Living in Ontario you don't worry much about the weather. I mean, we have our blizzards and ice rain but typically they do not count as natural disasters. Our worst weather event in the recent memory is the Ice Storm in the nineties and even then no one died from it. Tornados and hurricans are not something we need to worry about here.
So the few pictures and stories coming out of the Gulf of Mexico area is mind-boggling. Incomprehensible. I try to imagine most of Ottawa being under water and I come up blank. Unthinkable. One or two flooded streets and basements would be considered a huge story. And the amount of destroyed buildings from the wind and storm surge is unbelievable. I just can't fathom the devastation.
The scariest thing of all for me is the fact that hurricanes are relatively common occurences. I could not imagine facing the terror of another storm after having lived through the first one.
May the cleanup of New Orleans and surrounding areas occur quickly and without further troubles.
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