A huge heart, that’s how close family describes 53-year-old Kevin Meyers. Meyers’ family members said he was on his way to Slidell to meet a cousin when he was killed in a crash along I-10 amid the fog and smoke that morning. Weeks ago, Meyers’ sister Tracy said when she saw the news about the seven killed in the massive pileup along I-55, she cried for the families. She did not know tragedy would strike her own home in the same way Tuesday morning. “Who would have known I would be next?” Tracy Meyers-Pipher said. Meyers was supposed to be heading out of town to Baltimore with his cousin, but it would never happen. Fog and smoke from nearby Bayou Sauvage brought visibility to zero along I-10 at Michoud, where Meyers was driving. “The world is a little darker now. A light has been put out,” Meyers-Pipher said.We are told Meyers was a very hard worker at the family business Meyers Warehouse. He was also a firefighter with the Terrytown Volunteer Fire Department. Above all, the family said Meyers had a good heart. He gave blood often and was an organ donor. Meyers’ injuries were too bad for doctors to save his other organs, but Tracy said he was still able to shed that light with the gift of sight. “Kevin’s final gift in life, at the end of his life, was, he donated his corneas. I was informed that he helped two people see. So even in his death, he went out helping others,” she said.As the family remembers Kevin, affectionately called ‘Bub,’ Tracy’s hope is no one will have to experience this form of loss. That she feels could have easily been prevented if the interstates were closed before the fog got too thick, Tuesday and weeks ago along I-55. “I know they said it wasn’t expected. But when they are expecting fog, maybe they should put those cones out. When I woke up the next morning after his death and the interstate was closed, I thanked God that not another family would have to deal with what we are dealing with,” Meyers-Pipher said. NOPD closed major roadways the day after Meyers was killed when fog and smoke became too thick. Collin Arnold with New Orleans Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness said NOPD would close major arteries again if the fog and smoke get too heavy in the future.
A huge heart, that’s how close family describes 53-year-old Kevin Meyers.
Meyers’ family members said he was on his way to Slidell to meet a cousin when he was killed in a crash along I-10 amid the fog and smoke that morning.
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Weeks ago, Meyers’ sister Tracy said when she saw the news about the seven killed in the massive pileup along I-55, she cried for the families. She did not know tragedy would strike her own home in the same way Tuesday morning.
“Who would have known I would be next?” Tracy Meyers-Pipher said.
Meyers was supposed to be heading out of town to Baltimore with his cousin, but it would never happen. Fog and smoke from nearby Bayou Sauvage brought visibility to zero along I-10 at Michoud, where Meyers was driving.
“The world is a little darker now. A light has been put out,” Meyers-Pipher said.
We are told Meyers was a very hard worker at the family business Meyers Warehouse. He was also a firefighter with the Terrytown Volunteer Fire Department.
Above all, the family said Meyers had a good heart. He gave blood often and was an organ donor.
Meyers’ injuries were too bad for doctors to save his other organs, but Tracy said he was still able to shed that light with the gift of sight.
“Kevin’s final gift in life, at the end of his life, was, he donated his corneas. I was informed that he helped two people see. So even in his death, he went out helping others,” she said.
As the family remembers Kevin, affectionately called ‘Bub,’ Tracy’s hope is no one will have to experience this form of loss. That she feels could have easily been prevented if the interstates were closed before the fog got too thick, Tuesday and weeks ago along I-55.
“I know they said it wasn’t expected. But when they are expecting fog, maybe they should put those cones out. When I woke up the next morning after his death and the interstate was closed, I thanked God that not another family would have to deal with what we are dealing with,” Meyers-Pipher said.
NOPD closed major roadways the day after Meyers was killed when fog and smoke became too thick. Collin Arnold with New Orleans Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness said NOPD would close major arteries again if the fog and smoke get too heavy in the future.