--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > In a message dated 8/30/05 4:02:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > The Governor of Louisiana just announced that all of New Orleans > > must be evacuated. Look out Vermont, Llundrub may leave there > > soon too. > > > > Absolutely unbelievable! Nothing going in. Months just to > > reestablish electricity and basic services. A whole city > > evacuated! > > And this was nearly a "best case" scenario for this storm...
August 31, 2005 For Biloxi, Devastation and Death Are Too Close By SHAILA DEWAN BILOXI, Miss., Aug. 30 - If an aerial camera flying over this ruined peninsula were to zoom in, past the blocks of flattened houses, past the causeway crumpled like an accordion, past the barges that pulled loose from their moorings and sailed inland, past where the Biloxi Visitors Center and the McDonald's used to be, past the lawnmowers and soup ladles and scissors and tangled Hawaiian shirts and barstools and bathtubs, it might zero in on a pair of bare feet jutting toward the sky, out of a square hole in a concrete slab. "That's J.D.," said Jimmy Ellzey, who stood studying the wreckage of the Tivoli Hotel on Tuesday with a fixed expression. Then he gestured to a white, waxen knee, barely visible under the slab. "And that's Sue." He walked along what had been the roof of the two-story building and pointed. "I played poker with him the night before," he said, pointing to an arm, and the top of a head, of a silver-haired man boxed in by the pale green tile of a shower stall. "He actually won 10 bucks from me. I don't know his name. I just know he couldn't swim." The manager of the Tivoli, a residential hotel, said later that there were eight people under that slab - eight not yet counted in the death toll in Harrison County, one of the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. The authorities said they had no firm tally of the dead, and large parts of the county had yet to be searched. Joe Spraggins, the head of emergency management for the county, said the official count was at 100 but sure to grow.... Picking his way through the soggy debris of a wiped-out neighborhood in east Biloxi, where houses were piled on top of houses, Police Officer Darren Lea said, "We're going to be finding bodies forever." Death was only part of the devastation along the Gulf Coast. There were also the hunger, the thirst and the homelessness. The casinos that employ thousands of people in the area were badly damaged. Officials had limited fuel, telephone service and manpower, no working bathrooms and little more to cling to than a promise of help on the way. Widespread looting was reported, and the police, attending to life-threatening situations, Mr. Creel said, could do little to respond. Peter Teahen, a spokesman for the American Red Cross, said supplies were en route from staging areas in Birmingham, Ala., and Houston. "We can't tell you when food is going to be served. We're hoping to do it, ideally, in the next couple of days." http://tinyurl.com/ab64r ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
