Hurricane Isabel 2003 and on to West Virginia Flooding 2004

 

After a Disaster was over there was usually a contest for designing the insignia for the shirt you could purchase as a memento of your experience on that disaster.  This was the one where I saw so much of Maryland and fell in love with the area.  The shirt was way to large and so I got rid of it but wanted to keep this memento.

This is the one I came home from in the winter time and my furnace had just gone out and I had a four feet high and wide solid berm in front of my house.

One of the elders in the ward brought over his snow machine and shovel and dug me out.  The next day he had a crash in his snowmobile and had a traumatic brain injury.  It took him months and years of recovery and learning to talk and walk again, totally changed his life.  He had to sell his airplane, changed the way they lived, sell all the restaurants he owned, etc.  He was a very rich and accomplished man, but he became a beautiful and humble man, whom I always loved hearing about their latest travels from.  He was never ashamed to talk or pray in church though it was not easy for him.  Usually his wife or brother drove the car.  I do not think he could ever drive again.  He liked to travel and visit different temples.  Once I saw him, his wife, and brother in Walmart and they looked like they had a lot of fun together.  They never had to work as he had plenty of money.  One thing was strange though she seldom would come in to church but would sit and wait for him in the car.  Not sure what that was about.  He had a son who applied with FEMA and worked there after I shared with them what I did.  He liked it.