Thursday, June 17, 2010
The Oil!
I'm posting this in the color Brown, because that is the color of our coast right now. I get so frustrated that there are a lot of good intentions for the clean up, the politicians are saying all the right things, but the actual work never gets done, or it's always a little too late by the time it does get done. The fate of our future is at stake! There isn't anyone I know that won't be affected by this. The moratorium on offshore exploration in deep waters is going to be the blow that does us in! BP isn't big enough to clean this up and to make everything whole again. It is sort of like when someone kills someone, you can send them to jail, you can put them to death, you can make them pay, but it is never enough to make up for the loss. Trying to stay positive isn't easy right now.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Who to vote for?
Is is just me, or is anyone else just sick about who to vote for? I am a registered Democrat, but I just don't care for either candidate. This is the first time I can remember that there is no candidate that I am not passionate about. I'm usually telling my family and friends who is the best candidate and debating them on issues. I'm like so quiet right now. I never miss an election. I just can't imagine myself touching the lever for either Obama or Mc Cain. Hopefully something will happen in the next month to help me to decide.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Gustave and Ike....EEKKKK!!
OK....I live in South Louisiana and WOW...do we need a break! We evacuated for Hurricane Gustave, got home 2 days after the storm to find our area hardest hit. We drove home just looking at all of the destruction. Trees and power lines down, roofs ripped up. Not as bad as it could have been, but bad enough. We pass a store with nearly a half of a mile line for gas (it was generator powered). Took a deep breath as we neared our homes. Trees were down, but nicely placed away from the dwellings. There was an immediate need for cleanup. Large branches, leaves, 2x4's from distant yards, screens, roof shingles with the nails (from distant roof tops). Just lots of debris everywhere. My family did not suffer any water damage, IE storm surge, which was a possibility with this big of a storm and the way it was going to hit us. The winds at our home were clocked at 105 mph. The east side of my home was sand blasted, or trash blasted down to the wood from oak tree branches, acorns, leaves of everykind, roof shingles and whatever else flew into it.
We soon learned, by way of "bayou talk", that we would be out of power for at least 3 weeks. I am always the encouraged one, I thought it would be like a few days without lights. No phone service, no cell phones, water from tap was brown and smelled of sewage. Only one store open and quickly emptied of bread, water, and the necessaties. It was quite a hard time. Don't get me wrong, we are blessed to have our homes in-tact, but I am just not use of living in the 1800's. Well, I guess I was wrong, the electricity came on the day before Ike was to skirt our coast. Ike brought on lots of hard Easterly winds. The bayous quickly began to fill up with water being pushed in. What a mess. In lower Lafourche and Terrebonne parish, the bayous usually protected by levees were soon beginning to topple over with surge waters from Ike. Then, Ike moved pass the 90 degree mark which began southerly winds blowing water into bayous. Today, the total was over 15,000 structures under water because of Ike. Oh, an electricity out again for 2 more days. We need help down here America. We are loosing our coastline fast! People don't understand that the oil companies tore us up for decades. They were never made to repair the damage to our wetlands. Lots of money was made and they paid anyone off that could do anything about it. Every storm that comes in here, just bites another chunk out of us. We pay taxes to the Federal Government too. We work everyday and vote and raise families. We deserve some real help. Yes, Katrina and Rita did cost the fed gov alot of money, but that is because we no longer have the marsh to take the brunt of the storm surge. And, the sad thing is that this is a fixable problem.We have been begging for help for so long. Senators Mary Landreu and David Vitter got moneys to help with this 3 years ago, but someone allowed the money to go to Southern University for a study before any work was to get done. What good did it do, where is that money?? Who ever made the decision to hold that money up for another study should have to go to jail for the distruction of so many peoples lives and property.
Please, realise that we don't want handouts. MRE's are not what Cajun's want to eat.We appreciate them but they don't reseamble anything cajuns eat. Let us help ourselves. We deserve some of the monies from oil revenues. The federal government needs it, but first give us what is needed to protect ourselves, you can have the rest. We can not wait another year or wait for yet another study. We know what needs to be done, just do it.
If I could add one positive note to this. I am always fussing about how teenagers and pre-teens of today are so out of touch with reality. They are stuck on the computer all the time and texting there friends. Making fun of kids that have parents that do not allow them to behave like that (my daughter hates me! hee) What? She is 11, she does not need a cell phone!....anyway, the only good thing about natural disasters such as this is that it gives all of us a dose of reality. We get caught up in work and fast life. We take for granted that everthing is always a button or a click away. These storms slowed life down to a stand still. It made us sit around and talk and hang out on the porch. Kids had to actually do kid things, like color, play ball, ride bikes, play in the water hose to keep cool. Maybe this is Gods way of keeping us greatful. I can say that I was thanking God for the first warm shower in a few weeks. I don't remember the last time a shower felt soooo good! Thanks to all for reading. I pray a quick recovery for all of my fellow cajuns here in Southeast Louisiana as well as those in Galveston. Life will be hard for a while for lots of people. Lets all do what we can to help one another.
We soon learned, by way of "bayou talk", that we would be out of power for at least 3 weeks. I am always the encouraged one, I thought it would be like a few days without lights. No phone service, no cell phones, water from tap was brown and smelled of sewage. Only one store open and quickly emptied of bread, water, and the necessaties. It was quite a hard time. Don't get me wrong, we are blessed to have our homes in-tact, but I am just not use of living in the 1800's. Well, I guess I was wrong, the electricity came on the day before Ike was to skirt our coast. Ike brought on lots of hard Easterly winds. The bayous quickly began to fill up with water being pushed in. What a mess. In lower Lafourche and Terrebonne parish, the bayous usually protected by levees were soon beginning to topple over with surge waters from Ike. Then, Ike moved pass the 90 degree mark which began southerly winds blowing water into bayous. Today, the total was over 15,000 structures under water because of Ike. Oh, an electricity out again for 2 more days. We need help down here America. We are loosing our coastline fast! People don't understand that the oil companies tore us up for decades. They were never made to repair the damage to our wetlands. Lots of money was made and they paid anyone off that could do anything about it. Every storm that comes in here, just bites another chunk out of us. We pay taxes to the Federal Government too. We work everyday and vote and raise families. We deserve some real help. Yes, Katrina and Rita did cost the fed gov alot of money, but that is because we no longer have the marsh to take the brunt of the storm surge. And, the sad thing is that this is a fixable problem.We have been begging for help for so long. Senators Mary Landreu and David Vitter got moneys to help with this 3 years ago, but someone allowed the money to go to Southern University for a study before any work was to get done. What good did it do, where is that money?? Who ever made the decision to hold that money up for another study should have to go to jail for the distruction of so many peoples lives and property.
Please, realise that we don't want handouts. MRE's are not what Cajun's want to eat.We appreciate them but they don't reseamble anything cajuns eat. Let us help ourselves. We deserve some of the monies from oil revenues. The federal government needs it, but first give us what is needed to protect ourselves, you can have the rest. We can not wait another year or wait for yet another study. We know what needs to be done, just do it.
If I could add one positive note to this. I am always fussing about how teenagers and pre-teens of today are so out of touch with reality. They are stuck on the computer all the time and texting there friends. Making fun of kids that have parents that do not allow them to behave like that (my daughter hates me! hee) What? She is 11, she does not need a cell phone!....anyway, the only good thing about natural disasters such as this is that it gives all of us a dose of reality. We get caught up in work and fast life. We take for granted that everthing is always a button or a click away. These storms slowed life down to a stand still. It made us sit around and talk and hang out on the porch. Kids had to actually do kid things, like color, play ball, ride bikes, play in the water hose to keep cool. Maybe this is Gods way of keeping us greatful. I can say that I was thanking God for the first warm shower in a few weeks. I don't remember the last time a shower felt soooo good! Thanks to all for reading. I pray a quick recovery for all of my fellow cajuns here in Southeast Louisiana as well as those in Galveston. Life will be hard for a while for lots of people. Lets all do what we can to help one another.
Monday, October 22, 2007
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