OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: The Tragic Yet Inspiring Saga of Pam Whitaker

ROBERTS: So you knew that this forecast storm was coming in and you knew that there was really bad weather coming.

WHITAKER: Yes, sir. I knew that it was really going to be bad.

ROBERTS: So you got out of there? You evacuated to the shelter.

WHITAKER: I took my mother and my little toy dog, Yorkie, and we went to the hospital and I decided I was going to volunteer, so I worked from 7:00 to 10:00 at the hospital, helping with patients and stuff.

ROBERTS: So you were volunteering at the hospital as the storm came through?

WHITAKER: While I was a victim and volunteering, and so it was -- the hospital maybe holds about 50 patients. They were sometimes having 50, 60. Very bad accidents coming in. And I'm telling you, I am so proud of this town and everybody in it. I appreciate them so much. The hospital is so small and ungodly situations, not enough wheelchairs. Nobody was left unattended and it was amazing.

ROBERTS: So these were all victims of the storm that were coming in to the hospital?

WHITAKER: Yes. I mean, really bad off. I mean, they were just back to back. The ambulances and like I said, we didn't have enough gurneys, wheelchairs or nothing and we was all packed in the halls.

ROBERTS: We should mention that you broke your foot while you were volunteering at the hospital. You got run over by an X-ray machine?

WHITAKER: Yes. They don't even know where it is. It was very much an accident.

ROBERTS: So what happened to your home here in Lafayette?

WHITAKER: I've not been to it. But I was helping with a patient and I was trying to clean his feet off so they could -- which I found out he's my neighbor, I just moved out a few weeks ago. And I was helping clean his feet off so they could see what cuts he had and he was telling about 64 Dockside (ph) Road. And I just went, why? That's my house.

He said, Hon, you don't even have a toothpick or splinter left. And so the church, I think it's Baptist Church (INAUDIBLE) across the street, it's gone and five houses there.

ROBERTS: Everything that you own, all your money, everything was inside?

WHITAKER: Everything. I just cashed my government disability check a couple days before and it was -- the cash was in the house. And I don't have everything since.

ROBERTS: So what are you going to do now?

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The Tragic Yet Inspiring Saga of Pam Whitaker - A True American Hero!