Saturday, September 24, 2005
We Will Not Perish In this House We Will Survive
September 21, 2005
"We will not perish in this house, we will survive." Those were the words that were shared with me yesterday after having a long telephone conversation with Rechell Carter, a 41 year old single mother who survived for three days in an attic with her 14 year old daughter Brianna, her elderly parents, and six other people after their home was flooded in Violet, Louisiana
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The comfort of knowing they had survived the hurricane without much damage was interrupted by the sound of a woman's voice on a megaphone coming down the street. The voice had yelled, "Mandatory evacuation, expect 15 to 20 feet of water."
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She said, about 40 minutes had gone by since first hearing the lady on the megaphone in the police car, when all of a sudden she heard a very loud explosion. "It sounded like a big boom, like something had been blown up." Rechell explained that she and her family did not know what caused the explosion.
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