Saturday, September 17, 2005
Well that clears that up
Although it has been known for days that those who perished by drowning at St. Rita's died on the 29th, and that none alive were left behind, this is the first interview I have seen in which Tom Rodrigue states for the record he had no contact with his mother, Eva, (pictured below) after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.
Emergency worker couldn't save Mom 'They won't listen'
Tom Rodrigue recounts his frantic efforts to get St. Rita's nursing home evacuated before hurricane Katrina hit land.
Aaron Broussard was, in the light most favorable to him, wrong when he told a shocked nation of the daily pleas for rescue of an old sick woman trapped in a nursing home going unheeded for lack of federal resources in the aftermath of the storm.
Rodrigue never told Broussard his mother called him daily after the storm. That she had survived four days after the flooding, only to perish by drowning the night before any attempt at rescue was made, could only have come from Broussard's reliance on mere gossip, or his misinterpretation, confabulation, or outright fabrication of events.
Emergency worker couldn't save Mom 'They won't listen'
Tom Rodrigue recounts his frantic efforts to get St. Rita's nursing home evacuated before hurricane Katrina hit land.
Rodrigue heard nothing about his mother and the nursing home until four days after Katrina, when his son found the names of those evacuated from St. Rita's listed on the Internet. Her name wasn't on it."
Aaron Broussard was, in the light most favorable to him, wrong when he told a shocked nation of the daily pleas for rescue of an old sick woman trapped in a nursing home going unheeded for lack of federal resources in the aftermath of the storm.
Rodrigue never told Broussard his mother called him daily after the storm. That she had survived four days after the flooding, only to perish by drowning the night before any attempt at rescue was made, could only have come from Broussard's reliance on mere gossip, or his misinterpretation, confabulation, or outright fabrication of events.
