New Orleans
I live in Shreveport, Louisiana and I work at a place where hurricane refugees are coming in to get info about the situation in New Orleans.
I have seen family after family today trying to get in touch with other family members in New Orleans. One women cries because she can’t reach her husband, another cries because she just got through to her daughter.
The phone circuits are constantly busy.
Cell phone towers are nonexistent.
I heard one awful story after the other. I can’t even begin to wrap my mind around the devastation.
Ants are clumping together in the water and attacking whatever is dry, wherever they may land.
The alligators and snakes, which call the marsh and wetlands home, are even looking for a dry place. (houses, trees, cars)
There is no food or clean water for the people that are still trapped in flooded areas. People are beginning to drink the lake water out of desperation.
Babies are dying in their mother’s arms.
Bodies are floating (human and animal)
Some of those, which stayed in New Orleans and have boats, are finding entire families including children, dead, in the attics of their homes.
The hospitals that have been operating on generators are running out of diesel fuel without the power, those critical patients will die.
After work today, I went and volunteered at the Red Cross Shelter located at Louisiana State University Shreveport.