Category: History Publisher: www.lulu.com
Pages: 280
Copyright: 2008
ISBN-13: 9780615199184
On August 29, 2005, the Gulf Coast was rocked by one of America's deadliset, most castastrophic storms: hurricane Katrina. For one family, it was a lifelong lesson in survival and the beginning of a long journey to return to their home in a storm ravaged city.
America's first warning of global warming came on August 29th, 2005 when hurricane Katrina entered the Gulf of Mexico and transformed into a monster storm. Four coastal States, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana , were devastated by deadly winds and slashing rain. In New Orleans, the catastrophic storm was followed by a powerful storm surge that burst three key points in the city's levee system and inundated the old French City in fifteen feet of water, and drown nearly 1500 people. Hundreds of thousands were displaced, and thousands more suffered needlessly at the New Orleans Superdome and the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. One Ninth Ward family refused to evacuated their home, and stood strong against the storm and ther flood not for two or three days, but for an incredible two weeks! THROUGH THE STORM is their courageous story of a historical event, how they survived, and what they dfd to survive. With tornadoes devastating Tennessee and Georgia, and the Mississippi flooding mid-western cities, there is an indication that we are in for more turbulent and deadly weather patterns. How will we survive? Are we prepared to survive? . . Read THROUGH THE STORM to find out if we are.
Excerpt
For I was hungry and you gave Me food,
I was thirsty and you gave Me drink,
I was a stranger and you took Me in.
Verily, I say unto you, inasmuch as you
Did it to one of the least of these,
My brethren, you did it to me.
Matthew 25:35-40
September 8, 2005
(Chapter Eight: A Long Journey Into Night; Page 149)
"You got some water," the old man asked.
"Some who?"
"some water. You got some bottle water? I'll give it back when my son bring me some."
"Yeah, I got water," the balding man scoffed. "But I ain't got none to spare. The water I got for me n' my dogs 'n cats! I cain't le' go none o' that! You shoulda went to the school over there when they had people over there. They had a lotta water! I was goin' ova there so much to git water, they tol' me they wan' gon give me no mo' water!"
"You think you can git me some when you go again?"
"They gone now. You's too late! They ain't got nothin' ova there now! You need to be gittin' up outta y'ere, pops! You's eighty-sum year old! You don't need to be livin' like this! Why's you still down there?"
"Okay," the old man turned, staring out in the watery street.
The balding man continued to talk about how his ceiling had collapsed and that he was moving to the other side of his double house. After a while, he realized the old man wasn't listening to him, and he went inside. . . "I was hungry and you gave Me food. I was thirsty and you gave Me drink. . ." The passage passed through my mind like a gentle breeze. It seemed sinful for the balding man to refuse the old man atleast a bottle of water, knowing how precious water was in these days. I knew by seeing the balding man go out frequently that he had enough water to share. I was extremely agitated that he would refuse the old man. I went into the kitchen to check my supplies. There were twelve bottles of water left from the helicopter drop a week ago. I took a six-pack, a can of sweet peas, a can Spam, a can of fruit cocktail, and a pack of strawberry creme cookies and placed them into a small box. Man, the sight of the Spam made me nauseous, but I understood that it had made me sick because I had tried to save it. I only hoped the old man would eat it all and not try to do what I had done.
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Reviews for "Through The Storm by Robert P. Robertson"
'Through the Storm' is a page turner from the word go: I could not put it down. If the reader wants to know what it was like during and after Hurricane Katrina, read this book: it pulls no punches. This is as close to terrified as I want to get...excellent read.
The authors of Savannah: Brokers, Bankers and Bay Lane: Inside the Slave Trade (Civil War Savannah), received the 2012 Award for Excellence in Research from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board. The Award was issued by then Georgia Secretary