Stories from New Orleans

[annissamazing]

Joe came back from Louisiana today. I thought our guys were in Baton Rouge and Jackson, MS. I didn't realize that several of them, Joe included, were actually in New Orleans. Joe told a couple horror stories of corpses tied to trees and stop signs. Then he told one about the staging area in a K-Mart parking lot. He said there were about 200 people in this parking lot. He noticed a man wearing only shorts and combat boots running back and forth across the top of the store. He eventually came down off the roof. Joe says he looked like he had been awake for 4 or 5 days. Apparently, K-Mart had hired him to protect the store from looters. He had a chair, an ice chest, and an umbrella set up on the roof. He said he was glad they were there but warned them not to go to the back of the store. He said that's where the looters have been trying to get in and he said, "I tend to shoot first and ask questions later." He also said that if they saw a red flare they needed to jump in their trucks and get away ASAP.

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[insatia.livejournal.com]

Susan, my co-worker, is from one of the little towns outside of Hattiesburg MS. It's one of the few areas that had gas. Her parents have claimed to feel so lucky to be alive and are quite calm about it so far. They don't have electricity but they have a generator that can power one fan, and one of their three freezers that they're farmed food is stored. They think everything is fine. Susan keeps trying to explain to them the level of destruction and chaos going on in New Orleans. She has asked them not to panic when they see what's going on with their own eyes.

I hope that your company offers some sort of counseling for the people who were in New Orleans. It sounds horrifying.