Posted on 08/30/2005 5:41:37 PM PDT by Daus
Katrina destroys Brett Favre's family home
Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre spent most of Monday and today nervously waiting to hear from family members in his hometown of Kiln, Miss., in the heart of the Gulf Coast area devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
The Packers said Favre finally spoke to his mother, Bonita Favre, late this afternoon when she was able to reach him with the help of a Houston television station, which was in the area covering hurricane damage.
According to the team, Favre said his mother reported spending Monday night in the family attic, along with his grandmother, after the entire house filled up with water within a matter of 5-10 minutes.
Bonita Favre indicated that the family home was destroyed and probably would have to be bulldozed, but said that everyone in the family appeared to be fine.
Bonita, along with Brett's brothers Jeff and Scott, had decided against evacuating and instead gathered at Favre's childhood home in Hancock County, one of the counties hit hardest by the hurricane. Favre said his grandmother, aunt and other family members also were there.
Favre said earlier today that he spoke to his wife, Deanna, Monday night and again this morning. He said she and their two children, 16-year-old Brittany and 6-year-old Breleigh, are safe at Favre's home in Hattiesburg, 60 miles north of Kiln, although their property had extensive damage.
Favre's mother was seven months pregnant with him when Hurricane Camille, which killed 256 people in Louisiana and Mississippi in 1969, struck the area.
"I've seen pictures," Favre said. "The damage was unbelievable."
Favre admitted he was "kind of going through the motions" in practice while waiting to hear from family members and said he plans to go home to Mississippi following Thursday night's preseason finale at Tennessee.
He said he could get permission from coach Mike Sherman to skip the game altogether and fly there immediately, but his wife told him there's no point because the area is unreachable.
-By the Associated Press
yep really...
it will be in Columbus....
Thanks for posting this article. I wondered how the family was doing.
[BTW, any more news on T.O. and Clarett? I guess we need overload info on losers, too. </sarc>]
In fact, Favre agrees with you ...
"I've found myself over the last 24 hours a couple times saying, 'Why me?' Or, 'Why of all places ...' " Favre said. "As quickly as that thought pops in my head - and it probably pops in my head more than I'd like it to - I try to remind myself of the things to be thankful for, which there are a lot.
"As I've said before, to have tragedies in my life, it's no different than anyone else. It's just that mine are on TV and in the papers. At times it's a bit embarrassing and it's a little bit unfair to the other people who suffer those hardships. ... So I try to remind myself of those people, and I know there's people down there right now who don't have the means that me and my family have and don't have the money (to) rebuild.
Here's alink to a very heartfelt news conference he held this morning.
http://www.packers.com/news/stories/2005/08/31/1/
bump
If you can take a breath, calm down, and read what I actually wrote, you might see that it is not a commentary on Favre or his family.
I'm glad he's so generous, but my comment had to do with the media, not him.
Please don't put words into my mouth. It's not very polite.
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