Tag: Hurricane Ida

Ida Know, Either

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on September 3, 2021. Posted in General. 4 Comments on Ida Know, Either

We are fine. Our beach house in Waveland, Mississippi, which was Hurricane Katrina’s Ground Zero 16 years ago, is fine. The house in New Orleans is fine (how many houses do I have? Two). The kids’ house in New Orleans had minor damage, but it is essentially fine. Our NOLA home in happier times The City of New Orleans is...

Ida Know, but We Gotta Go

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 28, 2021. Posted in GOD, GRIEF. 16 Comments on Ida Know, but We Gotta Go

It is Saturday. We’re packing up to drive to my sister’s house in Jackson before Hurricane Ida hits our part of the world. “Ride it out,” they call it when you evacuate to another area. But you fly from the storm, grabbing your file of necessary papers (oh, right: add COVID vaccination cards) and hurriedly deciding...