Need help after all.........

[69LM1]

I have a monte carlo ss that we purchased. It is in Platteville, Colorado and I have no way to get it or no where to store it for the duration of this disaster. Are there any members near there willing to pick this car up and store it until I can get this mess striaghtened out?

I hate to ask................ Not used to it.


I also agreed to buy a 70 Nova SS 396 NOM for the shop to restore, but have the contact info on the person with the #match block, which I am told is a L-78 (I have not verified this is a REAL L78 yet, so make sure). It is an original BB car. Obvoiusly, Cajun Musclecars is no more, so if anyone wants this car, let me know and I will email the owner and pass their info on. I agreed to buy it for 5501.20, see Item number: 4568978154.

Thanks,

Rich

[Belair62]

Rich..I was wondering how you were faring.Good to see you are O.K....where are you ? Anyone here in Colorado ? Looks like Rich could really use the help right about now !

[69LM1]

Thanks Belair,

We went to a refugee dinner at the church tonight. As I pulled into the parking lot, we pulled the cadillac next to an acura, which was next to a nissan.

I sat at a table with a lawyer, a youth pastor and a registered nurse. I thought to myself, we are poor and do not know it yet. And yet, we were the blessed ones, we are able to get out and with our families safe. Many did not.

I felt ashamed eating a free meal when so many are hungry and thirsty in new orleans.

My kids keep asking when they can go home. My daughter Meredith (7) wants to go to her friends birthday party. We do not even know if her friend is alive or not. Matthew is now 5.

We are going to Houston. Christine is a certified school teacher, and I am going to try and restart the computer company there. We are going to enroll the kids into school there.

I really do not think that most of the country really understands how serious this is.

I never thought that so many could lose so much so fast.

I am amazed that they have not air dropped food and water to the poor people in and around New Orleans.
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of people acting like animals, but for every one acting like that, there are four more women and children in need.

When the tsunami hit, we fed and clothed people on the other side of the globe, but four days later, people are dying from thirst here in our own country.

We should all be ashamed, from the President on (who has turned his back on Louisiana) on down to the governor.


Thanks for all of the offers of Money, Food and Shelter. We are still ok for now. I just need that car to get a temporary home for a while.

PLEASE, call your congressman, senator's and state officials and ask why there has been no aid for the people of Louisiana yet?

This is IMPORTANT, people are dying. Children are dehydrated, and a city has passed into
the night....................RIGHT HERE IN THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA

I spoke to many people tonight. The only ones who are getting assistance from their insurance companies are the people who had state farm. State Farm was there handing out 2,500 checks to their insured.

Allstate, Liberty Mutual, Lexington (my company) the Hartford and many others are no where to be found with useless 1800 numbers answered in other states and countries by people who want an address to send a packet to.

Meanwhile, the president asks people to wait, as their credit cards get maxed out, their property looted and stolen, and the rest of the country tries to "go on" with their lives.

And, we were the lucky ones...........

I see the red cross and others commercials, asking for money as "the next seven days are critical". But, I do not see the red cross feeding and sheltering those in need.

Last night around midnight, I got an amazing call from a friend who works in emergency preparedness in Chalmette, LA. His blackberry phone got service for a while. They got out of the government building when the city flooded in flatboats. The entire government staff took refuge in a oil refinery. He tried every number he could, and mine got through for some reason. No one had helped them. No food. No water but what they could scavage from the refinery breakroom. People showing up from everywhere. Bodies hanging in the trees, starting to decay in the 96 degree sun.

I do not ask this for me, but for those who have much less than I.

When you do this for the least of these..................

Rich

[whitetop]

This whole rescue/food effort seems like it is going in slow motion.

People were going without food in the convention center and stadium and other places. Why don't they not just airlift food in by helipcopter and drop it out to the crowds. What is so damn difficult??

Don't even get me started on the looters. The minute it started they should have sent in paratroopers (ala 82 airborne type outfit) and stopped the problem right in it's tracks.

Ten's of billions of dollars were spent on Homeland Security to counter the exact problems NO is facing(albeit after a terrorist attack) and everyone in the gov't seems like they are running around without a clue. God forbid if the terrorist attack 4-5 major US cities at one time.

[370454s]

Rich, I can try and go pick up the Monte Carlo SS on My roll Back. If you can give me some more info. I could keep it here in Morrilton till you get squared away. Bad time too ask, but are you still Interested in the 72 Chevelle SS 402?
Mike Bond

[Belair62]

We'll pull through somehow...the enormity of the devastation is unparalleled....it's just unimaginable damage everywhere...hang tough N.O.

[71-LS6]

Rich, I could pick it up and store it at my place, the storage would not be climate controlled though. PM me if you want to discuss it. I live in the Kansas City area.

[69LM1]

Mike,
Sorry, but I'll have to pass on the chevelle. For anyone looking for a chevelle, it's a great deal!!

my email is [email protected]

The car does not have to be covered............ Anyplace is fine. I don't want to put anyone out to far, so whomever is closest to where the car is in Platteville, Colorado and can store it for a few weeks until we get settled in Houston.
Email me if you can help,

We are leaving for houston tomarrow morning so I won't be able to reply till tomarrow night

Rich

[NCGuy68]

Rich,

Sorry I can't help with the car, but do know that our hearts and prayers are with you and your family.

My son, serving in the National Guard has been in Southport, Mississippi the last few days. He described the massive devastation as "Hell On Earth".

Sad to say, the 'Big Easy' will never be the same!

Good luck on your new life in TX.

[enio45]

Rich, hang in there, im sure we have no idea the effect of this to all the people there....no idea.