La. storm victims say they feel forgotten

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http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/12590052.htm

La. storm victims say they feel forgotten

CHALMETTE, La. - The cars were swallowed, the homes shattered and the people left clinging for life. Survivors waited for help, but it seemed like so little, so late.

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What's said is filled with anger - residents feeling even more abandoned than hard-hit New Orleans - and disbelief.

"If you dropped a bomb on this place, it couldn't be any worse than this," said Ron Silva, a district fire chief in St. Bernard Parish. "It's Day 8, guys. Everything was diverted first to New Orleans, we understand that. But do you realize we got 18 to 20 feet of water from the storm, and we've still got 7 to 8 feet of water?"

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As relief efforts sputtered in the days after the storm, Verlyn Davis Jr., an out-of-work electrician, took charge. He transformed his parents' bar and seafood restaurant, Lehrmann's, into a shelter where he dispatches people to clear roads, hook up generators and help in the disaster relief process.

About 20 people have been staying there these days. On a boarded-up window out front is a blue spray-painted sign: "ABOUT TIME BUSH!"

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1. St. Bernard Parish was not on the list.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4692732

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050827-1.html

Note that St. Bernard is not in there.