Morning folks! I got a message yesterday from Tom in MD. So I guess this one is for you "TOM".

Things are going fairly well. Very busy, and as many of you know we had a house full with the hurricanes hitting in Louisiana and having do much family and many many friends there. Several people we know lost thier homes and jobs due to teh Hurricane. We made several runs to the shelters dropping off clothes and food and hygeine supplies to help out. Most we know have returned to Louisiana trying to peice back their lives. We still have not located Matt's dad, or his grandma and grandpa and his half brother Johnathan. We have them posted on a few web sites but still have not heard a word as to how they made out in New Orleans after the storms hit. IF anyone reading this knows anything please contact us as soon as possible. On the central and western side of the state we had a lot of friends that got hit also, and with the following of Rita it was devastating. Several guys I know here in Arkansas went to the coast to try to help out with misc jobs only to have Rita run them back home. The sound of their voices and the stories they tell of what they saw there were eye openers for sure. NO one can really understand the devastation that has hit these people until you see it first hand. Or have lived it already through an earthquake, tornado, or fire ect.

I was really upset when I learned that many I grew up with and worked with in New Orleans were yelling discrimination and blaming the wrong people for a act of nature. I thought to myself" hey... wake up folks! " They all just went fool down there. Looting, killing, and then the best of all racist. But one reporter found something that says it all....Here what the western and central gulf coast cajuns did and thought...

Man bites hurricane

By Michael Graham

They were poor. They lived in homes that, to some Americans, would appear no more than shacks. They've suffered discrimination at the hands of their fellow Americans. And when the hurricane came, it seemed to veer o! ut of its way, just to hit them.

So why didn't hundreds of Cajuns from western Louisiana appear on my TV screen this week, complaining that George W. Bush doesn't like them, demanding $200 billion of my tax dollars or blaming the bad weather on Halliburton?

Hurricane Rita may have hit western Louisiana harder than Katrina hit New Orleans, but Rita across folks made of sterner stuff then you'll find in the Ninth Ward. Here's how one Washington Post story described the scene just hours after Rita made landfall near Intracoastal City, a "city" that in many sense! s barely exists:

"The only people who can get here are the sturdiest of sorts, a small armada of Cajuns with pretty French names and sunburned skin and don't-mess-with-me bravado. The bayous were full of them Saturday, gliding high and quick in airboats, and so was the Vermilion River, where they were spinning steering wheels on fast Boston Whalers and kicking up wakes in flat-bottomed, aluminum boats. They did not wait for the president or FEMA or anyone else to tell them that there were people out there — out there and desperate, on rooftops...

'I got out of the sheriff's office in about 20 seconds,' said Steve Artee, as his son, Chris, made a hard, boat-tilting turn on th! e swollen Vermilion. 'They just took my cell phone number, and I was gone. That's because Kathleen Blanco wasn't involved.'"

Now, anyone who hates Blanco and bureaucrats can't be all bad. But I don't agree with Mr. Artee that the people of Vermilion Parish behaved more responsibly or showed more strength of character because Gov. Blanco didn't have their parish on her speed dial. I believe the people of western Louisiana behaved better because they are, in fact, better people.

The failure revealed by Hurricane Katrina was not a failure of government, at least, not any more than government always fails. Th! e failure in New Orleans was a failure of character. Corrupt people el ecting corrupt politicians who gave millions in tax dollars to corrupt cronies to either mis-construct vital levees or to spend the money on entirely useless pork projects. Then, when disaster struck, these same people—living a Faustian deal of votes for tax-funded handouts— were utterly lost when those corrupt government officials headed for high ground without them.

As John Fund of the Wall Street Journal wrote: "In just the past generation, the Pelican State has had a governor, an attorney general, three successive insurance commissioners, a congressman, a federal judge, a state Senate president and a swarm of local officials convicted. Last year, three top officials at Louisiana's Office of Emergency Preparedness were indicted…. Just this s! ummer, associates of former [New Orleans] mayor Marc Morial were indicted for alleged kickbacks involving public contracts. Last month the FBI raided the home and car of Rep. William Jefferson as part of a probe into allegations he had misused his office."

Not to mention the widespread looting by the citizens of New Orleans themselves, which included televised looting by police officers, too. The chief administrative officer for Kenner, LA, was just busted for pilfering food, drinks, chainsaws and roof tarps from New Orleans and stashing them in his suburban home.

Hey—stay classy, New Orleans!
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Then came Hurricane Rita, Katrina's ugly sister, to wreak similar havoc just a few hundred miles to the west. The communities affected were, on the surface, similar as well: Abbeville or Cameron, LA were "low income" communities. The education levels were similar to the Ninth Ward, too. And you won't find many branches of the Aryan Nations meeting among the dark-skinned natives of Cajun country, whose heritage is a genetic gumbo of Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and American Indians.

But while the people of New Orleans were panicking and complaining (not to mention stealing, shooting and stabbing) days after the storm, the Cajuns of western Louisiana were out in their boats, looking for! lost neighbors and rescuing strangers off rooftops.

It wasn't just because Gov. Blanco wasn't involved—it was because almost NO government is involved in these folks' daily lives. The people of rural Louisiana grow up with the assumption that their survival in this world of woe is their responsibility. Unlike far too many people in New Orleans, "low income" isn't an excuse to the working families in rural Louisiana. It's just a condition to be dealt with. They live their lives as though they own them, unlike those government-dependent "victims" who live as though life is something the state provides for them and is responsible to maintain.

Randy Gary, a fisherman from Cameron, LA, was asked about his future after his boats were destroyed and flooding poisoned the oyster beds he fished.

He didn't blame FEMA or accuse President Bush of stealing his lunch money. He wasn't spotted kicking in the door of the local Wal-Mart to snag a plasma-screen TV "for survival purposes." He has yet to join the Cajun Action Committee to investigate why so many of Rita's victims spoke French.

Instead, as the AP reports, he smiled.

"What else we gonna do?" he said, pledging to rebuild his shattered home and work. "It's my life. It's what I do."

Hurricane Rita, you've met your match.

 

Could'nt have said it better myself. So Tom here is your personal update of how life has been for us. Dealing with the pain of our bretheren and trying to understand and give the support that is desperately needed. And yes, my new husband is great. We are doing fine and by marriage I am now a grandma so I have to get a whole new frame of mind for that one! LOL

Take care all. Keep these people in your hearts and in your prayers. And if anyone can donate anything to help them start their lives over please do. They need all they can get.

Any questions??? email me at Savedangel61@yahoo.com if you do have any.

Take care. God Bless!

Debbie

I just have to say I really enjoyed this article, This was the best thing I have read in quite sometime. I pray for these people everynight and I know with the strength of the mighty people they are they will overcome this. I know what they are going through I was blessed to come though Katrina as well as we did. I live in south mississippi and not many can say that.I still have a roof over my head as leaky and rickity as it is its a roof and I am blessed. God Bless you and you take care.

Hi Tonya! So glad you liked the article. So many of my family and friends endured that nightmare as well. I'm glad to hear your spirits are up and you have a positive attitude of moving forward with life after this tradegy. I do hope that you and your family stay safe and I will keep you in my prayers! God Bless!
Debbie

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