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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Somebody mentioned earlier that there may be a secondary line of defense, a levee seperating NE New Orleans from the rest of the city.
Anyone have maps of the levee system or more information on their location?
I'm not watching, but listening. I thought I heard them say feet.
In fact, I don't recall hearing ANY Louisiana officials willing to step up to the plate and tell people to evacuate. It finally took the President to lean on the mayor and governor to do something. Even then, they still had a wishy-washy attitude.
That is beyond outrageous.
She is a failure as a senator...she has NO vision for the SAFETY or the WELFARE of those who live in her state. SHE IS, as a US senator, part of the Federal Government. Blaming the Federal Government is REALLY factually, blaming HERSELF.
She has been WHINEING when she has the power and the position to have DONE EXACTLY what she waited for the President to do...as HE is the one who made the move to provide for the SAFETY of the people in HER STATE.
This INFURIATES ME.
She is lazy. And she is inept. And she should be ASHAMED that she waited, along with NO mayor, the govenor and others LOUISIANA officials, to protect their people and by doing so forced the PRESIDENT to become Daddy and order evacuations.
She is so afraid of making folks mad by forcing them to evacuate...that she forced the President to provide for their safety. She cares MORE about her re-election standing than the SAFTEY of her people. Heinous.
She is not a leader...she is a whinely petulant child who showed no vision or concern for the welfare of her people and depended upon the President to do HER JOB.
I hope NO along with the entire state throws this insidious, media pimp out.
She is NOT a grown up.
Temecula, California. The Red part of the state, big time...
You?
I know, I know, I'm a computer consultant and work with XP and just about all the other MS workstation and server OS's.
I think I've said it before on FR, it's like my carpenter brother not having a banister on his dangerous staircase for years before he got around to installing one.
Plus, I've got years of crap loaded on my main workstation and dread upgrading it all.
FNC Alert: Steve Harrigan back outside.
I'm not trying to be insensative but this was what I was talking about last night. If you stay, at one point you are on your own to survive. Rescue can't get to you to help. Praying for these people, esp the babies.
Paging Laz. Paging Laz. Please pick up the white courtesy thread.
Inches of rain sounds right.
> ... an engineer in the dome specifically to monitor
> and assess any such problems such as this. He was
> quite confident that this is fairly superficial
> damage(roof fabric) not structural damage.
But that's almost an oxymoron. Based on the pre-storm
forecasts, the only engineers willing to be inside
during the storm would be the confident ones. The
skeptical engineers would have declined the honor.
Hey! :D
Winds at 135 mph at eyewall, surge 20+ feet
Terry Ebbert, New Orleans director of homeland security, said more than 4,000 National Guardsmen were mobilizing in Memphis and would help police New Orleans streets.
Water now flooding up to the attics in the areas where the levy was breached by Betsy before.
I'm sorry to hear that.
My best friend from childhood lives NNE of New Orleans, in Ponchatoula.
He is in the Poconos on business but his wife & kids have evacuated to a co-worker's house in Opelousas.
Winds . .135 along the eyewall, storm surge . . 20+ feet
I am hoping he is right. I listened to him as best I could. I have so many memories of unexpected strucutral failures that I tend to over-worry about the "best laid plans"...
and I care about the people in there. I hope they all remain calm, and do not panic.
New Orleans as in NOLA....
geesh...
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