Okay Ike,
It's 12:19am. I REALLY FEEL YOU NOW!!!
There are five houses on my block. The lights on our block are on a different transformer than all the houses in my area. Whenever there is a power outage guess which block is the ONLY one without lights? Your's truly!
I tried to outsmart Ike. Around 10 p.m., my lights began to wink at me. I knew it was time to go. So, I gathered my things and my son and went around the corner to my cousin's house. Y-E-S! Their lights were on AND they have CABLE TV.
I took my shower, started my laptop, turned on Anderson Cooper (CNN)and headed for the kitchen to fix a pressed ham sandwich.
You know what Ike? You don't play fair!!! The lights went out!
Nooooooooooooooo!! I WANT MY CNN! I WANT MY ANDERSON COOPER! Ike said, "So what?"
Well...
My cousin's house is boarded up, which means if she opens the windows we wouldn't be able to feel any wind. I decided to go home. Sounds kind of childish, huh? I felt kind of bad leaving her. I tried to get her to join me but she said she'd stay home.
I don't know how long I will have lights. The good thing is, if I lose power, at least I can go old school on Ike by opening my windows and allowing God to breathe on me, my son, and my dog, Jo-Jo.
Gotta go, IKE IS LITERALLY BANGING ON MY DOOR!!!!!
"No weapon formed against me shall prosper." *** Isaiah 54:17 ***
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Hurricane Ike Has Stirred Up Something!
Hey all!
A lot has happened since my last post. Unfortunately it's taken Hurricane Ike to stir me and move me to write.
First of all, I am a night person, so for me to be awake since 8:00am this morning is a miracle. I've been glued to the television, channel surfing, and cleaning. Yes, I said cleaning. For some reason I get the urge to do the laundry right before a hurricane. :) Weird, I know.
According to our trusted meteorologists, Ike is Hurricane Alicia's twin brother. Hurricane Alicia hit Houston in August 1983. It caused MAJOR damage to the Gulf Coast.
After washing and folding laundry, I was still antsy. I called Target to see if they were open. Y-E-S!!! I had forty-five minutes to get there. It was only two exits from my home. But, after finding out they didn't have the batteries I needed a rational mind sort of prevailed and I decided not to "go and see" what they did have.
Cabin fever set in and I jumped in my car to "ride around and see" what's going on. I found a Walgreen's that was open, sort of.... The manager was standing at the door, keys in hand, asking people what they wanted. Depending on what you said, she'd let you in.
I hate rejection so I rattled off everything I could think of. It went something like this:
Mgr.: What do you need?
Me: Batteries.
Mgr.: No, we don't have any.
Me: Flashlight?
Mgr.: No!
Me: Candles?!
Mgr.: Come on in!
Y-E-S! I won that battle. LOL Anyway, I didn't find any candles, except the kind you use outside as insect repellant. I moved on to the dairy isle, bought some milk. (Not sure how long we'll have electricity so we'll have to drink fast!) I bought some Rice Krispies cereal, my son probably doesn't even know what they are. It was Rice Krispies or Shreded Wheat, so I took a chance. Guess what else I found? BATTERIES. Yes, batteries galore! Not exactly the size I needed the most, but I bought some anyway. My most prized purchase was a $10.00 speaker used for iPods and laptops. Just what I need to be able to hear my episodes of The Office and 30 Rock on my laptop. (At least until the electricity fails and my laptop batteries are gone.) I REALLY prepared ahead. I charged all three of my laptops.
Well the laundry is done, I have cereal, coffee, bread, water,three jars of grape jam, my BIBLE and my faith, so I am set for the storm.
So, IKE, bring it on!
"No weapon formed against me shall prosper." Isaiah 54:17
A lot has happened since my last post. Unfortunately it's taken Hurricane Ike to stir me and move me to write.
First of all, I am a night person, so for me to be awake since 8:00am this morning is a miracle. I've been glued to the television, channel surfing, and cleaning. Yes, I said cleaning. For some reason I get the urge to do the laundry right before a hurricane. :) Weird, I know.
According to our trusted meteorologists, Ike is Hurricane Alicia's twin brother. Hurricane Alicia hit Houston in August 1983. It caused MAJOR damage to the Gulf Coast.
After washing and folding laundry, I was still antsy. I called Target to see if they were open. Y-E-S!!! I had forty-five minutes to get there. It was only two exits from my home. But, after finding out they didn't have the batteries I needed a rational mind sort of prevailed and I decided not to "go and see" what they did have.
Cabin fever set in and I jumped in my car to "ride around and see" what's going on. I found a Walgreen's that was open, sort of.... The manager was standing at the door, keys in hand, asking people what they wanted. Depending on what you said, she'd let you in.
I hate rejection so I rattled off everything I could think of. It went something like this:
Mgr.: What do you need?
Me: Batteries.
Mgr.: No, we don't have any.
Me: Flashlight?
Mgr.: No!
Me: Candles?!
Mgr.: Come on in!
Y-E-S! I won that battle. LOL Anyway, I didn't find any candles, except the kind you use outside as insect repellant. I moved on to the dairy isle, bought some milk. (Not sure how long we'll have electricity so we'll have to drink fast!) I bought some Rice Krispies cereal, my son probably doesn't even know what they are. It was Rice Krispies or Shreded Wheat, so I took a chance. Guess what else I found? BATTERIES. Yes, batteries galore! Not exactly the size I needed the most, but I bought some anyway. My most prized purchase was a $10.00 speaker used for iPods and laptops. Just what I need to be able to hear my episodes of The Office and 30 Rock on my laptop. (At least until the electricity fails and my laptop batteries are gone.) I REALLY prepared ahead. I charged all three of my laptops.
Well the laundry is done, I have cereal, coffee, bread, water,three jars of grape jam, my BIBLE and my faith, so I am set for the storm.
So, IKE, bring it on!
"No weapon formed against me shall prosper." Isaiah 54:17
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Hurricane Katrina: Why I Can't Stop Talking About It!
Hey all!
I wanted to share a blog entry I wrote for my MySpace page.
Hurricane Katrina: Why I Can’t Stop Talking About It
Hurricane Katrina....
I'm constantly asked why I continue talking about Hurricane Katrina. I'll tell you my reason for bringing it up again and again. I'll also tell you why YOU should think about it, discuss it, and find a way to help the survivors who are still suffering.
Remember the FEMA trailers Katrina survivors used for housing? More than 143,000 families have lived in the toxic trailers. Toxic as in, formaldehyde. Are you aware that nearly 40,000 families are still living in FEMA trailers? Are you aware that formaldehyde was used to build those trailers? If memory serves me correctly, formaldehyde is commonly called embalming fluid and is used to preserve dead bodies. In the streets, it's also used to lace marijuana, you know, FRY! FRY has been known to make people act STONE crazy, out of it, extremely violent, psycho,etc...
Please read the following excerpt taken from CBS News website. This information was broadcast across the country on most news stations this past week.
** CBS News has learned that the Centers for Disease Control, the nation's top public health agency, suppressed repeated warnings from one of its top scientists, raising questions about whether the CDC bowed to pressure from FEMA to conceal the long-term health risks of formaldehyde in the trailers it distributed to hurricane victims-health risks like cancer and birth defects, CBS investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports. A string of internal documents obtained exclusively by CBS News reveal that Dr. Christopher De Rosa, director of the CDC's Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, told his superiors "there is no safe level of exposure" to formaldehyde in trailers. That warning never made its way into any public report about the trailers.
In addition, Dr. De Rosa wrote in an email that two of his staff members had been directed by FEMA officials to not "address longer term health effects" of formaldehyde in this February 2007 report. **
Now, let me ask you how much time would you like to spend inside a FEMA trailer?
Would you want your precious children living in a trailer with formaldehyde wallpaper.
What about your elderly parents, would you let them stay in a formaldehyde laced trailer?
Think about the children, still in your womb, due anyday now, feeling them kick and punch your ribs. Soon they'll be snuggling in your arms, inside a formaldehyde laced trailer.
Hurricane Katrina? I've got to talk about it, you've got to talk about it! How long should we talk about it? Until innocent people are treated like human beings and nothing less.
Tell me, HOW LONG ARE YOU WILLING TO STAY IN ONE OF THOSE TRAILERS?
I wanted to share a blog entry I wrote for my MySpace page.
Hurricane Katrina: Why I Can’t Stop Talking About It
Hurricane Katrina....
I'm constantly asked why I continue talking about Hurricane Katrina. I'll tell you my reason for bringing it up again and again. I'll also tell you why YOU should think about it, discuss it, and find a way to help the survivors who are still suffering.
Remember the FEMA trailers Katrina survivors used for housing? More than 143,000 families have lived in the toxic trailers. Toxic as in, formaldehyde. Are you aware that nearly 40,000 families are still living in FEMA trailers? Are you aware that formaldehyde was used to build those trailers? If memory serves me correctly, formaldehyde is commonly called embalming fluid and is used to preserve dead bodies. In the streets, it's also used to lace marijuana, you know, FRY! FRY has been known to make people act STONE crazy, out of it, extremely violent, psycho,etc...
Please read the following excerpt taken from CBS News website. This information was broadcast across the country on most news stations this past week.
** CBS News has learned that the Centers for Disease Control, the nation's top public health agency, suppressed repeated warnings from one of its top scientists, raising questions about whether the CDC bowed to pressure from FEMA to conceal the long-term health risks of formaldehyde in the trailers it distributed to hurricane victims-health risks like cancer and birth defects, CBS investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports. A string of internal documents obtained exclusively by CBS News reveal that Dr. Christopher De Rosa, director of the CDC's Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, told his superiors "there is no safe level of exposure" to formaldehyde in trailers. That warning never made its way into any public report about the trailers.
In addition, Dr. De Rosa wrote in an email that two of his staff members had been directed by FEMA officials to not "address longer term health effects" of formaldehyde in this February 2007 report. **
Now, let me ask you how much time would you like to spend inside a FEMA trailer?
Would you want your precious children living in a trailer with formaldehyde wallpaper.
What about your elderly parents, would you let them stay in a formaldehyde laced trailer?
Think about the children, still in your womb, due anyday now, feeling them kick and punch your ribs. Soon they'll be snuggling in your arms, inside a formaldehyde laced trailer.
Hurricane Katrina? I've got to talk about it, you've got to talk about it! How long should we talk about it? Until innocent people are treated like human beings and nothing less.
Tell me, HOW LONG ARE YOU WILLING TO STAY IN ONE OF THOSE TRAILERS?
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