Re: PLEASE HELP!!!

Texas Max King wrote:

> in the New Orleans superdome for more than two days.
> Some have been evacuated from hospitals, others
> fled there for sanctuary because they were elderly, sick
> or helpless and could not evacuate as others did.
> Many that did evacuate are living in hotels throughout the
> region spending what little they have on shelter and food
> for their families and children. These people cannot return home
> because all the roads are flooded, blocked or entry is restricted.
> They may not be able to return to their homes for days or weeks.
> Some will return to what they considered home only to find
> out that it is no longer there or that it has been completely
> devastated or flooded beyond reconstruction. There are hundreds,
> perhaps thousands who are wandering the streets because their homes
> are gone
> and now they have nowhere to go. They do not have jobs anymore
> because the businesses are gone. They have little or no food, water,
> clothes or shelter. They spread along the entire coast of Louisiana,
> Mississippi and Alabama and further inland.

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Max,

As others have said before, my sympathy also goes out to the people in the
damaged region.
In the long term, my visit in New Orleans last year will leave deeper traces
in my brain than Katrina will do in the town.
There is hardly a city that I fell in love with so immediately as The Big
Easy.
Or the Big Uneasy now.
My friend and me were singing in the streets.

nerissa
sending a donation to the Red Cross right now


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