HELP IN NEW ORLEANS IF YOU CAN
PLEASE HELP HERE IF YOU CAN
There are well over a 1200 people still in the Tenet Memorial Hospital on Napoleon in New Orleans. Predictions are that flood waters will continue to rise to another 9 feet tonight. Latest info is that they have started helicoptering out people, but verY small numbers, less than 100 since 1 pm. Giving you this update because we may have no electricity before
long. Our phone numbers are 504.897.4531 and 504.897.4530, we cannot call out. Feel free to call us or give numbers to media to call us. They are estimating that it may take several days to evacuate these people - water electricity food security all will be gone by then.Please help by notifying the press and the government. People are hoping that friends around the country can help out. Thanks for giving people hope.
Peace, Bill Quigley
I just donated to Philly Future has a link to Red Cross.
Would it help to post Bill's message on our blogs and email it to local media?
Posted by: ol cranky | August 30, 2005 at 09:40 PM
I emailed the text to my former bosses up at California Healthcare Association...lobbyists for the hospitals in California.
Hopefully they can do something. I know they represent many Tenet hospitals.
Posted by: jillian | August 30, 2005 at 11:12 PM
I was down in Miami the day after hurricane Andrew hit, and the pictures from Mississippi, Gulfport and Biloxi, remind me of that, but with about 20 times more total devastation. Some places were just wiped completely clean.
This is going to be the worst hurricane in US history easily, with hundreds and hundreds dead and the cost may be in the hundreds of billions.
I knew it was going to be bad, but not this bad.
I first saw this video of Mr. Harvey Jackson from Biloxi on MSNBC, I started losing it watching him talk about having his wife pulled out of his arms by the water. You can watch the video... but I wouldn't recommend it.
Posted by: Aaron | August 31, 2005 at 02:50 AM