Online Story Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

2005 jan4th our home burned down, mom and dad and me. dad bedridden from a stroke. no inc. then hurricane rita came in i sent my daughter and grandkids out on the busses day befor mom and dad did not want to leave but last second we did, airport on those big army planes cnn did a thing on us with our dogs lillie and shep we ended up in georgia in a nursing home from hell 6 died in one week it was a dirty place we got out of there with the help on the army and flew to long view where we were droped off in milen at my aunt tralor. but aunt fell ended up hospital her daughter cut phone electric off so i 48 year old grandmother put on abackpack with my breathing machine in it and took off hitchhikeing yu see milen has no taxi\'s. lady picked me up sue reed, she knew a lady going to my area here in nederland, so i caught a ride . sue helped me and a home health got all turned back on. till i could rent a car. rented car got mom and dad and dogs went to houston motel on 1960 then i went after my daughter and grandkids where they were stuck in a rat motel and brought her there we rented 3 rooms. went to nederland and returned rental and got mom van under debree and drove it to houston with a bad tranmission, got tranmossion.. over 2000..we were refugee for 2 half months. we are now back in my 2 bedroom apt still in need on a backhoe. but iwe thank god to be back in southesttexas, the dogs well thank to rita there puppys i called them hurricane rita puppy. where there destructiin there life and hope.\r\nsign\r\nLinda Diane Hailey

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“Online Story Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed October 22, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org./items/show/1871.

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