PATRICK AND HEIDI CALLED!!!

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Originally uploaded by KEITHBOADWEE.

THIS WAS THEM AT THEIR HOUSE BEFORE IT WAS UNDER LAKE PONCHATRAIN. THEY'RE OKAY. WELL, AS OKAY AS YOU CAN BE WHEN YOU'VE JUST LOST YOUR HOME, YOUR JOB AND EVERYTHING YOU OWN. THEY'RE BEING REUNITED WITH PATRICK'S PARENTS IN THIBODEAUX LATER TODAY, I WAS ABLE TO REACH PATRICK'S MOTHER, HE HAD A NUMBER FOR THE PLACE SHE HAD EVACUATED TO, WHO IS ARRANGING TO PICK HIM UP AT NICHOLS STATE UNIVERSITY AT THIBODEAUX. THIBODEAUX IS ABOUT 100 MILES WEST OF NEW ORLEANS. PATRICK SAYS THERE IS NO POWER OR PHONE SERVICE THERE EITHER, IN FACT, ALL OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA IS STILL OUT. WE WERE ABLE TO TALK FOR A COUPLE OF MINUTES BEFORE HIS PHONE CUT OUT. HE SAYS THAT NEW ORLEANS IS WIPED OUT, TERRIFYING AND LAWLESS. THEY SPENT THE NIGHT ON A BRIDGE WITH A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE WITH NO FOOD OR WATER AND FIGHTS WERE BREAKING OUT. THEY DECIDED TO START WALKING AND WADING AND REACHED A CHURCH WHERE PEOPLE WERE HOLDED UP. THEY STAYED THERE FOR A WHILE UNTIL FIGHTING STARTED BREAKING OUT THERE TOO. THEY WALKED AND WADED TO A FRIEND'S ABANDONED HOUSE, BROKE IN AND SPENT A NIGHT THERE. I'M NOT SURE HOW THEY IT DID BUT THEY MANAGED TO GET TO THE HIGHWAY AND THAT'S WHERE THEY WERE ABLE TO FLAG SOMEONE DOWN WHO WAS WILLING TO TAKE THEM TO THIBODEAUX. PATRICK REALLY DESCRIBED IT AS ARMAGEDDON AND SAYS THAT IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT FIRST HAND YOU CAN'T EVEN BECOME TO FATHOM THE DEPTHS OF THE HORROR THERE. PLEASE DO ANYTHING YOU CAN TO HELP, GIVING MONEY TO THE RED CROSS OR ANY OTHER NUMBER OF RELIEF ORGANIZATION IS PROBABLY THE BEST OPTION AVAILABLE TO YOU AT THIS TIME.