If you aren't familiar with this blog, I mostly write about day planners. In fact, Giftie Etcetera has a pretty active Facebook group where we discuss getting and keeping our lives in order. When my hometown in Louisiana flooded in a massive, 3-day rainstorm, the group kept talking about planners and order in general.
That is, they did until one member said that her house flooded and she was stuck. Her planner wasn't good enough for the to-do list that grows so long and massive after your home is completely ruined.
Things have been crazy here in Louisiana. But in my planner, things have been pretty routine. The system that I use on the first page of my planner gets a lot of credit for that routine in the midst of chaos.
Louisiana has flooded on a massive scale. Our state is now the "home" of over 40,000 HOMELESS households - a number reported by CNN - and growing.
We are finding dead bodies in cars and homes as some flood waters recede.
My home was threatened, so we evacuated. My childhood home is currently sandbagged and still under threat. The picture below shows my aunt's house, but it could have shown my cousin's house, local teachers' houses, or my friends' houses. This flood event had a 1 in a 1,000 chance of happening. Imagine that. 1 in a 1,000. People don't insure (and are not advised to insure) for a 1 in a 1,000 chance of something happening. Those with flooded houses lost everything.
Yesterday, I tried grocery shopping in the local stores. Of course, food and supplies are difficult to ship on the cracking, waterlogged interstate system, so I came home and wrote this on my private Facebook page.
When I was younger, I was a history teacher. I was obsessed with the colonization of America. I thought maybe, someday, we'll colonize the moon. Well, I have now achieved greatness by doing something I've only ever dreamed of doing.
