katrina......

ok, so the rain has finally let up......or at least it has in central ky.....and we are hoping that we have seen the last of katrina.....strange to say this name, even in print, as associated with death and destruction.......it is a pet name in my family.......and recently in my office......where there are 4 kathy's(cathy's) employed.......just yesterday, the head clerk called back on the intercom for me, using what i will now think of as the storm name and after she said it, she gasped, and said...'i guess i shouldn't call you that anymore....'.......i am not the first in my family to be associated with a storm.....there has already been andrew, way back in the 90's......i doubt that they will ever get around to hurricane ernst.......and even if they did, it would come out as ern-nest.......but back to the horrible storm....this morning there was a montage of interviews with survivors, and a man from new orleans who had driven to jackson , mississippi to escape the potential destruction, only to have the hurricane's winds blow over a tree that crashed into his sister's house, and land just 4 feet from his head while he slept.....and so he and his wife are now in tennessee....worrying about the cats they left behind in new orleans.....the guy was in tears over his cats.......and i couldn't understand how he could have left them behind......especially since he had driven his own car.....not like he took the bus......so sad....and so long before thet area of the country gets back to normal......