New Orleans...

An email and link sent from a friend that was sent to him, etc etc....


Amanda,

Please forward to Kenny & Cassie Mayeaux. I can't find his email address. The photos are from Popie's boat while he picked up people from random areas in Metairie trying to escape. Popie does not know the city well enough to risk his life. My brother Moose and another brother Manning went into the city. The Billeaud coon-ass rescue armada returned home fine but shaken and scared. Apparently the current rescue efforts are not adequate in New Orleans. The only people being rescued are those from the roof tops and hospital patients. Noted below is an account of my brother Moose's journey into the city yesterday. Most citizens have not had power, clean drinking water, or food since Sunday night. The people left behind were to poor to leave and did not relatives outside of the city.

Moose said he was denied access to the city and had to sneak in. At one point he required assistance from Coast Guard workers to lift his boat over road ways and other obstacles. My brother said he rescued over 100+ people in his flat bottom boat from the St. Bernard housing project yesterday near the Fair Grounds and the LSU Dental School. Moose was once an Asst. DA in New Orleans so he knows the area quite well. Moose and a friend from Lafayette went in armed with guns and rifles for protection. He said for every one person they picked up they left 10 behind. He rescued a two month baby on oxygen, elderly residents with healing surgical wounds, and most children under 5. He said there are thousands waiting for rescue but the out of town rescue workers do not know where they are or scared to enter because of the violence from the armed gangs taking over the city. The Tulane and Methodist hospitals have already been ransacked by the armed gangs who are looting for drugs. The violence will only continue to escalate as people become more desperate. Moose said Sen. Gautreau organized a 350+ flat bottom boat rescue team from Acadiana [Lafayette area] but most were turned away once they arrived in Kenner. The Acadiana gang offered to leave the ice, water, and gas but the rescue workers said it was not necessary. My college friend who is a city attorney for NO said there are 2,000+ bodies in St. Bernard Parish [Chalmette, Violet, etc] alone. The images in the next few weeks will surprise the US that parts of our country look like Haiti or Nigeria. Please encourage people to donate the Red Cross to help the destitute start a new life in they make it out the city safely. PhilipAmanda LeBlanc wrote:
These are amazing and heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing. I shared them with my folks - I know that as sad as these photos are, it was also helpful to them to see anything "up close" about home. They are just shell shocked.

they took pictures of what they did and saw...

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