Nischelle_Turner's Blog

Good Wednesday Morning Everyone....

     I usually post blogs on Thursday but today I wanted to post a special blog.  People ask me all the time about Hurricane Katrina and it's aftermath.  They ask me what it was like being there and going through it.  And they ask me do I remember.  Do I remember?  I will never forget...I will never forget the first body I saw just laying on the side of the road..the first baby I saw crying because they were so hungry and their parents had no food..the first time I saw people ransacking stores and groceries trying to get supplies to survive and I will never forget the faces and the human spirit.  I won't forget neighbors helping neighbors...I won't forget how I felt when I saw friends and knew they were okay...I'll never forget having to tell other friends that their homes were destroyed and that they had to rebuild their lives.  I won't forget not sleeping for almost two weeks and living on the 10 freeway in an Impala...I won't forget how it felt to hear my mothers voice on the phone after not being able to reach her for a week...and I won't forget how my partner Greg Montemurro jumped into the fray of that with me full steam ahead and was a good enough person to understand I was really going through it.  I won't forget how he knew when I wanted to talk and when i wanted to be left alone...when i needed a hug and when I needed a laugh..that got me through it.  And I especially won;t forget the response, or lack thereof, on every level; local, state, and most definitely federal....no I won't EVER forget...and neither should you.