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Old Jul 14, 2007, 04:06 PM
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Seeker, thank you for wanting to help. But, honestly i dont think it will help. The mayor of NO, parish (county) presidents of St. Bernard and Plaquemine all went to Washington this past week begging for help from the federal goverment. St Bernard was turned down again for any levee repairs. They (federal and state gov) have decided to make us the barrier island now to save the city of New Orleans. We still cant even drink our faucet water, it needs to be boiled. Simple resources cant be fixed here becaue the parish does not have the money and fema wants us to pay for it firest and they will reimburse so much of it. The next storm that comes our way only needs to have a storm surge of 6 feet and we will flood like before if not worse. I've written and called myself the state senators and representatives, nothing happens, i dont even hear back from Landrieu or Vitter, or any of them for that fact. The government has better things to do.
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