4:27 P.M. – WWL-TV: Clean up crews can be seen collecting the debris and garbage around the evacuation point at the I-10/Causeway Interchange. There are no more evacuees in the area.
4:23 P.M. – (AP): Only pockets of stragglers remain in the streets around the New Orleans Convention Center, and paramedics have begun carting away the dead.
Most of the hurricane survivors were taken away earlier today by bus and helicopter.
Many of those who filed onto the buses had to walk past corpses to make their escape. Conditions were so crowded that many refugees had to leave bags full of belongings at the side of the road.
One woman who had been stuck at the convention center for five days said “anyplace is better than here.”
Now what about THESE PEOPLE:
Federal Employees trapped in St. Bernard
Elderly woman needs help on Birch Street
Name: Jeffrey Durland
Home: 212 352 0523
Email: durland@sophistry.org
Subject: Elderly woman needs help and medicine
An elderly woman in a non-flooded area is in desperate need of food and water. If anyone can get to her, here is the address:
Emmett Miller
8724 Birch St.
New Orleans, LA 70118
Their phone is working. Here’s the number: 504-866-4264 I have been relayed this information from someone without computer access, this is all I can tell you.
(A staffer of Nola.com has been in phone contact with this woman. She has one relative caring for her, but needs medication and food and water. She needs help to be moved.)
‘Sax King,’ elderly mother trapped
Trapped at the Park Plaza
Can someone get to the authorities there. I have worked for the past three years at the Park Plaza Hotel in NO. The GM called me yesterday from a pay phone that works in the hotel. There are between 100-150 ppl still trapped in there surrounded by water. NO one has been there at all, no one knows they are there. They have been on the fire escapes outside of the building but because of the water, no one has been close to them. There are four elderly people that were guest there that are critical and the GM is desperate to get them out to get help but it needs to be by boat. I have tried and tried emergency lines but cannot get anyone to answer. If you can help, please pass this along. Thanks,
Sarah Parmley
832-724-6422
Somebody save my parents
Name: Josh Cooley
Home: 713-526-6718
Email: jcooley@rice.edu
Subject: My Hurricane Story — Somebody Save My Parents
Story: My parents are stuck at 241 Harding Street in Jefferson, LA. Could somebody please get them out of the city? They are running out of food and water!
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