swatmedic said:
There are currently 35 members of the Boston DMAT team deployed in the area. They are prepared to move into an unstable and dangerous envrioment, and begin to provide medical care for the population.
This will be done with litttle or no press coverage, since we are the little talked about step child of FEMA, but I know that if there is a group of people who would appreciate their efforts, it would be you guys
If you can let them know, please tell them thanks for me. I have a lot of memories from growing up down there. And I've been through many of these, even some where we had to be evacuated as well.
I grew up right on Lake Pontchartrain, my mom called me last night to see pictures of our neighborhood with water up to the roofs. It makes you think, I'll tell you that.
How many of the people that I grew up with, that might still live back in there that I've lost touch with are affected.
Like I said, most of the people that I knew were able to get out. Some are more upstate LA, some are in Texas, some were in middle Mississippi, Jackson area.
It seems like my alma mater did pretty well for being in middle Mississippi. As much as I was searching, I couldn't find that Ole Miss got hit that hard.
I heard that Memphis had several touchdowns from Tornados, but when I called my Mom, she said that they weren't out by her house. So I'm glad that my family is safe.
I'm glad to hear that your friends are OK SR. That's good news. I did hear that there are bodies and caskets, and sewage floating around.
They said that it's going to take over a month to pump the water out of the area. So there's pretty much going to be NO economy in Orleans and Jefferson Parish. That's really going to hurt that region. It's going to be hard to bounce back from this.
I know that it's just stuff. But we're talking about a area that really doesn't have a lot of money respectively. These people aren't even going to be able to get back into their homes, businesses, etc.. for over a month. A lot of people are going to lose thier houses, jobs, companies. I don't know what's going to happen down there.
I truely do feel for these people. It's not going to be an easy road for them in next several years to come.
All I can do is hope that Mother Nature is going to be easy on them for the next several months.
We would get a good strom with some heavy rain and we would flood streets. So even if they do start to get ahead of things. Antother storm, another hurricane, anythign and it's just going to put them in an uphill battle.
