Reply #17: I know...the news makes it sound just great. [View All]

[madfloridian]

The worst ones we heard about were word of mouth. The gal who comes to clean here was so chipper and cheerful, we asked her how she made it through the storm, she said very casually that she lost her home.

We did a double-take as she was so calm. We found out where she was staying, and made some arrangements to help a little. She had been disabled by a car accident and was just getting back to work. Bless her heart, she was so upbeat.

I will never forget the death of our neighbor. We found out at the funeral that his poodles are being taken care of lovingly, and that his aunt hired a lawyer to keep greedy nephews from taking his house.
It just broke us up. It was stress, pure and simple.

We had no damage from any of the storms, just the psychological impact. The other day there was lightning, and I felt myself tense up just terribly. The power went out for an hour two days ago, and we both just got irrationally upset.

Silly little things like that.