AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 1691) [Remember the Trade Center!!]

Various News Sources and FReepers | September 7, 2005 | All of Us

[bevlar]

Food fight....food fight!!! You all play nicely now..
See you tomorrow...Love and hugs, me

[tillacum]

Got it........replied.

[pollyshy]

I need the practice. Haven't killed the thread in quite a while. Used to be quite proficient at it, don'cha know.

'Nitey-nite.

[kayak]

The thread to which I have been posting links (the one with the photo timeline) has the following info about the USS Bataan.

Please take note: all these pictures and info were compiled from Yahoo, not exactly a conservative source, and were posted as they occurred rather than after history began being re-written.

The USS Bataan [a federal asset] was positioned in the Gulf of Mexico when the storm hit. She rode out the storm and then followed it toward shore. Helicopter pilots flying from its deck were some of the first to begin rescuing stranded New Orleans residents.

In this photo, a search and rescue swimmer assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Two Eight prepares to assist in the rescue of a survivor in Louisiana, August 31.

A Landing Craft Utility (LCU) departs the well deck of the USS Bataan (LHD-5) bound for New Orleans, August 31. The LCU is loaded with sandbags, water, a small flat bottom boat, 300 lifejackets, a HUMVEE, and enough supplies to last 10 days.

Another note: since Yahoo doesn't keep it's pictures online very long, a FReeper (The Pythonic Cow) has generously hosted a set on his website. I have used those 'permanent' ones in this post so that they will remain rather than turning into little red x's in a few days.


Bonus info: look at this picture carefully and see if you can guess where it was taken.

If you guessed New Orleans, go to the back of the line. This is what Katrina did in South Miami-Dade County as she crossed over Florida. No one seems to be sniveling and moaning about the losses that these people suffered yet their grief is just as great.

Once again, I urge all of you to take the time (and if you are on dial-up it will be considerable time because of the numerous photos) to check out this thread. You can actually see the bias of the media emerging as the days passed.

Katrina, a photographic timeline: Powerful proof federal response was NOT slow (warning, many pics)

[onyx]

FOTFLOL!

Laughing is a wonderful way to end the night.
Thanks, Dog.

[Dog]

I'm calling it a night myself.

Time to resume my vacation I did my monthly good deed.

[Iowa Granny]

Hello. Dragging my butt in to sit infront of the screen and unwind a bit before I go to bed.

Grueling afternoon & evening of meetings today. More tomorrow.

I'm off to check the news.

[Iowa Granny]

Go to bed, you old Biddie

[Iowa Granny]

okay

Tip toeing out, and dimming the lights.

Rest Well.

[JRandomFreeper]

I may have fallen asleep again. For the entire evening. Again. Sheesh.

So much for being the life of the party, sacked out, snoring on the couch... ;>)

/john

[Carolinamom]

Good morning, everyone.

I arrived here early enough to administer CPR to the thread!

[The Raven]

TOBY !!

[Carolinamom]

Talking to myself here and just thinking about the 10 Labors of Hercules. He had it easy compared to our President, who has to requisition a shovel to clean up the corruption in LA and the terrorists in Iraq and everywhere else in the world....all the while hearing sidewalk critics telling him how to shovel.

[lysie]

Good morning.

[The Raven]

Who needs the Feds?
From today's WSJ...

...
Besides cash, companies have handed out free drugs, suspended finance payments on cars and mortgages and helped emergency personnel with equipment. As interesting, though, has been the application of corporate best practices -- from supply-chain management to logistics -- to a natural disaster.

The private-sector planning began before Katrina hit. Home Depot's "war room" had transferred high-demand items -- generators, flashlights, batteries and lumber -- to distribution areas surrounding the strike area. Phone companies readied mobile cell towers and sent in generators and fuel. Insurers flew in special teams and set up hotlines to process claims.

This planning allowed the firms to resume serving customers in record time. Katrina shut down 126 Wal-Mart facilities; all but 14 are now open. Entergy, the power company for 1.1 million households and businesses that lost electricity, had restored electricity by Monday to 575,000 customers, including areas of flooded New Orleans.

Businesses offered near-instant support to their own employee-victims. Staff set up hotlines and began tracking down missing workers. Thousands of workplace victims were provided with places to stay, promises of continued pay and even offers of replacement jobs elsewhere in the country.
...

[Carolinamom]

Good morning.

Nice to see you up. It was getting lonely here drinking coffee and talking to myself. :o)

[The Raven]

Oh....keep going...sometimes it helps to get it out.

[Carolinamom]

What a breath of fresh air that WSJ info is.........I do hope that the suspension of mortgage payments will apply to Toby's SIL who is out of a job at the moment.

[The Raven]

>>Toby's SIL who is out of a job at the moment.

Soon there will be sooooooo much work to do down there. It will be a boom town

[Neets]

Ciao bella.

Feeling better?