Katrina Live Thread, Part XI

Various ^ | 30 August 2005 | Various

[Conservababe]

Thanks to the President's leadership, FEMA was authorized to preposition relief assets.

Relief is one thing...rescue is another.

[ken5050]

Both the governor and the mayor will be found sorely wanting...La would have been in good hands had they elected Bobby Jndal governor..

[bjs1779]

No, and some poster said Lake Pontchatrain is still 4 feet above sea level at its center,

And I heard some poster say it was 4 inches above normal. We are at an impasse..

[oceanview]

why not? are you saying the waters are too shallow to approach the levees.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Someone famous said something like, "water is an irresistible force." One can not just "plug" problems like this. As you point out, plugging buys you nil when it continues to flow over the entire bank.

Can dredgers and barges get to those points?

[Knitting A Conundrum]

It takes a little time...the gulf waters nearby are probably still a bit high, too.

[LenS]

Plug it with what equipment? The barges that Katrina smashed and drove ashore everywhere? The ships that the companies would have sailed to Texas to avoid the storm? Plug it with what staff? The employees that evacuated when the mandatory order was given?

Imagine if all but one bridge and all the tunnels in NYC had been knocked down on 9/11. Now clog every street in Manhattan with debris and then flood most of them. Next turn off all the electricty, gas and water on the island. Have every ferryboat sunk or sailed away to Philly for safety. Finally, have thousands of people trapped all over Manhattan who need rescue and evacuation. How quickly would have large amounts of aid and workers have come?

[dfwgator]

Governor Barbour basically told President Bush that it's much too early for him to come to Mississippi.

[cajungirl]

If the city is underwater, does the Mayor get paid? And by whom?

Actually this mayor is better than most, he came in and has done some good things I hear.

[Dog Gone]

I'm not terribly worried about the levees on the Mississippi. They're awfully big and the river really isn't pushing the banks.

I'm not sure it really matters, though. The damage has been done. What I thought was going to happen the day of the hurricane happened the next day instead. The city will be uninhabitable for weeks at best.

And when people try to live in uninhabitable areas, they die. So the main question is how or if you can get these people out. The window for this is not long. You can't live in the attic or on the roof of your house in the hot Louisiana sun without water for a week, that's for certain.

This is going to get far more ugly in the next few days.

[tcrlaf]

Governor blaming AIRLINES for not getting people out on Sunday Morning??

Mayor looking to blame ANYONE ELSE for thier failures??

I think these 2 and the DNC talked today....

[madison10]

My sister is safe. Hundreds of trees down on her place, power lines down, no water, no phone. Her hubby is guarding the place and watching the animals, the llama survived the storm, and she is in BR but exhausted.

The llama is in the bedroom exhausted? Poor thing. Does it sleep in the bed or on the floor? ;)

[sarasota]

I've got friends headed into Northern Wisconsin today and tomorrow. Are the shortages so serious that they might have problems finding gas along Interstate 35?

[bjs1779]

Just heard on CNN, water still rising...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Oh, what a good analogy!

[texpat72]

If he did go right now, some people would be crying "photo op"!

[steveegg]

Foti used to be the New Orleans Sheriff.

From the way he was talking, I'm glad that it's "former".

[spunkets]

"This Mayor is not very reassuring. Saying the next highest priority this morning was to put in the sandbags but doesn't know why it didn't happen. Will check and find out why. Unbelieveable."

You got that right.

There's a commerial out on TV in the miswest for Vonage DSL. It has different scenes os morons screwing up. The background music is appropriate to all those clowns(D) in LA.

Whooo Hooo!
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...

[nicmarlo]

chief m.o. of Rats: pointing fingers at anyone but themselves.