Praying for the Gulf States

Posted by Lonely Conservative On August - 31 - 2008

As I’ve been cleaning my house, pondering what to write about today, coverage of the evacuation of New Orleans and other gulf areas has been on the news. My heart goes out to those people. I feel lucky to be vacuuming my rugs and doing other mundane tasks. I’m not packing up my belongings to drive to a strange place, uncertain of when I could return home or whether I would have a home to return to.

Where I live there are a lot of complaints about the weather. It’s not always really warm in the summer and winters can be harsh. If you don’t know what “lake effect” snow is you should visit Oswego NY some winter. It’s pretty amazing. What’s more amazing is the ability we have to clean up after blizzards and lake effect snow storms. We can get a foot of snow overnight and the roads will be clear in the morning. And usually when we have a bad storm, the result is absolutely beautiful.

Today is the anniversary of the 1998 Labor Day storm here. That storm claimed two lives at the State Fair and did a lot of property damage. Personally, it was mainly an annoyance, we lost power for four days and lost a few trees and a fence. Relatively speaking, it could have been much worse.

Nothing we’ve experienced compares to the devastation caused by major hurricanes. The people of New Orleans and Mississippi, who are still rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina, now have another category 3/4 hurricane barrelling towards them. It looks like local and state officials are doing a good job with the evacuation. I pray that everyone gets to safety before the storm hits. Buildings and structures can be re-built, the important thing is lives.

Let’s all pray that the storm’s destruction is kept to a minimum and the levees in New Orleans hold. I’m sure all Americans’ hearts are with the people in the path of Gustav.