My feeling on Hurricane Gustav

I am guessing if you know me at all, you would know that I live in the greater Baton Rouge area. There is a huge hurricane heading towards Louisiana. This will be my first experience with this. I was not here for Andrew, and I was in Dallas during Katrina and Rita, which explains why I feel uncomfortably calm. This is supposed to be worse than Katrina, but I don't know what that feels like. When I was younger, I have to start putting it in that category, because time does start getting compressed and blurry. I have really bad short term memory or long term memory. Lets put it this way, I can remember off the top of my head the Magna Carta was passed in 1215 and the Battle of Hasting took place in 1066, but I can hardly remember the occurrences of earlier days up till I left for Dallas Texas. I just remember it lasted forever.
Anyway, when I was younger, there was a hurricane coming, I believe it was a category 4, my family packed into a house, and the adults were prepared for the worse. I remember they told us if we heard sirens we would all go into these concrete ditches. Lets just say there was fear in the air. I am not going to lie and say I have never struggled with having faith, or I have never felt despair, but I did feel a conviction that it would all be o.k. The faith of a child. I woke up the next morning, and the news said it was a miracle, the category 4 storm had downsized to a tropical depression. I mentioned I had never been through a hurricane, but I almost did. Please, don't get bogged down with all the details of my story, but get the big picture. God protects his children. I pray we all have faith to believe God will be there for us.