This past week has been a rollercoaster for millions. When a group of us went and headed to New Orleans to help with things in one of our favorite cities we got the OK from RedCross to come down. In the middle of Mississippi we got word that the 17th street levee had busted..flooding the town of New Orleans. So we continued down..we were almost there.. we had to find an alternate route because we knew that I-10 was closed. So we had to head towards baton rouge. As we got there we heard reports of the looting and gunfire being strewn about. Cops being shot at..1 shot in the head. He lived though. Snipers holding a group of people inside a hospital without power.
People shooting rescue copters and boats. This is not the New Orleans I remember. Most of the media reports I've heard are hyping up that nothing good ever came out of New Orleans...its just a bunch of black people. Does the media not realize that the hurricane literally flew through the "projects" of mississippi? The flood waters in New Orleans mostly cleared out the ghetto part only.. the french quarter was not touched until recently when fires broke out.
By the time We reached baton rouge all hotels from there to san antonio and north up to memphis were all full. No vacancy. Saw people sleeping in roads..or maybe they were part of the dead. The stench of the place was horrid. Sewage, dead bodies, gas, lake water...
Anywho We finally found a hotel out on the Outskirts of LA in Lake Charles..it was a little known hotel in the middle of the woods area. So all in all just letting everybody know im back..and that redcross told me i couldnt help (haha how fucked is that after they told me i could?) so we were stranded for about a week trying to help people...when only we got ourselves into a mess we needed help with.
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