Bells toll to mark levees’ breach
Posted by Robert Fisher on August 29, 2006
From an update today from Heather Feltman, executive director of Lutheran Disaster Response:
Bells tolled in New Orleans this morning, marking the moment one year ago when New Orleans’ levees buckled and unleashed a torrent of water that ripped homes from their foundations and sent the city into an uncertain future. The horrific images of human suffering and the overwhelming destruction along the Gulf Coast remain with us a year later.
In the days following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, I watched our Lutheran Disaster Response network respond with compassion and grace, offering help and hope to survivors as well as to their caregivers. The scale and scope of this disaster challenged even the most experienced of disaster responders. Circumstances drove our response in ways not foreseen.
Read the entire message here.
