Sometimes I get heartsick, glad for you all

[uppityperson]

Sometimes everything down there seems too much, and I live way across the country (WA). Here is another group doing fine and necessary work. RIP for another family.

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-15/114855397572910.xml
Body found in home close to SUNO campus
Person was probably Katrina victim, police say
Thursday, May 25, 2006
From staff reports

A decomposed body believed to be that of a Hurricane Katrina victim was found Wednesday afternoon in the bathtub of a house across the street from the Southern University at New Orleans, police said. The gender and approximate age were not provided by police, who said the body was in an advanced state of decomposition.

A Texas company that collects addresses from loved ones and friends of people missing since Katrina checked the house about 2:30 p.m. and found the body, at least partially clothed, draped face down over the rim of the bathtub at 6304 Campus Blvd., New Orleans police said. The specific cause of death wasn't known, but police made a preliminary classification of the death as Katrina-related, they said.

The company, Victim Relief, sends two-person teams to check houses on their missing persons list. Two chaplains from the company, which is based in Richardson, Texas, but has a trailer on North Claiborne and Caffin avenues in the Lower 9th Ward, found the body. The body was removed by the coroner's office.

Harold Clark, director of public relations at SUNO, said the house was in a neighborhood that is not part of the SUNO campus, which had "four to 11 feet of water." An apparent watermark on the single-story house, which was raised several feet, was at least eight or nine feet from the ground.

[shireen]

1. heartbreaking

I cannot begin to imagine what the family is going through. Words fail me ....