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To: slaffe who wrote (35023)	9/24/1999 11:53:00 AM
From: Suzanne Newsome	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 44908

Very, Very OT ...but still on the topic of "perspective." Eastern North Carolina has suffered severe, widespread flooding due to 20 inches of rain being dumped on the state by Hurricanes Dennis and Floyd. Thousands of people have lost homes, cars, businesses, and farms, and have no insurance to cover it. The flooding has caused an environmental problem of unfathomable severity due to damaged sewage treatment plants, hog waste pit lagoon failures, and tens of thousands of dead animals. People living in a 500-year flood plain have lost everything. The majority of these are poor people who have the least resources to recover. Thousands of people have been living in shelters for a week with nothing left but the clothes on their back. The initial shock is giving way to anger, despair, and depression. Emergency personnel have worked endlessly searching for people trapped in attics. Forty-one people are dead. A bread truck that finally made its way to an isolated area where grocery shelves were bare was accompanied by a highway patrol escort. I suspect many of the small towns will simply disappear, never to be built back. In our global society with its instant communication, we learn of a natural disaster every other week. If we didn't ignore most of it, we would be soon be lunatics. The flooding in eastern North Carolina has already been designated as the worst disaster in the state's 400-year history. My relatives are safe. But the people of eastern North Carolina to whom I have a close affinity are facing a mammoth problem that will be dealt with for years to come. I will not be on the thread this weekend debating Ditch or counting shares or defending REW. I am going to buy several cases of bottled water and head east. A road that will allow me to reach my parents finally opened up this morning. Those who have read my posts know that I do not discuss personal matters on the thread, but the sad, sad plight of eastern North Carolina causes me to suspend that rule. In anticipation of the expressions of sympathy to come, save those for the people of eastern North Carolina; I have only suffered vicariously. Regards, Suzanne