Road to Recovery.......

Our recent RV trip to Florida took us south to Alabama, then east along Florida's panhandle. We fled winter and enjoyed a few weeks of much warmer temperatures. We were, once again, fortuate to be able to take the time away.

The route took us through Mexico Beach....the small community hit by the hurricane in October. We were driving along the road and suddenly we were in another world. A world peopled by loss, devastation and ruin. A world populated by homeowners without homes, workers with out jobs.....a world just gone. I've never seen anything like it.

Mile after mile of left-over homes surrounded by the foundations of homes now gone. Trash everywhere.....mattresses, fences, furniture flung into the trees on the north side of the road. Thousands of trees just snapped off.

Mile after mile a demonstration of the power of wind and water......that this community will ever recover is doubtful to me. And sad......and then it happened again with dozens of tornadoes in Alabama the day after we got home.  And Puerto Rico is still in recovery mode....and Flint still doesn't have clean drinking water.

Oh America......ruins among our riches......