Message from brotherhrolf....asking for prayers!

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Zooey:
You make an excellent point!! Brother sent me some photos from the local papers down there, & the pix…Not one of them, or anything remotely like them, ever was shown on TV, or printed in the papers up here.
Without folks like Brother & yourself, to bring our attention to the facts, it would be easy to assume that everything is just fine now…It’s not fine; it’s a disaster area…literally.
A lot of people in need of prayers, folks!!
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Yes definitely. People are still living in tents. Not FEMA trailers, tents. There are several trailers down there held in a lot but they are not wired for gas or electric. But they are just sitting there.
 
My prayers go out to brotherhrolf. Hurricane Katrina has been largely forgotten up here in Ohio, and by the mainstream media. It has largely turned into a political contest to see who was the stupidest. Mayor Nagin, the governer, or FEMA. We have help for every other country in the world, but our own.
 
Leonard,
I’m so sorry for what you experienced… I feel that God wanted you to… You can make a difference… We ALL can make a difference… whether it’s by offering more prayer, assistance, or just plain writing to those at the “Top” of how displeased we are in how things are being handled.😦
Meanwhile I’m praying for you now more than ever…:gopray2:
 
Dear Brotherhrolf, you are in my prayers and I share your pain and frustrations. Although I live in Louisiana, I don’t know New Orleans that well, but she’s like a dear old aunt whose a gracious hostess who I go and visit every few years or so, and the family (i.e. Louisiana) is just not the same without her.
 
I had received another e-mail but wasn’t sure whether it was meant strictly for me or for everyone.

I’ll find out either way.
 
Oh Brotherhrolf - you are a reminder fo rus that much prayer is still needed for those in that region.

We often forget that - outta sight outta mind apathy. Maybe apathy is the wrong word - but if it did not impact us directly, it is easy to think that things are much better now since it is out of the news.

You will remain in our prayers for courage, strength and peace.
 
My prayers go out to Leonard and everyone affected by Katrina. I think that all of us here can do is to start firing off emails to, not only the president, but also to our own senators and representatives. We all united for Terri Schiavo, so how about we unite for NO and for Leonard. Let’s start a list of email addies. I’ll be right back with a few.
 
Yes Brotherholf is telling it “Like it is” being also A native New Orleanian, We PM from time to time on the state of the City. I live in the neighborhood Brother was raised in. (irish Channel) I grew up not far from here.

aside from all the destruction, nothing works anymore. i mean nothing. I got off work monday night around 11pm no grocery stores open. no gas stations. and nothing in the house (I still dont have A fridge) Just had to wait till morning. LOL When the few businesses open up. and then everything closes by 6 or 7.

I agree with brother, We should not even be thinking about Mardi gras. We are fighting for the soul of this great City that gave us birth. We can party some other time.

On another gloomy note, We are about to lose our Culture. In the wake of the destruction A new element has moved in. Some legitimate, others not so legitimate. They are breaking in Storm damaged Homes and looting. or just squating. In the most tragic of the cases. (As reported in the picayune) what they didnt steal they simply destroyed. People who cant come Home have what left of their houses being lived in by illegals! the few of us natives that are back all see the we are being overwhelmed by a totally new culture. One we know nothing about. And no one will do anything to stop it. New Orleans will never be the same. Mores the pity.
 
Brother,

I am anxiously awaiting your time of reflection to be over.

I want to act for you, and with you.

I believe there are enough faithful people on this board that we can bring awareness of the sugar-coating of the state of NO to the light.

**We can contact our Congressmen and women, and provide them with the details, and pictures you are willing to provide for us.
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(That you are involved in the gov. at some level would be helpful, but not nessesarily required.)

I don’t know if you noticed or not, but I followed the boycott of American Girl this fall, when info that they were actively supporting an organization that supported abortion and contraception for all girls/women (as well as active homosexuality) came to light. One of our own members started the push, and contacted the right people to get it going.

WE CAN DO MUCH TO HELP YOU!

That which hurts one member of the body of Christ, affects us all.

May God continue to bless you and yours.
 
I have a new message (e-mail) from brotherhrolf (Leonard). He is in deep contemplation for he believes he is being ‘called’ for a higher purpose.
My greetings and congratulations to Shoshana for reaching 10,000 posts.

I’m feeling like I am being called to DO something. So now I’ve got to pray to find out what God wants me to do. I was very disappointed by the President’s State of the Union address as it applies to here.
Governor Blanco wasn’t impressed and all those oil leases out in the Gulf (which Louisiana has in the past signed off on gladly) will now be contested so that Louisiana gets its share of royalties which Blanco says she will put toward coastal restoration.

Tell everyone hi for me.
Leonard
 
Truly God is with you brotherhrolf. I am so lucky. I was 60 miles from NO in “Acadiana” I erecieved no affects from the strom but I am truly lucky. My heart goes out to my brothers and sisters in NO.
 
I wrote to brotherhrolf because I had heard on the radio that tornadoes hit NO. Whether it was the city itself or outlining areas, I’m not sure. The radio news was not specific. I hope to hear from him.
 
According to MSNBC, one hit the airport and another hit a neighborhood, demolishing a house that had been damaged by Katrina. No serious injuries or deaths, thank God.
 
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I wrote to brotherhrolf because I had heard on the radio that tornadoes hit NO. Whether it was the city itself or outlining areas, I’m not sure. The radio news was not specific. I hope to hear from him.
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Lord Jesus Christ, son of the living God, have mercy!!!
 
Another message from Brotherhrolf:
"Hi Edwin!
It is not confirmed but there were two tornadoes which touched down in Kenner. Kenner is the far western suburb of NO. A section of the roof of the concourse of the airport was ripped off, two jetways slammed into each other and buckled, and a house which had been damaged by Katrina collapsed.
The second one was just a little further north and took down State Police’s big communications tower and did further damage to rooves which had been previously damaged by Katrina. Up here in Baton Rouge we got a good bit of rain which is much needed but the big line of thunderstorms was down in the NO area. One guy they interviewed said, “Never say, what else can happen?”

I did read the Katrina thread last night and it was most gratifying and reassuring."
 
I’m not really ready…I don’t know what I am supposed to do. But I do know I can’t do it without y’all - my brothers and sisters on CAF. I do not have words to describe what I have seen. I have been in corespondence with Quicumque Vult. He is in the Irish Channel west of the French Quarter, upriver, where my Irish ancestors have lived for 150+ years. One thing I have realized in the last few days…I do not have words to express what I have seen. I do not have a frame of reference for you because the reality of the situation is just way too extreme. At a minimum, you have a major and historic American city destroyed. The city is abandoned.

And NO is not the worst of it - not by a long shot. The Mississippi Gulf Coast was flattened. First by Camille in 1969 and then by Katrina. I will always be haunted by my memories of what the Coast looked like when I was a kid and spent so many summers there. And I can’t forget the sight of all the coastal communities along the southwestern La. coast which got hit by Rita.

Our country received the worst natural disaster in its history yet the media and the governement are treating it as something ephemeral. Why has the media not shown what happened to the middle class, upper middle class, and wealthy of New Orleans? Did they not suffer as much as the poor of the lower Ninth Ward? Why have there not been scenes of $250,000 homes ripped from their concrete foundations and deposited in the middle of the street? Has anyone in the news media visited Chalmette? Or what about the neighborhood in which I lived the first six years of my life - Lakeview? I had to look twice Saturday to determine I was on Harrison Ave. And no mention at all of the Catholic churches that flooded - none. I have a very bitter resentment to the media - very bitter. Why? Because everything has been reduced to the poor of the lower Ninth Ward. The Ninith Ward flooded during Betsy in 1964. The Ninth Ward then was mixed white and black and in my mind’s eye I see the National Guard amphibious vehicles rescuing people from the roof tops. Where were the amphibious vehicles? Over in Iraq with all the Louisiana National Guard troops. It is indeed a tradgedy that the Ninth Ward flooded but who is showing pictures of Lakeview, Lake Terrace, Mid City or anywhere else in the city which went under?

If all one sees on TV is the poor, how then can you get any idea of just how profoundly these storms afected everyone? Katrina was an equal opportunity killer. The rich suffered as much as the upper middle class as much as the middle class. Katrina did not discriminate. She wrecked everyone equally.
 
I have actually seen on the news the past 2 nights more than I had seen since Katrina first hit. There has been coverage because there have been a number of groups of (primarily) teenagers who have gone down from this area to work on the relief efforts, & the crews have gotten pix we have never seen before.
For those who have not seen this kind of visual, there is no describing it. It looks like nothing on earth. It is as though a bomb had been dropped.
I saw a house barely standing, that some high school kids were cleaning up…The insurance company has all ready “paid up”: they sent a check for $500…Yes, an :crying: all but totalled house, and five hundred dollars is the:mad: payoff. It is to pay for:nope: patching the shingles on the roof from wind damage…
I don’t know whether to scream or cry…God bless the teens; they are doing something. The:mad: politicians, IMNSHO, need a kick in the seat of their pants…maybe 2 kicks.
This has to be at the top of the list of :crying: natural disasters in the history of our country, & the ball has been dropped, bigtime, by those who should be putting their position & power to use to help the American people…

I’ve gotta stop now. I’m:( losing my temper, & my charity right along with it.
 
From the other side of the world I send my prayers and sorrow. I thought that, because I’m not hearing news about NO and the other areas affected by Katrina and Rita any more, that it must it be because everything had been cleaned up!!
Even I have a good idea of the cultural significance of New Orleans - how much greater the sense of loss to those who call the city home.
The devastation must be unimaginable until you see it. I feel so deeply for Brotherhrolf, Quicumque Vult, and those thousands/millions who are trying to live there or who have been uprooted from their beloved city.
 
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