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
Hi, ML! Heard from your soldier? I hope all is well.
Maybe that's what you call us where you are. LOL
hehe I know, but its so much fun to twist 'Queens fans tails over it :)
One of my best friend is a Minnesota fan. I can't help it. :)
anyone know what was on post 78?
Wow...that was fast. A class act.
LOL
Well, it does get a tad tiring after about 40 years of listening to it.
Personally, I think Favre's a stand-up guy too, to post something that has to do with the thread. I think the media just fawns over him, though, which gets old.
Haven't heard anything since noon yesterday. The power went out while he was text-messaging his GF. No cell phone connection now, either. The base is damaged but all the soldiers are okay, as far as I know (been doing a whole lot of googling.)
Knowing this town (Green Bay), the response will be tremendous.
Prayers for your son, and for you. :)
Well, you have a point re: fawning. But it's not his fault. The guy doesn't ask for it.
Thank you.
I'm not blaming him. I'm blaming media. In a town of Green Bay's size, the guy must feel like he's in a goldfish bowl.
Didn't see it.
I was the one in the giant Rams parka...made me look 8 feet tall.
All the local fans were wearing their "hunting orange" in respect to those hunters that got shot by the chinese guy.
Prayers up for your son.
It's really the national media who do most of the fawning, IMHO.
I don't know about the goldfish bowl; Brett is from a town of 750 so for him, this is the big city.:)
The thing about GB is that since you see Packers at the grocery store, at the movies, at the restaurant, at church.......it almost gets to be "old hat". Many of them live here during the off-season and some retire here (the most famous example being Ray Nitschke.)
And it was a bit cold.;^)
Thanks for the prayers.
Fair enough. Context is everything. :)
I'm glad to see our guy getting his props, though. He deserves them.
Lol not familiar with that group.
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