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This guy sent me a lot of anti-Kerry stuff during the campaign, even Swift Boat Veteran's puke.
I don't begrudge him a bit of his good fortune, but thought you'd like to see how "the other half" copes with disaster.
I know he and his wife initially evacuated and spent a week with friends in north Alabama. They LEFT when the friends lost power and came to other friends in my area.
They have strong networks/backups of friends and family to turn to.
And insurance plus a sizeable bank account.
trof
Report on Txxxx and Sxxxx.
Friends and Family,
We've had lots of requests for current information so here goes.
From what we can tell, our New Orleans condo suffered NO damage. One of the
other owner's daughter and her husband have volunteered to clean out all the
refrigerators today and we thank them so much for that. We left Sxxx's car in
the parking lot when we left for Pass Christian five days before the storm
and it's still there, high and dry. We're hoping that we can get back into the
city before too much longer but we'll have to wait and see about that.
We have had friends, Jxxx and Lxxx Dxxx who are staying here with us, go to
our house in Pass Christian and report back. The Dxxxxs lost their house in
Pass Christian, about a quarter of a mile from us. Our house appears to have no
structural damage other than some missing roof shingles and all the trees
are still standing.
For those who don't know, it's on fairly high ground (11
feet above sea level) 1.2 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico and the first
living floor is raised 11 feet above the foundation. It's on the 13th fairway of
the Pass Christian Isles Golf course. We just bought it in May and are in the
process of some light remodeling and major redecorating. The Dxxxxxs report
that we had approximately 4 feet of water in the house. That means the water
was 26 feet above sea level, a flood of Biblical proportions! And, of course, I
decided that we didn't need the very inexpensive flood insurance! Oh well.
We are so much luckier than most of our friends who have property in
Mississippi, and that list includes almost everyone we know. My boat, a 16 ft. Boston
Whaler, was under the house and floated up into the bottom, smashing the
windshield but is otherwise intact. All my new tools were in a ground floor
storage unit and I don't know if there's enough WD-40 to save them.
We are well and living very comfortably in my cousin, Rxxx Pxxxxs, 3
bedroom condo (with the Dxxxxs) on the eighth floor of the same building where
we own a unit in Xxxxx Florida. We would be in our unit, but for the fact that we moved all the
furniture to Pass Christian. We had some minor damage to sheetrock and
kitchen cabinets in the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan last year so we are taking
this opportunity to get some work done here. We got a clean mold report
yesterday, I'm meeting with the sheetrocker tomorrow and we'll paint and have the new
cabinets and carpet installed in the next couple of weeks and probably put
it up for sale in the spring. I don't think anyone would want to buy on the
beach until after hurricane season! I wouldn't.
I would think that life in our neighborhood of New Orleans will get back to
some semblance of normalcy in the next few months but that some areas of town
will never be the same. All the tourists areas are fine but with so many
people displaced, some may never return.
The Mississippi Gulf Coast will probably not recover in my lifetime! It
looks like a war zone. All of the beautiful old homes on the front that survived
Hurricane Camille in 1967 are gone.
The Beast (our 36 foot motor home) is in the hospital at Camping World in
Xxxxxxx, LA having it's roof repaired. Unfortunately it's pre Katrina damage so
no insurance for that. When it comes out in a week or so we may live in it at
The Pass while we get the damage repaired......or we may go visit YOU!
Keep in touch, we miss you all.
Txxxx and Sxxxx Xxxxxx
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