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I am without a computer except for steve’s therefore this is the only place i can write with a sense of privacy.
The last three months have been hell. (Or more so, a nightmare.) I will not sugarcoat it. We started the process of getting our house ready for selling.
5/31 I made the mistake of telling the wrong person..at this point, I do not
know whom that was.This sent the info straight to a VERY interested person. Of course, I can hear your brain churning why should this be bad. The person came to us immediately and began begging us to show them the place…yea
7/31 I had been traveling and the house was a mess. So for two full weeks I was cleaning and throwing stuff so that I could allow this person in my house. We were anxious, because we knew that the person would want to give us a lowball figure for the house, since they wanted to see it before we fix it. Still where is the bad news.
(In this dissertation the feelings go up and down…steve quit smoking making it difficult to live with him and everything was even more stressful.)
8/1 The people loved the house…yea….We told them to think about it and make us an offer. Of course, they came back with a lowball figure..booooo. We told them we could not take that and what we had to have…they left.
8/11 Well, I began school, thinking how wonderful this year would be. we spent an entire year of getting use to the intervention format. we showed success, so this year will be a piece of cake…we have a new principal, but she seems to be okay. not a ms. moss type person, but at least, she is okay. the year starts out fine. then mitzi tells us we will have a new program that we will have everything available to work with the kids. we are excited because it sounds great. yep, this is the best thing since toothpaste. yea…….wheeee.
8/22 we started off working with the kids using our regular
program. things are progressing fine. well, back to the house…the people come back and offer us just barely what we need. we then begin to check out our payoff. that was an extreme headache, because we had to fax the paperwork. they would not tell us over the telephone nor mail it without a signed authorization…we buy a fax machine because steve does not want to fax our personal info through his company. The company notifies us that we are going to be penalize if we pay before the 9/16th. We notify the guidrys that we can not sell before that date. they seem fine with that. yea…
8/29 the guidrys came back with the money to pay off the house. they said that they will wait until after the 16th . they said that they will tell their
mortgage company to set the date after that. wheee…..
i begin packing and found a place to store our things. things seem to run
smoothly. school began and we are looking forward to getting out of this house and moving to Bancker.
9/1 the guidrys came back and had a problem. their mortgage company’s employee would be on vacation at the end of the month. therefore we would have to sign the papers on the 9th but they promised that they would not close the loan until the 16th. oooo….sounds good, but we begin to become nervous about the entire thing.
9/6 we have our meeting for the new program…sounds great, but we are not sure it will be as easy as it sound. because of Hurricane Katrina we are getting new studentsand we will have to not only learn the new program we will be dealing with weaker students.
9/9 the final day is here..seems our apprehension was justified. we were
informed yesterday that we would have to pay the penalty. the guidrys mortgage company will not wait until the 16th. we decide well we will have to just eat it. I told steve…think of it as just another house payment. now we have NO house payment at all. we do have until the 16th to move out.
9/12 whoa i am beginning testing at school and frantically packing at
home…this week will be extremely stressful.
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh….
9/17 the move was unreal. we were overwhelmed until 10:00pm. we spent our first night here in bancker. it was so pleasant. the bed was wonderful and we enjoyed our restful night.
9/19 we began to relax that night. Living at Bancker would be interesting, but not terrible. On the news, they said that there was a hurricane in the gulf. They predicted that it would go to an area between Corpus Christi and Galveston. We were not too worried, because it would be far enough away that we would only get rain and some thunderstorms.

9/20 The news is disturbing. Their predictions have shifted further east. That means that we will probably get some storm surge. At this time the hurricane is a category four, named Rita. Is this why fate was trying to stop us from moving””’ We went to work as usual and watched the weather closely. Where it will come up is anybody’s guess. They are leaning toward Galveston and Houston. This is not good for Mike and Yvie. Elaine has already called and made a reservation in Hope, Arkansas. Gee, I wish I had. But Steve is not worried and he says he will not leave.

9/21 the news is still not good. They are beginning to evacuate Galveston and Houston. Rita is now a category 5. The same as Katrina. I am scared. I know that Bancker has never flooded, but the storm is so big, that I am afraid it will be bad. I told Steve that we will leave. I will not stay here during a Hurricane.Once was enough for me.

9/22 they say don’t say “it couldn’t get worse”, because then it will. Well, someone must have said that in this area. The hurricane is still a category 5 and it is still heading up. this time is is predicted to hit between texas and mississippi. this means it is following the path of Audrey. i am worried and plan to do something, but figure that it will not flood us because Audrey didn’t. we got up this morning and went to school hoping that they would cancel school. finally at 8:30am they said school would close at 1:00. things never change. they always wait until the last minute to make a definite decision. well, steve agrees to leave, and we try to figure where to go. of course, the roads are packed. pat left this morning with uncle bud and aunt olga headed for dallas. steve does not want to go that way, because it would be in the path of the storm also. trey calls and said that if we wanted, we could stay at the hilton with him. they gave him a room for him and his family if he would work through the hurricane. relief is all we can feel. we had thought of Vera in Slidell, but the traffic is horrendous. it would probably take all night to get there. we pack things and put some things up. i brought some things to school, because it is higher than the house. we put fred at a shelter and settled down at the hotel to hope for the best.

9/23 things only look worse this morning. we will definitely get some rough weather, so we went last night and bought snacks in case the electricity goes off. we sit watching the weather channel continuously until everyone decides it is time to sleep. the wind has picked up , but we can not see much so it is not scary.

9/24 we had a rude awakening at 6:00 am this morning. Trey was taking a bath and the fire alarm was going off. He became very authoritative and told us we needed to get out and walk to the front of the building. so there we went. thank heavens, i was sleeping in some clothes instead of pajamas. i grabbed my clothes anyway. trey kept fussing and rushing us out. amanda and i were standing in front of the hotel, wind was blowing and storming, and we just looked at each other. our comments were here we were evacuating from a fire into a hurricane. something is wrong with this picture. finally, we were told it was a false alarm and we could return to the room. we settled down, trey called and told us that some kids had broke the alarm and set it off. thirty minutes later, the alarm went off again. once more we trotted out into the hurricane. they tried to find the kids, but were unsuccessful. we were allowed to return. false alarm. this happened at least three more times. the staff decided to turn the alarm off. finally, they figured that it must have been broken so that it would continue to go off. with it turned completely off, then we were able to relax. the worse was yet to come. the storm rita was heading straight to Cameron. this mean, Audrey all over. everyone had been evacuated, but it was still not a good. sign. we spent the entire night watching cnn hearing how things were not good for us. our weather was rough, but the news was worse.

9/25 the news is very bad. all of the area south of 14 was flooded. a strong storm surge has hit and there is damage. of course, Cameron is once again a flattened community. at least this time, there are not people sitting on their roofs fighting snakes. we hear though that people are trapped down at Forked Island, Seventh Ward, and Henry.People have begun getting boats and rescuing them. Steve called Blake and found out that he had had to rescue our neighbor on Plum road, shannon, because she had gone back to her house. Is Bancker flooded’ Yes, but can we have managed to survive the flooding again. We do not know. Only time will tell. The worry is terrible. Steve did begin smoking again. I had no problem with that. There is a glimmer of hope, because we keep remembering that in 1957, Audrey, we did not flood at our place. This will be continued at another date.

October 13th, 2005 at 4:23 pm
One Response to “Can I wake up now”””
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    mayfly Says:

    the irony inherent in the time difference between your last entry and the post date is not lost. i guess you stopped writing.

    i was very sorry to hear about everything. let me know if there’s anything i can do from up here.