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what mig said!

thanks for the update mig.

sue

Oh dear, Mig - I hope hope hope they evacuated. I thought they were told not to. My husband and I live right off the ocean in Myrtle Beach SC and we were worried about Ike ourselves as we were preparing for Hanna. I can't take in the size of the storm. They were showing it on the weather channel and it took up almost all of Texas. I was surprised when little baby hanna hit 30 miles from us just how much rain and wind we got and she was just a bitty baby compared to Ike.

I know Michelle was concerned for her pets. I am really concerned now because if she was away at someones house I think she would have updated us on the forum. I will have Michelle and her family and the region in my prayers tonight...Sue!

Michelle...

I hope you're doing ok! Please please, check in with us as soon as you can. I'm/we're worried about you!

We hope to hear from you soon.

I'm so sorry to hear about your mothers dog. I can imagine how horrible that must be for her. I can't imagine losing one of my dogs, let alone losing them like that. That would kill me. I'm super attached to my rotten pups, as I'm sure your mom was attached to Tofu. I hope she's doing better today.

I also hope you guys fared ok. I'm guessing you're without power right now since we haven't heard from you in a while. I popped in over the weekend to see if you were checking in, but I didn't see anything from you.

Hope things are ok, well as ok as they can be down there.

Sarah

Hi yall....we are back on dry ground...we got an 11 foot storm surge sometime in the wee morning hours, luckily, I had left the access door to the attic open, as we needed it and of course we keep and axe up there so Mike hacked a hole in the roof and we got out that way, from there we could see many others in our community up on their roofs as well. The water level went down to about 6 feet or so the next day and we left by boat about 6pm last night, needless to say, the house is a total loss.

Glad to hear you and family are safe.

Hugs

Gerri

Just wanted to clarify, we weren't, I repeat we were not under an evacuation order and this may come as a complete surprise to many of you but the residents of Houston were told to stay in their homes, hunker down and ride out the storm there because the last time they tried to evacuate Houston, there was a total gridlock on the freeways and over 3 million people sat in their cars on the roads for 3 days....yep 3 days and every single one of them would have drowned in their cars if the hurricane they were trying to flee from had indeed hit them, so for those of you that are wondering why people don't evacuate, please educate yourselves before being judgemental, there's a lot more to it than meets the eye. If you are not under a mandatory evacuation there's no sense in getting on the freeway and getting in the way of those that are ordered to evacuate. Also, all medical personnel, fireman and law enforcement are ordered to stay, as well as all oil refinery personnel (you know, the people that supply you with gasoline) there are also people that stay behind with loved ones that aren't able to evacuate, add to that the elderly, the ill, the homeless and the mentally ill, public works personnel and journalists. Some people stay because they know that they will run out of gas if they are stuck on the road in traffic for more than 24 hours trying to evacuate, what are they to do then, it's not like the gas stations are open. This is the equivolant of evacuating ALL of New England at one time, millions of people not just a handful. From a political standpoint, any idea how many U.S. tax-payer dollars it would take to feed, clothe and house 4 or 5 million people? There are lots of reasons why people don't/can't leave just please keep this in mind...the people of the Gulf Coast region have been through enough and many of us have lost everything we own and really don't want to have someone who doesn't have all the facts tell us that we're stupid for staying, when we see people being rescued in from flood waters in other parts of the U.S., we don't think that they're stupid for staying even though they stayed after 20 inches of rain was forecast for their area and they knew about it, we're empathetic and sypathetic of their loss, it's hard losing your home and everything in it...your memories, your children's pictures....I personally have been struck by 2 hurricanes in 10 days and I stayed, if you don't understand any of the reasons stated above, hang on to your pants because you might understand this one....I went into a flare a couple of days before Ike hit, probably due to the stress of hurricane Gustav and I wasn't up to it packing up my truck, driving to God knows where and then sitting in my truck for God knows how long because there are no hotel rooms available...I know people that had to go all the way to Oklahoma to get a hotel room....besides, you can't get away from the fury of a storm this size, people were killed up in Maryland by Ike....Gotta run now, 2 of my dogs have been called in, they are FEMA Search & Recovery Registered, I'm sure somebody will be very happy that we're still here.....

Thanks Gerri....

Hey Michelle...

I'm SO glad to hear you're ok and I'm so sorry your house is a total loss. That sucks so bad. I know exactly what you mean about the evacuations. People who don't deal with this, don't quite understand everything involved in it. Your explanation was right on.

Are you going to have to tear your house down and rebuild?

Keep us posted! Again, I'm really glad to hear you're doing good.

Sarah

HI Sarah...thank you so much, I don't know what we're going to do about the house yet...we'll go back to New Orleans tomorrow, more than likely, I'm at the OEP....Office of Emergency Preparedness right now, waiting to go out with the dogs, there's an area they want the dogs to go through.