I wanted to let you know what happened. First, I did not use my bat. I took my walk and ran into some of my neighbors outside talking. I told them how frustrated I was with the vans and buses. They said they were too. Saturday morning the guys wheeled some debris (from a recently gutted house) down to one of the corners and made a sort of barricade with it. Around 3pm the cops came by wanting to know why the stuff was blocking the street. We told them what has been going on and they said they would speak with the tourist companies doing these tours. We haven't seen one tour bus or van come down our street since. They are going down the street next to us now. I'm sorry I got so excited on here. Every little thing is getting to me bad. And I'm trying my hardest to not get out of control or cry my eyes out over it. By daily, life is such a struggle here. I just want to see some kind of improvement with something, anything. I'm over the loss of the material things. Minus the irreplaceable things. It's the loss of friends family and community I'm having problems with. And I'm sick and tired of hearing about the crap that happened to the city of New Orleans. When we, here in St Bernard, were 100% destroyed. I keep praying that I'll wake up and it's all been a dream.

Sky, thanks. I find it hard alot of the time to speak about what I'm going through here on this forum. I do know that everyone in time goes through major loss of something. But, like us here, you with Andrew, ya'll lost friends, family, and your entire county too. It's hard trying to adjust to a complete loss of everything I've ever known my entire life. And everyone I know here is going through the same loss. We just try to stay in touch via phone and all hope one day to live near each other again. I spend alot of time on the st bernard forum just reading what others are saying. I sometimes have input, but feel awkward talking with other st bernardians too. If you don't mind sharing. What were some of the ways you got through Andrew?

Thank ya'll for caring
chalmette