The last few days have been particularly hard on me. As many of you know, four years ago yesterday I'd lost everything to Hurricane Floyd. It was the most surreal experience. I was looking back at pictures this morning...and immediately all my memories came back. Being that there's another hurricane coming for us, (I know...I know. It's probably just going to be heavy rain) I'm really nervous. People think I'm nuts. I called my boyfriend this morning and woke him up to tell him my attack plan for the day, if anything happens. I taped up my windows and filled up all the water bottles. Brought my poncho and flashlight to work and have my sneakers in case I need to do anymore long walks. I left my bunny plenty of food and water. I am sufficiently prepared. I'll never forget how there was never enough time...everything happened so fast. Allie, my roommate, and I tried to get everything out of the house and the faster we worked, the more frustrated we got and the water was just getting higher. Eventually we had to get out of there. Allie and I went back to the duplex everyday and got as close as we could get to see where the water level was. For over a week, it got higher and higher. School had been canceled. The place was desolate. Allie and I ended up leaving town because we had run out of resouces. The guys that housed us tried to make the food last as long as possible. They got very...creative making spaghetti on the grill. It was actually good. So, she drove me to my parents where dad had a HUGE bath of his famous pancakes ready! Then, she went to her parents and I came up to New York and stayed with Derek. I needed to get as far away as possible from the flood. We had such a great time. I was able to get away from all the disaster waiting for me back at school. When I got back, I met with the guy from FEMA who did an inspection of the duplex...naturally after the water went back into the sewers. I remembered just teling him..."Yep...we had a lot of great parties in this place". That town after hte hurricane for close to a month was in shock. People wondered why certain people lost everything and others (those on higher land) had everything. It was a time I'd never want to re-live. It did, however make me a stronger person. That...I guess, I'm thankful for.