sore as all hell too) just to say thanks
National Guard Hummer sightings: 2

9/2/2005

‘there’re angels in the world, you gotta remember that’ ms. Chalmette Owl stolen t-shirt in wal-mart today

so mom and I went to drop off our donations today. Then we went to wal-mart because grandma needed clothing and was being her mean manipulative self this morning. There was a woman crying her eyes out in the parking lot, apparently she lost it all. We ran into a woman and her husband who managed to get out. They walked through the water, past the superdome (it IS as bad as the TV says) and onto the interstate. They say there are dead bodies everywhere... over 2,000 in St. Bernard Parish alone. Some kind soul picked them up on the interstate and drove them all the way to her sister’s house near here.
The wal-mart down the street has changed greatly… people from New Orleans, you can tell.

I saw a Chinook by the post office… helicopter count: 66 but I haven’t been paying attention. I made the first bits of the sign, I got to play with spray paint : p

I got in touch with Katie, she has internet, I need to get her to find out the number for phone post up here. JW is on edge, the reality of it all has just hit him, he’s wandering around the house. Tina is driving back to California, as of 6, she had made it to west Texas. Scott was bitching about not having power and having to stay with a friend, I got pissed, didn’t say it but I was pissed. You’re alive. Things are going to change, but you’re alive and you have a place. No one has heard from Sam, but he has the power to change that. He’s just trying to play his little games. We have the number where Margie might be but cant get through. Joe just stopped by to pick up some tiny person clothing for some of the cheerleaders he is staying with. They have internet!!!! So tomorrow I’m going to take JW and grandma over there to register with FEMA and hopefully post this stuff for yall to read. But wait! They have internet next door… I wonder if our modem was shocked to death… oh well, we’ll find a new one. I think radio shack is open until 9.

I got bit by an evil Boston Terrier today.
Also we are now taking bets on how fast this disaster will be made into a TV movie.

My mother has lost all hope in humanity.

9/3/2005

Aunt Puggie just called. She’s coming here (with husband, dog and in-laws) from Toledo Bend and then trying to get back to her house whenever they’ll let them in. But now she’s in Alexandria, she found Margie. They’ve been trying to call for days. She’s on her deathbed (again) but this time it might be for real. My mother and grandma are going to drive into Alexandria so grandma can be with her sister. We aren’t going to be able to get to the family tomb and I know grandma isn’t going to want her buried in a potter’s field.
I just fixed her hair and mom canceled her day. I’d go but I can’t do it right now. I don’t really want to stay here though, it doesn’t feel safe…Tracy got grabbed last night by 4 guys from New Orleans. The only reason she got away was that some other people stopped them.

According to rumor, FEMA just bought a bunch of apartments by the Tanager Mall, for everyone coming out of the 9th Ward? Maybe.

M-cat tells me we might be switching to the platoon system at school as we’ve gotten 500+ new applicants and are takign 200 for sure. That’ll suck, I don’t want to go to school for half a day, I like school, it keeps me even and sane. but i cant complain.

the news says the marines are being sent in. goody
Sam turned up at his sister's place. mom, grandma, puggie and brian are headed home.