Hard to watch

At our last meeting we watched a documentary about Hurricane Katrina.  It was a lot of footage of people's home videos before, during, and after the hurricane.  It was hard for me to watch.  It just makes me completely sad.  I can't imagine being in such a frightening situation.  Most of us will never know what it is like to lose all of our belongings and our home and probably our job/school.  So much was lost in such a short amount of time.  Can any of us fathom water rising to the roof of our home?  When we went in 09, four years after the hurricane, I was so shocked to see how much destruction was still there.   I wanted to cry on the bus tour we took the first day.   I couldn't understand why there were still so many houses in ruin and buildings boarded up.  I'm going to try to do some homework on the logistics of why that is.  I'm hoping to see some change though this year.