Monday, June 20, 2005

Into every life

Its official its now summer, I know it felt like it was summer six weeks ago but the powers that be says it isn't summer till the sun crosses the equator or something like that.its also the start of hurricane season the time when nature shows the southeast who's the boss.you think fiber can make can a person move? Consider a category four hurricane bearing down on him.a category one hurricane is a singing in the rain type of storm. Category two is the same with a faster tempo,category four is run forest run.i have only evacuated once before a storm it took four hours to get out of the county and six hours to find a shelter that had room for me and my kids we followed three city buses full of people to an abandoned school in wayback Georgia or whatever it was called with no food and nothing to sleep on the sad thing about it was that there were old people there alone some in wheel chairs.but the people in that town was good people. Someone came in (in the middle of the night mind you)saw what was needed and scrounged up some food for the old folks and kids. then other people began to arrive with blankets and sleeping mats.they didn't expect this but they responded to this bedraggled horde of savannahians with charity and kindness.I wont evacuate the next time there's a category four hurricane but its good to know that for those that do there's welcoming arms out there wait to ease their suffering