Posted on 08/31/2005 11:33:28 AM PDT by george wythe
Hundreds, maybe thousands, of people have died in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the city, Mayor C. Ray Nagin said Wednesday.
It will at least two or three months before the city has electricity. Restaurants won't be able to open; there won't be any commerce, he said during an impromptu news conference at the Hyatt Hotel.
"This is the real deal. It's not living conditions," he said.
OK, you have given all the reasons why it won't work. So, what are your recommendations for immediate rescue work?
All I have heard is they will have adequate resources on hand in a few days. The difference between life and death for many of the victims is not to be counted in days, but in minutes or hours.
How did Jim Crow laws in the 1950's affect black children's swimming abilities in the 1990's?
So we're talking about the mother of all landfills?
There's good money in landfills.....
Also, it was at about the same stage in the game during the tsunami that every lib crackpot, UN official, and general communist were screaming for US dollars for the relief of Indonesia. Where are those voices now? Are US flood victims less worthy of support from the international community?
So you expect the Federal government to buy all the jet boats in showrooms and ship them to NOLA?
You're mad.
Because you learn from your parents and older relatives.
If your parents don't know how to swim, chances are you don't either (unless you join the Boy Scouts and want that merit badge!)
A high school friend of mine who was the daughter of a Czech lady couldn't swim - neither could her mother or her grandmother (why her dad didn't drive them ALL to the YMCA is a mystery).
And just a note . . . some folks are natural "sinkers" (a term coined by Fred Lanoue, the "drownproofing" man) and it's harder for them to learn to swim. Has to do with the proportion of muscle mass and bone to surface area, or something. I am a natural sinker myself (or used to be, before 2 kids and a desk job), but both my parents are avid swimmers (my dad was on his college swim team and my mom, believe it or not, did synchronized swimming for her college!) But I have read that, on the average, more persons of African descent tend to be "sinkers" . . . so that's another difficulty to overcome.
Purely anecdotal evidence, but when I was a lifeguard and swimming instructor, it did seem to me that the black kids had a harder time learning to swim. Could have been social, could have been physical difficulty, hard to say. If they stuck with it, though, they all did learn!
Well said Thrusher....
TS
Actually, I think it translates into- 'Let the good times roll'....
TS
Really! Though I was born in East Peoria, IL, I had the good fortune to grow up in Richland Center!
Commonly used in these parts is a normal four stroke angine like a Briggs and Stratton with a long driveshaft inside of a tube with a small prop on the end- called a 'go-devil'....
They're called 'surface drive'....
These are currently being used in NO right now...
http://www.go-devil.com/GO-DEVIL_Engines.html
TS
But if you do that, who will rob, rape, and murder the tourists ?
HA! ;^D
good question...
I'm sure there could be "guest workers" willing to step up to the plate...[/sarcasm}
I can't say with any expertise, but you have to consider that it is (was) the main seaport at the mouth of the largest river in America. The devastation will affect every business that relies on the Mississippi for commerce.
To me the worst part of this catastrophe is that the mayor, Ray Nagin, waited so long to issue the mandatory evacuation order.
Hey, I wasn't saying jets wouldn't work in a pinch, just that they'd be more suseptable to the conditions. Airboats are best; flat bottom, skilled operators, and the state has lots of them.
Bret Favre's mother stated that her first floor was completely under in 5 to 10 minutes. One can imagine the mindset in that situation. When it was 2 feet high many probably thought, well it wont get much higher. Then it was 4 feet high heading to 5 feet and you would be forced to make a decision. Leave the house or head to the second floor or attic. If you decided to head up into the attic cause it wont rise much more, you could then find yourself in the panic mode. Too late to swim out of the attic.
The Reverend is in Venezuela telling Hugo Chavez that his idea to sell cheap oil to poor people in America is a very smart idea. So thats where all our traffic comes from. Poor people driving their autos ! Remember how Newt was treated when he suggested tax credits to help poor people buy computers. The left laughed at him and said poor people hardly pay any taxes !
This is what I expected out of that socio-economic group. Those of us who are still human need to fight for our civilization. Capital punishment should be frequent until conditions improve.
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