Dear Grandma and Grandpa,
It's been a couple days since my last post, but here everything is going well, thank god! I just got home from helping some people get everything (that's not destroyed) out of their home, a tree fell on it. Tree's must weigh a TON because anything that was within the crash area was absolutely destroyed, even the refrigerator is now dead! Also our power just came 
back on today, that was the longest power outage I've ever been in! Did you know that the lightning is not what kills people in a thunderstorms, it's the trees being knocked over and the debris flying around.
back on today, that was the longest power outage I've ever been in! Did you know that the lightning is not what kills people in a thunderstorms, it's the trees being knocked over and the debris flying around. While I'm writing this letter to you I am also watching the news, they say that there will be three types of impacts on our area from this storm, there is the environmental impact, the economic impact, and of course the human impact. Right now you can probably guess what the environmental impact is like here, but I'll fill you in with the little details. First they're telling us not to drink any tap water, even if you think it looks fine, apparently when the flooding from the storm hit some of the factories, their chemicals got mixed together and now they're concerned that the water may have pollutants and deadly chemicals in it. There have also been some concerns with fires raging on even after the rain came, can you believe it? Apparently there was allot of lightning that hit trees, actually come to think of it I did see an orange glow that seemed to be radiating out from the forest, I'm glad it was far from the house! But I feel kinda bad for the forest, being in over four feet of water and having lots of trees knocked over.
The forcast for the economic impact is that prices of foods, goods, and gas are expected to go up over the next week or so, but they will fall back to their normal prices again. When the power went out some of the factories got completly shut down and some things like cloths will be more expensive. Also at the RSW Bank near Mom and Dad's store in Wilmington they had to practically start over on the building project they were doing. Did you know that in a thunderstorm in Australia caused over $1.7 billion in damages (that's allot of money)!
We also have to deal with the human impact! There have been about 15 total fatalities in the tri-state area, and hundreds of homes destroyed, it seems that things can't get much worse. I'll write again next week telling you guys how everything is then, and hopefully news that everything has returned to normal. If you want to learn a little more about the damage from the storm, click here
I'm off to work again,
Sam
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