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Mayor: 200 trapped on Ninth Ward rooftops; bodies floating in Bywater
WWLTV.com ^ | 02:37 PM CDT on Monday, August 29, 2005 | WWLTV

Posted on 08/29/2005 12:39:10 PM PDT by Smogger

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To: MizSterious
Yes, there WILL be looters.

Looting has already been reported.

21 posted on 08/29/2005 12:53:07 PM PDT by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
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To: oceanview

Some of this flooding is because the pumps failed, and this is water backed up from storm (and I suspect, "other") sewers.


22 posted on 08/29/2005 12:53:09 PM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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To: OXENinFLA
could these be old bodies from graveyards?

If so, no big deal. But, these are likely to be recent.

23 posted on 08/29/2005 12:53:55 PM PDT by RightWhale (Cloudy, 51 degrees, scattered showers, wind <5 knots in Fairbanks)
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To: justshutupandtakeit

Good post!


24 posted on 08/29/2005 12:54:07 PM PDT by hawkaw
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To: justshutupandtakeit

I'm sure you mean Typhoid Mary.


25 posted on 08/29/2005 12:54:11 PM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: conservativeharleyguy

And looking at the traffic heading out of town, walking would have been faster!


26 posted on 08/29/2005 12:54:25 PM PDT by pa mom
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To: MizSterious


I read the article, please see first paragraph, I'm not talking about the police, I'm talking about people who chose to ride out the storm, got flooded and now are sitting on rooftops waiting to be rescued.


27 posted on 08/29/2005 12:55:03 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (What do you like best about your life?)
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To: ladtx

Knowing New Orleans as I do, I would guess the looters began their work shortly after residents evacuated. Not to sound heartless, but I hope some of the bodies that they found floating were some of them.


28 posted on 08/29/2005 12:55:35 PM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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To: OldFriend


Call me names all you want, the fact remains, if you are told to leave because it's going to be to dangerous to stay, you stay, and then are flooded and have to move to the rooftop, it's your own damn fault, I still have no sympathy.


29 posted on 08/29/2005 12:56:41 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (What do you like best about your life?)
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To: rockabyebaby
"Nagin said that the 200 stranded people included 20 police officers who were riding out the storm at their homes in preparation to take over shifts from other officers."

From the article.

30 posted on 08/29/2005 12:57:50 PM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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To: rockabyebaby
I don't have any sympathy for these people, they were told to EVACUATE, evacuate means LEAVE, if you chose to stay - you suffer the consequences, it's not like they weren't warned over and over again, it serves them right.

I'm sure all the senior citizens too old or infirm to evacuate the city, and without any available public transportation to do so, would appreciate any ideas you may have on how to avoid this in the future.

31 posted on 08/29/2005 12:58:25 PM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: OXENinFLA

Right. Typhoid Anyone makes the point. LoL


32 posted on 08/29/2005 12:59:31 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: hawkaw

Thanks.


33 posted on 08/29/2005 1:00:03 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: MizSterious


OMG, let's nit pick already, ok, so the ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY others, I have no sympathy for, does that satisfy you.


34 posted on 08/29/2005 1:00:15 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (What do you like best about your life?)
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To: NittanyLion


All the senior citizens and disabled were taken to the superdome, I doubt any of the 200 reported on rooftops are senior citiznes or disabled.


35 posted on 08/29/2005 1:01:36 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (What do you like best about your life?)
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To: OXENinFLA

You're probably right, they were talking about this possibility on Fox yesterday.


36 posted on 08/29/2005 1:02:36 PM PDT by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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To: rockabyebaby
OMG, let's nit pick already, ok, so the ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY others, I have no sympathy for, does that satisfy you.

Take it easy.

37 posted on 08/29/2005 1:02:57 PM PDT by tiredoflaundry (In Tampa Bay praying for all In Katrina's path.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit; pa mom; MizSterious

The government does not exist to protect me from myself.

Nor does it exist to prevent me from making poor decisions.

Nor does it exist to conscript some Americans into paying the bills for other Americans.

These people had every opportunity to move away from New Orleans and into Kansas where they would be much safer from hurricanes.

The bottom line is that MOST Americans are socialists, but just refuse to see it as they come up with all sorts of morally relativistic excuses for the government to act outside its proper role.

Please elaborate as succinctly as you can what you see as the proper role of government.

My opinion: government exists to secure the rights of the people, and to protect us from force and/or fraud by another.

In this case, as the issue at hand is a natural disaster, I don't really see where the federal government has any role to play whatsoever, since I can't find the part in our Constitution about charity and disaster relief. Two roles for local/state authorities in this instance would be to prosecute any looter who may arrive on the scene, and to make sure that insurance companies who have obligations to pay damages actually pay them.


38 posted on 08/29/2005 1:03:45 PM PDT by Veritas et equitas ad Votum (If the Constitution "lives and breathes", it dies.)
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To: OXENinFLA
could these be old bodies from graveyards?

Could be.

39 posted on 08/29/2005 1:03:47 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Smogger
" Get Out! Evacuate! Do it NOW! This is a very serious storm..it will kill you! Leave NOW! Drive, hitchhike or walk, but leave this city NOW.....etc."

There are bodies floating in the water.

Can't say they didn't get the message, kin ya?

40 posted on 08/29/2005 1:04:25 PM PDT by Logic n' Reason (Don't piss down my back and tell me it's rainin')
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