Alarm Growing on Storm's Cost for Agriculture

New York Times ^ | September 8, 2005 | ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO and JEFF BAILEY

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To: Friends / Trading / Chartering / Operations

Fm: Blue Water Shipping Company
17625 El Camino Real, Suite 120
Houston, Texas 77058

Blue Water Metairie Operations Group Email: bluewater@bluewatershipping.com
Houston 24 Hour Office Phone: 281 280-9943
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9/7/05 1530 cdt

Ref: Miss.River update 9/7/05

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Grain elevator report:

Zen-Noh is fine. already loading
Bunge is fine. already loading
Adm Destrehan is fine. already loading
Adm Reserve is fine. already loading
Cargill Reserve is fine. already loading
Cargill Port Allen is fine. already loading

Adm Ama has power. Hopefully will be ready by running by Thursday or Friday.

Cargill Westwego is reported to be in good order but still without power.

Cenex Harvest States - unknown, but reports from the river side (tug boats) indicate
no major visible damage as per Mr. Gary Wynia CHS Minneapolis. / Plaquemine parish
remains closed; therefore still having difficulty getting personnel in.

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Midstream floating elevators:

K-2 at Convent is fine. already loading
Gemini at Destrehan is fine. already loading
America at Cooper Darrow is fine. ready to load.

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Thanks for the great update!

[Iowa Granny]

Oh Wow! Thanks for posting that info. I'm printing it off and taking it to town to the coffee shop. The Nay Sayers will be shocked.

[DallasMike]

Fellow Freepers:

At the suggestion of writer Michelle Malkin last Friday, I have cobbled together a blogsite called Texas Clearinghouse for Katrina Aid to serve as a clearinghouse for refugee efforts in Texas.

Texas is getting more refugees than any other state -- that's fine, we'll take them all -- but we need help providing them with food, clothing, medicine, and shelter. We need help taking care of their pets, too.

If you are a refugee, you can information that will help you find relief. If you want to donate or volunteer, you can find someone who needs you. Believe me, there are a lot of organizations who need your help.

Right now the site mostly covers Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas but I'm adding more every night. My wife was down at Reunion Arena in Dallas Tuesday handing out care packages and spiritually ministering to the refugees as a representative of her employer. She says that the situation is tragic and that there's a lot of work to be done. There are so many children who don't know where their parents are or even if their parents are still alive.

There are a lot of churches and other organizations in Texas that need help in dealing with the problem and I would appreciate it if you would get the word out.

Many thanks,

Michael McCullough

Stingray blogsite

[cmsgop]

I wonder if Soy Milk will go up....Hmm. I buy in large quantities,Maybe I should stock up.