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Against my better judgment, I recently watched Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke. It was an excellent documentary about Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans aftermath, and the failure of the Bush administration to assist those suffering. I thought I could handle it since it has been 18 months since Katrina ripped through Mississippi and Louisiana. You see, I live in south Mississippi and experienced the storm first hand. Turns out, I couldn't handle it.
The few hours I did manage to sleep that night, I had nightmares about the storm. I almost never have nightmares, but these were so vivid that it was as if the whole thing was happening again. At one point, I actually jumped out of bed, ran to the window, and looked out to see what kind of damage my property had sustained. Honestly, it took a few minutes for me to calm myself down and realize that it wasn't even raining.
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