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When the water started rising outside her home, Gloria Guillory says the reality of it all really didn't dawn on her right away. In her words, she was "in denial."
Like most of us, she sees her weatherman as a trusted confidante, so when he reported that the rain would subside by 11 a.m., she wasn't worried. When the rain continued into the afternoon, she still wasn't concerned. She figured as long as the water didn't creep up her front porch stairs, she would be fine.
As the rain continued, so did the flood water, and eventually it met her front door.
In preparation for the worst, Gloria, her son Brandon and his two children began taking towels from her linen closet and lining all of the doorways. Soon after, water started to seep in through the doors; they began grabbing towels and wringing them out into buckets to be dumped.
"But pretty soon, there was nowhere to dump, and it all just came in," said Gloria. "It flooded everywhere; the dining room, the kitchen, my living room. Water was everywhere."
As water rushed over her feet and continued to surround her, Gloria and her family began picking up what valuable items they could find and stacked them high on top of shelves. She made the call to 9-1-1 telling them that her family was in need of a high water rescue. Then they waited.
"We weren't able to sit anywhere," said Brandon. "The water seemed to get higher and higher and before we knew it, all of our furniture was covered, and we didn't know what to do."
As boats came and went for their surrounding neighbors, Gloria started to get worried. She sent Brandon out to flag down a boat, and the boat driver promised to return.
"When that flat bottom boat came, we were so scared," said Gloria. "I remember trying to steer them, because the water would be high or low depending on if we were on top of a street or a ditch. The surface was closer to the bottom of the boat, and I was scared we might wreck. I was so traumatized; I didn't even realize the devastation of the flooding around me."
Gloria's home now has four feet of dry-wall and insulation removed. All of her furniture is ruined, and most of the inside of her home will have to be gutted and cleaned or replaced completely.
From the street, Gloria's home is nearly hidden by the mounds of belongings from nearly 28 years in her home, now ruined by the flood.
"It's just been so overwhelming," she said. "Sometimes, I just want to give up. It's a lot to clean, and now we're fighting the mold. And if you don't get it all, then it comes back and, in a few years, we'll be reliving the flood and all those horrible memories. But I'm blessed. I'm so very blessed. We are all alive. We have great friends. Our church came by to help and clean out the debris. And you all have been great. From the great food to all of the cleaning items and supplies we never knew we would need, you've got it all."
Each day, the American Red Cross drives through Gloria's neighborhood delivering hot meals and clean-up materials to her family and so many others just like them. While the people of Louisiana takes steps toward recovery with every passing day, the Red Cross is there with them providing food, supplies and comfort.
"You all are our lifesavers," said Gloria. "You may not realize it, but just seeing you here means a lot. Thank you for the food, the supplies and the support. You don't really even understand the psychological aspect of it all until you've been in our shoes."
Gloria says she believes that you can replace material things, but what amazes her is how this flood has brought so many people together. From relief groups like the Red Cross to local churches, businesses, neighbors and families, the outpouring of support for her is what she feels most grateful for.
"Y'all are so wonderful," said Gloria. "You provide such a great service. You see Red Cross, and you know they help other people. But when it's you, you're like 'wow, they really do help!' So thank you, and thank everybody who helps the Red Cross for me."


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Balta Drives In 4 Runs To Lead TCU Past West Virginia, 8-1A.J. Balta had a two-run double and drove in four runs to help TCU move on in the Big 12 baseball tournament with an win over West Virginia on Thursday night.
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5 More Former TCU Football Players Added To Lawsuit Against UniversityStories involving five more former TCU football players have been added to a lawsuit accusing the university of a pattern of verbal abuse, pressure to play and negligent medical treatment.
Texas Hires TCU's Chris Del Conte As Athletic DirectorChris Del Conte is leaving TCU to take over the University of Texas' athletic department.
2 People Shot, 1 Fatally, Inside House Near TCU CampusFort Worth police were on the scene of a double shooting that happened just south of Texas Christian University (TCU) campus.
No. 2 Oklahoma Now Has To Win Big 12 Title To Get To PlayoffOklahoma could already be playoff bound, except the No. 2 Sooners have to play in the revived Big 12 championship game -- and beat No. 10 TCU.
TCU Senior Orr Suspended For 1st Half Of Big 12 Title GameNo. 10 TCU will be without senior safety Nick Orr for the first half of the Big 12 championship game after the conference suspended him for his role in a bench-clearing brawl against Baylor.
Emotional Part Of Season For No. 10 TCU Starts Against TexasNow is when things start to get emotional for TCU, and not because the No. 10 Horned Frogs are coming off their first loss.
Bedlam To Start November In Big 12; Maybe More In DecemberSome things to watch during Week 10 of the Big 12 Conference as there's Bedlam to start November, and maybe more to come a month later.
Harvey Forces Rice Football To Relocate To TCUThe Rice football team is relocating to Texas Christian University in Fort Worth as flooding continues to inundate Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
TCU's Patterson Almost Apologizes For Post-Oklahoma CommentsTCU coach Gary Patterson almost apologized for some of the comments he made about officials when upset after the Horned Frogs' loss to the University of Oklahoma Sooners.
DISD Senior Surprised With Scholarship To TCUIt takes a village. And Charity Mason, a senior at Dallas' Carter High School-- has needed one—and so much more. She was one of six Carter students awarded full academic scholarships today to Texas Christian University.


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Book Talking at Huffinator
View more presentations from Lisa Huff.
Sample BookTalks (created with PhotoStory or MovieMaker):
- Pendragon
- Liberation of Gabriel
- The Moral Instruments series
- The Hunger Games
- A Dream Within a Dream: [Scroll down to see the embedded video.] This is NOT a book talk but an interpretation of a poem. But, its format might inspire you and give you ideas!
- NEVER use copyrighted images, sounds, music, videos. Make certain the author gives permission to use the media, and ALWAYS credit the source by giving the author's name and source info. In this case, providing a URL to point your audience to the particular web page where you found the content will suffice for source info.
- Be creative. Combine different media (images, sounds, music, text, voice narration) to convey your message with the ultimate impact. Move your audience (pathos!).
- Check out this site: it offers step-by-step directions for creating a book talk with PhotoStory.
- Note: The directions at this site don't mention citing your sources. They suggest finding images using a Google image search; HOWEVER, as ethical, responsible users, you understand you can't simply save and use any image/video/music you find online. Much of that content is copyrighted. Much of that content comes with an warning NOT to use it. Be smart. Be ethical. Be responsible. Even when you use permissible content, ALWAYS attribute your sources.
Use PhotoStory or MovieMaker to create your video.
- PhotoStory is an EASY--easy enough for elementary students to use--tool to create videos. It's a free download from MicroSoft. You can upload images and sound and can record voice narration on slides. You can also overlay text. At the end, it has music clips you can add from within PhotoStory, or you can add ones you've found elsewhere. You can NOT use video clips with PhotoStory.
- MovieMaker is a bit more complex though it's still user-friendly. It's a free download from Windows. You can do the all the same actions as with PhotoStory, AND you can can add video clips.
Find Images & Sound Clips & Background Music:
- Flickr Advanced Search: Scroll down the page, and select Creative Commons only so that you search for images that give you permission to use them.
- Brainy Betty
- Free Graphics
- StockXchg
- Deviant Art
- Microsoft Clip Art
- Pics4Learning
- NASA Image Gallery
- Classroom Clipart
Music & Sounds:
- Freeplay Music
- Beat Suite
- Wes Fryer's List of Music & Audio


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Murphy Oil MUR, +2.84% fell Friday after the El Dorado, Ark. energy firm disclosed $36 million in fourth-quarter expenses related to drilling operations in the Republic of the Congo under its Mer Profonde Sud permit. Shares of Murphy Oil fell 5.2% to $70.17. The company said it plugged and abandoned three wells. The company said the results were "disappointing."
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