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.
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My first "hurricane" memory was in 1957 when Hurricane Audrey hit Cameron and Lake Charles. I remember watching the roof of the house across the stree lift up and down for what seemed like hours. After the storm, we found a fork from a nearby Dairy Queen stuck in the shingles of the roof. My dad was among the rescue teams that helped in Cameron and several days later he took us down there to see the carnage. My most vivid memories are the carcasses of dead cows and horses lying bloated alongside the road, and concrete coffins askew across fields hundreds of yards from the nearest church yards. In the years after, living in Houma, sometimes we stayed and other times we left for higher ground. But that's life in South Louisiana. Those that love it chose to stay no matter what. A little storm doesn't destroy your roots there.
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