Disappearing past

Another building from my past has been torn down. This one was my Aunt Yvonne's house in Evesham Road, a 1930's semi-detached, I remember a long garden with an old air-raid shelter where spiders lived. Now it is gone with the rest of its row of 1930's house, they are being replaced with Regency-style town houses. These will extend an existing terrace and in years to come no one will notice the join between the originals and the repros.
A lot of my past has gone... Victorian schools are now small housing estates, CCB was demolished and another Regency style housing block built, I wonder if that to is haunted? I feel a bit like Alice in Wonderland when she realized she couldn't go back as her path had been eradicated, does it matter? Why should I want to revisit my past? Why do archaeologists spend time delving into other people's past?
In the film Labyrinth there is a character who carries her life's possessions around with her. Of course she is so weighed down by them she isn't able to move easily, they hamper and prevent her enjoying the present and being open to the future. Sometimes we have to let go of the past.

Hello Katrina!

We arrived in Miami at the same time as hurricane Katrina. Collecting our hire car we were upgraded to a mini-van (also known as caravan but in UK we call them people-carriers) in order to get through water! On trying to exit my path was blocked by car which didn't seem to want to move, in the few seconds it took me to get out of car and sort problem out I was dredged. Darkness descended as we drove to hotel, although it was only 5.30pm, hence at one point we got lost! Maps suddenly didn't make sense and street signs were difficult to fathom until we realised that the road-names that hung above us named the crossing roads. Hit on hotel more by luck than judgment.
During the night I listened to wind and rain wondering whether I had booked the right holiday! Obviously no-one deliberately takes their family into a hurricane. Next morning it was dry but still windy. News reports showed that some areas had flooding and electricity supplies had been affected. I had slight problem when walking pass an open gap and nearly been blown over. We also had thunderstyle rain storm in afternoon, but it was mainly hot!
Hurricane moved onto Key West causing more disruption before heading across Gulf of Mexico to New Orleans, upping its category from one to five its arrival here caused massive flooding and devastation, plus wide spread social problems.
I'm just glad that we couldn't afford holiday in New Orleans, overall Katrina was kind to us and we had a memorable week.