New Orleans
May. 28th, 2006 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
They just found another body in New Orleans. 9 months later.
That brings the death toll from Katrina to 1,578, which includes the 281 added after the out-of-state after-the-fact death toll came in. Most of those were people who survived the storm but died of medical complications afterwards because of all the stress.
According to FEMA there are still 226 people missing. According to the LA Department of Health and Hospitals, there are still 481 people missing.
I'm still in shock. I've been in shock since I first saw it March 4th almost 3 months ago. That's why I'm going back in July. I can't not go back.
~Bethany
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Date: 2006-05-28 05:33 pm (UTC)~Adam
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Date: 2006-05-28 05:57 pm (UTC)This is the same area that the politicians at the state and FEMA levels wanted to bulldoze right away, ...even before the cadaver dogs were allowed out.
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Date: 2006-05-28 06:00 pm (UTC)I'll be going down there with Bethany in July for the trip she's going on (if you haven't figured it out from the comments I leave, I'm her boyfriend), and I know I'll never be the same again once I see it.
~Adam
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Date: 2006-05-28 06:14 pm (UTC)I've got family down in Louisiana, (although my heart is in New York City), and the devastation is beyond words. And the "official response" to the needs of the Lower Ninth Ward by major government organizations, has been nothing less than criminal. Thank goodness for people who continue to come help, because it is desperately needed.
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Date: 2006-05-28 09:25 pm (UTC)As Bethany would say (or at least agree), I'm ready to help out however I can. You all deserve better than what you've been getting down there. Nobody should have to deal with hearing about bodies being removed from destroyed homes or buildings 9 months after any kind of disaster.
~Adam
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Date: 2006-05-28 09:49 pm (UTC)There are alot of issues around race and class down there, so be prepared for that.
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Date: 2006-05-28 09:53 pm (UTC)And as for the racial and class issues, I've read and heard more than enough of that. Like she and I both say, the more we think things have changed, the more wrong we realize we are. Hearing and seeing things like that make me physically ill, and I'm out to stop it.
~Adam
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Date: 2006-05-28 09:56 pm (UTC)Lemme just say that you two are totally awesome.
May I add you to my friends list?
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Date: 2006-05-28 10:00 pm (UTC)And absolutely. May I add you?
~Adam
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Date: 2006-05-28 10:01 pm (UTC)~Adam
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Date: 2006-05-28 10:04 pm (UTC)My family is there, but I'm in the Northeast. We hosted some other folks up north here right when everything was so terrible. And of course, I've been back to the family since, but I'm personally in no particular material difficulty up here. Needless to say, that's not true for a good portion of my family though.
You're added. :)
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Date: 2006-05-28 10:06 pm (UTC)Totally understood.
And feel free to add back. It's okay by me!
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Date: 2006-05-28 10:07 pm (UTC)And you're added as well. :-)
~Adam
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Date: 2006-05-28 11:55 pm (UTC)I just hope that they weren't found by college spring breakers. That would really mess you up, seeing something like that.
It's just wrong what's happened down there. Very very wrong. If another VISTA year at my chapter (Frederick County, MD) doesn't work out (see my entries last Tuesday and Wednesday), I've got half a mind to head down to the gulf coast for a VISTA term working on rebuilding.
~Bethany
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Date: 2006-05-28 11:57 pm (UTC)~Bethany
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Date: 2006-05-28 11:58 pm (UTC)It's the politicians in Washington who need to come see it.
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Date: 2006-05-29 12:04 am (UTC)~Adam
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Date: 2006-05-29 12:06 am (UTC)~Adam
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Date: 2006-05-29 01:01 am (UTC)~Bethany
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Date: 2006-05-29 01:21 am (UTC)~Adam
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