Thursday, September 08, 2005
Where Is Heney Keur In The Midst Of The Katrina Emergency?
Installment 1 of a developing story.
Dateline - Nunica, MI
We have been asked numerous times the questions, "Where Is Heney Keur In The Midst Of The Katrina Emergency? Is he is Louisiana helping with the relief effort?"
We'll we received a satellite call from Heney yesterday while he was transiting over the South Pacific. What he told us is this: He volunteered to help FEMA early on in the emergency, but they said "what emergency?" They finally dispatched him to Maine five days after the hurricane. By the time FEMA realized that the Acadians had actually migrated to Louisiana a couple of centuries ago (where they became the "Cajuns"), and that Heney was needed in Louisiana and not Maine, Heney had already figured it out and hopped a military transport plane for Indonesia. The military apparently thought that the emergency Heney was referring to was the recent Tsunami in the far east. Heney was glad to lend his expertise to the Indonesians, but was really anxious to be in New Orleans to help out his fellow Americans in distress. So he jumped on the first boat heading toward Australia, where he figured he would be better able to catch a timely flight to the US.
Well, he ran into passport problems on arrival in Australia. It seems he only packed his French passport and the Australians weren't buying it this time. They said Heney didn't look or smell French, and besides they were on the outs with the French this week anyway--something about a shipment of bad cheese showing up in Perth last week. As of this writing, Heney finally got the passport situation straightened out after he was able to get a call through to his friend John Howard, the Australian Prime Minister. Howard put him on an Australian military jet where he is currently winging his way over the South Pacific, heading east toward South America and ultimately on to New Orleans. We will let you know more as soon as we receive the next satellite call or note in a bottle from Heney. Stay tuned!
--Ed deToure, Editor In Chief
