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medeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 05:01 PM
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86 yr old aunt lost home to Katrina
anyone else have a loss? She lives in Gulfport and it's gone. We just got a satelite phone call today from a nurse...we had no idea where she was. At present she's in hospital in Birmingham Ala (they took her screaming and kicking just prior to hurricane thank goodness) as she's on oxygen.

She has no children or family except for my Dad and I. We don't have the heart to tell her the house is gone and she keeps asking to go home.

I don't know what we are going to do for her... there are so many thousands just like her.

God bless Miss governor who told Bush she had too much going on for him to visit and have a photo op.
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 05:05 PM
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1. I'm so sorry, this story will be repeated thousands of times in the next
few days

Hope she finds some peace with this soon, poor thing
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MidwestTransplant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 05:06 PM
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2. Haley Barbour said that?
Edited on Wed Aug-31-05 05:06 PM by MidwestTransplant
You have a link?


Very sorry about your aunt.....
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medeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 05:12 PM
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4. It was on Larry King
He asked her if it was true and she sort of diplomatically avoided answering the question.

Heard LA governer basically told Bush the same?
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KC21304 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 05:18 PM
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5. The LA Governor is a she. Blanco is her name.
Edited on Wed Aug-31-05 05:22 PM by KC21304
MS Governor is that creep Haley Barbour. Use to be chairman of Repugs.

Perhaps it was Blanco who told Bush to take a hike. Wouldn't be surprised after what he did to funds for New Orleans.

So sorry about your Aunt and all the others.
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medeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 05:31 PM
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7. ok
Edited on Wed Aug-31-05 05:34 PM by medeak
edited to say it was a female.. I swore it was MS... but you must be correct!

Thanks re aunt.. we'll be hearing lots of horror stories in the next few days
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hiley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 05:08 PM
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3. medeak
I am so sorry for your Aunt, so much devastation.
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 05:28 PM
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6. Your aunt is very lucky to have you and your father, thousands have no one
May good fortune come your way.

Sincerely, Jody
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medeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 05:32 PM
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8. yes indeed
she was very lucky. The last conversation we had with her she was refusing to evacuate ("I don't want to be with those crazy people") and the phone went dead from the heavy traffic of calls.

We had no idea until today what happened to her.

There will be many more stories like this... when phone lines etc get back up.
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