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I have a relative with property and friends in Foley, Alabama. He received this email tonight from a Foley resident:
hey ya'll, we were without power 2 days.... the water is back on... the walmarts and resturants are open...well some.... the causeway was wiped out..... the uss alabama is listing to the side and the museum was flooded...bayou la batre is a loss, mullett point had the pink pelquin ruined and the pavement was up and all buckled and the grand hotel and the boat clubs on both side of the bay are all damaged/ sail boats and other thing just piled on top of each other....... schools closed...no gas for buses. the stores are all low on basic necessities and gas is nowhere to be found...sells out right away and the police and guard are at the stations...they run out of water,m.r.e. & ice quickly in the mobile/foley area/ still have 182 and fort morgan roads closed....no beaches opened on this end....orange beach eastward are all fine.... the fairhope dock they just repaired is gone again..... there are buses of refuges starting to come into area...their looking into filling up all the state parks in alabama with rv's from fema and possibly opening mental hosp[was closed last year] and the naval barracks on shore of mobile bay area... they are also looking into hotels all through the state to help. they changed chucks dialysis time to 9:30 am.. instead of 10:30 to start getting the over flow of patients that mobiles 3 centers can't take from la & miss.. then they'll continue the others to bay minette and beyond into fl. the curfew is from 9pm - 6am ...trying to control any looting and the fact that people are stealing gas out of other peoples cars/generators.etc.... the people are kinda panicked....we are just going to dialysis and parking the car at home and leaving the car alarm on loud!!!! is that the info you wanted...kinda bleak...but, give it a few weeks to a month...they said tankers of gas are on the way......
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I have a relative with property and friends in Foley, Alabama. He received this email tonight from a Foley resident:
hey ya'll, we were without power 2 days.... the water is back on... the walmarts and resturants are open...well some.... the causeway was wiped out..... the uss alabama is listing to the side and the museum was flooded...bayou la batre is a loss, mullett point had the pink pelquin ruined and the pavement was up and all buckled and the grand hotel and the boat clubs on both side of the bay are all damaged/ sail boats and other thing just piled on top of each other....... schools closed...no gas for buses. the stores are all low on basic necessities and gas is nowhere to be found...sells out right away and the police and guard are at the stations...they run out of water,m.r.e. & ice quickly in the mobile/foley area/ still have 182 and fort morgan roads closed....no beaches opened on this end....orange beach eastward are all fine.... the fairhope dock they just repaired is gone again..... there are buses of refuges starting to come into area...their looking into filling up all the state parks in alabama with rv's from fema and possibly opening mental hosp[was closed last year] and the naval barracks on shore of mobile bay area... they are also looking into hotels all through the state to help. they changed chucks dialysis time to 9:30 am.. instead of 10:30 to start getting the over flow of patients that mobiles 3 centers can't take from la & miss.. then they'll continue the others to bay minette and beyond into fl. the curfew is from 9pm - 6am ...trying to control any looting and the fact that people are stealing gas out of other peoples cars/generators.etc.... the people are kinda panicked....we are just going to dialysis and parking the car at home and leaving the car alarm on loud!!!! is that the info you wanted...kinda bleak...but, give it a few weeks to a month...they said tankers of gas are on the way......
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posted by Jan at 9:30 PM
1 Comments:
I am from the heart of Dixie myself and my prayers flow,a tough stretch though I know the resilience first hand.
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