Quite a few peo\u00adple have con\u00adtact\u00aded Paula and I because they know we\u2019re from Louisiana and they\u2019re con\u00adcerned about our rel\u00ada\u00adtives and friends.<\/p>\n
Thank you.<\/p>\n
For those who might be curi\u00adous but haven\u2019t con\u00adtact\u00aded us, our imme\u00addi\u00adate rel\u00ada\u00adtives were hard\u00adly affect\u00aded. Extend\u00aded fam\u00adi\u00adly mem\u00adbers and friends all sur\u00advived but some lost every\u00adthing.<\/p>\n
When I was a kid we used to joke about how stu\u00adpid it was to build a port city below sea lev\u00adel. Every year it seemed that New Orleans would have a near miss with a hur\u00adri\u00adcane and we\u2019d start jok\u00ading about how dumb we Cajuns were. We knew with all the cer\u00adtain\u00adty child\u00adhood pro\u00adduces that New Orleans would be wiped off the map one day. <\/p>\n
Of course, when you\u2019re a kid you don\u2019t real\u00adly think about all the suf\u00adfer\u00ading such a cat\u00ada\u00adstro\u00adphe will entail. The news out of New Orleans is stag\u00adger\u00ading. The scari\u00adest thing is that it could eas\u00adi\u00adly have been much worse. Times like these remind us of just how frail and frag\u00adile all of human\u00adi\u00adty\u2019s accom\u00adplish\u00adments real\u00adly are.<\/p>\n
Any\u00adway, all this leads me to won\u00adder what jokes kids in Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia make about the \u201cBig One\u201d. New Orleans final\u00adly got a bul\u00adlet it could\u00adn\u2019t dodge. I won\u00adder when Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adni\u00ada\u2019s is com\u00ading\u2026 I hope I\u2019m not here to see it.<\/p>\n
Con\u00advoy of Hope<\/a> is doing a fine job of help\u00ading peo\u00adple. If you\u2019ve been want\u00adi\u00adng to give in some way, I know sev\u00ader\u00adal peo\u00adple who work for the out\u00adfit and can assure you that they\u2019re doing a stand\u00adout job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Quite a few peo\u00adple have con\u00adtact\u00aded Paula and I because they know we\u2019re from Louisiana and they\u2019re con\u00adcerned about our rel\u00ada\u00adtives and friends. Thank you. For those who might be curi\u00adous but haven\u2019t con\u00adtact\u00aded us, our imme\u00addi\u00adate rel\u00ada\u00adtives were hard\u00adly affect\u00aded. Extend\u00aded fam\u00adi\u00adly mem\u00adbers and friends all sur\u00advived but some lost every\u00adthing. When I was \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cNew Orleans\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-5U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}