Hurricane Wilma The Untold Story
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A great deal of deserved attention focused on the devastation brought on by Hurricane Katrina around the Gulf Coast in 2005. It wasn't the only major storm of the year and New Orleans is one of many parts of the country destroyed by hurricane winds and flooding. The Florida Keys were hit by Hurricane Wilma during October 2005 completely submerging some of the islands in ocean water for several hours. Longtime reader of this site, Paul Hansen, was on hand during Hurricane Wilma, standing by as a paramedic on the islands and documenting what he expected to be a much less severe storm. Paul was in for a surprise as Hurricane Wilma ultimately hit Category 5 levels trapping his family in their home. Throughout the gathering storm and during the worst of the weather, Paul recorded video footage of winds, rain, ocean swells and the general wreckage of everything around his home. The resulting footage was later used for the local community college to receive disaster relief funding. More recently, Paul released a DVD of his footage combined with images shot by two other Florida Keys videographers. The DVD both documents the events as they transpire and provides something of a behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to survive a hurricane in a way Anderson Cooper simply can't begin to imagine.
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Believe me, I all too well understand this gentleman's dilemma because here in southwest Louisiana and more specifically those of us here in Cameron Parish & Calcasieu Parish, well, we call Hurricane Rita, "the forgotten hurricane".
There is absolutely NO coverage, NO news, NOTHING at all being said about Rita and the devastation that she left here in SW LA. Something that has changed our lives forever.
And despite the fact that it was almost 8 months ago, it is still very much a part of our everyday lives ! Even General Russell Honore who was transferred here from New Orleans after Rita devastated the SW to Central Coastal area of Louisiana said that Cameron was "the worst he had seen" out of the 2005 hurricane season and he was the man in charge of beginning stages of recovery.
There is no rebuilding going on for the most part because they are still cleaning up and getting the sewer lines back in.
After 7 months a limited supply of FEMA housing was finally put into place. I just wonder what these people were supposed to do for the first 7 months!
Even worse, we have 2 weeks to go and the whole season will start again and we all realize, it will be worse than last year.
We are still having trees snap in half when we have bad thunderstorms. We lost 4 in the last week! I am sure the trees are just giving after being compromised by Rita.
Last year, my family was some of the 5% that still had a home to come back to... 2 weeks after Rita, once they had restored power to our area. I don't feel that we will be as lucky this next go around. :-(
I volunteered after hurricane Katrina when evacuees were brought to shelters in the parish just north of us. I cried for those people and felt the anguish and pain they went through with Katrina. I tried to help any way that I could.
I am not asking for special attention nor favors, but it would be nice to know that somewhere out there... somewhere outside of our area here ...those of us who were devastated and/or severely affected by Rita's wrath (which btw is sizeable in amount)... it would just be nice to know that somewhere out there is some acknowledgement that people might understand what we TOO have endured.
Namaste & God Bless Everyone!
Spirited Truth Seeker
Posted by: SpiritedTruthSeeker | May 14, 2006 01:38 PM