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Posted on 08/31/2005 4:00:15 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Exactly.....
Hard to hear but sadly, all too correct.
Bravo Jeffers.
Here is just one of the posts.
http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_nolaview/archives/2005_08.html#075517
Story: I just received this email from my friend Bill Quigley:
Dear Friends:
There are about 1300 people here who need help. I would appreciate
it if you could forward this
information to federal and state authorities and press in the US and in
Louisiana to make sure these sick people are cared for.
I am in Memorial Hospital in New Orleans. We have nearly 200 very
sick people, hundreds of staff and hundreds more families. The
hospital has some basic electricity but many rooms have no electricity and
many stairwells have no electricity/ There is no a/c and no external
windows. We cannot phone out and can receive few incoming calls. The water
is rising and the hospital is already surrounded by water. Once the
water hits the first floor, the computers, the email,
all intercoms, and all internal communication inside
the hospital will cease.
Our phones do not work so this is the only way I
can reach out. This is not official but what I have
been able to find out from listening to many, many
people here.
The City of New Orleans is completely
overwhelmed. No electricity. Incredible wind damage and now a broken
levee that is flooding the city even further.
Please make sure that someone is working to make sure these sick
people and their families are helped.
They need care. For hours they have been announcing that patients are
going to be medivaced (is this a word?) to other hospitals and
shelters. But little real action so far.
I know there is much, much to do out there, but
these sick people need attention asap.
Please reach out in whatever way you can to make sure these folks
are cared for.
Bill Quigley
I am watching Shep for the first time today- and I am about ready to fill up the back of my car with water bottles and drive some down there myself. How can they have people just sitting on the highway without any water on a hot day??? This whole thing is just heart wrenching.
That's out of the box brilliant. Goodyear and Fuji do football, why the heck not??
Me too Betsy. I want to go so badly.
Who is "they"?
I'm so terribly sorry. May it be consolation that you and your family are safe from the biggest disaster to hit our country.
Volunteer Sarah Roberts carries flood victims to safety after they were rescued by boat from their neighborhood on the east side of New Orleans, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005.
I thought of that too. The people need to get information like what Guillani did in NYC. No one is telling the people what is going on.
WHERE ARE THE LEADERS?
:) Amazing Grace is probably the most beautiful, moving hymn ever written. I cry every time I hear it. We played it at my mother's funeral, and I suspect it's played at a LOT of funerals. :)
Okay, if I was misting up at hearing that the French Quarter is having a fire, and watching a Mississippi lady with three kids describe how she lost contact with her husband after the eye passed, well, now I've got full blown tears. :)
I'm not very poetic, but I'd like to offer a prayer:
"Oh Lord, please help those people. Please give strength to everyone involved in rebuilding the Gulf, to help them make the choices they will have to make about where they will rebuild their own lives, and to the whole nation as the effects are felt, for months and years to come. And thank you for the beauty and history that was New Orleans, and for the wonderful, friendly people all along the Gulf Coast. Amen."
(On our honeymoon, I dragged my Canadian husband on a road trip through the U.S.--we went south from Chicago to N.O., then drove through all the paths of Katrina's devastation. We camped in Biloxi, then continued on to Florida, to Sarasota so he could meet my grandfather. There are no friendlier people than Southerners).
*gets Kleenex* I have to log off to get my kids to bed. Take care everyone.
You have my prayers. I cannot imagine how lost I would feel in your situation. Anything else I'd try to say would just sound trite. I'm so sorry.
This msg went out to every employee in the City of Los Angeles.
You would think the Federal Government has the resources to remedy that. I guess I am dreaming...
I don't want to criticize, because I don't understand the logistics involved, but I can't understand why they can't airlift in some water and food to these people. Maybe they are and we aren't seeing it, but I keep hearing how they can't get in because the roads are down.
thx for the ping.
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