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Sep 01, 2008, 04:03 PM
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Sep 01, 2008 at 04:05 PM by grammyr
 Re: Gustav Role Call
Northwest LA here, just wind and expecting rain. The weather says 6-10 inches but as fast as it's moving, maybe just a good soaking. Keeping my fingers crossed because not only will my house flood, but our entire neighborhood will flood. Just pray for slow rain.
UPDATE: Tornado watch area is one parish over (according to the weather channel). Just wait and see
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Sep 01, 2008, 05:11 PM
Re: Gustav Role Call Originally Posted by pagandeva2000  I am happy to get responses this early on. I am unable to pry myself from the television to hear what is happening, and I am joyful that you guys and/or family members are safe, thus far. May we all send positive and safe energy to everyone during this time and hope that the crisis abates itself. My heart and soul cannot take another Katrina. Keep on posting folks. It does my heart good!
You are right! During Katrina, our hospital was overfilled with Katrina evacuees. I was the charge nurse on duty when they cane rolling in with the national guard started their procession with the green litters and it was just so pitiful! These poor people came in, some alert, some not. One little man looked up as I was assigning him to a room, and he looked up at me and said, "Honey, what do you mean I'm in Monroe? I have to be in Houston! My family is waiting for me there. They will think I'm dead." Tears were running down his cheeks as he got rolled on down the hall. Some others came in with their name, or part of it, allergies, dx, ect. Some of them just had the safety pins on their clothes, but the information was gone. Just pitiful. It hurts your heart!
Anne, RNC
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Sep 01, 2008, 07:09 PM
Re: Gustav Role Call Originally Posted by ilovemypuppies You are right! During Katrina, our hospital was overfilled with Katrina evacuees. I was the charge nurse on duty when they cane rolling in with the national guard started their procession with the green litters and it was just so pitiful! These poor people came in, some alert, some not. One little man looked up as I was assigning him to a room, and he looked up at me and said, "Honey, what do you mean I'm in Monroe? I have to be in Houston! My family is waiting for me there. They will think I'm dead." Tears were running down his cheeks as he got rolled on down the hall. Some others came in with their name, or part of it, allergies, dx, ect. Some of them just had the safety pins on their clothes, but the information was gone. Just pitiful. It hurts your heart!
Anne, RNC
Spike Lee came out with a documentary explaining the horrors these people experienced, even down to the rescue. Many people were actually FORCED to seperate from their loved ones by the miltary themselves. Many of the soliders, according to some of the testimonies were very callous about this. I would have probably gotten into a fight if they even TRIED to separate from my son  , who has a social phobia and would have been BEYOND traumatized behind such an experience. That broke my heart over again when it came out close to a year or so after the event  .
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