This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment MessageI spoke with Gary and Dot Neie, also spoke with Nolan today. = They both have their customary "we'll be fine" way going on. Here is a letter from Gary that tells how it is for them. Ruth ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Gary A Neie=20 To: Ruth/Webb Phillips=20 Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 11:41 AM Subject: Katrina Hello All, Dot and I are fine from the storm. We didn't get any damage we were on = the west side of the storm. It is causing hardship for all (including us). the gas prices and = gouging is out of reach. Our church is housing 100 refugees from New Orleans, Dot and I are = getting up each morning at 4:00 a.m. to go fix them breakfast and feed = them. Others of our church are cooking the other two meals of the day. We have had them since Monday the 29th of August and will probably have = them, at least, another week. Some of these have lost everything. The situation on New Orleans is = desperate. It is like a bathtub as it is below sea level. The 17th = street levy broke in 4 places and let the water in from Lake = Potchatrain, so at present the city is 80 percent flooded and the water = level is equal to the Lake. Everyone had plenty of notice to leave the = city but many chose to stay and now they are in desperate need. About = 4000 were sent to our Super Dome for shelter and then the storm hit it = took the roof off the Super Dome, The electricity failed and the sewage = failed since the water is higher than the sewage, it is impossible to = flush the toilets. Our Parish closed schools today Friday, Sept 2nd and sent all of our = school busses to New Orleans to help with the evacuation. There are a lot of Red Cross shelters in our City that are packed with = refugees. We don't have a clue as to where the people will go from here = that have no homes to go back to. Mississippi gulf coast is wiped out completely, many, many lives lost = and more will be discovered as the are able to get to them.=20 The important thing right now is in trying to rescue as many as = possible. Your prayers are welcomed and what money you might be able to send. Send = it to the American Red Cross and designate it to "Katrina". Hope this info will be a help to all. You got Ron's message from Nolan. We talked to him before the storm = trying to get them to leave and come here, also the PTG Home Office crew = tried to get them to leave, We talked to him afterwards and they didn't = suffer damage other than the city is without power and it is getting = harder to get gasoline for their vehicles and Electrical Generator. They = have to travel great distances to get it. Love to all, Gary A. Neie, RPT Pineville, Louisiana (we are in the middle of the state.) ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b7/b4/fc/0f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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