Crazy! I mean how many people were killed by Katrina like 2k? And the number would have been a lot lower had the levves not failed. Look at all the disorganization in our country after Katrina now imagine how bad it must be in a poor country with no where near the resources. I could not imagine
Yea, we get hurricanes in FL but honestly the loss of life is limited and that's mostly from accidents after , like stepping on live wires, or people having heart attacks from the stress. You can not imagine how scary it is to sit on your bathtub while your house is groaning, huge trees crash all around or on your house, and transformers blow all around you. Yea, we were with out electricity for a few weeks but hey, weare ALIVE, I am THANKFUL to live in the USA, we are blessed to have the resources we have to help us recover.
Things were bad here for a long time but not that bad!
I was reading up a bit about the country itself and its really poor. It is the poorest country in southest asia.. and that is a poor region in general. I am going to hazzard a guess they didn't have bathtubs or anything to hide in when it hit and that is why the death toll is so high.
I also want to add that it is one of the most corrupt countries in the world and has had several human rights violations against it. The Government is NOT good
I have been through my share of hurricanes and rode them through BUT we left for Katrina and am thankful we did. We went to Memphis where my DH has family. The minute the storm was over we were flying back to my parents' ranch. I was on the phone at the time with her when a tornadoe hit the ranch... the phone went dead and I had no idea if my parents were alright. The drive was UNREAL from Memphis to Hammond.
We had to drive around trees and light poles all on the highway. We left so soon after the storm, the police had not shut the roads down yet and there were still some high gust. From Jackson Mississippi it was pitch BLACK... not a light anywhere. We left before the levees even failed. I was terrified of finding my parents ...who live out in the middle of NOWHERE and would not be able to get help if they needed it... were going to be dead.
It was not a trip I would have done otherwise.
Of course I tried to get them to EVAC with us but they didn't want to leave the horses...
We made it to the ranch BARELY ... we actually had to drive off road a couple of times due to the trees being down.
It was 11pm at night when we pulled up to the ranch gates. There were trees all on the roof of the house... windows broke and not a SOUND coming from the house. I was doing some SERIOUS on my knees a' prayin kind of moments... anyway I had DH go to the door as the kids and I stayed in the car. I didn't want to be the first one in their ... just in case...
SOOOO he goes to the door and just walks in, also terrified of what had happened to my parents...
there they were butt you know what naked in the livingroom doing you know what
MY DH was traumatized for life over this!!!
They couldn't do anything else as the power was out and it was too dark to clean up any of the mess outside so they... well kept themselves busy
The tornadoe had hit the property but spared the house. We were just so thankful they were okay but GOLLY PUTS SOME PANTS ON DAD
We did lose a good part of our roof and windows but we live a lot closer to the city than my parents do. We did not flood but the houses at the end of our street all flooded BIG time! One house got 4 foot of water in it. The water came REALLY close to coming in our home but we were spared.
And it looks like we are gonna be tied with the number kiddos. Aren't you pregnant? I thought you mentioned that a while back. Your boys are so cute BTW, they look like little GAP models! 
I go DISless for the weekend and come back to PAGES and PAGES!!!
