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..............at home next week. This town is not ready for a football game, and barring a miracle, won't be ready by gameday.
The basketball arena, field house and track stadium (all are right next to Tiger Stadium) are being used as a field hospital and morgue.
The traffic is horrendous, on every surface street.
Every hotel/motel room is full. There are people sleeping in cars in the hotel parking lots, in Wal-Mart and Home Depot lots.
Many of the restaurants are serving limited menus because of shortages. One Waffle House here served only eggs and coffee a couple of days ago.
Every store is packed with people, and the shelves are getting slim. Clothing and shoe stores are out of many sizes. The Home Depot stores have lines just to get into the store.
Bank lines are more than an hour long. Many bank lobbies in the downtown area closed because of the fear of crime.
You can't find gasoline, and when you do, the wait in line can be an hour or more.
Traffic lights are still out all over town. Many, many Baton Rouge people are without power.
There are shotgun-toting, flak jacket-wearing law enforcement people all over downtown.
Cox Communications has armed police patrolling the parking lot.
This morning, many, many ambulances are headed downtown.
People have been assaulted in the parking lots of grocery stores...for the groceries they are carrying to the car. A pawn shop has been looted of all its guns. A Chevron station downtown was victim to a smash and grab.
The auto repair places that have power are swamped.
Don't think this city could stand any more excitement. Mix a football crowd with the additional people we have, and especially the gangsta' thugs from N.O., and I think we have a recipe for further tragedy.
And that's not even taking into consideration the pain and suffering and further inconvenience to those sick and injured and mourning people who are being served by the LSU facilities. Just thought you'd like to know.
The basketball arena, field house and track stadium (all are right next to Tiger Stadium) are being used as a field hospital and morgue.
The traffic is horrendous, on every surface street.
Every hotel/motel room is full. There are people sleeping in cars in the hotel parking lots, in Wal-Mart and Home Depot lots.
Many of the restaurants are serving limited menus because of shortages. One Waffle House here served only eggs and coffee a couple of days ago.
Every store is packed with people, and the shelves are getting slim. Clothing and shoe stores are out of many sizes. The Home Depot stores have lines just to get into the store.
Bank lines are more than an hour long. Many bank lobbies in the downtown area closed because of the fear of crime.
You can't find gasoline, and when you do, the wait in line can be an hour or more.
Traffic lights are still out all over town. Many, many Baton Rouge people are without power.
There are shotgun-toting, flak jacket-wearing law enforcement people all over downtown.
Cox Communications has armed police patrolling the parking lot.
This morning, many, many ambulances are headed downtown.
People have been assaulted in the parking lots of grocery stores...for the groceries they are carrying to the car. A pawn shop has been looted of all its guns. A Chevron station downtown was victim to a smash and grab.
The auto repair places that have power are swamped.
Don't think this city could stand any more excitement. Mix a football crowd with the additional people we have, and especially the gangsta' thugs from N.O., and I think we have a recipe for further tragedy.
And that's not even taking into consideration the pain and suffering and further inconvenience to those sick and injured and mourning people who are being served by the LSU facilities. Just thought you'd like to know.
