What was the saddest thing that you felt by Hurricane Katrina
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My saddest feelings about hurricane Katrina were an overwhelming sense of loss.\n\nI am very familiar with New Orleans, having lived there in the past.  To me it is the Paris of North America.  It is a place of fun, certainly, but it is so-o much more than that.\nIt is one of the oldest, most historic cities on this continent.  The resident community is so extraordinary in it's warmth, ancesteral heritage, committment to a colorful and vibrant lifestyle, respect for their kaleidescope urban heritage, and other aspects.\n\nSo my sense of loss relates to loss of life (both human and companion animals); loss of property and many once charming, historic neighborhoods; loss of lifestyle, not just the fun, but also the career/work/pace/and purpose of the city; loss of the beauty all over this city, such as the beautiful, centuries-old live oak trees, the courtyards, the gardens.  I am misty again as I reflect on this tragedy.  I wish people could have really known MY beloved New Orleans.  It almost once had a "life of it's own", if that can be said about a place.\n\nLike "The Little Engine That Could", the people in New Orleans are bravely saying they will rebuild and restore against crushing economic odds.  Realistically, I think that an entire way of life has been irrevocably altered, if not lost completely.  This makes me so regretful; it breaks my heart.  So, that to me is the saddest aspect of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.\n\nThank you for asking this question.  Maybe it is a good thing to write an answer that skims the surface of my deeply-felt grieving.
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You're fine in here...I feel ya.\nwe all go thru it...just focus on cupcake...you'll get stronger eventually & things will look brighter.\nIt may not be easy now...but just be glad you didn't get hit by Katrina or did you..?
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The nicest thing anyone has done was an offer from a dear friend of mine to pick me up in Portland Oregon from Salt lake Utah and drive me to my daughters funeral in Los Angeles.  So i wouldn't be alone and would have someone to process the grief with.  I couldn;t take her kind offer because I knew it was something I had to do alone.   \n\nThe worst thing is the man that was responsible for her death (he didnt kill her I hope anyway but if I hadnt known him it wouldnt have happened which is far to complex to explain here)  made sure I was homeless broke my nose several times and tried to kill me, after taking all my cats .  I was in love with him and waited for twelve years for him to show up. He showed up five years after her funeral, I had already waited seven for him then. That was six years ago.
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The bad thing about this, really there are still alot of innocent people that are displaced, looking for jobs (in which our state doesn't have because the economy and crime is so high), and have no permanent place to call home. I have a family that lives down the street that lost everything because they lived in St. Bernard parish, and can't find the same paying job in our parish....so they are still living in a pop-up camper. \nIt was disgusting that these people were doing all these things with the FEMA card (some even bought wide screen TVs while they were in the Cajun Dome for a shelter!) because of this abuse there are still hard working people out there that don't deserve to live the way they have to.
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Curious to read your answers as I just lost my Dad this week and feel the same as you.  My Dad was only 62 and suffered lots in the end.  We put our pets to sleep when they suffer a 10th of what my Dad went through.  I hope you are able to find a peaceful place in your heart.
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That i always loved him through all our bitter seasons. that i wish we could have lasted longer. that he was the best thing that ever happened to me.\n\nI could keep going, but don't make me cry! :-(
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There are alot of questions here so I'll try to answer them all.\n\n"When New Orleans was hit with the hurricane and wiped off the map, in my heart I felt I should give money to help the people. That was just common nature for a U. S. citizen to naturally do for our country or other country's around the world no mater what type of government they have in place." \n\nI feel two ways about this matter.  One is this Country gives to much monney to other Countrys and not enoth to this one.  But at the same time the people in Orleans where asked to leve and did not they had two weeks to pack up and leve but they did not.  What could we have done when so many people picked not to leve?\n\n"What I am concerned with is if the money I gave, got to a PERSON from that specific state or other country I sent the money to?"\n\nQuestion?  Who did you give you're money to?\nJust waching MSNBC and they said that there was alot of "fraud and abuse" that people where doing over there.  (check out url for more info.)  Makes you feel just a tad less sorry for these people.\n\n"Why is it that our government can't take responsibility and pay up, for there mistake in the first place. From what I have read, it was known that those levies could not hold a category 4 or 5 hurricane years or decades ago, but failed to strengthen them back when it was first discovered? \n\nI don't think any mistakes where made.  The truth is that  New Orleans is sinking as it stands now New Orleans is lower then sea level.  The reasons that thoes levies have not been fixed are one the cost is to grate for a city that is sinking and two they don't even know if it's posablem to fix them.  Even if they are fixed and we get another "Katrina" it's posable for this to happen again and again.  "IF" we do fix these levies we are putting peoples lives at risk.\n\n"Do you think it was rude of the two presidents to ask us to give more money when it is our nature to give, even until it hurts?"\n\nDo I think it's rude?  No, I don't.  \n\n"Did you help when 911 happened ?"\nYes, but I feel as if it was not enoth\n\n"or Live Aid?\nor Live8?"\n\nLive Aid, No.  Or Live8 don't know what that is.
533120
Your story made me cry. I hope it is ok that I sent it to my friends.
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i was sad and glad at the same time cause of the memory it brought back. we lived in 2 places, i bug my mom to cook me something for my 18th birthday, so she need to see me in the city and leave my dad with my 2 younger brothers in the farm. she arrive safe in the city carrying my request noodles and sweet rice.\n\nthat night, my dad and brothers encountered the worst nightmare of their lives. some thieves are stealing our cows, they spray bullets through the whole house and almost kill my dad, he was bleeding though and my brothers run like hell.  \n\nif i didn't bug my mom to cook me those special foods, she probably dead by now. she is still alive thank god and just gotten married for the second time on monday.
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hi again, i have another answer. the worst thing i have saw is that my grandfather was going to get injurd while he was hunting. Now remember that i can't just get feeling when ever i want i just get them.
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That is so sad, I feel for you. It is a traumatic experience. You will get through it but grieving is different for everyone. Stay strong and try your best to stay busy and let this run it's course.Bless you.
338662
you began to have a lot of pain some times it effects people so badly it feels like there having a heart attack . so lit it rip
86400
It tears our hearts out. The pain lasts a lifetime. My cousin hung himself. It still hurts to hear certain songs. It might seem like there is no answer and that there is no way out. But time passes and things change I wish he would have known that.
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We live on the coast of Mississippi,and made it through hurricane Katrina,it was very scary.We had so many trees up rooted,Roof damage lots of water damage from the storm surge,We didn't get it as bad as a lot of people,but it is something I hope we never have to go through again.What everyone saw on TV is nothing compared to what we saw here,There is nothing like driving down the streets and seeing dead bodies of people and animals and coffins floating from where they washed up.It was horrible.
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I feel very sad. I don't even know why. I used to love her in all of her acting roles but because she has been out of the media so much lately I guess she slipped my mind.\n\nMy sister smsed me to tell me she died. Funnily enough, well not really, I was actually on a charity bus trip for Breast Cancer that day. It was so surreal.\n\nI think it is sad for Rove especially. Looking at what he wrote to be said at the funeral they must have been soul mates. All we can be thankful for now is that she is out of pain and there is one gorgeous kind angel in heaven now.\n\nI don't know if anyone else is feeling this but I want to cry over her death. I don't know why. I haven't allowed myself to yet but I think I am going to have to.\n\n\nRIP Belinda Emmett - who bravely fought cancer for one quarter of her life and showed us all the human spirit.
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bad bad bad  Katrina  Katrina  Katrina
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Well,there are many,but one that is very sad is the destruction of New Orleans,my favourite city,and with it most of the charm,elan,flexibility,joie de vivre,imagination,mystery of the United States,due to a scandalous negligence...