Rita Aftermath

short review:
G gets home from AK, I was working extra hours to help pay for that trip. Next thing ya know, we are getting ready to evac d/t hurricane RITA. What a bitch. The news and local athorities were saying pack for 3 days. What a freaking joke. Handed kids off to my parents. After 4 days of 12+ hour shifts, I got home in time to pack up my importance documents, pictures, sentimental items of ulmate value, and computers with all my records in it. Had signed up to help the hospital get the pts out. After about a 3 hour nap, I get a frantic call asking how fast I can get to work. Aparently the other nurses bailed out on our patients. Lazy assed, gold digging, self centered bitches. So I went. Those patients were helpless, they had to choices, they were defensless. They needed me.

I went with the patients up to Shreveport, LA. Rode the ambulances with them. The nightmare ensued. 2 weeks of living onthe unit with the patients, 24-7. Then a week at a rent house just to get away from the hospital. My parents came to Shreveport with the kids and my older brother. They stayed inthe hospital with me. We had no where else to shelter them. All hotels were full, all rent houses were full. The one we got found us. A school chum of Dad's, that he had not seen in 45 years, found out about us. "Cozy" happened to live in Shreveport and is loaded with $$$$. He had a rent house that he let us have for free. So, unknowing how long we would be there, we moved into the house. Air matteress, and plastic chairs were the order of the day. The kids in two diffrent schools, with bussing problems.

Most of the folks in LA were nice to us, all of the Promise staff that went. Out of approx 70 employees, only 7 of us went with the pts. How cheesey is that. Now that I am removed from the immediate stress of the situtation I can vent.

After a week in the rent house, I'd had it, it was time to go home. So the parents, kids, brother and I loaded up and left. Cozy's house became home to some of the remaining Promise employees. That was really great of him. They could now relax and get out of the motels and stuff.
That first week in LA I worked 160 hours. it was almost more than any human should be asked to do. The LA hospital though we were providing all the staff, we thought they were.... so we get stuck out alot of the time. The company gave us bounuses, but at that point it was not about money any longer.. it was about endurance. It was about doing the right thing.

We did get out with the kids a few times. Went to the Red River Arts Revel, and Sci-Port. They had a blast there, got to watch 3 day old allagators being fed minows. really cool that. Took Older brother to a car museam. That was cool and I got some pictures.

Mom tried to buy everything in Shreveport Wal-Mart and Dollars stores so we would have to drag it back home. She just dont listen or care, guess retail therapy is the only help she'll ever seek for her psycotic behavior.

Now we are home. Getting things cleaned up. We need repairs, but it's gonna take awhile. The mortgage thing is on terminal hold now. The repairs have to be completed and another appraisal done before we can move forward on that. Maybe sometime next year we will actually owe the bank, instead of W, for this house.
The tree removal was done mostly by older brother, it took about 15 hours of moving debris, and bout 5 hours of cutting with chainsaw. We lost alot of trees, all our fences, the shed, some windows, the car port, some roof damage, and just general mess.

After a week of steady work it's actually starting to look like home again.

THAT'S why I havent posted in about two months.