Shaggy
September 16, 2008, 7:47pm
54
I started a small business in sept 2003. Around a week shy of my 1 year annaversiry it was practically destroyed in the Carnegie flood. Believe me you don’t get much more broke than trying to start a hot rod shop from scratch in pittsburgh. We where not warned of the impending doom. I never really appriciated how the fuck somone can get caught in a flood. The water doesn’t come up in a wall, it comes up inch by inch. A friend and myself were scrambling to get anything we could out of the water and before we knew it the water was past our waists. When we went to leave the water was channeling past our building very swiftly. If we didn’t leave when we finally decided to then there is a chance we would have been stuck, and there is really no way to get to our roof. The following day the water had already subsided and I had pretty much made up my mind that I was going to be looking for a job. The president came and toured the area, and the red cross set up shop at the police station. I was given a free tetnis shot and a penut butter and jelly sandwich. The following month I worked my ass off to try and clean things up. I did get alot of help from friends. I lost close to 15lbs. I never had my hand out for anything. I have absolutely no respect for anyone that has any complaint about not recieving government help. The katrina loosers that got a gov. debit card wasted that money. There where towns in mississippi that got destroyed as well but you don’t hear about them cause those people went back in and kept their heads down till their town was clean.
Pewter and I stayed in gulfport, it was hit hard like norleans suburbs.mostly flooding and wind damage. Buildings survived.
Waveland mississippi was obliterated. wiped off the map, not until this year i heard anything about it. only thing to witness a house was there the concrete pad.
this was waveland