Hurricane Katrina

Please make sure that you have checked out this Wiki list in case you are not sure what aid agencies are responding to the devestated areas. The usual suspects, like the Red Cross, for sure, but if there are others you might want to help, you may find the links there.
Mississippi certainly was not spared at all. Since I still have a Mississippi cell phone number, it has been nearly impossible for anyone to reach me on it for the past day and a half. When it has rung, though, more than a few times it has been a wrong number, the same wrong number. My number is very close to that of a man named Richard, and some people were trying to reach him. I hope he is okay.
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Anonymous said…
Did the hurricane affect the area where you lived?
Sep 1, 2005, 12:25:00 AM
Jen Ambrose said…
It did, but not even close to as bad as the Gulf Coast. The Hurricane was a Class 1 when it hit the Jackson Metro area, soo to be a tropical storm. I lived in Rankin county, just east of Jackson. Immediately after the Hurricane nearly every major highway south of I-20 was at least flooded, if not destroyed as you got closer to the Gulf (you've seen those pictures on CNN). I lived less than a mile north of 20. I was ckecking out some pictures on the Jackson newspaper site, clarionledger.com, and most of what you see in and around Jackson and Rankin coutnry is the kind of flooding and storm damage you would see in the winter tornado season, but a little worse and more widespread. Tornados are usually more localized. There is still power out, and water needs to be boiled in the JAckosn area, too, but other than that it isn't a horrific as you see in the south of there.
The greater stress on the region now is the evacuees. The Red Cross shelters in the area schools and churches usually only are necessary for a day or two, then folks drive back down to Louisiana and the Coast. People have been there since Sunday/Monday and with little hope of moving on anytime soon.
Sep 1, 2005, 5:31:00 AM
Jen Ambrose said…
Oh yeah, Richard is apparently okay--I asked one of the callers this afternoon since I get hsi calls so much, and he said, yes he is okay but extremely busy.
Sep 1, 2005, 11:52:00 AM
Jen Ambrose said…
And I got to thinking, too, why I haven't seen or heard pictures of storm damage in Brandon, the town I lived in, when I am seeing so much in the Jackson paper of other towns in Rankin county that are pretty close to Brandon. Since most of what you are seeing by way of damage and injuries in that area are more downed trees, I would guess the bad tornados that hit about 6 months before we moved there took out those. My own yard had a few ground-down stumps, and the subdivision, not a new one, was pretty devoid of the old trees from the tornados.
Sep 1, 2005, 11:56:00 AM
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