Can't handle another evacuation.

[Junket]

This is how people get hurt/die.

This is why I never intended on staying here for more than 2 years.

[Junket]

I don't even want to put food in the fridge because I don't want to have to throw it all away again.

I don't know if I can handle living here if we keep having these evacuations.

My girlfriend continues to get paid with her non-profit job, but I don't.

I've been out of work for a week.

I need to get routine maintenance done to my car after all this driving. We drove 1,500 miles in a single week.

I'm feeling depressed. I have to try pretty hard to save as it is. I'm only making 12 bucks. I just don't think I can handle this.

I wanna go back to Philadelphia.

[shh!]

Aren't you living in the highlands? Why do you need to keep evacuating? All this back-and-forth must be very hard on the local economy.

[Junket]

Aren't you living in the highlands? Why do you need to keep evacuating? All this back-and-forth must be very hard on the local economy.

We are, but actually even my area still had 3-5 feet of water.

The storm surge from Katrina just wiped the levees, and that was [I]after[I] the storm had passed. The pumps just didn't do their job to relieve the levees.

In any case, even if the water doesn't do any damage, we're surrounded by looming trees, and the wind can rip the roofs off houses.

While losing power isn't all that bad, if the water goes? If the gas lines shut off? That would be a bad situation.

The police and National Guard are not stationed to save people, they're here to protect property (prevent looting). If people feel as though their property will be safe, they will be more likely to evacuate.