2024 Tropical Weather Thread

efil4stnias said

This takes me right back to 2005- sitting on a curb outside the La Quinta trying to reach folks by cell/text - boss, friends, family - while understanding I have a wife and 2 yr old up in the room- will i even have a career now? an absolute avalanche of "What now" comes rushing over you and it can be quite paralyzing.

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This sounds incredibly familiar right down to the 2 yr old and wife while wondering if I would have a job in the future and if I would get a paycheck to pay the bills that were due in a few days. I recall being more or less paralyzed for 4 or 5 days. And that was without still being in the disaster area with limited access to food, water, and electricity. I know it was much worse for so many then and so many now.

And yeah, I'm feeling some PSTD just thinking about it again.