Slow enough for reflection

 
My Experience on campus during Hurricane Isaac was slow; looking out of the window watching trees sway back and forth, seeing my fellow students running in the rain, and seeing SUPD patrolling the campus.
Although the experience was slow it gave me time to think deeper into the current situation.
Being from New Orleans, when July comes around I always get a little nervous and think back to August 29, 2005, after that everybody started to take Hurricane season seriously again, and this storm wasn’t any different.
Making landfall on the same day as Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Isaac wasn’t really a storm that made me think about the wind or the rain but made me think back to 2005.
Staying on campus, I couldn’t help but watch CNN and the Weather Channel to try and stay on top of what was going on around Louisiana and back home in New Orleans. I called my family around the clock to make sure that they were ok even though they were without power for days along with over 900,000 other Louisianans.
Also, I thought about the people down in Plaquemines Parish, a parish that’s going through the something that I went through seven years ago, having to deal with levees being overtopped along with houses submerged by 12 feet of water was an eerie reminder of Katrina.
I can only hope that everybody that lives on the Gulf Coast stays safe and my heart goes out to every one in Plaquemines Parish, because I know the feeling of having your home destroyed and having to start over. 
I know what it feels like because I’ve lived it and wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
The power of mother nature is nothing to be taken lightly, whether it’s tropical storm or a Category 5 Hurricane you’re always at risk when you live in the Gulf Coast during hurricane season.