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And thanks to you, too, John. What a good thing that some of us really know
the way around the web!
Bernadette
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From: "John Dillon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 1:31 PM
Subject: [M-R] TAN: Phyllis and Katrina
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where Phyllis lives and works, lies some
> seventy miles north of the Gulf coastal area upon which the US and
> world press have been focusing. But it was in the direct path of
> hurricane Katrina and will clearly have suffered too.
>
> Prompted today by an announcement from the United States Postal Service
> that includes Hattiesburg among the areas to which delivery of mail has
> been suspended, I did a little Web surfing just now to see what I could
> discover about the situation there. The results are mixed.
>
> To judge from this report, Hattiesburg's commercial center was badly
> damaged, whereas destruction in residential areas appears to have been
> sporadic.
> http://www.palatkadailynews.com/articles/2005/09/01/news/news01.txt
>
> Power is being (or by now has been) restored to trunk lines in the
> central city, but "it could be weeks or months" before some have
> electricity again:
> http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
> AID=/20050831/NEWS05/50831006
> TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/7mbc6
>
> Water service has also been restored in the central city:
> http://www.wdam.com/Global/story.asp?S=3792689&nav=1Pw1e0cC
> People living in outlying areas who use electricity to power individual
> well pumps will of course be without water for at least as long as they
> lack power.
>
> That last news item also refers provisions for the distribution of
> food, ice, and (liquid) water. It's hot down there, and some have
> become testy:
> http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=3792703
>
> And, on top of all that, Hattiesburg is sheltering some 1500 refugees
> from harder-hit areas:
> http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
> AID=/20050901/NEWS01/509010301/1002
> TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/dmz5w
> and
> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-katrina-
> refugees,1,2784099.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines
> TinyURLfor this: http://tinyurl.com/94zcf
>
> All in all, not cheery reading.
>
> Best wishes to Phyllis (and to Heraclius) and prayers for a good
> outcome,
> John Dillon
>
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