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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

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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricanekatrina; katrina; la; mayor; neworleans; raynagin
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To: sinkspur
If you did, you wouldn't be so concerned with your miserable tax dollars going to alleviate human suffering.

If we can do it when there's a tsunami half-way around the world (which I'm sure some objected to also), we had better do it when our own people are in trouble. I can think of far less necessary things my taxes go for.

481 posted on 08/30/2005 12:22:27 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
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To: cyborg; Petronski

Good to see you, too...and congratulations, by the way. : )


482 posted on 08/30/2005 12:23:05 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
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To: exnavychick

Floating around these thread I get the impression there are those that live in a parallel universe where 'good' people look, act, drive cars, work jobs, think, function and live lives EXACTLY like they do. I mean, right down to the health of their family, the function of their cars, even their internal thought processes.

So this disaster in Nola is well, a giant clean up off all the people that aren't like them.

I mean, if someone isn't like me, they deserve to die, don't they ;) /heavy, pissy sarcasm


483 posted on 08/30/2005 12:23:22 PM PDT by najida (I run with scissors and I don't play well with others.)
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To: Howlin

I know that people don't REALLY, at bottom, think it's okay. They just want things done the way it "should" be done.

It's throwing out the baby with the bathwater, imo.


484 posted on 08/30/2005 12:23:31 PM PDT by exnavychick (We're damned if we do, damned if we don't...so my vote goes for "do.")
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet

Thanks!


485 posted on 08/30/2005 12:23:55 PM PDT by cyborg (I'm having the best day ever.)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet

Thanks!


486 posted on 08/30/2005 12:23:58 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg.)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet

Scrooge was an ultra-conservative. He changed too.

You might be right. Maybe someday that stone facade will crumble.


487 posted on 08/30/2005 12:24:11 PM PDT by azhenfud (This tag line is currently experiencing technical difficulties. Please stand by.)
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To: Howlin
I have really had my eyes opened this very day; "real" conservatives apparently are FOR looting and against helping those in need.

Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, eh counselor?


488 posted on 08/30/2005 12:24:31 PM PDT by rdb3 ("That which has happened is a warning. To forget it is guilt..." --Karl Jaspers)
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To: Petronski; cyborg

Wow. You already sound alike.


489 posted on 08/30/2005 12:24:57 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet

Hah!


490 posted on 08/30/2005 12:25:19 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg.)
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To: rdb3

Well, know you're in our prayers, FRiend...


491 posted on 08/30/2005 12:25:23 PM PDT by azhenfud (This tag line is currently experiencing technical difficulties. Please stand by.)
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To: najida

It's easy to get that impression, isn't it? But I think that the folks out there that really do believe such things are mercifully few and far between.


492 posted on 08/30/2005 12:26:04 PM PDT by exnavychick (We're damned if we do, damned if we don't...so my vote goes for "do.")
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet

LOL!


493 posted on 08/30/2005 12:26:50 PM PDT by cyborg (I'm having the best day ever.)
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To: azhenfud

We can hope.

I don't mind expecting people to stand on their own two feet. It's just that I usually reserve that expectation for those who are in situations where they can.


494 posted on 08/30/2005 12:26:53 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
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To: exnavychick

I agree. When bad stuff happens, you'd be amazed at how incredibly good people can be.

At least, that is what I believe :)


495 posted on 08/30/2005 12:26:54 PM PDT by najida (I run with scissors and I don't play well with others.)
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To: najida

History shows you are right, too, najida. :)


496 posted on 08/30/2005 12:28:09 PM PDT by exnavychick (We're damned if we do, damned if we don't...so my vote goes for "do.")
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To: najida
When bad stuff happens, you'd be amazed at how incredibly good people can be.

And the praise belongs to God for that. He always has a remnant.

Always.


497 posted on 08/30/2005 12:28:47 PM PDT by rdb3 ("That which has happened is a warning. To forget it is guilt..." --Karl Jaspers)
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To: azhenfud
Scrooge was an ultra-conservative.

No. Scrooge was a money-grubbing libertarian atheist.
True conservatives contribute generously through faith-based organizations.

498 posted on 08/30/2005 12:36:53 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: sinkspur

Well said! Nice to see you posting again.


499 posted on 08/30/2005 12:37:22 PM PDT by BlueAngel
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To: rdb3

I suspect not.

Having already watched my only sibling be buried, and watching my father die of cancer, I am more callous than the average person when it comes to issues of life and death.

Perhaps you could explain the significance of your question?


500 posted on 08/30/2005 12:38:26 PM PDT by Veritas et equitas ad Votum (If the Constitution "lives and breathes", it dies.)
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