This just came across the desk of the digital missourian...while this is a very sad issue otherwise, I am particularly interested in the length people will go to to communicate, and what limitations such as loss of electricity or a home urge people to do via improvisation...
Of course, I also hope people give to the Red Cross to help said people!
Jeremy my family is in new orleans and they said the local fast food chain krystal burgers has wireless so everyone is racing their. they are only talking via internet right now. everyone is using this site craigslist.com and go to communities or for sale. some heated debate is started about recovery, mops, insurance, etc. that's where she said locals are giving their stories right now.
she said she'll send pictures as soon as she can.
best,
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oh and,
i just submitted a story she wrote for me but i don't know if it went through. here it is again:
Cynthia Rico, General Manager of Lakewood Country Club, born and raised in the Irish Channel of New Orleans, current resident of Algiers, LA.
I’m really worried right now. I have all my employees right there on the edge of the levee. I told Roland to go to the hospital, but all the hospitals are flooded. Craig’s list is listing the stories. Listing stories and telling people to pray and stuff like that. I have to give my employees cash. They don't have any cash, I know Geraldine doesn't have any cash. It’s the first of the month, they cant get their Government checks and even if they can the banks are going to be closed, so I have to head back tonight to pay them. The roof came off the superdome, and Brian (cousin and officer still in New Orleans says the roof of our house is gone). They tell you to bring your own food in the Superdome and people criticize people for looting, but what else can you do? They can’t pay for the stuff. Who cares anyway? It’ll all go bad anyway. If you can imagine me, Gus, Oscar, Patsy, Xiomara, Maya, my momma, all stuffed into one house with no roof and no electricity. The on!
ly place you can get free internet is the Krystal hamburger shop. We're looking for somebody who has some form of electricity. 750,000 people lost electricity, so you know we’re looking for those 300,000 that have it. We took Mrs. Grace and Barbara in the caravan. Thirteen hours to get what usually takes us three hours. We're going to be driving our car going as fast as we need to go. Isabelle, my partner wants to come back because her ex-husband stayed here and she hasn’t heard from him since last night at nine pm. She should stay here but she won't. My employees didn't even go to the superdome, two of them, their wives are sick, she just had her leg cut off so they had to stay. St. Bernard got it the worst, St. Bernard and Chalmette. Buildings collapsed. Whatever you think, they should just let people come in and take their groceries, nobody can check you out, let everybody take whatever they need to. People are going to be without stuff for months. People are!
on the roofs of their houses in the ninth ward because the pumps brok
e. Their houses are under five to six feet of rising water, because pumps are failing. We really are lucky it just didn't destroy the whole city. They don't have electricity so they can't charge their cell phone. People are charging their phones in their car. It'll be a month before we get electricity back. No schools, everything is cancelled. That coffee shop in city park, plantation coffee house, is under water. The first floor of East Jefferson hospital is completely under water. Well I’ll send photographs as soon as I get home. I just hope we’re civil.
As someone said in Craig's List, in an up to date discussion board about Katrina, "If one penny of federal assistance goes to pay for clean-up for a city below sea level, then i think we (as the rest of the country) have the right to say you will rebuild New Orleans on higher ground." It's all just starting.
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