Month: September 2005
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Devotees help Hurricane Rita victim
We drove down to southern Louisiana to help Vidya try to salvage what she could from her home that got hit with the storm surge from Hurricane Rita. The town she lives in – Abbeville, Louisiana – is approximately 15 miles inland and about 50 miles east of where the eye of the storm hit. As we traveled further south and west, getting closer to where the eye of the storm hit, the landscape looked more and more like a tsunami had struck. Homes were pushed many feet from their foundations – others were completely gone. Huge trees were uprooted…