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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse
listening/watching wjtv.com out of Jackson, MS and the worst straight-line winds are past Hattiesburg.
Mayor says 200 trapped on rooftop and bodies have floated by.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472930/posts
Thunder here...logging off for a while.
My hometown. My dad is fom Berry, I grew up in Fayette.
I took your post in context. If anything we have both asserting/playing devils advocate.
I just hate big gov not allowing people to protect their proterty, then wonder why people are reluctant to leave to they can protect their property (when there is no REAL danger in the aftermath)
Okay, enough please. You know who you are. This is a hurricane thread. Please go someplace else to debate the morality of thieves looting on Canal Street, or who (Who) saved New Orleans, etc...
There are people on this thread who have displaced relatives, and people like me who don't even know if they've lost relatives yet.
This is a 4,000 post thread... Please free up some of this it so we can exchange information and learn more about relatives, property, travel conditions, etc.
Thank you.
LS
Thanks for interjecting that bit of humor (it was hysterical actually). You just made my afternoon.
We were the one who put the city in the path of the storm. That's why I live in the mountains.
You've got a point, but New Orleans did look like the major story yesterday and they naturally fixated on it. And they're stuck there until the interstate highways re-open.
Right now, I imagine most of the media wishes it was down at Grand Isle or over in Biloxi, but they can't get there.
The dead most certainly are NOT. They know for a FACT (one way or the other).
tuh..tuh..tuh..too much time on my hands..
not from guys like Bastardi, he said the storm moving east of NO would bring the lake into the city. he repeated it over and over again.
Take it easy, will you.
wjtv confirmed fatality in Leake Co. Miss. as a result of a falling tree.
$26 billion damage estimate
- US Insurance Companies
.....
Which (groan) the national insurers will spread the cost out to the rest of their customers.
There's a cost to that, though. When they're not in the affected areas they're not crowding the infrastructure and requiring additional logistical support (e.g., food, water, emergency services). I'm not sure that normal property-rights considerations necessarily apply at the beginning of a serious crisis management effort.
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