VOL.
9, NO.
19 OCTOBER 3, 2008BATON ROUGE, LA
NON-PROFIT
U.
S.
POSTAGE
PAIDBATON
ROUGE,LA
527NorthBlvd.
BatonRouge,LA
70802-5700
Hurricane Ike
Magnolia UMC / 6
Hurricane Ike / 4-5
Blackwater UMC / 7
Just one year ago, Mathilda and Glen
Verret of Dulac,...
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VOL.
9, NO.
19 OCTOBER 3, 2008BATON ROUGE, LA
NON-PROFIT
U.
S.
POSTAGE
PAIDBATON
ROUGE,LA
527NorthBlvd.
BatonRouge,LA
70802-5700
Hurricane Ike
Magnolia UMC / 6
Hurricane Ike / 4-5
Blackwater UMC / 7
Just one year ago, Mathilda and Glen
Verret of Dulac, La.
worked side by side
with volunteers who were installing cabinets for a new kitchen in their home.
Their house, like so many others in the
small Native American town, had been
destroyed by Hurricane Rita in 2005.
Today, Glen Verret looks at those
same cabinets, checking to see which can
be salvaged and which will need replacing.
Verret’s home was flooded during
Hurricane Ike, which slammed into the
Texas-Louisiana coastline as a Category
2 storm on Sept.
13.
Ahead of Ike’s landfall, low lying
areas such as Dulac felt the brunt of the
storm surge, which re-flooded areas
affected by Hurricane Gustav just two
weeks prior.
Most of Louisiana’s 250mile coast was flooded by the second
storm.
“It’s like Rita and Katrina all over
a
Less
