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This was sent to me in an email. I don't know who wrote this but it is so funny and true!!!


10. Decorating the house (boarding up windows)

9. Dragging out boxes that haven't been used since last season
(camping gear, flashlights and a generator)

8. Last minute shopping in crowded stores ( Water, Ice and Beer)!!

7. Regular TV shows pre-empted for "specials"

6. Familyand friends coming to stay with you cause you have more supplies!

5. Family and friends from out-of-state calling

4. Buying food you don't normally buy ... and in large quantities

3. Days off from work

2. Candles

And... the number one reason Hurricane Season is like Christmas ...

1. At some point you know you're going to have a tree in your house!

Well,Elizabeth I used to live down by the water in Long Beach MS but my house disappeared.You haven't seen it have you?Two story duplex,white with dark green trim?I just went back down there but it hasn't showed up.Hung around in a motel for 4 months waiting on it but no luck.In condo in Diamondhead MS now ,seems like there are some other people out here waiting on their homes.Oh,well just thought I'd ask.

Caz...I think Rita picked it up from Katrina and brought it over here to Texas!

Guys, I think jokes like this from folks who lived through these storms just shows how wonderful the resilience of southern folks is! I know ya'll are watching the gulf as am I!

You haven't seen my goldfish have ya?One has 2 big bubbles by his eyes.Responds to the name Mr Peepers.

absolutely, i've seem first hand what hurricanes can do, narrowing missing the core (by the skin of my teeth) of hurricane charley and you cannot imagine the destruction, even when you see it on the news, until you actually see it with your own eyes and beleive me, you do not want to be in one. all thse items listed by Elizabeth darn near become habbit after a while, it's amazing what you can get used to doing.

For a while, my sweet wife and I thought we were the jinx. All our favorite places were hit by severe, mostly hurricane related storms. First, we love the Mayan Riviera and the resort we loved the most (Xpu Ha) was wiped out by Emily and Wilma last summer; usually went to N.O. every October, my second favorite place in the world...Katrina; I was out of my home on the Texas Gulf coast for 2 full weeks due to Rita and had to repair some pretty good damage; went to New Hampshire last fall and it was flooding from a hurricane (I think Wilma) that skirted on up the east coast...I mean, seriously, is it me?

In my swimming pool. He's avoided the cats pretty well!

As someone who lived in the Carribean for four years I feel for everyone in the danger zone this time of year.........

caz-1, you don't live too far from us, we live in Slidell. I went to Long Beach last week to check out some granite for my kitchen. I drove along the beach from Pass Christian to the Beau Rivage. It was my first time over there since the storm, and even after all the pictures I've seen, I was still in shock. I've driven that stretch of highway hundreds of times and I didn't know where I was most of the time, because hardly anything is left. Amazing!

My first time down there after the storm I was on the wrong street until a lady told me.I had lived there for five years.
We have some major problems here and it is never going to come close to being the same.Talking about people also.A lot are like zombies-cannot believe it is all gone.There is an underlying anger or irritability which is hard to define but in this part of the country we are still polite.

The "new normal" has taken it's toll on us all. I believe that most people around here are suffering from a sort of post-traumatic stress syndrome. People can rebuild, but it will never be the same.

Forged and I will have to get together with you sometime!

Those lists are always a great way to bring levity to a subject like this. To most people who don't live in hurricane prone areas it is pretty difficult to understand the things we go through every time clouds and rain start circulating in the tropics.

There are thousands of wonderful people living in dire circumstances still, and our hope all along the Gulf Coast is that this season will be easier on us than the last 2. I takes a while to recover from the devastation caused by even a small storm, and nature doesn't wait for you to get your insurance money before striking again.

I recall driving through Biloxi/Gulfport back in the early seventies after Camille had done so much damage. Then in the first half of 1989 I was stationed at Keesler for technical training. My son was born there in June. At that time, 20 years after Camille, there was still evidence of the storm's damage. They were just beginning to put in some casinos about the time we left there.

From Biloxi we moved over to Ft Walton Beach, FL. In 1995 hurricanse Erin and Opal passed right over us. Erin was a small storm, and Opal degraded quickly just before hitting shore, but was still Cat 3 and caused a lot of damage to the coast.

Seeing the devastation from Katrina on tv, I know I would not recognize the area now. And I also know how long it will take to rebuild and get back to "normal". People just south of here are still rebuilding from Charlie 2 years ago. My 18 year old daughter is currently on Andros Island in the Bahamas with her church group, helping rebuild houses and a church destroyed during last year's storms. Until you experience what these storms can do, you really have no concept of what the people have to go through. Once you have experienced it, your heart aches when you see it happen to someone else.

Sorry for the ramble.

No reason to apologize for rambling. It was a good read, and right on the mark. Days after its such a mixture of foreboding and relief when you see the damage and you're thankful you're safe...completely polar feelings to each other. And, yes, we spend an inordinate amount of time watching the radar and long range weather now.

I just moved to Dallas from Fort walton Beach...Lived through all of those, Ivan and dennis too, we never left cause mama always had to be at the base the next day....gotta feed those boys ya know. I pray for those that go though this every year. I have a neat tape of me doing my best weather channel impersonation of the on site Jim Cantore until i noticed that he was farther inland than i was...i didn't go back out until after it was over....

I lived in Biloxi for 6 years in the late 80s and 90s, my sons mother was still there during Katrina, she now lives here in Indiana. Due to his concern for her, and the fact that she lost everything, she moved to where he was, BUT im sure after the landing of Camille in 1969 that many people also thought it would never be the same, not that you can replace memories and such but with the resilliancy of the folks down there, I am sure that it once again will become a favorite vacation spot for many, and home for many others including some that lost their entire lives. God bless all of you that are still rebuilding.