Katrina Live Thread, Part XI

Starting to see some scam websites like "katrinarelief.com" popping up. Beware.

701 posted on 08/30/2005 3:01:15 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)

To: Fitzcarraldo

Why??????? There was nothing that he could do yesterday.

702 posted on 08/30/2005 3:01:18 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")

A very interesting and astute take on the situation.

Having lived through a great flood in 1972, I can say that thirty years later, we still have the same divides and same classes in our larger society.

I pray to God that the people of New Orleans will survive this disaster, and come back, as the people of Pennsylvania did after Hurricane Agnes.

704 posted on 08/30/2005 3:01:57 PM PDT by Palladin (America! America! God shed His grace on Thee.)

If Mike Cafferty bothered to pick up a newspaper or log onto the net, he'd read stories like this

Bush cancels rest of vacation to focus on Katrina response

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - President Bush decided to cancel the rest of his vacation to concentrate on federal relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina as his top disaster relief official lamented "catastrophic" damage in three Southern states.

With at least one New Orleans hospital threatened by Katrina's floodwaters, Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said that patients were being transferred to the Superdome and medical personnel were being sent in to treat them.

Meanwhile, the White House revealed that Bush was returning to Washington Wednesday rather than returning to his Texas ranch. "We have a lot of work to do," the president said of the storm damage in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

Bush planned to chair a meeting Wednesday of a White House task force set up to coordinate the federal response and relief effort, said White House spokesman Scott McClellan.

The damage is "very, very sobering," Brown said. "And of course the flooding is just everywhere ... New Orleans, all through Mississippi and Alabama. This storm is really having a catastrophic effect." Low-lying areas are "just devastated," he said.

FEMA sent medical teams, rescue squads and groups prepared to supply food and water into the disaster areas and Brown said it would be "quite a while" before those displaced by the hurricane can return to damaged areas, especially in those areas near downtown New Orleans.

Bush was considering tapping U.S. emergency petroleum stockpiles to ease the storm's impact on affected refineries. Administration officials said Bush was expected to authorize a loan of at least some oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

The storm shut down oil and natural gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico, representing about 8 percent of U.S. refining capacity or about 1 million barrels, further driving up gasoline prices.

Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman said, "Over the next few days, we will continue to gain more information on the specific needs and then be able to make a better determination on how we can help."

The reserves would be used to provide refineries a temporary supply of crude oil to replace interrupted shipments from tankers or offshore oil platforms affected by the storm.

The government put into effect a massive emergency assistance program that included rushing baby formula, communications equipment, generators, water and ice into hard-hit areas.

The president made emergency disaster declarations for Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. McClellan said Bush had spoken with the governors of those states "to make sure they were getting what they needed from the federal government."

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705 posted on 08/30/2005 3:02:03 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Liberalism is a form of insanity)

Like I explained vessels had to stay away from the area, because of the storm, and the ships travel at about 25 miles per hour. They can't magically teleport there.

706 posted on 08/30/2005 3:02:06 PM PDT by Strategerist

To: ElisabethInCincy

I fear this is going to get much worse.

If ships can get the ppl out of there,
sickness and disease will be kept at
a minimum.

707 posted on 08/30/2005 3:02:19 PM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)

To: Vinnie_Vidi_Vici

That would make the most sense to me!!!!!!!

708 posted on 08/30/2005 3:02:34 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")

Heard this morning that there is an oil tanker that is partially sunk and oil leaking. Not sure the Port of New Orleans is even able to handle any ship right now. You have debris everywhere.

709 posted on 08/30/2005 3:03:04 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)

I saw that - made me shudder... makes you wonder where the prisoners will go... made me think of the movie "Conair"

710 posted on 08/30/2005 3:03:07 PM PDT by pamlet

To: overtaxed_canadian

The man's name is Michael Barnett... no URL I could see. I typed in some keyphrases to google, couldn't find it.

711 posted on 08/30/2005 3:03:10 PM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)

To: Strategerist

The cable news keeps reporting about one levee being broken; don't we have information that it's actually two that are broken?

712 posted on 08/30/2005 3:03:52 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)

713 posted on 08/30/2005 3:04:04 PM PDT by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)

To: Fitzcarraldo

I guess he's back at the White House
or will be soon. I pray he will send
in the NAVY.

714 posted on 08/30/2005 3:04:06 PM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)

To: Strategerist

Almost all the cruise ships are not of US registry.

Yes, and they're owned by corporations. Let the request be made publicly for them to help, and let them take the PR hit for daring to turn it down.

715 posted on 08/30/2005 3:04:35 PM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)

Now have some cinnamon toast

Mmmmmm. Cinammon toast. Are we restarting the recipes? LOL. I still want the banana pudding cajungirl was talking about just the other night. (Sorry, pregnant woman here!)

716 posted on 08/30/2005 3:04:46 PM PDT by conservative cat

HAVE WE GOT ANY NEWS ON JIM CANTORE ???????????

717 posted on 08/30/2005 3:04:51 PM PDT by ElisabethInCincy

To: ElisabethInCincy

Jim Cantore survived; I saw some of his taped video yesterday, but oddly TWC seems to have been basically ignoring him today.

718 posted on 08/30/2005 3:05:34 PM PDT by Strategerist

To: The Grim Freeper

Frankly, I think we're just beginning to see God's Judgment,

Shut the hell up. Your perverse Christianity is embarrassing, and Jesus Himself would call you a whitened sepulchre.

719 posted on 08/30/2005 3:05:40 PM PDT by sinkspur (We who have been given much must help those who now have nothing.)

DUMB QUESTION TIME - WHERE ARE HELICOPTERS TO DROP 1000LB POLY PLY BAGS OF SAND INTO THE BREECH?

WHERE ARE THE EMPTY BARGES TO SINK AT THE BREECH TO DO THE SAME THING???

720 posted on 08/30/2005 3:06:31 PM PDT by spanalot

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