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Promises To Keep

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“The guy who runs this building I’m in, emergency management, he’s responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, “Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?” And he said, “Yeah, Mama, somebody’s coming to get you. Somebody’s coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Friday.” And she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night.”

According to the three men who run the parish – the parish president, the sheriff and the fire chief, who said they saw it themselves – hundreds of residents were killed, including 31 found in a nursing home. Officials said there were 65 residents at the nursing home, St. Rita’s, but they could not say how some of them survived while others perished. Elsewhere in the parish, the officials said 22 bodies were found bound together in a subdivision. Officials were uncertain of the circumstances, but they said the victims most likely tried to keep together to weather the storm. “I will never again tell people that help is on the way,” said Thomas M. Stone, the parish fire chief. “It’s not coming.”

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