AFTER THE DISASTER

摘要

The evening news has been particularly heart-wrenching for me this year. Scenes of tornado victims sorting through rubble or families standing in front of homes destroyed by a hurricane or wildfire bring back painful memories. Twice in the past threeyears I've been in their shoes. In 2008, our farm in Alvin, Texas, was hit by Hurricane Ike. We were able to evacuate our horses, donkey, dogs and cats in time, but our propertx was uninhabitable for a month. We spent an additional five living in a travel trailer on our property while we rebuilt our home and barn.