http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-arrive5sep05,1,3363369.story?page=1&coll=la-tot-promo
There was the free trip across country in a private jet. And there was the complimentary bottle of water — wonderfully ice-cold water — handed to her upon her arrival.
Elaine West savored them both Sunday as she helped lead the first trickle of what could become a wave of survivors of Hurricane Katrina into California.
"I think I might stay here," said the grateful 52-year-old former candy maker as she surveyed Los Angeles from a hilltop next to the Hollywood Freeway.
She quietly told of being driven out of her Uptown New Orleans home, not by rising floodwaters but by vandals who looted her neighborhood and by gunfire that killed two of her neighbors.
"I don't see myself ever going back to New Orleans again," she said. "Even to visit."
BTTT!!
:)
Isn't that the Christian Ministries center that Jim Baker got involved with after he got out of prison? I've heard some really good things about it.
Gee. If she thinks moving from LA to L.A. will rid her life of vandals and gunfire, she might be in for a rude awakening.