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I am a blessed man .I watched as " the flood of the century " a a 100 year event destroyed towns ,infrastructure homes businesses but not mine.i was a part of a fuel convoy taking supplies to folks on the gulf coast after Katrina. I watched as a tornado devastated a mile wide path through my home town here . Friends if you ha e never seen despair here is a description . I watched people picking cloths off a chain link fence that were washed out of an apartment complex and the fence caught the cloths when flooding from Katrina came through .Imagine everything you own in this world gone ,you rent your apartment but no renter insurance , you work a full time and a part time job but both are washed or blown away or under a field of mud and debris left by the water ,or completely burnt to ashes by fires. I have seen besperation turn to despair the to complete loss of hope as mothers ,fathers ,kids realize everything is gone and it will take years maybe decades to recover some places never do . Imagine yourself there in that situation .I would bet any of us would pray the outside world would hear about us and send help .I have seen these faces in person as part of a convoy of supplies that seemed like so much until we arrived and saw the need was so great suddenly our convoy seemed so small . I am blessed because I have been spared this .I missed the Floyd flooding by a few months , I left the gulf coast just a few months before Katrina the place I lived was completely washed away mi stood on top of a storm shelter and watched as a mile wide tornado devastated a path through my beloved Tuscaloosa but not my house or where I worked . I know we get use to seeing this on TV it seems all the time but please please think of the folks there .The good decent hard working people who have lost everything ,some will have insurance that may help out many will not what about them . I am blessed and I hope I can find a way to bless the o es who need help or are going to need help. When you see a line of people as far as you can see waiting to get a few bottles of water maybe a few baby supplies when you see grown men that were working men that take care of their families just like you and I reduced to asking " please " for any assistance and choking back tears of thanks and appreciation for even the smallest help.You see that with your own eyes and realize just how easily it could be you then you will watch the coverage of the devastion going on and think of those people and look at it in a different way .Please start thinking now trust me I've seen it several times up close . That old pair of shoes you don't wear , that closet full of cloths you can't wear or don't anything ,any supplies the need will be great but everytime I see the American come out and say hey those are my people and I see the American pick his people up put them back on their feet and thank God in heaven he was able to do it .I am a blessed man I hope you are to and to the folks in Carolina's help is the way y'all are Americans and we look out for our people.
, Camille
