It would have been nice if they had "mock disaster" enactments---they have them here at the airport----{ a plane crash }--If they had planned for this disaster {as apparently they should have} there would have been buses ready to evacuate all those who could not afford to leave on their own-----that would have been difficult but probably possible-----at any rate,not having a proper levy system is a SERIOUS oversight!!! ---TO SAY THE VERY LEAST------------- sweet peachers helping out-----you are a doll my girl!!!!

Hey Bagzie. I am not helping out. I volunteered to help out butttt .. get this .. the woman in charge is someone we used to affectionately refer to as EDIOT. She is the biggest procrastinator on the planet and will never call me.

LOL Small world, no doubt. That kind of mirrors my experience in volunteering -- I supposed I'm still signed up to work at the Seniors Meals on Wheels thing, but they haven't called me in 2 years. They just don't need the help. That experience, while it wasn't all bad -- I enjoyed working with the people there, and I got a kick out of delivering meals when they let me -- it kind of deflated my whole interest in volunteer work. I'm sticking with being a music booster and nothing else at this point. I guess I'm just not aggressive enough to be a successful volunteer -- incredible but true.

I have spent the entire evening looking up scholarship programs. DD is willing to put time into applying for scholarships, but she is so durn busy that I think most of the deadlines will have passed before she gets to them. I'm boooooooooooorrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeedddddddddddddddddd ddddddd.

Kiwi

hey kiwitica. i'm home. let's play monopoly. when are we going to hear about our puppy? this is such an interesting event for me. the puppy is sooo special is various ways. don't get yellow. i'm afraid she wouldn't chew your shoes enough.

i heard that guy on letterman talking about the buses also. but i wonder about that because unless you leave early before a hurricane, the roads are all jammed.

When I was a Volunteer EMT we use to have mock enactments with just the rescue squad and with Fire/Hazmat and Police.. It really helped as we had some disasters where all that interoffice coordination and communication was needed.. It boggles my mind that 7 days later coordination and communication is lacking with Katrina. And what I really don't get is WHY if they knew a CAT5 storm was heading their way... they did not begin evacuation sooner... THEY KNEW that the levies could only withstand a CAT3... And they should have had buses brought in and EMS services at a staging area.. But apparently NO has faced these hurricanes before and have escaped the wrath by the hair on their chinny chin chins ...Kiwi, I may be a pollyanna, but I too agree that it's not so much race related as socio-economic.. If you are white and poor, you'd get the same ... White or Black, Old or Young...
The town of Holly Springs is having a town meeting/fund raiser Sept 10th so I will go to see what I can "volunteer" for.. For now, a check to the American Cross and a doggy care package is all I'm doing...
I took yesterday off as my hands felt crippled from all the weed pulling. Just laid about and read... Today back to work ..hopefully be the end of this week the house will be totally ship shape cuz I'm getting more than a little tired of this! and I can polish up my resume and get back to work... I can't believe that the check from the house sale STILL hasn't cleared.. We deposited it last Monday! And we are officially BROKE..

Peaches! not the ediot!!! how does this person keep showing up in your life to torment you???? even so, I hope your volunteering experience is a good one. Nothing like some action to back up our words of sympathy to all the displaced ppl.

Schatzi, I'm hurtin' too. Yard work and pond cleaning just about did me in this weekend. I tried to snip the end off my finger with my pruners. youch. My pond is lovely and clear and my fish are happy again. I bought a new sectional sofa this weekend too. Not like the old sectionals - this one is really cool. Very pretty. Now I think I may have to reupholster my very old wing chair to go with.

Sugar, how long do you have to live in Germany to become German? Probably could never happen, huh?

My kiddos came over on monday for an end of summer bbq. I'm glad they still like us, when they were teenagers they swore they'd never visit when they moved out. :lol:

Miss Bagzie, you sound pretty busy, what with the shop and the vacationing help and such. Will we still get pictures of your fall displays? Will there be fall displays????

I'd write more but I can't seem to get my brain around a thought long enough to. Hi to the resta youz cows.

Y'all ortent tado that, honeychile.

I had a dentist appt this morning, and DH had been trying to get an appt because he had chipped a filling out, so when they called right before I was leaving saying they could squeeze him in too, we went to the dentist together. Awww, ain't that cute? Anyway afterward, he couldn't eat anything for 3 hours so we figured we'd kill some time and went over to his parents' house who live a few blocks away from the dentist (this is in the next town over from Frozen Tootsies, namely East Frozen Tootsies). Now the inlaws were cleaning out their packed to the rafters basement and storage shed and also getting rid of some relative's junk and we had to go look at all kinds of junk, some of it better than our junk at home, so we got us some new junk. Dandy little wicker love seat, you know the kind, got a little painted decoration on it. Be nice on our porch if we can find the floor before winter...

Whall, apparently that novocaine took a whole long time wearing offa DH, cuz we ended up with a whole car load full of dopy things, including an 18" high barrel I don't know what to do with and some old yellowed receipts. Oy.

Did I just go from southern drawl to NJ Oy? Yes I did. I had a long meeting tonight at school and I'm feeling a bit tonsorially challenged.

Which I believe means I need a haircut.

And I haven't even been drinking.

Kiwi

good thing you tole me you weren't drinking!!Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa hhs hhs hhs========anyone want to loose some weight??HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HHS HHS HHS---SOMEONE START A NEW THREAD-----THIS IS TOOOO LONNNNNNNNG!!!--- had a good cruise ship in today====sold a 92 dollar bracelet to a gal from New Mexico---she kept admiring it and coming back and hating the price but i knew she would regret not getting it---{ you KNOW what this is like---esp if you see something "away" and you can't ever get it easily again!!!} that was fun-----------THE QUEEN MARY 2 IS COMING!!! I WILL GET PICS AND SEND THEM--- I THINK IN A FEW WEEKS---- we have THREE boats every week this month {one week has only two maybe} --------------my head STILL hurts! byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Dayum. Good job there, Bagzie. Want to go out for Margies?

BOB DENVER DIED!! Gilligan! He used to live around the corner from my Da.

Not that I ever in my life called my Dad my Da.

Are you waiting for me to start a new thread? I have a seriously lame title to use.