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						<div class="fusion-text"><p>I returned to Canada in 2006 with pretty serious Operational Stress disorder/PTSD. I got it by working 14 months in the shelters that housed almost 10,000 people in San Antonio after Hurricane Katrina and going back and forth to Louisiana. I am a bit triggered watching Hurricane Harvey beat the crap out of the southern coast.  I think many of us are; whether we were there on the ground or witnessing the disaster online and on TV.</p>
<p><strong>But Here&#8217;s the Thing:</strong></p>
<p>We learned a lot.</p>
<p>We learned a lot about mass disaster relief infrastructure.</p>
<p>We learned that these refugees had better access to life improvement resources than everyday citizens ie healthcare, education, housing etc. and that really pissed off the locals.</p>
<p>We learned that drug dealers will sneak onto a refugee site for business.</p>
<p>We learned that children can laugh and play anywhere.</p>
<p>We learned that leadership exists in all of us.</p>
<p>We learned that the impoverished, mentally ill, home-bound elderly are the people greatest effected; as they have no SUV in which to flee north.</p>
<p>We made a tonne of friends.</p>
<p>We were enriched by our experience.</p>
<p>The exchange of kindness and witnessing the resilience of the human spirit changed me for the better for the rest of my life.</p>
<p>I learned that you can get a conga line going to exercise the elderly if you’re willing to make a goof of yourself.</p>
<p>I learned that the Red Cross liaison on site was indeed super human.</p>
<p>I learned that people from Louisiana remind me of Canadian Maritimers with their humour, music and willingness to look adversity in the face and give it a hug.</p>
<p>I learned the benefit of gratitude.</p>
<p><strong>Annie’s Story</strong></p>
<p>There was a woman in a church basement shelter that changed my life forever and I think of her often.</p>
<p>Annie personified every element of strength that can be held in one human being.  I was called to drive her one day.  She was a gruff physical giant of a woman.  She was demanding and verbally combative on a good day. She mocked me for being a do-gooder Canadian and fought my assistance in the beginning.  Her jokes were filthy and had me on the floor laughing.</p>
<p>When I went to pick her up the first time, she was eager to show me images of her dead relative in a yard found on google earth.  Imagine my shock.  As a trained grief counselor I was well aware that sometimes tragedy survivors will shock you to access their own feelings.  It was, nevertheless, a shocking opener to my 14 month journey.</p>
<p>I asked her where we were going and it turned out I was taking her to her chemo treatments.  She didn’t want tenderness or pity or comfort from me in the traditional forms.  She was going to be strong like a bull and kick anyone’s ass that got in the way of that.  The first time she let me hold her hand still resonates with me as profoundly intimate.  It took 6 trips before she would hug me.</p>
<p>Over the course of the next couple of months driving Annie to her appointments and getting her situated I met her grandparents who were in their 80’s.  Mamaw and Papaw.  These were two of the cutest, gentlest people I’d ever met.  Gracious and elegant to a fault in the midst of chaos.</p>
<p>The four of us went out to lunch one day.  There’s this beautiful Mill restaurant in SA that is yummy and beautiful and perfect for Mamaw.  It’s important to get these people out of the shelter as much as possible.  The elders were soft spoken and could rarely keep up with Annie and I chattering away.  But on this day Mamaw asked me if Annie had told me how they came to survive.  She recounted to me that their neighbourhood had water up to the roof of their house and Annie held them above water when they weakened, for hours on end while they waited for rescue.  This cancer ridden badass held them up intermittently for more than 30 hours until the little speed boat came.  Annie kept saying “anyone would have done the same” trying to shush her grandmother gently.  I believe that she, and her giant heart, were a super hero despite her modesty.</p>
<p>I accompanied Annie and her Grandparents to northern Louisiana after a couple of months to be reunited with some distant cousins who would house them as by that time Annie was pretty tired and the three of them needed some help travelling and making arrangements.  I did this for a few families that were extra vulnerable but this woman and her family keep me brave to this day. I fell in love with this little family.</p>
<p>Annie survived the cancer and Hurricane Katrina. Annie survived displacement, the loss of their pets and living in a different state.  She was adaptive, generous with other refugees, and tried to help others at every turn even while she lost her hair and was ill all the time.  She herded the elderly with me with a gentle hand and a sense of humour.  She gave her food to others when she couldn’t eat.  Amazing.</p>
<p>Healthy cultures are built through kindness, adaptation and the courage to do what’s necessary.  So while I worry about the southern coast that I feel so connected to, I feel confident that there are lots of Annies out there holding people above disaster and leading them to safety.</p>
<p>Annie was a leader disguised as a Hurricane refugee.</p>
<p>Pretty cool eh?</p>
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