New Orleans is getting worse

Scott P

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Just when people began to think they escaped the worst-case scenario, all H-E-Double Hockey Sticks has besieged the beautiful city of New Orleans. A levee has broke, send water cascading throughout the city. The devastation is unheard of. The twin spans, two beautiful bridges, are destroyed. The French Quarter is under a few feet of water. Canal Street, in the central business district, has flood waters white capping. There have even been bodies seen floating around.

I lived in New Orleans while attending Tulane University. I have a strong personal connection to that place. Words cannot describe how sad I am right now. I have friends and adopted "family" down there and I'm just hoping they haven't lost everything.

I know the Gulf Shores and other areas of Mississippi have been hit hard too. This disaster has really hit home for me. I'm actually shaken up over it. I just feel so helpless right now while really wanting to actually do something to help.
 
living in florida (miami) theres always a hurricane. many time the average has been category 2-3 storms. all in all we've always held up with minimal damage. so here coems a meesly category 1 storm changing from hurrican to tropical here and there and it cause disaster all thru miami. power outages for days and still on, deaths, damaged homes, and fallen trees.

2 days later i finally get power only to see on the news that katrina has become a category 4 turning into a 5 hurricane heading to the nothern gulf coast line. all i said was "may god be with them". this same storm that dented miami oh so well was on tis way to more major cities, only this time stronger and bigger.

seeing the enws and videos of home owners stranded on their roofs, people found dead, and everything basically "DESTROYED", only made me sad.

this has definately been one to remember.

r.i.p. all those who died
 
now louisiana just issued martial law. so now the military is in control down there. they have curfews and all that too.
 
Yeah, the damage is horrindous. We live in Baton Rouge, and we were hit pretty hard. Our power just came back on today, thank God. We are a very small and lucky portion of Baton Rouge that has power mostly because we are surrounded by huge corporations. We live right in the middle of the city, so Im assuming that they get these corporations back up and running before anyone else.

My mother, father, mother inlaw and father inlaw still do not have power and probably will not for another week or so. My inlaws do not even have water! They were over here all day today because we had water atleast. They will be coming over tommorow morning along with my parents to enjoy the air conditioning. Its as hot as ever right now as well with temps in the triple digits and humidity well into the 90 percentile range. Its just nasty everywhere you go. Most of the traffic lights are out so traffic is terrible and takes an hour to go 10 minutes down the road to get food and neccesities.

Please, everyone, keep us in your prayers. If you can in anyway, provide help to these people in N.O. They are in dire need of any type of assistance you can give. Call the Red Cross if you can be of service.

It looks like a warzone here in Baton Rouge, and I can only imagine what people are going through in New Orleans. May God bless those who are suffering and need assistance.
 
There are several guys we know in the pressure washing industry(us included) that are offering a discount to their customer if they will write a check out the the Red Cross.
People need cash more that anything else after a storm like this.I'll suck up the 10%(this is the discount range we are offering) for each customer to know I can drop off a few hundred dollars in checks at the local Red Cross office to help out.
Yes,your customer pays the same price for the services,but it gives them the chance to help.And with the check made to the Red Cross they know you can't cash it.
If you do this,be sure the people at the Red Cross know the funds are for storm relief.

daos,
We are praying for all in the gulf states.We haven't been able to reach a fellow pressure washer who lives in Covington Lousiana.I know he was evacuated from the oill rig he works on(his fulltime job),but not sure how much damage they suffered at their home if any.
God Bless all of you.
 
One thing we really need are prayers.

There are areas to the east and south of New Orleans that are in a marsh area right on the gulf that received the Cat 5 winds and the tidal surge. These areas don't have the name or population of New Orleans and therefore don't have the press coverage. Although the population is less, the area still flooded is several times that of New Orleans. The rumor here is that the loss of life in this area will exceed the number murdered on 9/11. I'm praying that this is only rumor and are false, but the aerial photos I've seen make me believe it's possible.
 
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