So it turns out the entire Gulf Coast needs prayer, not just New Orleans. It really looked as if New Orleans had escaped as the hurricane didn’t do as much damage as many had feared. However today one of the levees broke, and currently 80% of the city is underwater. 80%! I can’t imagine it.
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Archive for August, 2005
We’re praying tonight for the folks about to get hit by Katrina. New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast in that area including Alabama and Mississippi are in the path of a devastating category five hurricane, only the fourth to hit the U.S. since 1900. May God be with them.
Quite the productive weekend around the house here. I finished painting the rest of the windows as well as the subsequent scraping of the paint off the glass. Bill also offered to paint the entire roof trim so I helped him with that, and we even managed to replace the roof trim on one side [...]
I just finished my first full week of nursing school, and although I am tired, I am also excited, nervous, anxious and just a tad bit stressed.
From the very first day we had long lectures, reading assignments, lab practices, and my very first exam is this coming Tuesday. I spend most hours of the day [...]
Anybody else sick of the whole Cindy Sheehan thing? It’s really sad that her son died in Iraq, and I feel terrible about that…but the media are making her out to be some kind of martyr while leaving out all of the wacky things that she has said on almost a daily basis. This lady [...]
The astronauts did in fact make it back safely, thank God.
I’ve been off for a few days so I’ve let some things slip, including posting on here and calling people back. Things get back to normal starting tomorrow though (and work too, unfortunately).
With my few days off, Monica and I did some travelling so some [...]
The shuttle is returning this morning around 4 am or so. Man, I hope they all return safely this time. The last thing we need is another tragedy.
God be with you, brave astronauts.
I’m sure some of you have seen the recent polls which state that 60% of people think the U.S. was justified in dropping the bomb on Japan. What are those other 40% thinking? Do they not know their history? Anybody with an ounce of common sense knows that countless American lives were saved because the [...]
