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We are still with my quilting friend, but slowly moving toward getting into a place of our own. I never expected that it would take this long before we'd be able to get someplace. I guess I didn't realize when we left that night that we wouldn't be coming home again for a long long time.
It is so sad to see this area. So many homes were just blown to bits. There is an old old clip on tv that shows a house and some trees being blown to pieces by a test of a H-bomb I believe it was. It's been around for years and if you watch the history channel or discovery or some of those you probably remember it. That is similar to what happened here, except those were straight line winds and we had circular, so not only is everything blown to rubble, it's a twisted pile of stuff that no one can even get pulled apart.
They are loading the lives of the people with giannt grabbers into huge trucks and taking them away. Everything goes. There is everything that people have in those piles, their homes and beds and kitchens and toys and clothes and antiques and family heirlooms, it's all gone. It makes you cry just to drive through the area. There isn't anyplace for them to go. Of course we have had shelters, and they are starting to bring in some FEMA trailers, but there are no homes available here, nothing to rent. People are living in tents along our streams.
I'm headed to a laundromat this morning. It won't take very long, we don't have many clothes left, only a few we grabbed when they evacuated us. So I need to wash every other day it seems. Right now there has not been any time to go try to find something new. These are hard work days, one after another. Most of the time we don't know what day it is, or what the date is. We don't watch tv or read a paper or even hear the news. All we do is work.
Our Kingsdale house, where we lived, is now tarped over the roof area, and everything inside is gone except the studs. No dry wall, no floor coverings, no cabinets, no sinks or toilets, just bare wood. We have had huge dehumidifiers in there to dry out the wood so that someone can see if it can be rebuilt. The windows are all boarded up. What we had left after the wind and the horrible rains is in a POD in the driveway, or with someone else that came and helped take what was salvageable out. I don't even know where it is now.
We don't have much. Dianna has our kitchen table and chairs. We have 1 and a 1/2 casual chairs. Both are wood with cushions. We took them to the new house. Had the cushions cleaned. The one Jim is using is fine, but the one I was going to have now has a problem. The cushions for it were wet and evidentially they did not get them dry when they cleaned them because when I took them out of the plastic wrapping yesterday, the bottom half was wet and mildew was growing all over the bottom half of both the back and bottom cushion. Great, it sometimes seems that you just can't catch a break no matter what. So now I have a chair without cushions and unfortuately you can't just go buy some to go in it. Those two chairs are our livingroom furniture. We are hoping to be able to get a mattress and box springs soon, and something in the kitchen,, a small table and two chairs. This is such a huge deal, the simplest things are just not there.
Sorry to cut this off, but my computer time is up and I've got to go get busy. Hopefully by the next time I write I'll have more of my life found and back together.
Thanks for writing, thank you for thinking of us. We are all well and still here, that's what really matters in the end. All the rest will work itself out one way or the other.
Love to all, Judie
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