Hurricane Gustav

Houma, Louisiana is the home of my family, my life long friends, and many memories, good and not so good. Houma is the seat of governance of Terrebonne Parish, which is French for good earth. The soil must be among the richest soils on the planet. The agricultural possibilities and the proximity to the sea and seafood attracted the native Americans and later the Cajuns to the area. The original Spanish explorers to the region created The Old Spanish Trail through Louisiana searching for gold. Hernando De Soto walked over the land without knowing that he was stepping over something more valuable than gold, oil and gas. The Old Spanish Trail became US Highway 90. The Cajuns who live along Highway 90 in concert with the Petroleum Engineers from Universities in Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas developed the techniques to drill for oil in all of the world's oceans.

Consider this fact; someone from Houma, Louisiana has helped your life to be a little easier by providing oil and gas for you. Pray for them that now suffer the loss of their material things in Hurricane Gustav.