I have only been reading the posts, but I just received this email from a friend. I do not know if it is valid or not, but if it is then please
This email is being sent from Barbara Reese on behalf of Joel Smith:
The email below is from a very credible lawyer and dear friend from New Orleans. This email contains information beyond what is being reported on the news. However, she has asked us to get the word out and underscores the need for each of us to do what we feel we can.
They just found my brother's best friend, his wife and two children. They got into a boat when "the wave" came and managed to survive since Monday on their roof after the roof could be found. They were picked up today by firefighters who had worked with Eileen when she was Captain- the firefighters were determined to find them.. They are now in even more danger.
They are held up in a building with the rescue firefighters in Chalmette- they are surrounded by gangs with automatic weapons. Patrick said there are sheriff deputies dead on the street and as evacuees try to cross the Chalmette ferry, they are being picked off and killed. Before the parish officials left the parish, they deputized the firefighters and gave them all guns. Patrick is frightened on the phone with Al and Al is trying to get a helicopter to fly in and rescue them. Patrick says it is a war zone.
The situation is worsening every minute. It is a catastrophe beyond any we have seen as a nation on our soil. They are not showing the atrocities that are occurring- people are being murdered every hour- and there are tens of thousands that are dead and that many still in attics and on rooftops.
Please do whatever you can to make people realize what is going on and that there is no more time to debate who should ask for what or what should be done. Every available resource, private and public needs to be marshalled to respond to this unprecedented disaster. There is little time and corporate America, the profession, religious leaders, politicians, and the public needs their outcry to be heard. If it can happen here it can happen anywhere. Please, do whatever you can. It is imperative- it is to save our humanity as we know it.
National Guard couldnt find these firefighters....
The firefighters trapped with families by gangsta snipers sounds exactly like the real incident being reported on all the MSM this afternoon - SWAT response was supposedly sent it, etc., but no final report of outcome was ever given that I saw - I guess we can expect that - there will be many things we never hear of, but I sure hope they took out the gangstas...
Oh, so frightening.
" The situation is worsening every minute. It is a catastrophe beyond any we have seen as a nation on our soil."
One of the women in my office finally made contact today with her family in NO.
I trust her completely and she reports that her family stayed in their home and while they did not get much flood damage-they are afraid to leave their home and search for rescue.
Nightfall brings gangs of armed thugs who ransack every house. They are protecting their home with a shotgun and are terrified.
Her brother is a paranoid schizophrenic , living in a group home in NO.
The home released all the residents without their meds- they have no idea where the brother is and are very worried about how he will act without medication.