[StBernard] house on corinne drive has Mercury poisioningthroughout.....please read

[Westley Annis]

This is horrible.  I heard about the Mercury on the news but didn't know the

extent of it.  Do they know how the Mercury got in the attic?  If the attic 
flooded, why didn't it get gutted out also?  And if it didn't flood, how did

Mercury settle there in the air ducts?  This is very strange.  Does Murphy 
know how much mercury it released in the hurricane?  I hope they can figure 
out how to clean up this mess and make that house safe again.

Laurie


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>Cat,

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>You would not believe what's going on here.  Ray's daughter rebuilt

>their house in Chalmette on Corinne Dr.  They pulled out all the walls

>and floors, but apparently did nothing with the attic.   They moved in

>about 4 months ago.  It was about 4 blocks from the Murphy Oil refinery

>and was in the direct path of the spill.  Ray's grandson has been sick a

>lot lately and in and out of the doctor's office and Children's

>Hospital.  They couldn't figure out what was wrong with him - he's only

>two years old and he had so many tests.  He would run a high fever and

>had this bad rash all over him.  The whole family has been sick off and

>on for the past several months and in and out of doctors' offices.

>Ray's daughter last week realized when she was dusting her television,

>these "beads" of stuff that she wiped was dusting would pulverize and

>burst into a thousand different little pieces.  When she walked into the

>house one day earlier this week, she saw a bunch of these little beads

>on the floor.

>

>The baby's fever had gone down and they let him go home this past

>week-end, still not knowing what he had and they were going to continue

>to run all sorts of tests.  They had several doctors all working on this

>and consultants and the family was really getting concerned.  Then she

>mentioned to one of the doctors earlier this week about the substance in

>her house that she recently saw and thought was mercury.   The it was as

>if the lightbulb came on........they tested the baby for mercury

>poisoning and sure enough, that's what he has!!!

>

>As we speak, the EPA (actually EPA sub-contractors) are at the house

>now.  Actual representatives of EPA are coming out tomorrow.  They

>showed up in their haz-mat clothes and masks and before they went into

>the house, their meter was beeping.  It registered 11,000 particles on

>the front step and the maximum accepted particles per unit (or whatever)

>is 10,000.  The contractor told Ray's wife that maybe their machine was

>mal-functioning.    Ray (on our pushing) e-mailed WWL-TV to tell them

>what was happening because it seemed like the Parish had been  trying to

>ignore the problem.  But when the media showed up, the subs clammed up.

>They told Ray's wife they would lose their jobs if they spoke to the

>media.  But one of the guys told her the kids' room registered 44,000

>particles and no one should ever have lived in that house.  Every room

>had at least that much and everyone thinks it was coming from the air

>ducts.  When they tested the attic, they told her it was absolutely

>unbelievable how much mercury was in the attic and it was AIR-BORNE.  He

>said if anyone had gone into the attic and breathed that air in, it

>would have been extremely dangerous (whatever that means).

>

>They were told they absolutely could not live in that house so they

>threw some clothes and stuff in the trunk of her car and were going to

>go to her sisters' FEMA trailer.   One of the contractors ran his little

>monitor over her clothes and they are contaminated.  She had to unpack

>the trunk.  This is absolutely horrible.  They've got all this new

>furniture they recently bought and all their clothes and the kids'

>clothes and toys are all contaminated.

>

>This has been a horrible year for this family.  I believe this is the

>daughter that recently lost a baby and Ray's wife's sister was found

>dead (by another daughter) in her FEMA trailer in Chalmette about six

>weeks ago.  (she died of a drug over-dose).   Two weeks later, her

>brother died (he lived out of state somewhere).  Say a prayer for this

>family.  I've never seen so many bad things happen to one family like

>what they've endured this year alone.  (not to mention what Katrina did

>to all of them).