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To: Ish who wrote (135018)	8/30/2005 7:26:12 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793542

Hi Ish - well, my Baton Rouge family is fine but no word yet from the people in Biloxi. Nor the friends in New Orleans. From what I can tell from the pictures, my friends in New Orleans East and the ones in Jefferson Parish must have their houses underwater. The ones Uptown, maybe also. Also people I worked with over the years when I was in printing, lived in poorer places like Arabi and Chalmette. The flooding is just unfathomable to me. I've never seen anything like it in my life, except for photos of the tsunami last year. Can't wrap my mind around it. It's clear that the people who stayed behind were either the poorest of the poor, or old and sick. Looks like a lot of people with diabetes and other serious health problems. I expect that there will be a staggering number of deaths when rescuers can finally get to them. I am just dazed. Couldn't sleep.

To: Ish who wrote (135018)	8/30/2005 7:29:34 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793542

Hi Ish - well, my Baton Rouge family is fine but no word yet from the people in Biloxi. Nor the friends in New Orleans. From what I can tell from the pictures, my friends in New Orleans East and the ones in Jefferson Parish must have their houses underwater. The ones Uptown, maybe also. Also people I worked with over the years when I was in printing, lived in poorer places like Arabi and Chalmette. The flooding is just unfathomable to me. I've never seen anything like it in my life, except for photos of the tsunami last year. Can't wrap my mind around it. It's clear that the people who stayed behind were either the poorest of the poor, or old and sick. Looks like a lot of people with diabetes and other serious health problems. I expect that there will be a staggering number of deaths when rescuers can finally get to them. Where to put them? Where will they sleep? Who will feed them? New Orleans is a city full of poor people. Illiteracy rate staggering. Crime rate staggering. Richer people live on higher ground, the poor ones used to live in the flood zones but now that's where the middle classes live, too. (Not much in the way of middle class although that was improving.) The city naturally evolved along ridges to begin with, then filled in later when pumping drained the lower grounds, but those pumps have to run day and night just to stay even. Just read that the water is still rising, levee failed on Lake Pontchartrain, water pouring into Carrollton, my old neighborhood. I am just dazed. And feeling rather weepy. One of the saddest things were the places that were on fire, surrounded by water. Must have looked like something out of Dante's Inferno. I wonder if people will open their wallets and their hearts for this horrible disaster. I expect that many, if not most, of the people who lost everything have zero insurance of any kind, were already on government assistance. Those better off were just living paycheck to paycheck.