Katrina's wrath

My sister's friend and roommate from college lived in New Orleans. She just moved there this spring as her husband started his dental residency. Last night, she and her husband drove to Lauren's house. When I asked her how she was doing, Lauren wrote:

She said that the broken levy was two miles north of her house and her friend who lives just south of her said everything is destroyed. She saw the Target that was even farther away from the levy that was totally destroyed, too.

She was in Gulf Shores before it happened and couldn’t even go back, but got Joe to get her wedding album and moved things off the ground, which now she realized did nothing. I asked her what she had and she said besides her wedding album, just a few beach clothes and her purse. All her pictures were in there, all her dishes, china, furniture, computer, ipod…everything they owned they say will be ruined from water, sewage, dead animals floating around, etc.

She said that she started crying when she went to bed last night because the bed was so comfortable and she thought, I don’t even have a mattress. They will have to start over from scratch and had no insurance because they were renting. It doesn’t cover floods anyway. I just feel so helpless and wish I could do something. They don’t know if they’ll be back in a couple of weeks or months, but they’ll stay with Joe and his wife in Baton Rouge until then. That’s all I know!

It really hits home when you think about every individual living in the gulf coast region having simular experiences. We need to keep them all in our prayers.