[Jewelry making - Article 01208] - Re: [Orchid] Katrina the Killer

[jennifer friedman]

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To all,

    I am forwarding to you an email from my cousin who works for the
    state gov't in LA. This is more of an accounting than we are getting
    on the news. 

Jennifer Friedman
Ventura, CA

          Well, I am without power and it is cooler here. We have to
          staff the emergency operations center; every state Dept must
          have a representative. Our ER personnel are in New Orleans
          trying to assess what hazardous clean up will be needed. 

          We did not have any damage. We don't know how Maggie's house
          is because marshall law is in effect in St. Tammany Parish. 
          The communications lines are all down. Cell phones don't work
          and there are no land lines. Her cats are in her house. We
          are hoping they give us one day to get in and get them and get
          out. 

          New Orleans is gone. It will be at least a year before anyone
          can get back in. Of the people left in NO some have decided
          to loot. They now have guns. On the way in there was news of
          a gang of looters outside Children's Hospital and the director
          was scared they will try to break in. There was a riot at the
          NO jail and the prisoners took one of the guard's children
          hostage. Most hospitals have moved their patients to the 5th
          floor. There are over 600 people stranded in Chalmette in
          shelters. There is no drinkable water, no sewage (most of
          that is in the water), no food, and the water will be rising
          another 6 ft because of the broken levee. Oh, I almost forgot
          the dead bodies floating that will soon contribute to disease.
          They are trying to evacuate the 20,000 plus people in the
          Super Dome out. 

          The Mississippi Gulf Coast is wiped clean. It will be at
          least a year or more before it is liveable. 

          All in all over a 1.5 million people displaced and
          approximately 1 million will be displaced for a year if not
          permanently. Between the chemicals and the biohazards, I can
          only imagine that clean up will be cost wise for NO. 

          Gas prices will rise. Chalmatte Refinery ( probably under
          water), Alliance Refinery at further down toward Buras is
          under water (everything in Plaquemine Parish is), and the
          Venice Gas Plant (very end of Louisiana) probably gone. Rigs
          have been torn loose and found drifting 17 miles away. They
          are now monitoring for sheens on the water to indicate lost
          oil. More enviromental damage. 

          Major port is gone. No shipping of grain from the huge grain
          elevators that were south of New Orleans. 

          Atlanta caught some of this and so did Georgia. Katrina is a
          once in a lifetime event. I hope. 

          So I guess we fared ok, but the state, the nation, is in for a
          rough time. 

          You have a great day.

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