You know how sometimes you're so tired but wired and can't go to sleep. Too much going through my head right now. I don't want to do this anymore. It's kinda like childbirth--you want to stop but until that baby comes out, you can't. Hopefully, like the pain of childbirth, you forget the bad stuff and only remember the good memories.
Got much accomplished today. Lots of stuff started. Talked with a lot of donors. Including a couple who are going to donate a mobile home. Got donations for the hospital evacuation site at the New Orleans airport. They had water but no clean clothes, pillows, etc. Hopefully these items will provide some type of comfort to those poor people.
I heard today that lots of locals are being evicted from their homes so their landlords can get triple the rents or sell to aid workers, government folks and refugees. Baton Rouge is now the largest city in the State. That's so incredible to me. How overnight we at least tripled in size. What is going to happen when school starts on Tuesday? How is an already strapped school system going to handle all these new children?
Just saw a story on the news about a family who was walking to Baton Rouge from New Orleans. They finally hitched a ride in the back of a pickup truck. I've been wondering what we would do given the same circumstances. I really think we would have walked to safety by now. That's what refugees did in Bosnia, Dafar, Rwanda, Vietnam, etc. You do what it takes to survive and protect your family. I don't know. Maybe I'd just roll up in a ball on the floor and never get up. Who am I to guess?
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