Woman stranded at airport for her birthday given refuge as Hurricane Ida approaches

SWEET HOME FOR A BIRTHDAY. HEY GUYS, SOOU Y MIGHT HAVE BEEN WATCHING WHEN WE FIRST INTERVIEWED JEWELS AND KAREN YOU WSA OUR NEWSCAST KIND OF THIS IS INCREDIBLE TO BE IN THIS MOMENT WALK US THUGHRO WHAT’S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW? OKAY. WELL WE WERE WATCHING THE NEWS ACTUALLYRY TING TO DECIDE WHETHER WE’RE GONNA LIKE TRY TO GET ON THE CAR AND LEAVE TO GO TO FLORIDA TONIGHT OR NOT AND MY DAUGERHT SHARES THE SAME BIRTHDAY AS JEWELS, AND SO IT’S JUST REALLY STRUCK A CHORD, YOU KNOW, AND AS THE YOUNGEST OF FIVE KIDS AND I JUST SAID THIS COULBED DAUGHTER SITTING STRANDED AT THE AIRPORT AND WE HAD TO HELP SO I CALLED THE NEWS STATION AND FIGURED OUT HOW WE COULD COME HELP. JEWELS WEET M AT THE AIRPORT AND HEREE W ARE AND IT’S LIKE A MIRACLE HPENEAPD AND RIGHT NOW WHAT’S GOING THROUGH YOUR HEART. I MEAN THE EMOTIONS. YEAH, I FEEL PRETTY GOOD. I MISSED MY MOM. SO I’M HAPPY THAT I HAVE SOMEONE WHO’S GONNA KIND OF TAKE CARE OF ME TAKE CARE OF THE FRIENDS THAT I’VE MEAD MAKE ME FEEL SAFE BECAUSE FIRST TIME IN NEW ORLEANS GETNGTI HIT WITH A HURRICANE, NOT REALLY THE WAY I WANTED TO SPEND MY BIRTHDAY. SO I FEEL A LITTLE BETTER KNOWING THAT I’M TAKING CARE OF. AND HAVE YOU GOTTEN CHOKED UP OVER THIS I ANME SO MUCH ON THE WAY HERE. I MEAN, I WAS JUST YOU KNOW, SHE’S LIKE MOMS YOU THIS IS LIKE IT JTUS FEELS SO GOOD RIGHT I SAID, WELL, THIS IS WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT. SO HELPING THAT, YOU KNOW HELP IN THE NEXT PERSON. SO FOR SURE AND YOU’RE FIGHTING BACK TEARS RIGHT NOW, YES, LITERALLY, I’M VERY EMOTIONAL RIGHT NOW JUST FEEL SO GOOD TO BE ABLE TO HELP SOMEBODY. WHO’S SCARED RIGHT NOW AND NEEDS? SHELRTE THE DEFINITION OF LOUISIANA I MEAN, THIS IS WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT, RIGHT? 100% AND YOUR BIRTHDAYS I AUGUST 30TH. YES. AND YOU KNOW, THIS IS SUCH A DIFFICULT TIMEOR F SO MANY PEOPLE BUT IT’S A TIME TO COME TOGETHER AND WE’VE BEEN THROUGH SO MHUC IN THIS PAST YEAR YEAR TWO AND THINKING CKBA TO 2005 AS WELL TOUCH ON THE SPIRIT OF LOUISIANA IN THE SPIRIT OF NEW ORLEANS. WELL,OU Y KNOW THEY SAY NEW ORLEANS. I MEAN EVERYBODY COMES HERE AND THERE WE SO FRIENDLY AND THIS IS YOU KNOW, THISS I JUST SOMETHING FOR ME BORN AND RAISED IN LOUISIANA AND NEW ORLEANS. IT JUST FELT LIKE THE THING, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS NO QUESTIONO N QUESTION AT ALL. I MEAN IF WE COULD HELP THEN WE’RE HERE TO HELP SO DEFINITELY THE SPIRIT OF LOUISIANA, SO WE’RE HAPPY TO SHARE THAT. I’M JUST REALLY GRATEFUL THAT SOMEBODY WITH I HAD SO NYMA PEOPLE LIKE PEOPLE WERE STALKING ME ON FACEBOOK REACHING OUT TO ME. LIKE DO YOU HAVE PLACE TO GO YOU NCA HAVE MY APARTMENT. I WAS LIKE, WHOA, SO I FEEL SO GOOD KNOWING THAT I’M HERE AND I’M TAKING CARE OF BECAUSE I ANME IN CHICAGO I COULD ONLY WISH THAT PEOPLE WOULD HAVE THIS SPIRIT TO LIKE TAKE CARE OF EREVYONE ELSE, BUT I’M HAPPY I GET TO ESCAPE. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR TIME ABSOLUTELY, AND IT’S JUSTOR F PEOPLE WHO AREN’T AWARE. SHE YOU HAVE A GUEST HSEOU THAT YOU’RE ABLE TO HELP HER OUT WITH. YETH. S. MY SISTER HAS AN APARTMENT IN LAKEEWVI. SO IT’S CLOSE TO WHERE WE’LL BE. AND SO WE’LL BE ABLE TO YOU KNOW, CHECK ON HER. I’M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT GR OCERIES ARE OPEN AND GO GET SOME PROVISIONS, BUT YOU KNOW, WE CAN CERTAINLY SHARE WE WE’VE GOT ENOHUG FOOD AT HOME. SO WE’LL BE ABLE TO YOU KNOW. COOKND A YEAH, LIKE WE DO IN NEW ORLEANS FOR A HURRICANE, RIGHT? I MEAN, WE’LL JUST MAKE THE BEST OF IT. GUYS, I KNOW IT’S LATE. I’LL LET YOU ALL ALL KIND OF GET YOUR THE SITUATED SO GUYS YOU CAN SEE IT LIVE RIGHT THERE. IT’S JUST LIKE I SAID THE SPIRIT OF NEW ORLEANS THE SPIRIT OF LOUISIANA HOW THIS ALLIN KD OF WORKS OUT JULES BEHIND ME. SHE WAS STRANDED ANDT I LOOKS LIKE SOME OTHER LADIES THAT ALSO WERE FROM NEWOR YK CITY OR ALSO KIND OF BNGEI HELPED OUT AS WELL. THEY’RE ALL KIND OF GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY HAVE A PLACE TO STAY DURING THIS RRHUICANE. SO MANY THINGS ARE KINDF O UP IN THE AIR, BUT THEY WEER ABLE TO KIND OF ALL WORK IT OUT. UYO CAN SEE RIGHT NOW. THEY’RE LOADING UP THEIR LUGGAGE AS WE SPEAK AND LOANGDI INTO THEIR CAR AND THEY’RE GONNA HAVE A PLACE TO STAY BECAUSE RHTIG NOW ALL THE FLIGHTS YOU’RE IN. NEW ORLNSEA TOMORROW THEY ARE CANCELED. SO IF YOU WERE PLANNING ON TRYING TO GET IN OUT OF TOWN BY THE AIRPORT, YOU COULD NOT DO THAT BECAUSE OF ALL THEHE T FLIGHTS THAT WERE SETO T THE AIRPORT DAN ESSENTIALLY A LOT OF PEOPLE JUST HAD NO WAY TNOO IDEA HOW THEY WERE GOING TO DO THIS. YEAH WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO HOW THEY WERE GOINGO T GET OUT OF TOW BUTN, THERE YOU GO. RIGHT THERE. SOMEONE SAW THE STORY LIVE AND EYTH’RE ALL KIND OF PACKING IN SUV AND THEY WERE GNGOI TO BE HEADINGUT O RIGHT HERE LIVE AND INSTEAD OF SLEEPING IN THE AIRPORT. I DON’T EVEN KNOW I’D REACHED OUT TO AIRPORT OFFICIALS IF THEY WERE EVEN GOING TO ALLOW THEM. TO DO THAT, BUT THERE YOU HAVE IT AND THEY HAVE A PLACE TO STAY FOR THE NIGHT FOLLOWING THIS STORY RIGHT HERE ON W. ISSUE AND LOOKS KELI THEY’RE GOING TO BE PULLINGUT O ANY ANY MOMENT NOW AND GINA SAW IT’S PRETTY POWERFUL AND PRETTY EMOTIONAL TO SEE. HAS HAPPEDNE THEY’RE PRETTY INCREDIBLE. REMARKABLE AUBREY YOU ARE RIGHT. ABSOLUTELY A MIRACLE. I JUST WANT TO PAUSE AND KIND OF LET THIS MOMENT SINK IN I KWNO RIGHT FEEL THE SPIRIT AND THE LOVE TAKE A LOOK AND IF YOU ARE SEE THE SHOTIG RHT THERE AND I LOVE KAREN COMING TO THE RESCUE. THKAN YOU KAREN. I MEAN SAW THE STORY. HAD SOME AVAILABLE SPACE AND NOT ONLY JUST FOR JEWELS BUT FOR OTHER PEOPLE WHO WEER STUCK AS WELL. THIS IS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT. THIS IS THE SPIRIT OF SOUTH, LOUISIANA JUST LOUISIANA AND GENERAL PARTICULARLY WHEN WE ARE FACED WITH, YOU KNOW, DAUNTING CHALLENGES. WE ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, FIND IT IN OUR HEARTS OR MAKE A WAY TO HELP WHERE WE CAN PEOPLE GETTING UNIFIED AND COMING TOGETHER. WE OFTEN SEE STORIES LIKE THIS, YOU KNOW AFTER THE STORM GINA WHEN NEIGHRSBO ARE HELPING NEIGHBORS STRANGERS HELNGPI STRANGERS AND BECOMING FRIENDS AND FALIMIES AND EVERYONE’S AFFECTED IN SOME STOR

Woman stranded at airport for her birthday given refuge as Hurricane Ida approaches

Jules Marshall, a woman traveling alone from Chicago for her birthday, was stranded in the airport after her flight home got canceled. New Orleanians swooped in to help.

Updated: 7:05 AM EDT Aug 29, 2021

A woman was given refuge by a family in Louisiana after her flight back to Chicago was canceled as Hurricane Ida approaches the Louisiana coast.Jules Marshall, a woman traveling from Chicago for her birthday, found herself stranded in New Orleans International Airport (MSY) with no resources in the area.Sister station WDSU worked with Marshall to find her a safe place to stay as Hurricane Ida looms ahead.A person watching the report on Marshall reached out and offered her and a few others stranded at the airport refuge.Karen Sulzer, whose daughter shares the same birthday as Marshall, felt connected to Marshall and decided to lend a hand."There was no question. If we can help, we're gonna help," said Sulzer.Sulzer's sister reportedly has an apartment nearby her home that is open, so Marshall and a few others will be staying there to wait out the storm.Hurricane Ida is expected to make landfall Sunday afternoon as a category 4 on the coast of Louisiana.

A woman was given refuge by a family in Louisiana after her flight back to Chicago was canceled as Hurricane Ida approaches the Louisiana coast.

Jules Marshall, a woman traveling from Chicago for her birthday, found herself stranded in New Orleans International Airport (MSY) with no resources in the area.

Sister station WDSU worked with Marshall to find her a safe place to stay as Hurricane Ida looms ahead.

A person watching the report on Marshall reached out and offered her and a few others stranded at the airport refuge.

Karen Sulzer, whose daughter shares the same birthday as Marshall, felt connected to Marshall and decided to lend a hand.

"There was no question. If we can help, we're gonna help," said Sulzer.

Sulzer's sister reportedly has an apartment nearby her home that is open, so Marshall and a few others will be staying there to wait out the storm.

Hurricane Ida is expected to make landfall Sunday afternoon as a category 4 on the coast of Louisiana.