...comments on Shelter Commander post (OT)

October 25, 2005

Butch--

I want to offer you many thanks for posting that article.

I was stationed at Keesler in the 70's, going thru tech school for Air

Traffic Control.

While the 'wait' for where & when Katrina was to hit was happening, I

looked at the tv as we were watching national weather reports, and

told my hubby--it's gona hit dead center on Biloxi--you wait and see.

After the storm hit, and they were showing pictures of the area--there

wasn't a single thing that I could identify--left of Biloxi--and there

was NO mention of the base--which had me concerned.

I'll go to my grave remembering the panic I experienced being tied

4-to-a-group, holding on to a guide rope strung from the dorm we were

confined to, to the chow-hall durring a hurricane that hit 90 miles

east---winds so strong it still blew rain thru/under the calking

around the windows.

I was pretty young when we had the tail-end of a typhoon come up the

Columbia River and hit Portland, Oregon--the infamous

" Columbus-Day-Storm " --watching my older brother (18 at the time) get

blown down the street while trying to capture/prevent neighbor's

garbage cans from doing damage to cars/property--and being scared to

death.

Then, going thru this at Keesler....oh--.where did the AF send me

after Tech school?...LOL....McConnell AFB, Wichita, Kansas---right

smack dab in the middle of tornado ally! (Yep..saw 1 when I was 7mo

pregnant--and that's as close as I EVER want to be to one!)

....sometimes it takes the 'worst' of things happening, to bring out

the very 'best' in a few--thanks again, for that reminder.

goody

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