tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post112542058366493731..comments2007-04-14T05:28:45.355-07:00Helphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11308748777167521770noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1144257173487127412006-04-05T10:12:00.000-07:002006-04-05T10:12:00.000-07:00I have family members that lived in St Bernard at the time Katrina hit<BR/>& months later they are still waiting on help<BR/>My son lived in Arabi Louisiana in a duplex next to my mother. He is not getting help from, FENMA or anyone else<BR/>MY sister is still living in a private camper in my driveway<BR/>My uncle is a retired st bernard parish police officer , he lost his home and his wife since Katrina and is still trying to get a fema trailer( which I think just recently he has been contacted<BR/>I think the local , state and federal government has failed all the citizens in our state affected by Katrina<BR/>Also the insurance industry has also failed our citizens<BR/>I do not see any politicians without housing<BR/>If someone can tell me where has all the donations and federal money gone that is supposed to be helping st bernard parish residents????<BR/>I can give you a number of examples of people that I know personally that are still displaced and struggling<BR/>I beleive that st bernard parsih officals are more concerned about their own interest than helping its citizens<BR/><BR/>roxanne melerineroxanne melerinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17527502191465626911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1144257115297778052006-04-05T10:11:00.000-07:002006-04-05T10:11:00.000-07:00I have family members that lived in St Bernard at the time Katrina hit<BR/>& months later they are still waiting on help<BR/>My son lived in Arabi Louisiana in a duplex next to my mother. He is not getting help from, FENMA or anyone else<BR/>MY sister is still living in a private camper in my driveway<BR/>My uncle is a retired st bernard parish police officer , he lost his home and his wife since Katrina and is still trying to get a fema trailer( which I think just recently he has been contacted<BR/>I think the local , state and federal government has failed all the citizens in our state affected by Katrina<BR/>Also the insurance industry has also failed our citizens<BR/>I do not see any politicians without housing<BR/>If someone can tell me where has all the donations and federal money gone that is supposed to be helping st bernard parish residents????<BR/>I can give you a number of examples of people that I know personally that are still displaced and struggling<BR/>I beleive that st bernard parsih officals are more concerned about their own interest than helping its citizens<BR/><BR/>roxanne melerineroxanne melerinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17527502191465626911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1137780896373746132006-01-20T10:14:00.000-08:002006-01-20T10:14:00.000-08:00You know people always find it easy to lay blame on ohers for what should have been done, or what wasn't done, or what wasn't done in time, or who waited too long to do what....... Now's NOT the time to place blame or ridicule those for opting to live in a place in which you would not live!!! Now is the time to say WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP, HOW CAN I GIVE ASSISTANCE IN ANY WAY, just say Let me do something, I want to help, and then stand by what you say. And THAT's the rest of the story.<BR/><BR/>To the man or woman hiding behind Bill clinton's name, I will take some words from Sir WInston Churchill, " LEAD, FOLLOW OR GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY" so my people can have a new beginning!!<BR/>Joycelyn ShawJ. Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16884763582142431137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1137517190996908722006-01-17T08:59:00.000-08:002006-01-17T08:59:00.000-08:00I would like to know why people are still homeless<BR/>my sister has been to Chalmette on numerous occassions to get a FEMA TRAILER<BR/>YOU WOULD THINK AFTER ALMOST 5 MONTHS THE PEOPLE THAT WANT TO RETURN WOULD BE ABLE TO GET HOUSING<BR/>THE POLITICIANS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, STATE LEVEL AND FEDERAL LEVEL NEED TO GET OFF THEIR.....AND DO WHAT IS NEEDED FOR THE PEOPLE OF ST BERNARD PARISH<BR/>cut some of the red tape and let people get on with their lives<BR/>st bernard will die without the citizens of the parsih<BR/>we will not need politicians if they do not return<BR/>everyone is very discouraged<BR/>the only positive if see in st bernard is the church volunteers and people from out of state that are donating their time to help<BR/>WHERE ARE THE PARISH OFFICIALS UNDER A ROCK@@@<BR/>HIDING IN THEIR COMFORTABLE COMPOUNDSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1128472213361352752005-10-04T17:30:00.000-07:002005-10-04T17:30:00.000-07:00Missing:<BR/>Al Grillot<BR/>411 East St. Avide<BR/>Chalmette<BR/>reported to red crossJaninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17052236313318658008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1127875651077880452005-09-27T19:47:00.000-07:002005-09-27T19:47:00.000-07:00Does anyone have a website with the Missing Persons listed in St. Bernard? Or is there a death website. I have many friends and family in St. Bernard that I cannot locate. Any help would be appreciated. Also, I have already been to the red cross site, the Katrina safelist site, etc. I lived in St. Bernard Parish all my life. I've just recently moved away a few years ago. If I were still in my house down the road, I would've probably stayed too! I would've never thought that the flooding could've really happened the way it did. A few of my friends in different families (who survived Katrina) who lived from Chalmette, Meraux, to lower St. Bernard told me some really similiar horrible horror stories. They said that Hurricane Katrina was fine, trees down, wind blowing rapidly, etc, then BOOM! The water came up like crazy, and the next thing they knew it was over thier roof. 4-ft at first, then 12ft-16ft high in minutes. It was the scariest thing for them to live through so I can only imagine how it was for the people who died in the flood. Does anyone know anything about the 22 people from lower St. Bernard who were found tied together? I am so sorry and have been and are still praying for everyone who lost their homes & loved ones. God Bless ~Ashley~<BR/><BR/>PS: If you have any websites you would like to share with me, <BR/>My email address is: heavenlyscentmaids@yahoo.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1127003216502712722005-09-17T17:26:00.000-07:002005-09-17T17:26:00.000-07:00Hi Junior,<BR/><BR/>In searching the internet to find a rescued dog's owners, I have found that the woman is missing on your site. She is Ellen Lemoine of 3948 Norwood Drive in Chalmette.<BR/><BR/>This is so tragic! But maybe it will help for these people to get their dog back. Her name is Missy, she is a silver Schnauzer and she has been found by the Iberia Humane Society. She can be seen at <BR/>www.iberiahumane.com/rescued%20dogs.htm<BR/>I wish this family and all of the families affected by this tragidy peace and sympathy.<BR/>Could you please send this information to them.<BR/>Please let me know if I have been a help.<BR/>Thank you!<BR/>Phyllis sndchoice@aol.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1126309639951188042005-09-09T16:47:00.000-07:002005-09-09T16:47:00.000-07:00I wonder how Rocky's doing, I wonder if he stayed and guarded his register like he does when we go to eat there...I hope that oil didn't get in the resturant, although the whop salad has a protective coating that cant be penetrated so that'll be OK..<BR/>Good luck Mr. Rocky and hope to get that Baked Macaronni and fried veal cutlet with the brown gravy soon....irvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658354171196323062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1126213602684853122005-09-08T14:06:00.000-07:002005-09-08T14:06:00.000-07:00I just read this letter and my heart is broken all over again. I am greatful that I was able to be in the position to receive a phone call at a Texas call center from a person in Texas who's aunts had been rescued from St. Bernard Parish on Saturday September 3. They told of unbelievable things going on in their town and the fact that there was not help coming in, they felt as if nobody knew they were there. To know that this letter was sent five days earlier is very disturbing. The most horiffic stories of survival and the level headed leadership that Sheriff Jack Stevens provided have been permenantly imprinted on my heart. The way people of Chalmette banded together to help each other survive is nothing but inspiring. <BR/>Of the many calls I took on my post at the call centers this one touched me the most and I feel the need to let the people of Chalmette know that there were citizens out there doing all we could to get assistance to you. I was on the phone with Lisa for about an hour and we vented and cried and laughed together before the call came to an end. She After my call I started to document what was talked about on the phone because I wanted to ensure help could get to the area. My supervisor walked by and noticed I was shook up and when I started to tell her why she took me back to the command center to make a call to someone that could help. <BR/>This is what I had documented at 10:35 PM, Sept. 3:<BR/>"I just got off the phone with a lady whose family was in Chalmette, St. Benard LA. She had 8 people caught in huricane katrina. She has found and rescued 4 of them and is still searching for 4 more. She has been in contact with Sheriff Jack Stevens in Chalmette that has 6000 people stranded that are still alive but have no food or water or assistance. There has been no outside help to come in. He has blocked the road into their city to keep the people from new orleans from coming in to loot and will let the military or police in if they show up before everyone dies. The school they are in is flooded and they are on the second floor of the school. They had a couple of divers available and they organized a party and dove down to the kitchen to break in and bring back any canned foods they could find." <BR/>I provided as many details as I could and was told they would send a national guard helicoptor out to the schools in Chalmette and attempt to contact anyone that may be trapped in the school. I then began scouring the internet for info and finally found on Sunday that help had begun to arrive for Chalemette. I so wish there was more I could have done. <BR/>I offer my sympathy to all of you and pray for a healing for your souls and for your city.<BR/><BR/>Luann Chilson<BR/>l_chilson@hotmail.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1126138800276069302005-09-07T17:20:00.000-07:002005-09-07T17:20:00.000-07:00I HEAR YA!!!! WHEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IGNORES TAX PAYING, LAW ABIDING CITIZENS IT IS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE!!! THANK GOD FOR GOOD PEOPLE (NOT OUR GOVERNMENT)<BR/><BR/>GIVE THEM HELL JUNIOR.<BR/><BR/>DUKE<BR/>ARABI,LADUKEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161233207776172488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1125936129043032722005-09-05T09:02:00.000-07:002005-09-05T09:02:00.000-07:00PREVIEW This is how your message will appear.<BR/><BR/>*****FINAL CALL***** <BR/><BR/>Chief Acosta with the national guard just called me. He is on the levee in St. Bernard RIGHT NOW 11:50 am Monday.<BR/><BR/>HE NEEDS NEW ADDRESSES. IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE IN NEED OF RESCUE IN ST BERNARD PARISH, I NEED THE STREET ADDRESS AND CITY RIGHT NOW!!!<BR/>E-MAIL mathrobin@alltel.net<BR/>606-780-4087<BR/>Robert Gonzalesdown-da-roadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08419382051422187664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1125894119615788232005-09-04T21:21:00.000-07:002005-09-04T21:21:00.000-07:00US Representative Charlie Melancon has announced that 100 people at the Chalmette Slip had died due to a lack of essentials sent to the embarkation site in St. Bernard Parish.<BR/><BR/>Coupled with the loss of thirty physically handicapped, elderly people at a St. Bernard nursing facility, this is by far the most troubling week of news ever for this Chalmette native.<BR/><BR/>People in the lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard Parish are dead right now, murdered by politicians driven by self-interest in terms of protecting the financially generous shipping industry and a lack of utter concern for the well-being of a parish that apparently does not vote the right way.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>St. Bernard Parish received no aid whatsoever from the state in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In fact, when boats were sent to the area to assist in the rescue, they were kept within New Orleans to work operations there. I can understand the logic of reserving the lion's share of rescue resources for New Orleans, but to totally cut off St. Bernard and Plaquemines, the latter being assisted by Iberia Parish more so than the state, is unconscienable. <BR/><BR/>St. Bernard was totally leveled by the storm; there is virtually no land visible from the air. Unlike parts of New Orleans, such as the French Quarter, downtown, and uptown areas that were spared, not a single acre of St. Bernard was above water, not counting the levees.<BR/><BR/>The fishing communities of Hopedale, Shell Beach, and Ysclosky are no more as the waters of Lake Borgne have overtaken everything outside the levee protection system. <BR/><BR/>Why was food and water not distributed in a safe area like the Chalmette Slip? All of those assembled at the St. Bernard Port were people removed from rooftops waiting to be transfered. These were not looters but scared, dehydrated, and hungry people. <BR/><BR/>You hear the media reporting the "killing fields" of a few homeless people outside of the Convention Center downtown, yet what of the mortuary we have on the side of the Mississippi River in St. Bernard?<BR/><BR/>St. Bernard Parish has yet to receive urgent medicines for diabetics and anbtibiotics. Why is the state dragging its feet? Why should there even be a rescue if the state is going to starve its people like a bunch of Nazis running a death camp.<BR/><BR/>And what of the cause of this? Hurricane Katrina cannot be totally blamed. The wind damage in St. Bernard was relatively light. The killer was the storm surge that came up the expressway for hurricanes known as the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a mostly obselete shipping channel that is used mostly by politically favored companies. Less than 2 ships per day use the canal and it costs the US Army Corps of Engineers over 10 million a year to maintain this deadly shipping pathway.<BR/><BR/>The MRGO has been the source of salt-water intrusion that has eradicated St. Bernard's once lush swampland and destroyed trapping in the parish, once an industry so valuable that rival trapper groups literally fought a war over it. Not long ago I was at Shell Beach in eastern St. Bernard and saw porpoises playing...a lovely sight, yet also terrifying in that the presence of marine mamals that close to land indicates the salinity of the water.<BR/><BR/>While shipping a handful of shipping executives have profited immensely off this tax-payer boondoggle and enviromental disaster, the parish of St. Bernard has suffered, hearing perpetual excuses such as the necessity of widening locks and the need for additional studies by Congress. When it comes time to do a study, I'll fax over to the committee the pages of obituaries from this hurricane.<BR/><BR/>St. Bernard would have had little water had the MRGO not been there as conduit for a killer storm surge that contributed to the breaking of the levee that was the primary source of the waters that wiped out a nursing home in seconds, taking with it 30 fragile lives. It is a sad irony that the same thing that allows certain shipping magnates to live in a nice mansion is the very source that I, and 72,000 plus people now have nowhere to live.<BR/><BR/>When the mass funerals are said, I hope the Port of New Orleans, the staunch advocate of the MRGO, sends flowers and that Gov. Blanco and Mayor Nagin send donuts for the mourners to make up for their failure to get food, water, and help to the forsaken parishes of St. Bernard and Plaquemines.<BR/><BR/>Thanks to greed and the politics of self-interest, I am sure many people I called friend during my life and who were constituents when I served as their councilman are now dead.irvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658354171196323062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1125870610194935642005-09-04T14:50:00.000-07:002005-09-04T14:50:00.000-07:00I am very proud of our parish president and knew when I voted I was voting for the right MAN for the job...Can we get some picture's up of the St.Claude Heights area? Will we be able to retrieve items if any from our homes...I'm hearing rumours that the parish may be bulldozed? Is this even close to being true?<BR/>Irvan from Arabi..irvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658354171196323062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1125837970828265452005-09-04T05:46:00.000-07:002005-09-04T05:46:00.000-07:00I agree with what bill clinton said<BR/>I just looked up your sex offender list you have many. also I don't want these people in my city, and since many of you over 50% in new orleans, are on some type of government payment, weather it be welfare ,food stamps, section eight housing etc.. I believe I pay enough to these dead beats, you won't get one cent from me. let new orleans burn to the ground!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1125781109559895472005-09-03T13:58:00.000-07:002005-09-03T13:58:00.000-07:00My name is Dolores and I am the mother of Wilfred Aisola's children. I am available for housing to any of the many relatives of my children including Wilfred Aisola who are missing. I can't even begin to name the hundreds of family members that are missing. Barry and Inez weathers, Geanette and Bea, all Aisola's basically alot of Violet people. Please contact me at deep_dreamer3@hotmail.com if you are found and I will gather whatever assistance I can to get you help.3Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04831682203118562946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1125712494283671492005-09-02T18:54:00.000-07:002005-09-02T18:54:00.000-07:00I'm Patrick Parker. Graduated Chalmette 1969, now living in Houston.. We haven't seen one frame of film on St. Bernard or Chalmette in the entire coverage of this disaster. We get the same camera view of the Dome and the overpass full of people. In '65 during Betsy, Lyndell drive where I lived was one of only a few streets not covered by water.<BR/>Just wondering where everybody excaped to. Possibly the baseball stands and football stands at Chalmette. Maybe even the top rows in the Basketball Gym. <BR/>Did the Kaiser Smokestack remain standing?<BR/>I can only imagine that the residents of St. Bernard are rescuing each other.<BR/>Is the top of the levee visible?<BR/>Is the big bridge on Paris Road over the Industrial Canal intact?<BR/>Anyone with any info please contact CadillacPat@houston.rr.comCadillacPathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00266007783334754035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1125678636912797072005-09-02T09:30:00.000-07:002005-09-02T09:30:00.000-07:00I just got off the phone with Orleans Emergency Management Agency. They confirmed that they have spoken to Junior Rodriguez and the National Guard just reached the Exxon Mobile building!!!<BR/><BR/>We are going to get saved tonight. I gave them Junior's phone number and they got in touch with him. I have been calling governor blancos office and the national guard and the Orleans Emergency Managment Agency, giving them phone numbers to people stuck in the parish to try to open up communication. <BR/><BR/>We opened the lines of communication and it worked. THANKS SHAWN AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT GAVE ME PHONE NUMBERS OF STRANDED PARISH PEOPLE. <BR/><BR/>dat's hawt,<BR/>Robert Gonzales<BR/>606-780-4087<BR/>robinmath@alltel.netdown-da-roadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08419382051422187664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1125662411929341632005-09-02T05:00:00.000-07:002005-09-02T05:00:00.000-07:0015288. "Ain't There No More"<BR/> 9/2/05 0:23 ET <BR/>Sittin' at home watching T.V., Wondering what's going to happen to me.<BR/>Looking at that big swirl in the sky, Wondering if we're going to die.<BR/>Never to drink at Kats again, Can't order tamales or pizza from Ben's.<BR/>Can't run to Rocky's to order Veal P., Water, Water as far as we could see.<BR/>Wondering what we're livin' for, Whatever it was, it ain't there no more.<BR/><BR/>The man said we had to leave town, We had to run for higher ground.<BR/>Evacuation, is what they said, Wondering where we'd lay our head.<BR/>Separation is what we knew, Wondering what our friends would do.<BR/>Goin' home, we're yearning for, But why do that, it ain't there no more.<BR/><BR/>Phoned and roamed to our fingers bled, But 504, the lines were dead.<BR/>Worrying and worrying, we had no choice, All we got was that recording voice.<BR/>It said our lines couldn't get through, It reminded us of what water could do.<BR/>Red beans, poorboys, their what we live for, We watch T.V., and it ain't there no more.<BR/><BR/>We hope and pray that what we see, Won't make us live the life of a refugee.<BR/>Possessions we lost, faded from our minds, Its the friends and places we left behind.<BR/>Those are the things that will not fade, Our memories and friendships we'll fight to save.<BR/>We will come back stronger than before, Don't tell me it ain't there no more.<BR/><BR/>By Mike, Mike, Brent, and Framindown-da-roadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08419382051422187664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1125626792249574502005-09-01T19:06:00.000-07:002005-09-01T19:06:00.000-07:00Oh btw everyone the person posting as "Bill Clinton" is not the real Bill Clinton. It is an anonymous individual disgracing the name of a respectable man.<BR/><BR/>George Bush Sr. and former president Bill Clinton are heading both the national and international relief effort for all the victims of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, just as they did previously for the Tsunami victims. Now is not the time for partisan politics. All people must join together to help those who are suffering and in need.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1125623862989639612005-09-01T18:17:00.000-07:002005-09-01T18:17:00.000-07:00Hi Mr Junior. I am so glad that you are ok. This is Dawn Martinez Ricouard and I am frantically concerned for my dad, John Martinez. He decided to stay at his house in Kenilworth and we have not heard anything from him. I have been working at Ochsner for the duration of this tragedy and feel completely helpless in finding dad. If you hear anything about his whereabouts please contact me by phone at 842-3650 or by e-mail at dricouard@ochsner.org. If he is alive I would like to get him here at Ochsner but know that is probably impossible. Any word from you would be greatly appreciated. Take care of yourself and thanks for expressing so well to the president the frustration that all of the residents in St Bernard are feeling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1125617691810279992005-09-01T16:34:00.000-07:002005-09-01T16:34:00.000-07:00And to think, all of us as taxpayers paid for "Mr. Clinton" to attend school. What a waste of tax payers money, as it was no benefit to him obviously.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1125610677482028822005-09-01T14:37:00.000-07:002005-09-01T14:37:00.000-07:00Dearest Sylvia Nancy Campagna of Bayou Rd St Bernard, are you safe? Are you uninjured? Have tried to reach you in vain. How are the others? Very, very worried. If you see this message, please contact me at secure@logic.bm and tell me how I can help you and your family. Do you need a place to stay for five to ten years while St. Bernard rebuilds? How can I help you? Ask anything. Please, contact me. All my Love.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1125605986821454132005-09-01T13:19:00.000-07:002005-09-01T13:19:00.000-07:00my deepest thoughts and prayers go out to all of you that have lost family and or a home. im not from st bernard but have lived there for around a year, stationed in belle chasse its not a far drive to work. plus its safer and the ppl are friendlier. now moving on to the pieces of shit in new orleans thing think its cool to shoot at rescue workers. you are worse than the terrorists in afghanistan. how dare you bite the hand that feeds you. if your sole purpose for staying behind was to loot through other ppls houses and businesses....hell would even be too good for you. all i can wish is that you cant some deadly disease from the shitty water you swam through to steal those new sneakers. you better hope when i have to start my humanitarian duty tuesday i dont see you. ONE SHOT ONE KILL.---pissed off marineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1125604449349326642005-09-01T12:54:00.000-07:002005-09-01T12:54:00.000-07:00Why are the news crew (including the Weather Channel and CNN) only focusing on New Orleans and Gulfport? Don't they realize that people do exist in other towns such as St. Bernard (which received a direct hit - and doesn't have people shooting at rescue crews as in New Orleans). If someone can help me get this message across to the media that they need to also address other areas, I would appreciate it. Evidently one voice is not heard.<BR/><BR/>Thanks and God bless everyoneStacyhttp://sbriggs@inwhealth.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15994282.post-1125600212078048082005-09-01T11:43:00.000-07:002005-09-01T11:43:00.000-07:00It really seems that tragedy brings out both the best and worst in people. My family lived in Chalmette for a very long time. We have many good friends who still live there. Right now, we are very worried, because we have not heard from many of our friends and family members. We don't know if they are alive or dead. It is sickening to hear saying that the people of St Bernard Parish have noone to blame but themselves. This was a natural disaster. Admittedly some damage could have been prevented through government foresight. It is too late for that now. Now is the time for us as a nation to join together and help our brothers and sisters rebuild their lives. So many people are now homeless and jobless. In addition to this many have lost friends and family who will never even recieve a decent burial. Many people don't realize the numbers of people who could not evacuate, the sick, the elderly, those without cars, those without family elsewhere or even the funds to stay at a hotel. Some of these people will be lucky enough to survive long enough to be rescued, but many others will die. It is important to alert the government and the media to the problems faced by St. Bernard Parish. It is not only New Orleans and Mississippi that need help. The re are many outlying parishes that are underwater. <BR/>Right now it is a race against time to rescue survivors. We need to all join together and pray for a successful rescue effort, as well as contribute what we can afford to tbe recovery effort. As Americans we take for granted all that we have. Now is a time to be thankful for what we have been given, and to help those who are not so fortunate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com