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Showing posts with label Hurricanes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hurricanes. Show all posts

Saturday, August 28, 2021

Gone with the Wind

 Waiting for Ida to hit.  It's supposed to be the strongest hurricane to hit New Orleans in centuries.  And it's on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.  This is what happened at my house last year during Hurricane Laura, which wasn't nearly as bad.



Well over $100 thousand dollars worth of damage and six months living at the B&B.  Here's the tree that fell and, unfortunately, there's an even larger one right next to it.  Both in my neighbor's yard.



Hold on to your hats, folks.  It's gonna be a bumpy ride.

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Waiting for Gustav


Saturday morning
 1
and the sky
 2
is gentle blue
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Has it been
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only three years
 5
since I watched
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a mother
 7
find
 8
her dead son's
 9
marine uniform
 10
in the ruins
 11
of her home?
 12
soiled in ways
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that will never
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wash out.
 15
The detritus
 16
of a nation's
 17
failure rubbed
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into the fabric
 19
of the world
 20
Politicians smile,
 21
announce the coming
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victory
 23
raise joined hands
 24
in triumph
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speak about a bright
 26
and shining future
 27
They do not see
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the haunted eyes
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of frightened souls
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fleeing from the coast
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and the sky
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such a gentle blue
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today.
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30 Aug 08