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From: "Mills" <>
Subject: RE: [APG] Hurricane Katrina
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 14:27:30 -0500
In-Reply-To: <002701c5ad8b$4c7347d0$9865fea9@ernestyo82drn7>


Ernest wrote:
< A friend of mine is a refugee in Birmingham with her mother,
son, sister in law and her children. Her father and two brothers stayed
near the Back Bay area of Biloxi and haven't been heard from since 7:30
AM Monday. >

Ernest, I hope your friend has heard from her Back Bay kinsmen by now. My
sister-in-law and mother-in-law are also on Back Bay. Gina got a call out
Wednesday from the hospital (she wasn't hurt, she's a doctor). Much of Back
Bay was spared. Houses right on the bay were flooded. The big sprawling
"mansion" that had Back Bay for its backyard swimming pool was totally
submerged, not surprisingly. But a block or two inland, the ground is
higher. Gina, in fact, had less storm damage than I had here in Tuscaloosa
from the Northeastern spin-off of Katrina as she came ashore! But, of
course, I now have electricity and who knows when Biloxi will?

Has anyone heard from Shirley Bourquard or Audrey Westerman, the other two
BCGers who live in South Louisiana?

Thanks, Kay and Mary, for your thoughtful comments about the Millses. After
Gina called out to her brother in the Delta, he went down and evacuated some
of them. My mother-in-law and Gina's own inlaws are now at the Mills farm in
the Delta (where, until this week, there were beautiful stands of rice,
soybeans and other crops, now ruined--which translates into, "Everybody can
expect food prices to go up!).

The tree that has been decorating my office and bedroom for the last several
days is now removed and I'm hoping to get my new skylight temporarily
patched over before the next storm blows in. My backyard and my woods down
to the creek bed look like the theme song from Monk ("It's a jungle out
there"). I still haven't found anyone to cut through it to get to the sewer
line that crosses over the creek and apparently is now in the creek. (Not
good for those downstream!) Tuscaloosa is said to have had its worse
city-wide storm on record, but at least most of the damage was wind damage,
rather than flooding, aside from the expected inflow from damaged roofs.

Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG





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