From a policeman in New Orleans to his family.

[Guest guest]

Wanted to send this out, but also someone from this

other list I'am on has military family members who

have seen Red Cross money not going where it was

funded for.

Janice.

 

This is from a policeman in New Orleans to his family.

Heartbreaking.

 

Eve

 

=A0 Hey

>=A0

> Wanted to let ya'll know that we got our power back

> around 4:30 yesterday afternoon. We still do not

> have cable or internet so we only see what is on

the

> local news and that's very fuzzy. I can tell you

> that you and Mike both need to hug and kiss the

kids

> the next time you see them and understand that we

> are all so very lucky. This with out a doubt will

> surpass anything this country has EVERY seen in

it's

> history !!!!=A0 We had a meeting yesterday with OEP

> (Office of Emergeny Prepardness) and every single

> manager and administrative person in the room was

> crying. They told us that the city of New Orleans

> has effectively ceased to exsist. They are having

to

> evacuate everyone starting this morning from all

> shelters and hospitals where they can. The ones

they

> can't get to may not make it. Close to 30 buildings

> in the dowtown and surrounding areas has collapsed.

> The french Quarter is no more. River Walk and the

> aquarium does not exsist. Most of the factories,

> refineries are 90-100%

>=A0 destroyed. All state wide infrastrucure and

> services based in the city are destroyed. We do not

> have phones here at the hospital. We have right now

> close to 350,000 people from the city, here in

Baton

> Rouge. They are pleading with people to help. We

> only have a few places to get gas. The grocery

> stores are bare. Wal Mart said they are down to

less

> than 20% of normal stock in all stores in the

state.

> They said they expect Baton Rouge to grow 10 times

> it's current size in the next 5 years because

people

> now are trying purchase any home or shelter they

can

> find here to move. People do not realize that do

not

> live here, that this will effect the entire

country.

> New Orleans is one of three ports in the US where

> imported goods and services comes in the country.

> There are 1.5 million people in the state with no

> jobs and no way to suppport their families

>=A0 now. Most of all the companies based in New

Orleans

> are here looking to move the business to BR just to

> keep their name going and have something to start

> with when they can. It is just so incredible. It

> seems like we are playing the part of some sick

> movie about a natural disaster that seems to unreal

> to ever happen. Well, I am seeing from the inside

> and it's not pretty. We cannot get supplies for the

> hospital, not even food. OEP calls ever hour to

> check bed counts. We are adding makeshift rooms to

> take patients from New Orleans starting today.=A0

It

> is so

>=A0 heartbreaking, I just want to cry. My nerves are

> are being pushed to the limit as well as every one

> here. I know they are saying on the news that no

> official body count has been done and that no

bodies

> have been seen in the city. THIS IS A LIE!!!!!.

They

> do not want to put that out yet. Doug, our Plant

Ops

> Supervisor, his son is down there doing rescues. He

> sent Doug a picture, that I saw, of them floating

in

> the water. He went to put in a boat and when he

> cranked the motor, they hit something under water

> and five bodies floated up under the boat. They had

> a place where they take care of people who are bed

> ridden, not much more than a vegtable, they were

> told to evacuate and put toe tags on the patients

so

> they could identify the bodies. They could not get

> the patients out. There was a nursing home with

over

> 200 residents that had been evacuated to one of the

> hotels on the fourth floor. When the levey broke,

it

> started to fill up with water and they had to leave

> them. They all

>=A0 drowned. We are getting reports like this all

day

> long from people who are there and seeing it first

> hand. Martial Law has been declared

>=A0 despite what is on TV. This all sounds so

unreal,

> but damn, it is real. I just never thought I would

> ever see anything like this in my lifetime. It

> really humbles you and makes you feel fortunate to

> have what you have. People say they have it bad

down

> there and everything will be ok, well, peolpe just

> have no way of understanding what is going on and

> cannot grasp the situation. I-10 east out of New

> Orleans, both spans has collapsed. The causeway

> bride going across the lake from Slidell to New

> Oleans has chunks of bridge that has collapsed in

> both directions. There is only one road that is

open

> into the city. The one we went down when ya'll were

> here. Both airports are under water and it is

rising

> a foot an hour right now. One levey has a 200 ft

> break in it and the other has a 200 ft break and a

> 300ft break in it. There is no way at this point to

> stop the water coming in. They have all kinds of

> people down there trying different things and

cannot

> get it stopped. I just cannot descibe

>=A0 to you or anyone just how bad things really are.

We

> have a major US city, that does not exsist anymore.

> They have 50,000 body bags down there now. Another

> 50,000 has been ordered. I just don't know what to

> say. The news is trying to focus more on the other

> hard hit areas because the govenor has aked that

> limited reports be issued to the rest of the

country

> for now until they can get a handle on things and

> believe it or not, it seems the media is doing

that.

> Biloxi and Gulfport got hit

>=A0 really hard but they can rebuild. I just don't

see

> how they can in New Orleans. There will easily be

> more deaths than there has been in any single event

> this country has ever seen. I'm sorry to say all

> this cause I know how much you worry but I needed

to

> say it for myself also. Don't worry about us. We

> will be fine and we are fine. I just feel so damn

> sorry for those people that lost everything. Not

> just their belongings, but their way of live is

> gone. They will be starting over from scratch

> basically their entire life. It's just so sad. I

> bitch when Tena and I argue or when somehthing does

> not go how I think it should, well not anymore. I

> looked at me kids and Tena last night and I had to

> go outside and cry. Anyway, PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT

> WORRY. WE WILL BE OK. It's another one of life's

> challenges and we will make it. I just had to get

> this all of my chest. Anyway, I need to get back to

> work. I will talk to ya'll later.

>=A0 We love ya'll and miss ya'll=A0 Wayne

 

 

 

 

 

 

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