Katrina Wiki and other stuff
30.08.2005Here is the Katrina wiki. The wiki functions like a clearinghouse of information and provides links for support and relief, numbers to locate missing persons and other stuff.
Slidell, LA is currently covered in water. For more information check out this Slidell Hurricane Damage Blog.
Calling the devastation “total”, [State Senator Tom] Schedler said, only slabs remain where dozens of houses were blown down and several feet of water remain in the Slidell Memorial Hospital on Gause Boulevard as well as throughout the old town area off U.S. 11.
The BBC News has this heartwrenching, but sadly, not surprising, story of Carolyn Moore. She and her husband lost their home last year in Hurricane Charley. Without insurance at the time, she has been unable to repair her home. She and her husband continue to live in temporary village put up by FEMA.
"There are no homes available for rent and what are available is way beyond my own or my husband’s income. I’m 60, he will be 65, and I don’t think they really care if you are in the street or not.
"There’s over 2,000 people in this park and there’s no one here that really has anywhere to go."
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Mrs Moore said she felt for those people affected by Hurricane Katrina.
"I hate to see them go through what we’ve gone through. It’s devastating, it’s heartbreaking, it makes me cry.
"They [the authorities] say ‘we’re standing by to get in there to help these people’. That will go on for maybe a few days and then all of a sudden you are left hanging.
"They will say ‘go here, go there, try this, do that’ and you do all that, just for them to look at you and go ‘you need more money than we can give you’.
"And what do you do? Where do you go, how do you live your life?
"How do you pick up now and try to start again, when you have nothing to start with?"