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To: fightinJAG
The worst thing is we have had two mandatory evacuations in the past 5 years because of hurricanes--Rita and Ike. We had to go in a FEMA ambulance to my brother's. It's amazing how helpful people are to total strangers--delivering hospital beds, etc.

The bad part ---depending on others to get away from the hurricane.

The first time a tree fell on my mother's BR and we had no electrcity for 3 weeks so it's a good thing we weren't here. We live in "The Piney Woods"...and have big ones in our yard...what's left! LOL!

91 posted on 04/05/2010 9:38:56 PM PDT by lonestar (Better Obama picks his nose than our pockets!)
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To: lonestar

I hear you.

My dad used an oxygen machine or oxygen tubes on the move. We had to have a plan to evacuate him any time the electricity might go off!

We did get this down pretty well. But we were fortunate that we had the flexibiltiy and money to take care of this. Once we had to get Dad out in the middle of the night; a huge storm and power out for miles. We had oxygen tubes, but they can go fast, so we wanted electricity for the machine! Just kept driving until we found a motel that had electricity. Got him in and got his machine hooked up and I stayed with him.

Went back to his house the next day and a huge tree had fallen on it and a power line was across the back door stoop. Yikes.

We could have gone to a hospital in an emergency, but we could do this and it worked better for us.


105 posted on 04/06/2010 6:23:23 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Next up: Forced public transportation:because it's not "affordable" unless we all have to use it.)
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