Wednesday, September 21, 2005

i hope you all stay safe.

everybody is so scared. running around. not knowing what to do when they can't find batteries or water. even peanut butter. i waited in line for gas for 45 minutes. my friends are leaving to various parts of texas, not to mention other countries. one even left for salt lake city.

we dont know what to do. i feel so lost. my dad says we might leave friday, but that we'll see what rita does tomorrow. we'd go to my aunt's house, or our farm. neither of which are particularly far away.

i wish you all the best of luck, and i'd say call and keep in touch. but i can't, because it is nearly impossible now; during and after landfall, i doubt our phones will function at all. everything is so clogged.

panic. why is everybody panicing. it is because of katrina, because of the thought of losing everything, even family and friends. who knows when the next time we'll all be together will be. during school we were happy that we have no school tomorrow or friday.

in the back of my mind, i was so scared. we won't have school for longer than that, i assume. like my family from new orleans. they said they'd go back afterwards.

now look at them, all holed up in a house in baton rouge, or back trying to rebuild; the latter of which are across the lake from new orleans.

i don't know the next time i'll talk to you will be, but i hope it's soon. i hope you stay safe, i hope that we all get through this ok.

i wasn't scared until now. now i am faced with reality, i guess. the fact that i just have to leave everything that i've known to run from something i have never been this directly faced with before.

but i have to tell myself it will be alright. we will come out of this alright in the end, and so will our city.

i refuse to submit to this widespread panic.