Posted on 09/07/2005 4:44:27 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
Please don't miss Toby's report today! He was HERE!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1479145/posts?page=117#117
Mississippi Gulf Coast Reeling from Hurricane Katrina From Ground Zero
Gulf Coast News ^ | Keith Burton
Posted on 09/03/2005 2:14:55 PM CDT by Cedar
Mississippi Gulf Coast Reeling from Hurricane Katrina From Ground Zero
By Keith Burton – Gulf Coast News Publisher
This is not going to be your regular news story. There are a lot of reasons for this. The first is that I am as much a part of the staggering story of Hurricane Katrina as the hundreds of thousands of people all along the northern Gulf Coast whose lives have been changed forever by this storm. After all, I live here too.
You cannot believe how difficult conditions are here and how frightening our immediate future is. This story will also be different because of how GCN is getting this to you. You have to know that communications, telephones, Internet and cells phones are not working, or working only marginally at the time of this report.
After great effort we have managed to get online, but we still need help and we are not sure even our current efforts will work long.
I have to thank GCN acting editor Perry Hicks, who is based in Virginia for relaying information from me to get some information out from Biloxi. And I want to thank my brother, Ken Burton, who is in Colorado Springs for engineering the GCN Survivor Connector Database to help people find the status loved ones impacted from the storm.
Many of you have already seen the videos and news stories from the national media. I can tell you that aerial photography, as graphic as it is, in no way shows the true story from the ground. I struggle to find the words. The faces of friends, and family, the hollow fearful eyes as Coast residents, long experienced with hurricanes, know that this is a life changing event.
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Bev - this article should deflect a little criticism of the president.
It seems that in the late 90's a hurricane named Floyd hit North Carolina and a few other states. A month after it hit, Jesse Jackson was complaining that Clinton's FEMA director wasn't doing a good job. The FEMA director tried to defend himself. The roads still weren't passible. After a MONTH.
Fewer than 70 people died. It wasn't QUITE the catastrophe that Katrina was.
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It's horrific. The worst disaster I can imagine. A local church was supposed to be taking in 50 evacuees today; a lot of hard work went into getting the shelter ready and I was going to volunteer. Today they got word they aren't getting the evacuees for a while, if ever. I don't know what happened.
I know, Peach. It is so far into liberal insanity that I have to get off the internet and just wipe my mind clean or I will loose it.
It's beautiful outside and I'm going to sit on the veranda and listen to music and sip wine. I can't take it anymore. If that makes me a wuss, so be it. LOL
Earlier today, some of the school children delivered crayons and coloring books to the children at the shelter who are too young to attend school. I am very impressed with our shelter. CLEAN and well supplied. I volunteered to help on Sunday morning... I can walk to the auction afterward. :)
/john
I can give you a quick answer to that one ... the tv networks had sent people to New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama before the hurricane. They were already there (reporters, camera crews, sound crews, the whole works) ... they didn't have to try to get there on flooded, broken roads with trees and power poles and fragments of buildings and other assorted debris blocking access to the disaster-stricken areas.
I've read something about the USS Bataan but don't recall the details. I think it was stationed way out in the Gulf, out of harm's way, awaiting calm enough seas and the abatement of the winds so that it could be stationed nearer to shore. It would be incredibly stupid to have it in the anticipated landfall area ahead of time ... but that sort of subtlety is apparently beyond comprehension to liberal minds. I'm still at work but will see what I can find once I get home.
I do know that a very sophisticated mobile hospital was set to leave Charlotte, NC, last Thursday morning for Louisiana. Late that evening it was still in Charlotte while the officials were still trying to get the ok from LA. It never came so now this state-of-the-art mobile facility and medical staff are in Mississippi providing medical care to the residents there. And the citizens of Mississippi are very grateful and appreciative!
Without you all at the end of my fingertips, I would be SO alone.........Blessings to each of you! Bev
We know the answers because we are rational.
Those people on the other side are NOT!
I agree. There's nothing quite like our friendships here. More like a FAMILY.
We be right here, Bev.
:^)
Have a good night.
Kay - IIRC the Bataan was lurking in Western Caribbean and moved in immediately when they could. Think she carries 6 copters. On one of the shows about Friday they were interviewing a pilot off her. He stated they had been on search and rescue for three days.
I imagine that was what we were watching that first day we saw the red Coast Guard and some other green/drab military types pulling people off roofs. Most fascinating thing ever seen. It looked so scary. God bless them all.
Okeydokey....I have had my martoonie and a super dinner. Fresh grilled salmon, ear corn and a salad. Now, I am going to go knit and watch an old movie....love, hugs and a good night to each of you....B
Pray for me on my next rotation... I'm not sure where I'm headed, yet. Single, unemployed, and homeless leaves a lot of opportunity to improve my situation. 8>)
/john
I hear Houston has room.;^)
And left of the Brazos.
Go figure. I try to behave.... ;>)
/john
I know what you can do. See if you can get yourself atached to the 2nd Battalion, 128th Infantry, WI Army National Guard. I know of at least one soldier in the unit who would definitely welcome a fabulous cook.
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