the diary
[15:54] rond: an evacuee
[15:54] rond: in her 70's
[15:55] rond: she has a diary
[15:55] rond: of this whole event
[15:55] rond: she was talking about moving the current diary
[15:55] rond: to another nicer book
[15:55] rond: I told her heck no
[15:55] rond: in its original format
[15:56] rond: with the stapled in biz cards from people
[15:56] rond: and little side notes
[15:56] rond: that was a treasure
[15:56] CarlFK: yup
[15:56] rond: that should remain in her family for as long as the can do that
[15:57] rond: I told her that 100 years from now
[15:58] rond: that book will be like looking back to a relative coming out of the 1900 Galveston hurricane
[15:58] rond: and the original hand writing
[15:58] rond: the stains on the page
[15:58] rond: would let that generation
[15:58] rond: connect just a little closer to her
[15:59] rond: we both got a little tearied eyed talking together about that
leaky gas mains
[15:23] rond: other people told me and several of them
[15:23] rond: that as they walked through the water
[15:23] rond: towards the dome
[15:23] rond: they would hear sometimes between house
[15:23] rond: ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
[15:23] rond: it was a gas main leaking
[15:23] rond: :|
[15:23] rond: said they heard that all the time
[15:24] rond: or quite a bit
wedding
[15:14] rond: we are having a wedding there tommorrow nite
[15:14] rond: two evacuees are getting married
[15:14] rond: then they are all being sent away from the camp on Friday
[15:14] rond: many to homes
[15:14] rond: some to other shelters
[15:14] josue_m: Ron: you are hosting evacuess?
[15:14] rond: no
[15:15] rond: just helping out quite a bit at a shelter about 15 minutes from my house
[15:15] josue_m: good
[15:15] rond: yeah its been very very interesting
[15:15] rond: have been told some amazing stories by people of all ages
[15:16] rond: I like this guy manuel
[15:16] rond: he is a chef or cook
[15:16] rond: he has a job at a resturaunt near my house
[15:17] rond: I hope to keep up with him for awhile
[15:17] rond: I really admire his story and his attitude
Manuel and his boat
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[15:01] rond: Here is a sad/funny New Orleans evacuee story I was told yesterday
[15:01] rond: there is a guy named manual out at the camp I am working at
[15:01] rond: his wife and daughter and grand kids are at the camp
[15:01] rond: Manual is my age 47
[15:01] rond: he began to get his wife and family out of the house on Tuesday
[15:01] rond: his wife is pretty darn big
[15:02] josue_m: Manual or Manuel?
[15:02] rond: hmmmm
[15:02] rond: don't really know
[15:02] josue_m: k
[15:02] rond: hispanic name
[15:02] rond: but he is a black guy
[15:02] josue_m: then should be Manuel
[15:02] rond: k
[15:02] rond: so he gets a boat
[15:02] rond: to get his family into
[15:02] rond: and ends up getting them to this building where he places them
[15:02] rond: with some other people
[15:03] rond: they live on the roof the whole week
[15:03] rond: manuel goes out the rest of the week
[15:03] rond: with the boat
[15:03] rond: and rescues people
[15:03] rond: all week
[15:03] rond: starts at 6:00 am in the morning
[15:03] rond: ends at dusk in the evening
[15:03] rond: he never rides in the boat
[15:04] rond: only allows women and children in the boat
[15:04] rond: all men either have to hang on the outside
[15:04] rond: or walk and swim along
[15:04] rond: as the week progresses
[15:04] rond: he ends up almost getting in stupid fights several time
[15:04] rond: times
[15:04] rond: in one situation
[15:05] rond: he sees a family that needs rescued
[15:05] rond: when he gets near them
[15:05] rond: the whole family breaks out into a fight
[15:05] rond: he has no idea why
[15:05] rond: but he tells them
[15:05] rond: you guys go ahead and be that way
[15:05] rond: I have other business down the street
[15:05] rond: and goes to pull someone else out
[15:06] rond: well by thursday evening
[15:06] rond: he is just worn out
[15:06] rond: walking in waiste to neck deep water all day
[15:06] rond: and then trying to avoid the fights etc
[15:06] rond: he runs across this old woman
[15:07] rond: he approaches her
[15:07] rond: she begins to chew his ass out
[15:07] rond: :)
[15:07] rond: he trys to calm her down
[15:07] rond: she won't calm down
[15:07] rond: he is just fed up
[15:07] rond: as she is chewing him out
[15:08] rond: she says she is sorry she if she is insulting him
[15:08] rond: he said to her
[15:08] rond: ya know
[15:08] rond: has nothing to do with you insulting me
[15:08] rond: has everything to do with you just being ignorant
[15:08] rond: I have been out here all week in this nasty water
[15:09] rond: pulling people out
[15:09] rond: I have no time for ignorant people
[15:09] rond: you have 3 choices
[15:09] rond: you can sit there and be ignorant
[15:09] rond: or you can walk out of here
[15:09] rond: or you can swim out of here
[15:09] rond: I don't give a damn
[15:09] rond: I am not taking you in my boat
[15:10] rond: so he left her there
[15:10] rond: :)
[15:10] rond: he did ending up pulling around 80 people out of the water
[15:10] rond: on Friday
[15:10] rond: he got his family to the super dome early friday morning
[15:10] rond: he went out with the boat again
[15:11] rond: somehow ended up
[15:11] rond: being picked up by a helicopter
[15:11] rond: taken to the airport
[15:11] rond: he knew if he did not get back to the dome
[15:11] rond: he would be seperated from his family
[15:11] rond: tried to get them to take him to the dome
[15:12] rond: they said they could not
[15:12] rond: so he hiked 4 hours
[15:12] rond: back to the dome
[15:12] rond: after all that other walking the earlier part of the week
[15:12] rond: found his family
[15:12] rond: got on a bus that evening
[15:12] rond: and is now in Fort Worth
Tim searches for his gal
[15:18] rond: Another guy Tim
[15:18] rond: arrived at the dome on I think it was Tueday
[15:18] josue_m: it remembers me on 1998 when we was hit by hurricane Mitch
[15:18] rond: looked all over for his girlfriend
[15:18] rond: could not find her
[15:18] rond: so he decided to go to her house
[15:18] rond: a couple of hours away by foot
[15:18] rond: he did not want to get into the water
[15:19] rond: so he jumped fences
[15:19] rond: went from roof top to roof top
[15:19] rond: did what ever he could to stay dry
[15:19] CarlFK: heh
[15:19] rond: he gets pretty near her house
[15:19] rond: but to coninue
[15:19] rond: he had to walk through the water
[15:19] rond: so he did
[15:20] rond: he hears some gun shots in somewhere in front of him
[15:20] rond: but he has to go near them to get to her hous
[15:20] rond: he finds a dead guy in the water
[15:20] rond: gun shot wound to the back of his head
[15:20] rond: and back
[15:20] rond: he gets pretty nervous
[15:20] CarlFK: oh damm
[15:20] rond: as he is walking carfeully down this street
[15:21] rond: he hears from between these two house
[15:21] rond: ssssssspppppt
[15:21] rond: ssssspt
[15:21] rond: come here
[15:21] rond: a guy whispering loudly to him
[15:21] rond: tells him not to go down that street anymore or he will be shot
[15:21] rond: he backs up the street
[15:21] rond: works his way around that mess
[15:22] rond: finds his girl friends house
[15:22] rond: no girl friend
[15:22] rond: never found her that week
[15:22] rond: she was shipped somehwhere else
[15:22] CarlFK: :(
[15:22] rond: we matched her up and brought her to Fort wort last week
[15:22] rond: so there now hooked back up
[15:23] CarlFK: yea!
