New Orleans need our help!

Gmachine

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I just got back from a one weeks stay in N.O. All I can say it wow! Our country has forgotten these people! We were the first volunteers they have seen since the National Guard left in Nov. I can't begind to describe the devistation and stench I saw. If anyone has the opportunity to go I would greatly encourge it. It changed my life and what I hold as important.

One awesome guy I met was a fireman that has lost everything and was so thankful for us being there. To see this tough man shed a tear for his community was tough. These people need our $$$ and our time!! Call your congressman or state rep. and encourage them to help these people.

Please take the time to send $ or just a card saying your praying or thinking of them to him and he will disperse the funds to those needed.

Armand Buuck
80 Cochrane Dr.
Chalmette, LA 70043


Thank you,
Ryan
 
Is there a VERIFIABLE agency or Non-profit group this fellow belongs too to ensure any and all moneys get to the proper places ?

The Katrina relief effort has been wraught with fraud and thievery, how do we know this is legit ?

Much of this is why there haven't been more funds, folks are tired of being ripped off.



Kevin
 
I'm not saying he isn't legit, and he's right about so little seeming to be done. I just find it hard to believe the statement about you guys being the first volunteers he has seen since November, especially since I've been keeping up with the Habitat for Humanity operation going on there, and the number of people from this area alone who are part of it.

The tough part of it all is that so much of it has not been cleaned up because of bureaucracy, the costs of disposal, and a lack of demand. So much of the NO property remains unclaimed by the original residents due to the fact that it was rental property, the landlords are being stymied by bureaucracy and idiotic regulations, not to mention the growing lack of places to properly dispose of the debris. And if there's no place for the renters to return to, why would they?

It's estimated that NO has long-term to permanently lost 40% of its population to the cities that have taken in those displaced, there are only two hospitals actually operating at anywhere near full staff, and too many of the small businesses that provided employment for most of NO lower middle classes have also failed to return. In some respects, the future is bleak for NO, and things will most likely never be the same for her.

I was in Bay St Louis, Mississippi a week after, and all I can say is that if you haven't been there, you have no concept of the degree of destruction and the size of the huge area that's involved. It took us a day and a half to go 150 miles due to the flooding conditions and the road blockages by almost incomprehensible amounts of debris. Eastern coastal Texas, Southern Louisiana, Mississippi a 100 miles inland, and western coastal Alabama have suffered from the greatest national disaster that's ever struck this country, and none of those areas will get over it anytime soon. Somewhere a few weeks back, there was a conservative estimate that over 250,000 people were permanently displaced.

And of course, the media has forgotten it since it's more than a week old.
 
Sorry, should have reworded that. I would send money to any agency that is legit. If you would please send cards the address above. Just a kind word of reassurance that they have not been forgotten would be passed along to all by him. Out of all the people I met, he was the highest in command and the most in touch with the community.

As said by radioman, the media has lost touch with what is going on down there. As of last week the rebuilding of the levies was halted by the gov't.

It's just a very bad situation that bureaucracy has complete screwed up!
 
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