I only have a few minjutes but BR is having trouble. WE are only leaving here in twos, car jackings, evacuees roaming, hubbys hospital has armed guards, it is incredible. I can't sort out rumors from fact.
Everyone seems to be breaking down, crying and enraged.
All of the best to you! Prayers, and keep safe.
Please check back in to let us know you're safe.....be careful.
Medics can't get to the birth . . . no doc there . . . Guardsman are about to deliver . . . asked "any recommendations" . . .
prayers for Mom and Baby and Guardsman . . .
Good luck. shoot between the eyes if you have to.
Stay safe, and check in when you can.
Stay safe, cajungirl!
Cajungirl - many many many prayers are with you... Be SAFE!
Wow, sorry to hear that cajungirl. Please keep us updated!
My prayers are with you all.
Please be very, very careful.
Prayers for all of you.
Stay at home cajungirl - I am hearing same things. Officials in BR are saying some are rumors but as I said in an earlier post - I do know for a fact that the state capitol building is in lockdown and they have given people there the choice of going home.
Oh, no. Be VERY careful, cajungirl. How far are you from all this?
God Bless...I'll pray even harder....
Thanks for the news
Stay safe. God bless you and keep you.
Be Safe and take no chances. Prayers from CA for you and all trapped in this disaster.
Praying for you and all who must deal with this.
Cajungirl, here is something from the Advocate in Baton Rouge (is that the local paper?) indicating that a lot of it is not true:
Rumors rampant in Baton Rouge area
By CHAD CALDER
Advocate business writer
Baton Rouge is talking. Rumors are flying.
The problem is, a lot of them aren’t true, for instance, ones circulating today.
The Tanger Outlet Mall in Gonzales has not been looted.
The shops at Tanger Outlet Mall remain open for business, manager Bridgette Tullos said today.
“We have not had a single report of shoplifting. We have not had a single report of looting,” Tullos said. “Our mall is safe and secure.”
The mall has changed its closing time from 9 p.m. to 6 p.m. because a number of employees are without electricity, Tullos said, and the stores are trying to accommodate them.
Rebecca Rainer, spokeswoman for the Mall at Cortana, another subject of closure rumors, said some stores in the Mall at Cortana are closed because they don’t have phone service and can’t run credit cards. But the mall is open for business, she said.
Workers in the Governmental Building in downtown Baton Rouge began leaving their offices today, after employees became concerned about walking to their cars at the Governmental Building. They had heard rumors that cars were being vandalized.
On one of the basement parking levels, where many employees park, there was a report of a suspicious man walking around the cars. A search of the parking area found no one.
A police officer on the scene at the Baton Rouge River Center, where thousands of exhausted refugees are staying, said shortly after 10:30 a.m. that police were working their way through the center to check for weapons and searching the parking lot.
They had heard a rumor that someone had broken into a pawn shop and stolen weapons.
Davis Rhorer, executive director of the Downtown Development District, said his office and phone lines have been busy talking to people who’ve heard all sorts of stories.
He said people hear things on the radio and on the street, “and it just grows.”
Rhorer said rumors began circulating last night that the Chevron near the Centroplex had been looted, but there was a minor scuffle, he said, which had been quickly taken care of by police.
After hearing the state had closed all their downtown offices, Rhorer called the state Office of Facility Planning, which told him they had simply begun locking their doors.
Tanger’s Tullos said all kinds of rumors are flying around. This morning she said she received an e-mail asking about a non-existent carjacking.
The only unusual activity in the mall parking lot, Tullos said, is its use as a staging area for the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Guard.
A story began circulating Wednesday that a gang of bikers left New Orleans, en route to Baton Rouge to loot the city with guns stolen from Wal-Mart.