Hello, I finaly got through to a cousin. My 86 year-old Aunt Marie and my cousin sat through the storm north of Lake Pontichtrain. After seeing the news yeterday they decided to just go on to Texas. They don't think they'll be going back, not to live. My Aunt Marie grew up on Desiree Street in NO. (Called A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Wiliams.) It doesn't look like she'll be going back home anytime soon. Thanks for the prayers and positive energy but don't stop yet. There are still a lot of Marie's stuck in NO. (There's a LA State law requiring everybody to have an Aunt Marie.) On 9/1/05, thehornguy <thehornguy@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > > > Hello, Grant. > > I am so sad to see the terrible devastation in the gulf Coast area, from > Florida to western Louisiana!! It appears to me that New Orleans may not > ever be totally re-built, in it former glory, because of the loss of > physical as well as of cultural aspects!! > I am from Houston, originally, and those storms have always done more > damage > than predicted, ever since the early 1900's when Galveston was totalled > out > in 1900. > > I surely do hope and pray that your family is found to be well, and in > good > health and good surroundings, when they can be located. From the looks of > things, on my boob-tube, the 'hunt and search' efforts will take a long > while, to find where everyone went, and what happened to them!! And the > real concern is for those still left in the original area, subject to > vandalism and banditry!! It seems such a difficult situation to me!! >