Lifestyle of Wandering: Reflections of a Wanderer

Hello! For those who don’t know me personally, I have been a disaster housing inspector, under contract to FEMA for the last 10+ years. I’m also a Licensed Practical Nurse. I’ve been in the homes of over 900 disaster victims and have observed first hand the devastating effects of hurricanes and tropical storms. I’ve also […]

Well, I’ve been gone 48 days now. At times it hasn’t seemed long, but right now it seems like an eternity. Not in a bad way, but in the way that some things just seem like distant memories, even though 48 days really isn’t that long. By the time anyone reads this, I’ll probably be […]

Hey everyone! This is Sandi. I’m still here in Houston, TX on deployment with FEMA. I had a little time to write tonight, so I wanted to try to catch things up a little bit. To do that, I’ll have to back-track to last week. I hesitated to share part of this lest I concern […]

Well I got to Houma a lot later than I meant to. I passed flooded areas along the way and when I got to Houma I realized that many areas of the city were already flooding. I found my way to my first applicant’s house, and the street was flooded. I’m in an SUV right […]