3. Actually bbc, I'm not too bothered that a load of Americans are about to lose th...

Actually bbc, I'm not too bothered that a load of Americans are about to lose their roof tiles

I just evacuated. Reading this post was painful.

I just got a call letting me know the house my family's invested in the last 25 years is gone. Everything is gone. Everything I couldn't carry of my son's childhood, all the things I kept from my deceased father, nothing fancy, but everything I've worked for my whole life.

Seconds before I logged in I was comforting my elderly, disabled mother who I had to tell, "No, mom, the house is gone. I'm so sorry". I tried not to sob by telling myself, "We're alive. We're breathing. Others have it worse. We'll get through this. We're breathing."

It's not genocide. Surprisingly, it's still pretty painful.

I'm waiting to hear from family and friends who couldn't evacuate. I am wondering if they'll all be alive come morning. But, yeah, roof tiles.

The irony is, I've spent about 10 years of my life volunteering in some of those places maybe the BBC should cover more (Haiti and D.R. which have also been demolished, including one of the schools I help support; I have no idea about my students). I agree there are other things going on. I didn't ask for the BBC to cover it and I don't ask England to care about me or my family.

There was genocide going on somewhere in the world during the last terrorist attacks in London and Paris, but it didn't make me any less empathetic to the victims.

We're just people. Suffering like anyone would. It's easy to forget that on the internet. I get it.

I'm not typically this self-pitying and I'm not looking for sympathy (tried to make a throwaway, but reddit wouldn't let me or I wouldn't have even used my regular sign-on), but this is hard. Maybe it'll be funny next week, but right now, it's hurtful. It's not something to be dismissive of.

BBC not covering it? Couldn't care less. Roof tiles? Cunt thing to say.

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