Gustav Roll Call

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I know it is a bit soon, but anyone living in those areas, please post occasionally and let us know how you all are doing!

Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
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

Hang tight, grammyr!:up:

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Specializes in ER, TRAUMA, MED-SURG.
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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Hi guys! Just checking in. As I posted in another thread, I had to stay at my hospital through the storm. We are located in New Orleans right near the Orleans and Jefferson parish border, and we DID NOT lose power! Yay! I worked last night, so pretty much slept through landfall . It was very windy this AM before I went to sleep. Like scary windy. It was kinda surreal. But no loss of power and no flooding here. Just a few bumps and bruises to the building. Thank you Jesus, and thank all of you here on allnurses for your prayers and good thoughts.

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Specializes in oncology, trauma, home health.

Like Pagan, my heart has been sick too! I pray for all of you wonderful nurses (and everyone else) hanging in there, most with PTSD, going in for another round. If there were any place I would want to be, it would be right next to ya'll, right now, doing what you can. God bless!

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

Thank goodness this hurricane has been downgraded to category I status:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/gustav_gulf_coast

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From New Orleans, here. We are in Dallas, it looks like everything is okay, so if all goes well we will be back on Thursday. Thanks for all the concern. But one request please, stop calling evacuees "REFUGEES", we are American, and not running from Cuba, or something.

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

Glad to see people responding! Great news!

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
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:argue:, 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:bluecry1:.

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In Baton Rouge and thankfully the weather part is mostly past with just a few high gusts and some rain. It was a wild day here with trees crashing through over 400 homes in Baton Rouge alone. Lost power around 10AM this am and expected to be out up to two weeks. My neighborhood is pretty much a diasaster with trees and power lines down. Neighbors have a tree thru their house, trees down in my backyard and the fence is gone. But thankfully, no loss of life in my immediate area.I have only heard of about 5 deaths related to the storm in south LA and that is such a blessing with all the destruction. Thanks for the thoughts and prayers.

Clean up begins tomorrow, but it will be awhile before people will be able to move out of the shelters simply because there is no power grid to speak of at this time. There is a wind outside, but rather warm inside. We are one of the lucky ones with a last minute buy on a generator and a breeze from a box fan. Bought an aircard just two days ago in preparation for travel nursing - so atleast I can connect to the outside world.

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

I am glad to hear that you are alive and sound. I am sorry to hear of the deaths, but hopefully, it won't get worse than that.

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Specializes in Psych/Substance Abuse & School Clinics.

So glad to hear it wasn't as bad as many of us worried it might be. Prayers go your way for a save & speedy recovery in every way.

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i have a question for the FEDS, it bothers me a whole alot yesterday when i was watching the news to see the industrial levee topping off. my thing is why in the world dont they build it higher. 14ft is not high enough to guard of ocean water--build the thing as tall as a light post or something that way you dont have to worry too much.

secondly, how is it they can build a wall at the mexican border as tall as the sky but you can't build a wall like that to safe guard your own citizens. its ridiculous!

thirdly, why is taking so long --well into 3 years to finishing building these levees, when govt is dumping 10 million a day/month into the war.

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