So, my house is a submarine parking lot. My mom, brother and sister-in-law, sister and brother in-law and their kids are whereabouts unknown after staying in Gentilly for the storm. My home-town, or what’s left of it faces many plagues in the immediate future, and likely a thorough bulldozing before this is all done.<\/p>\n
My other brother and his clan survived the storm and managed to make it out of town to retreat to humane and sanitary lodgings. One of my good friends whom I feared the worst for has managed the same hat-trick. I am amongst other very good friends in my (and their) homelessness. My wife, for the moment, is still in possession of a job and is able to collect a paycheck.<\/p>\n
The teeter-totter keeps bringing me up and down. It’s a ride that frankly I’d like to get off of, but that’s not in the cards.<\/p>\n
I feel like a whiny bitch for even feeling the need to vocalize what everyone else I know — and countless thousands that I don’t — is going through, and some much worse.<\/p>\n
I’m a little homesick, but my home is sick and there is no going back for a long while, and even when I can it’s not really my home any more. More than the home is a longing to see the entire gang, to witness with my own eyes that they are whole and healthy. I miss my missing family, and there is a very real chance that there will be no relief for that feeling, ever.<\/p>\n
Most of the time I’m fine. Some of the time I’m not. Every so often I’m a fucking wreck, like I am now. Eventually the teeter-totter will swing back up again, but for now, my ass is on the ground in, as you say, the mud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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