Catholic social services called me from my office after I got back from Red Cross. They told me that a family in New Orleans had made to shelter …show more content…
Luckily, my van had a 500 plus cruising range otherwise I wouldn’t have made it there in time. There were long queues in gas stations of people who wanted to fuel their vehicles and most of the gas stations on the way to Thibodaux did not have any fuel. I arrived to Thibodaux at 11:30 PM. The situation here was not pleasing at all. There were about 300 people in a small gym and about 500 in the new gym at the Nicholas state university. Most of them were on mattresses, cots, blankets, and some attempting to sleep on the gym floor and more people were still coming in. I saw huge a city bus parked in the university parking lot. A man had loaded it with people and drove to the university. The people I had promised to transport had arrived in two cars that had their windows blown. They had covered the windows with plastic sheeting and duck tape (Tarshis et al,