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Hello,
I'm a frequent poster in the irises forum. After we finally got our power back post-Gustav, I created a webpage for family and friends to see what had happened here in Baton Rouge during and after the storm. If you are surprised to read there was anything at all going on here after the hurricane passed, you are not alone. The national media abandoned us and so the nation stayed uninformed about our plight. Over 1.4 million people lost power, some of whom just got it back almost 20 days after the storm. The death toll within our state from Gustav tops that of Texas for Ike... and almost equals the total national toll for Ike. It was a huge and tragic storm that remained unreported, mainly because all the media was down in New Orleans looking for a story (where none existed) rather than reporting the facts. After mailing the link to my page to six people 10 days after the storm, it has now grown to over 35,000 hits... so I think perhaps others are still searching for info on how Gustav affected family and friends in our area. If you would like to see, here's the link:
Feel free to pass it on through email or link. Even if the national media didn't bother with coverage, the story should not remain untold. Ev
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