NFL star Favre learns his family is safe but home destroyed

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GREEN BAY, United States (AFP) — Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre, fearing his family's fate for 30 hours, learned that his relatives were safe but their home in rural southern Mississippi was destroyed.

The American football star spoke with his mother Bonita, who spent the night with Favre's grandmother in the attice of their house in Kiln, a small town in the area struck hardest by wind damage and flooding from Hurricane Katrina.

Flood waters from the Gulf of Mexico coast just 8km away had covered the lower level of the house in barely 10 minutes, but receded enough for the pair to reach the nearby home of Favre's brother Jeff on Tuesday.

Favre's family home was heavily damaged by water and will likely have to be bulldozed and rebuilt, according...