Find Katrina Victims
(Update: 9-6-05, Mandy Vincent has been rescued along with thirty others she had taken into her house on Dumaine St. and is now on her way to Oregon. She has a couple of teenage boys with her. I do not know how many people on this list were with her (although I can safely say a good few would not have been) and of these, and also the thirty with her at the house--airlifted to various cities--I have no word.)
These are people I would like to know about from the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. What they would have in common is some connection to the 2600 block of Dumaine, possibly related to the deceased Dolores Santiago (Mama D, formerly of 2641 Dumaine), and almost certainly they would not have evacuated the city prior to the arrival of Hurricane Katrina. They would all also know Mandy Vincent at 2646 Dumaine, who has been caring for,assisting, and tutoring neighborhood children and teens for the last ten years, at that address. She also has not been heard from. Listed ages are approximate. There are this many more that I could list but hopefully one or two of these people would know about the others:
Shelton Ray Jackson, 20
Fermin Santiago, 19
Evelyn Santiago, 35
Julia Santiago, 17 (and children)
Glynn McCormick, 19
Lance Price, 21
KaKa McCormick, 21
Eric McCormick, 29
Jacque Lewis, 19
Shentrell Lewis, 13
Nettie Lewis, 17 (and child)
Marqin Lewis, 16
Kenosha Lewis, 20
Keshonika Lewis, 26
Erica Lewis, 13
Lulu & and son Greg
Phillis Santiago, 30
Joe Nixon, 35
Billy Nixon, 33
Van Casmere, 45
Beulah Green, 45
Eddie Green, 23
Yolanda Alexander, 30
D'Andre Alexander,16
Chris Alexander, 13
Justin Alexander,11
Bryan Henry & cousin Irvin
Bebe Lewis, 27
Jermaine Lee, 32
Michael Lewis, 20
Barbara Granpre, 48
Kizzie, 23, and kids:
Raticia, 13
Shadrica, 11
Corey, 7
Twins, Jonanthan and Joshua Short, and Mario, 20 from:
Dorgenois and Dumaine.
i posted this request here on the wwl 870 lousiana missing and here at nola craigs list - ill check in - provided email address too.
Thanks Bill
From the Times-Picayune
OUR OPINIONS: An open letter to the President
Dear Mr. President:
We heard you loud and clear Friday when you visited our devastated city and the Gulf Coast and said, "What is not working, we’re going to make it right."
Please forgive us if we wait to see proof of your promise before believing you. But we have good reason for our skepticism.
Bienville built New Orleans where he built it for one main reason: It’s accessible. The city between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain was easy to reach in 1718.
How much easier it is to access in 2005 now that there are interstates and bridges, airports and helipads, cruise ships, barges, buses and diesel-powered trucks.
Despite the city’s multiple points of entry, our nation’s bureaucrats spent days after last week’s hurricane wringing their hands, lamenting the fact that they could neither rescue the city’s stranded victims nor bring them food, water and medical supplies.
Meanwhile there were journalists, including some who work for The Times-Picayune, going in and out of the city via the Crescent City Connection. On Thursday morning, that crew saw a caravan of 13 Wal-Mart tractor trailers headed into town to bring food, water and supplies to a dying city.
Television reporters were doing live reports from downtown New Orleans streets. Harry Connick Jr. brought in some aid Thursday, and his efforts were the focus of a "Today" show story Friday morning.
Yet, the people trained to protect our nation, the people whose job it is to quickly bring in aid were absent. Those who should have been deploying troops were singing a sad song about how our city was impossible to reach.
We’re angry, Mr. President, and we’ll be angry long after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing. Many who could have been were not. That’s to the government’s shame.
Mayor Ray Nagin did the right thing Sunday when he allowed those with no other alternative to seek shelter from the storm inside the Louisiana Superdome. We still don’t know what the death toll is, but one thing is certain: Had the Superdome not been opened, the city’s death toll would have been higher. The toll may even have been exponentially higher.
It was clear to us by late morning Monday that many people inside the Superdome would not be returning home. It should have been clear to our government, Mr. President. So why weren’t they evacuated out of the city immediately? We learned seven years ago, when Hurricane Georges threatened, that the Dome isn’t suitable as a long-term shelter. So what did state and national officials think would happen to tens of thousands of people trapped inside with no air conditioning, overflowing toilets and dwindling amounts of food, water and other essentials?
State Rep. Karen Carter was right Friday when she said the city didn’t have but two urgent needs: "Buses! And gas!" Every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be fired, Director Michael Brown especially.
In a nationally televised interview Thursday night, he said his agency hadn’t known until that day that thousands of storm victims were stranded at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. He gave another nationally televised interview the next morning and said, "We’ve provided food to the people at the Convention Center so that they’ve gotten at least one, if not two meals, every single day."
Lies don’t get more bald-faced than that, Mr. President.
Yet, when you met with Mr. Brown Friday morning, you told him, "You’re doing a heck of a job."
That’s unbelievable.
There were thousands of people at the Convention Center because the riverfront is high ground. The fact that so many people had reached there on foot is proof that rescue vehicles could have gotten there, too.
We, who are from New Orleans, are no less American than those who live on the Great Plains or along the Atlantic Seaboard. We’re no less important than those from the Pacific Northwest or Appalachia. Our people deserved to be rescued.
No expense should have been spared. No excuses should have been voiced. Especially not one as preposterous as the claim that New Orleans couldn’t be reached.
Mr. President, we sincerely hope you fulfill your promise to make our beloved communities work right once again.
When you do, we will be the first to applaud.
looking for mandy here. guess thats her mom - put in mandy vincent to see two family requests. wont hot link / having difficulty registering at nola.com but will try to post there and search alll previous missing requests on various sites.
shes already on this looking for list too.
I sent email to the two people who posted at ICRC, asking them to pass along news they hear, and to let Mandy know that I would like to help.
ross louis already posted on the nola.com board looking for mandy - im just trying to get all these into one place for consolidation and non redundancy.
jim may want to try the telephone service at the red cross. i cant locate the online service.
Thanks guys, my best lead was news that someone in Austin thought she had camped at Superdome but that proved to be false, ross is my nephew, who escaped the lakeview area of NO with wife and three kids and is now in Arlington TX, yeah, I guess I'll try calling some people today, uh, FYI, from the ICRC site, the most accurate info is Mother and Father names Mary Marie, and Vince Vincent and birthdate 3-1-61
Mandy holed up on Dumaine with a house full of kids and neighbors who came after the flooding started. One of the boys gathered food as needed from "area resources." A large boat came yesterday and picked up the lot of them. They passed dead floating bodies on the way to an elevated highway on ramp, where they were let out and left for four hours. Transport came, took them to now vacant Superdome, helicopter took them to airport. Once in the air they were told they were going to Phoenix. She is with only two of her original crew. She will make her way to Oregon to stay with best friend and will start the process of healing. I have informed the friend of unlimited resources available but it will be awhile before Mandy will be able to figure out what she needs, I'm sure.
And this:
Jim,
Just got a phone call from Mandy's cousin, Kathleen, who said her aunt spoke with Mandy yesterday (maybe or maybe this morning). She got out with 30 others and has been evacuated to Tucson, AZ. Kathleen knew the following details: Mandy had 360 gallons of water stockpiled in house; 30 people in house with her; she got a boat or was evacuated via boat (?unsure on that exactly), was airlifted via helicopter (?unsure of when/where?), evacuated to Tucson (?I guess via official evacuation of NOLA).
Glad to hear she's okay -- when you get details, I'd like to hear them, as well as specific folks who evacuated with her.
Best,
Let me know if she makes her way to Oregon, I'd like to help.
phew!
Yeah, exactly. Big exhale.
300 gallons of water? Good planning.
Learned a few details of correction, boat only picked up a few at a time, Mandy last. Water amount exaggerated but she did stockpile water for every hurricane since 94, and large bathtub full. Safe to say she would have had close to a hundred gallons of fresh water. House did not take water, floor is five feet above street level, so they weren't in attic, thank god. Word is the biggest complaint from kids was boredom, and thats pretty much a status quo complaint out of that house. Sources tell me Mandy is filling out forms as we speak, continuing with what she would have been trying to accomplish previous to flood, getting a couple of the boys into college, etc. Steve, she will be in Eugene soon as is possible, staying with best friend, will pass on your offer, thanks.
Happy news.
very glad to hear this.
this site, the katrina data project, was just profiled on cnn. they said it covers all existing data bases on missing people.
I'm not getting any hits but it does seem a better system, even though it doesn't know that Mandy is safe. Thanks for the link though. I can't remember where now but I saw a somewhat different and enhanced satellite photo of 200 block of Rocheblave and things there appear worse than I had originally thought. Water was pretty deep on Aug 31.
I got an email from Mandy in Eugene last night.
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(Update: 9-6-05, Mandy Vincent has been rescued along with thirty others she had taken into her house on Dumaine St. and is now on her way to Oregon. She has a couple of teenage boys with her. I do not know how many people on this list were with her (although I can safely say a good few would not have been) and of these, and also the thirty with her at the house--airlifted to various cities--I have no word.) These are people I would like to know about from the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. What they would have in common is some connection to the 2600 block of Dumaine, possibly related to the deceased Dolores Santiago (Mama D, formerly of 2641 Dumaine), and almost certainly they would not have evacuated the city prior to the arrival of Hurricane Katrina. They would all also know Mandy Vincent at 2646 Dumaine, who has been caring for,assisting, and tutoring neighborhood children and teens for the last ten years, at that address. She also has not been heard from. Listed ages are approximate. There are this many more that I could list but hopefully one or two of these people would know about the others:
Shelton Ray Jackson, 20
Fermin Santiago, 19
Evelyn Santiago, 35
Julia Santiago, 17 (and children)
Glynn McCormick, 19
Lance Price, 21
KaKa McCormick, 21
Eric McCormick, 29
Jacque Lewis, 19
Shentrell Lewis, 13
Nettie Lewis, 17 (and child)
Marqin Lewis, 16
Kenosha Lewis, 20
Keshonika Lewis, 26
Erica Lewis, 13
Lulu & and son Greg
Phillis Santiago, 30
Joe Nixon, 35
Billy Nixon, 33
Van Casmere, 45
Beulah Green, 45
Eddie Green, 23
Yolanda Alexander, 30
D'Andre Alexander,16
Chris Alexander, 13
Justin Alexander,11
Bryan Henry & cousin Irvin
Bebe Lewis, 27
Jermaine Lee, 32
Michael Lewis, 20
Barbara Granpre, 48
Kizzie, 23, and kids:
Raticia, 13
Shadrica, 11
Corey, 7
Twins, Jonanthan and Joshua Short, and Mario, 20 from:
Dorgenois and Dumaine.
- jimlouis 9-04-2005 6:40 pm
i posted this request here on the wwl 870 lousiana missing and here at nola craigs list - ill check in - provided email address too.
- bill 9-04-2005 8:43 pm [add a comment]
Thanks Bill
- jimlouis 9-04-2005 9:16 pm [add a comment]
From the Times-Picayune
OUR OPINIONS: An open letter to the President
Dear Mr. President:
We heard you loud and clear Friday when you visited our devastated city and the Gulf Coast and said, "What is not working, we’re going to make it right."
Please forgive us if we wait to see proof of your promise before believing you. But we have good reason for our skepticism.
Bienville built New Orleans where he built it for one main reason: It’s accessible. The city between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain was easy to reach in 1718.
How much easier it is to access in 2005 now that there are interstates and bridges, airports and helipads, cruise ships, barges, buses and diesel-powered trucks.
Despite the city’s multiple points of entry, our nation’s bureaucrats spent days after last week’s hurricane wringing their hands, lamenting the fact that they could neither rescue the city’s stranded victims nor bring them food, water and medical supplies.
Meanwhile there were journalists, including some who work for The Times-Picayune, going in and out of the city via the Crescent City Connection. On Thursday morning, that crew saw a caravan of 13 Wal-Mart tractor trailers headed into town to bring food, water and supplies to a dying city.
Television reporters were doing live reports from downtown New Orleans streets. Harry Connick Jr. brought in some aid Thursday, and his efforts were the focus of a "Today" show story Friday morning.
Yet, the people trained to protect our nation, the people whose job it is to quickly bring in aid were absent. Those who should have been deploying troops were singing a sad song about how our city was impossible to reach.
We’re angry, Mr. President, and we’ll be angry long after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing. Many who could have been were not. That’s to the government’s shame.
Mayor Ray Nagin did the right thing Sunday when he allowed those with no other alternative to seek shelter from the storm inside the Louisiana Superdome. We still don’t know what the death toll is, but one thing is certain: Had the Superdome not been opened, the city’s death toll would have been higher. The toll may even have been exponentially higher.
It was clear to us by late morning Monday that many people inside the Superdome would not be returning home. It should have been clear to our government, Mr. President. So why weren’t they evacuated out of the city immediately? We learned seven years ago, when Hurricane Georges threatened, that the Dome isn’t suitable as a long-term shelter. So what did state and national officials think would happen to tens of thousands of people trapped inside with no air conditioning, overflowing toilets and dwindling amounts of food, water and other essentials?
State Rep. Karen Carter was right Friday when she said the city didn’t have but two urgent needs: "Buses! And gas!" Every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be fired, Director Michael Brown especially.
In a nationally televised interview Thursday night, he said his agency hadn’t known until that day that thousands of storm victims were stranded at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. He gave another nationally televised interview the next morning and said, "We’ve provided food to the people at the Convention Center so that they’ve gotten at least one, if not two meals, every single day."
Lies don’t get more bald-faced than that, Mr. President.
Yet, when you met with Mr. Brown Friday morning, you told him, "You’re doing a heck of a job."
That’s unbelievable.
There were thousands of people at the Convention Center because the riverfront is high ground. The fact that so many people had reached there on foot is proof that rescue vehicles could have gotten there, too.
We, who are from New Orleans, are no less American than those who live on the Great Plains or along the Atlantic Seaboard. We’re no less important than those from the Pacific Northwest or Appalachia. Our people deserved to be rescued.
No expense should have been spared. No excuses should have been voiced. Especially not one as preposterous as the claim that New Orleans couldn’t be reached.
Mr. President, we sincerely hope you fulfill your promise to make our beloved communities work right once again.
When you do, we will be the first to applaud.
- mark 9-04-2005 9:30 pm [add a comment]
looking for mandy here. guess thats her mom - put in mandy vincent to see two family requests. wont hot link / having difficulty registering at nola.com but will try to post there and search alll previous missing requests on various sites.
- bill 9-04-2005 9:33 pm [add a comment]
shes already on this looking for list too.
- bill 9-04-2005 10:09 pm [add a comment]
I sent email to the two people who posted at ICRC, asking them to pass along news they hear, and to let Mandy know that I would like to help.
- mark 9-05-2005 12:24 am [add a comment]
ross louis already posted on the nola.com board looking for mandy - im just trying to get all these into one place for consolidation and non redundancy.
- bill 9-05-2005 2:16 am [add a comment]
jim may want to try the telephone service at the red cross. i cant locate the online service.
- bill 9-05-2005 2:35 am [add a comment]
Thanks guys, my best lead was news that someone in Austin thought she had camped at Superdome but that proved to be false, ross is my nephew, who escaped the lakeview area of NO with wife and three kids and is now in Arlington TX, yeah, I guess I'll try calling some people today, uh, FYI, from the ICRC site, the most accurate info is Mother and Father names Mary Marie, and Vince Vincent and birthdate 3-1-61
- jimlouis 9-05-2005 4:43 pm [add a comment]
Mandy holed up on Dumaine with a house full of kids and neighbors who came after the flooding started. One of the boys gathered food as needed from "area resources." A large boat came yesterday and picked up the lot of them. They passed dead floating bodies on the way to an elevated highway on ramp, where they were let out and left for four hours. Transport came, took them to now vacant Superdome, helicopter took them to airport. Once in the air they were told they were going to Phoenix. She is with only two of her original crew. She will make her way to Oregon to stay with best friend and will start the process of healing. I have informed the friend of unlimited resources available but it will be awhile before Mandy will be able to figure out what she needs, I'm sure.
- jimlouis 9-05-2005 5:58 pm [add a comment]
And this:
Jim,
Just got a phone call from Mandy's cousin, Kathleen, who said her aunt spoke with Mandy yesterday (maybe or maybe this morning). She got out with 30 others and has been evacuated to Tucson, AZ. Kathleen knew the following details: Mandy had 360 gallons of water stockpiled in house; 30 people in house with her; she got a boat or was evacuated via boat (?unsure on that exactly), was airlifted via helicopter (?unsure of when/where?), evacuated to Tucson (?I guess via official evacuation of NOLA).
Glad to hear she's okay -- when you get details, I'd like to hear them, as well as specific folks who evacuated with her.
Best,
- jimlouis 9-05-2005 6:01 pm [add a comment]
Let me know if she makes her way to Oregon, I'd like to help.
- steve 9-05-2005 6:25 pm [add a comment]
phew!
- bill 9-05-2005 6:42 pm [add a comment]
Yeah, exactly. Big exhale.
300 gallons of water? Good planning.
- jim 9-05-2005 6:48 pm [add a comment]
Learned a few details of correction, boat only picked up a few at a time, Mandy last. Water amount exaggerated but she did stockpile water for every hurricane since 94, and large bathtub full. Safe to say she would have had close to a hundred gallons of fresh water. House did not take water, floor is five feet above street level, so they weren't in attic, thank god. Word is the biggest complaint from kids was boredom, and thats pretty much a status quo complaint out of that house. Sources tell me Mandy is filling out forms as we speak, continuing with what she would have been trying to accomplish previous to flood, getting a couple of the boys into college, etc. Steve, she will be in Eugene soon as is possible, staying with best friend, will pass on your offer, thanks.
- jimlouis 9-05-2005 7:31 pm [add a comment]
Happy news.
- mark 9-05-2005 8:32 pm [add a comment]
very glad to hear this.
- sally mckay 9-06-2005 12:47 am [add a comment]
this site, the katrina data project, was just profiled on cnn. they said it covers all existing data bases on missing people.
- bill 9-08-2005 7:49 pm [add a comment]
I'm not getting any hits but it does seem a better system, even though it doesn't know that Mandy is safe. Thanks for the link though. I can't remember where now but I saw a somewhat different and enhanced satellite photo of 200 block of Rocheblave and things there appear worse than I had originally thought. Water was pretty deep on Aug 31.
- jimlouis 9-08-2005 11:03 pm [add a comment]
I got an email from Mandy in Eugene last night.
- mark 9-09-2005 12:20 am [add a comment]