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Mississipi Survival of Katrina (condensed)
By: Kriswest

She tapped gently at 3am.
We watched her coming on the news, 2 slept one kept guard.
She was insistent at 6am
we talked and joked,calming worried thoughts.
She put us in darkness at 7am
Her anger was keen by 10
We talked, joked and read books to calm fears
She threw a white wall of water to batter our nerves.
Her winds shook our sanctuary.
She was furious by 11am
Laughter and words stopped, cats and dogs cried shivered in fear. We tried to read.
We could only look at each other knowing it might be our last.
She entered our home screaming like a flock of Demons, around noon for a minute or three by throwing a tornado our way.
We fought her , stuffing rags into roof holes made by our beloved shade tree limbs she had ripped from it
Her tornado imploded windows that were covered on the outside to prevent her shrapnel from breaking them. Her pet forced battering rain in our home through the broken shards and unsealed cracks. Bookshelves were ripped down to put on shattered windows frames. Our house rose and bucked slightly as she fought us.
She calmed a bit.
We won temporary reprieve.
She fell silent around 1 or 2pm
her silence was eerie. Dark speeding clouds overhead. No sounds to batter our nerves, no life made noise.
We waited.
She came back hit us harder and harder
We knew each moment was precious.
Rags, towels, blankets sopped water up that she was forcing through unknown cracks.
Winds raged and pushed rain into white walls seething as if alive. All the demons of hell could not have made such fearful noises.
By 4pm she grew tired she fell to mere gale force.
We were bone tired.
By 6pm we walked out to a new world Katrina had left us.
New Orleans flooded, Mississippi from the length and the bredth of her, was destroyed.
People and animals died, buildings no longer existed.
She let us live We laughed, we talked, we cried, we slept.
The next day, hell began.

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