you worked hard all your life, you never had the oportunities than many middle income Americans had, not all your fault...it just turned out that way, you family has always been that way and you know no different.....
you work two jobs, daytime as a city clean up worker or whatever, nightime on Burbon St. as a dishwasher in a nice little corner raw bar.....
you have a small, clean, well kept house, your wife baby sits during the day for the folks kids that work in the big city.....to make extra bucks...
you have two young children, both in elementary and middle school...
you have a little over a 1000 bucks or so in savings, thats all you could put there, trying to make ends meet week to week.....because you care about the health of your kids, and you have no health insurance, or house insurance....you just cant afford it...you would like it....you just cant....
yes, you live in New Orleans......why? thats where your family has lived since day one..... you know no different.... you would'nt begin to know how to move someplace else.......
Katrina..........
you are standing there, if your'e lucky, with your wife, two kids, and your wallet in your back pocket.....everything else is gone..... its all gone.....everything you have worked for all your married life as a father and husband....... its gone......
what do you do?
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I know: "it was thier choice to live there", "they should have gone back to school"..... "they should have made better back up arrangements".......
yada yada.....
it's easy to say.........but just think about it...
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the worst weather disaster to hit the U.S. ever.
There are hundreds, thousands of people down there just like the one i described up top here......
when the time comes folks, lets dig in our pockets and whatever else we can do to save the rest of thier lives............. give up that next weekend at the beach.... or put off that long tube header mod for 4 more months......
ive been thru quite a few disasters in my life, even some of my own, last year, my organization scrambled all over to help save wolfdogs and support the rebuilding of a sanctuary down there.....along with the owners... every person in every walk of life can help, no donation, no act of kindness is too small......
just my 2 centavos.....
peace my friends.
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you work two jobs, daytime as a city clean up worker or whatever, nightime on Burbon St. as a dishwasher in a nice little corner raw bar.....
you have a small, clean, well kept house, your wife baby sits during the day for the folks kids that work in the big city.....to make extra bucks...
you have two young children, both in elementary and middle school...
you have a little over a 1000 bucks or so in savings, thats all you could put there, trying to make ends meet week to week.....because you care about the health of your kids, and you have no health insurance, or house insurance....you just cant afford it...you would like it....you just cant....
yes, you live in New Orleans......why? thats where your family has lived since day one..... you know no different.... you would'nt begin to know how to move someplace else.......
Katrina..........
you are standing there, if your'e lucky, with your wife, two kids, and your wallet in your back pocket.....everything else is gone..... its all gone.....everything you have worked for all your married life as a father and husband....... its gone......
what do you do?
__________________________________________________ _____
I know: "it was thier choice to live there", "they should have gone back to school"..... "they should have made better back up arrangements".......
yada yada.....
it's easy to say.........but just think about it...
__________________________________________________ ______
the worst weather disaster to hit the U.S. ever.
There are hundreds, thousands of people down there just like the one i described up top here......
when the time comes folks, lets dig in our pockets and whatever else we can do to save the rest of thier lives............. give up that next weekend at the beach.... or put off that long tube header mod for 4 more months......
ive been thru quite a few disasters in my life, even some of my own, last year, my organization scrambled all over to help save wolfdogs and support the rebuilding of a sanctuary down there.....along with the owners... every person in every walk of life can help, no donation, no act of kindness is too small......
just my 2 centavos.....
peace my friends.
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The place will never be the same.
My opinion means squat. 
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