There are so many opportunities to get out and rebuild the city or help in some way. Today, I went with one of my classes to paint a woman's house in Chalmette. Chalmette was hit extrememly hard by the storm, and the woman's house we were painting had water all the way up to the top of the roof.
While we were out there, we did get to hear a few more stories. Everyone has a Katrina story, and they don't mind sharing it. One thing that I keep hearing is that so many people still don't know where their best friends are. After the storm, there were no phones and if you didn't have a cell phone or you didn't know anyone's cell phone number, you had no idea where the people you live around evacuated to. If they didn't come back, you just wouldn't know if they were alive or evacuated to some remote place. I think about the people I see often - hair dresser, church members, workout friends, classmates- these are the people that you know and talk to everyday, and they give your life a little bit or normalcy. But one day, a natural disaster strikes and suddenly everyone that you know and remember is gone and you have no idea where. I really can't even imagine.
Some of the people that we worked with were telling us about a conference they went to in Dallas last weekend. They had a few people hear that they were from NOBTS and those people asked if we had had any flooding at the seminary. I suddenly related to so many people who ask if things are back to normal. It amazes me that people have no idea what it's like down here. But I guess, I have no idea what it's like in NYC or Rwanda or North Korea, so I would probably ask stupid questions too.
2 comments:
Isn't/Wasn't there a website where everyone could post where they were? Maybe these folks "don't do computers."
If they don't have cell phones, they probably don't do computers either.
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