Posted on 08/29/2005 12:39:10 PM PDT by Smogger
Mayor Ray Nagin said that 200 people were stranded on rooftops in the Lower Ninth Ward and several “bodies are floating in the water” in the Bywater neighborhood and in Eastover.
Nagin made the announcement in his first press briefing after Hurricane Katrina slammed just east of the city, but did plenty of devastation to New Orleans.
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. He said that boats would be dispatched on rescue missions later in the afternoon.
Mayor Nagin issued a "boil water" recommendation for water in the city - except for Algiers and the CBD due to a water main line break that may have compromised the water.
Nagin said at least 20 buildings in the city had collapsed and that it might be 48 hours before residents would be allowed back to their homes to assess the damage.
(Excerpt) Read more at wwltv.com ...
Looting has already been reported.
Some of this flooding is because the pumps failed, and this is water backed up from storm (and I suspect, "other") sewers.
If so, no big deal. But, these are likely to be recent.
Good post!
I'm sure you mean Typhoid Mary.
And looking at the traffic heading out of town, walking would have been faster!
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.
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.
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.
From the article.
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.
Right. Typhoid Anyone makes the point. LoL
Thanks.
OMG, let's nit pick already, ok, so the ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY others, I have no sympathy for, does that satisfy you.
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.
You're probably right, they were talking about this possibility on Fox yesterday.
Take it easy.
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.
Could be.
There are bodies floating in the water.
Can't say they didn't get the message, kin ya?
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