Below is an email message from Baton Rouge.
Baton Rouge suffered some damage, most of it from high winds. My house is good except for minor roof damage. I still have no power or phone and cell phones are sketchy at best. Breaux Bridge is fine and I took refuge there for several nights.
New Orleans is worse than you can see on TV. It will cease to function as a city for a long, long time and the number of dead will be astronomical. I have several close friends who lost everything and at least two who do not know the whereabouts of family members. The population of Baton Rouge has increased by over 100,000 in two days and the city is a zoo. It seems safe, but rumors are flying like mad.
We at Episcopal are accepting about 120 students K - 12 from New Orleans Schools into our normal school program and setting up a "skeletal" night school (4:00 - 8:30, using teachers from New Orleans and offering Social Studies, Math, English, Science, and Foreign Language) that is as large as our normal school.
As you can imagine, things are quite hectic. It is heart wrenching seeing these people who are desperate for a place for their kids, needless to say housing (there are very few rentals for homes or businesses left and houses that have not sold for a year or more sold yesterday or will sell soon). It is incomprehensible. In addition, the ripple effects of this massive disaster on the economy of the country will rival, if not surpass, those of September 11.
Please send message to my colleagues that I am safe but that Southeast Louisiana, Southern Mississippi, Southern Alabama, and those locations that are helping refugees need as much help and as many prayers as possible.
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