I came down after Katrina. I took action instead of just feeling sad about it. I make every attempt to take action to save what is left. BP and the federal government continue to give the spill plenty of PR but it is difficult to see action. The horrible images after Katrina moved me to come to Louisiana and do whatever it took to make things right. I have been in Louisiana mitigating disasters during and after Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike. I have a special place in my heart for the people and want to do whatever it takes to save the state. I stayed when the profiteers left and have served in many capacities to make it right. I don’t ask for sympathy, I only ask to use my skills to prevent things from becoming worse. My resume with proven successes has been sent out more than two hundred times in the last month and a half. Still I hear nothing but to wait by the phone.
Hurricane season is coming and I have seen firsthand what misery it brings. The Gulf is boiling for this time of year and a storm could bring terrible consequences. The time is now to reduce the circumstances of a disaster, not after it has happened. I know what is is like to see people that have lost everything and family and friends.
For anyone who has seen this firsthand it is insane to watch it happen again. If a storm comes this year it will make Katrina seem mild. We will see people dead in the streets again.
As I have recently stated in articles the economic destruction in the fishing and oil industries is a beyond imagination. What is yet to be realized is a storm with dead wetlands and poorer people. The trauma felt by the citizens of South Louisiana is building to a last stand. Should a hurricane come many in my area of Houma feel so powerless they want to fight it. A hurricane is easier to fight than a oil spill, the U.S. government or the corporations. My prediction is that many in the bayous will have little to lose and will stay if a hurricane comes. Many are drawing a line in the oil soaked sand and vowing to stay and fight for whatever is left. This article will not net me much money, the objective is to leave a record to show that it was not a unfortunate disaster this time.
I will stay here with the people and look out for my neighbors because nobody else will. I will be here as I was the day after Hurricane Gustav doing what I can because the federal government can’t. The people before me in my home state of Texas fought a losing battle at the Alamo because it was right. I will do the same because I love the people of Louisiana and I stand by them no matter what the cost. When the hurricane comes Obama and the politicians will be of no consequence, it will be the neighbor who extends the hand.
Washington has shown the people of Louisiana that it makes no difference if the administration is Democrat or Republican. Rescue this time will be the same as the last, a friend means more than the government when it all goes to hell.
