Don't pay them any mind cajungirl. People who have not been down there have no concept of what it's really like and how many really fine people there are in that part of the country.
People who aren't here simply cannot comprehend what is going on. My daughter just visited and she had heard me talking, when I could, about it. She was stunned. Every place we went, people told her their stories. We went to a story hour at the bookstore for her Baby and the lady sitting next to her had lost everything and was staying with relatives here. She cried telling my daughter her story. We went to get our hair cut and the hairdresser told her all about her sister and brother in law and their losses.
We are drowning in sadness, loss and dislocation here. There is more loss than I can absorb. Yesterday my secretary went down to her sisters house in No, it was molded, the roof had collapsed and it was all in ruins. They were there all day and they got back with two rosaries, both had belonged to their grandmothers. She cried telling me about it but said she was so happy, that was all they wanted to get.
My hurricane refuges who stayed here for a month lost everything, wedding albums, furniture, a lifetime of scrimping to get furniture, keepsakes. Their kids are in a new school, they don't even know where their friends are. And entire family just stunned. The husband's business is in ruins, he cannot find his clients, the wife's job gone.
I hear this everyday,,it is beyond horrible.
So I have little patience for the hubris, the hatefulness, the lack of any heart of some people.