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Mon Aug 29 02:00:33 BST 2005

In a message dated 28-Aug-05 19:45:25 Central Daylight Time, KMATTOX at aol.com 
writes:
>From the Neo Orleans Office of Emergency Preparedness at this hour

Over a million people have evacuated from the City of New Orleans and  
Jefferson Parish during the last 36 hours.    This is one of the  largest 
single 
evacualtions of a population over a short period of time in the  history of 
man 
kind.     Some looting has been known to  occur in some of the homes of thise 
who left.      Up  to 60,000 have and are entering the Superdome as a 
"shelter 
of last  resort."  There is no longer any shelters anywhere in Jefferson  
Parish.   

k

Our regional plans are going into effect, and we have been notified to be 
prepared to accept transfer patients from down state.

My understanding is that most of the evacuated hospital and nursing home 
patients went to Baton Rouge, filling most of the beds available there. The ones 
we have been warned will be ones who need beds that are not otherwise available.

Several of the churches are setting up as shelters, but I've not been 
notified what the Red Cross is going to be doing here in Leesville.

ck

Charles S. Krin, DO

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