Due to the storm, the majority of this parish(county) never came back. Every single friend of mine moved away. My only contact with them is by phone or email. And with my ptsd its hard for me to push mysellf to keep the contact. We've grown apart, but once a year do come together and have a bbq or boil. But while spending that time together the talk is nothing but of what happened and their opinions of why people even moved back. It makes me feel absolutley awful because i did come back. They say how devastated it still is and it will never change for the better. I once had faith it would.

As far as neighbors, 8 came back out of 36 homes on my street. But in some households the families split because some wanted home and some wanted to move.

Not one of my old neighbors with children came back, so its very quiet on the street. I really miss the sound of children playing.

I need to stop right now talking about this, i'm gettig triggered. I'm sorry. I hope I helped in answering your question.

chal