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Mayor: hundreds, maybe thousands, dead in New Orleans
AP ^ | Aug 31 2005

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: deathtoll; godhelpthem; hurricanekatrina; katrina; neworleans
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To: hispanarepublicana

The port will be there or nearby...it has to be in some shape or form for all of the goods shipped up and down the Mississippi.

As far as "les bon temps", who knows how much remains or can be re-built?

Due to business reasons, I spent four of my first five wedding anniversaries in New Orleans. I love the city and am praying for it's people.


61 posted on 08/31/2005 12:07:53 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: RockinRight
Well they've gone somewhere, right? Well then. They can stay where they've gone or a temporary solution can be found. Move them into hotels as "residents".

The fact remains those 600,000 people are not, cannot and will not be living in New Orleans for ages due to the flooding and need to rebuild. There just isn't anywhere safe there for them.

62 posted on 08/31/2005 12:08:06 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Cindy Sheehan: "All You Are Saying Is Give APPEASEMENT A Chance!")
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To: Sybeck1

He's the Mayor of a lake now. Not a city. Population soon to be zero.


63 posted on 08/31/2005 12:08:26 PM PDT by Rio (Don't make me come over there....)
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To: robowombat
A governor who starts blubbering each time she goes before the cameras

Blanco personifies every negative strereotype about women in executive office.

Scatterbrained comments, crying, Hallmark card sentiments in place of action.

The anti-Giuliani.

64 posted on 08/31/2005 12:08:29 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
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To: george wythe

Very sad day indeed for New Orleans. Might be time to re-locate. It was probably a mistake to build it below sea level to begin with.


65 posted on 08/31/2005 12:09:14 PM PDT by television is just wrong (http://hehttp://print.google.com/print/doc?articleidisblogs.blogspot.com/ (visit blogs, visit ads).)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

We spent our first anniversary "honeymoon" there also. It was magical. The Garden District is/was like a fairytale land.


66 posted on 08/31/2005 12:09:52 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (No amnesty needed...My ancestors proudly served. [remodel of an old '70s bumper sticker])
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To: newzjunkey

True, although I meant the 600,000 people in Baton Rouge and it's suburbs.


67 posted on 08/31/2005 12:09:52 PM PDT by RockinRight (What part of ILLEGAL immigration do they not understand?)
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To: edcoil
That many people did not listen to the calls to get out before. Wow, seems high.

They wanted to hang back for all the good lootin' opportunities.

68 posted on 08/31/2005 12:10:02 PM PDT by Junior_G
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To: RetiredArmy
I'm also thinking of driving up Mississippi.

Not just NO -- I've been there once.

69 posted on 08/31/2005 12:10:52 PM PDT by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: television is just wrong
"It was probably a mistake to build it below sea level to begin with."

Thanks Froggy!

70 posted on 08/31/2005 12:11:50 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: hispanarepublicana

Goodbye Antoine's, Goodbye Tippi Tina's, Goodbye Arnaud's, Goodbye Cafe Dumond......


71 posted on 08/31/2005 12:12:36 PM PDT by DarthVader (Islam is not something to be understood, it is something that must be utterly destroyed)
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To: Terabitten

Quote: If that 195k people only had a 1% casualty rate, that's still 1,950 people. I'd expect the casualty rate to be much higher, in the 4-5% range. So, I won't be surprised if there's as many as 5-8 thousand dead.



Something that is not mentioned is that very very few black people know how to swim. Not that they can't but they don't generally have the same opportunities as youngsters to learn.


72 posted on 08/31/2005 12:13:48 PM PDT by superiorslots (Free Traitors are communist China's modern day "Useful Idiots")
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To: robowombat

Thank you for the cool breeze of sanity.

Of course state and local government efforts have been chaotic, but those are not the only relief and reconstruction efforts happening. Consider all of the private operations - the utilities, the railroads (as you mention), private relief agencies, oil companies, one-man construction companies, and just plain citizens - who are starting to go to work. The communities of Louisiana and Mississippi will pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

This is America.


73 posted on 08/31/2005 12:14:15 PM PDT by Parmenio
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To: tallhappy
My daughter's school orchestra took a field trip to NO this past spring. Played for a couple of schools and a nursing home, had a private concert at Preservation Hall.

I'm glad my daughter had a chance to listen to the jazzmen and eat beignets on a park bench outside Cafe du Monde before all this came down.

74 posted on 08/31/2005 12:14:15 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: tallhappy
I wish I'd just gone on the trip.

We got back from N.O. about 4 weeks ago. Went down for a weeks vacation, glad we made it. Looks like it'll be a while before there's anything to go back to down there.

75 posted on 08/31/2005 12:14:19 PM PDT by cryptical
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To: RockinRight
Think of all the construction jobs...

My first thought too!!! All those folks getting good paying construction jobs to help rebuild their city.

Then reality hit me and I realized that being a deeply BLUE Democrat city, the unions will be the ones to get the jobs and the payoffs will be deep.

The locals will suck wind.

76 posted on 08/31/2005 12:16:46 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (When a Jihadist dies, an angel gets its wings)
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To: superiorslots
Something that is not mentioned is that very very few black people know how to swim. Not that they can't but they don't generally have the same opportunities as youngsters to learn.

You are correct in that few blacks know how to swim. I don't know what the reason is, though.

I taught a swim class at a historically black university in the mid-90s (I'm white). I couldn't get some kids to even dunk their heads underwater.

77 posted on 08/31/2005 12:17:15 PM PDT by Terabitten (God grant me the strength to live a life worthy of those who have gone before me.)
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To: TomGuy
It loses any semblance of humor when one considers that possibly 2 people have committed suicide the last couple of days at the Super Dome.

Yeah, but if they had seen the spoof they'd still be alive today.

78 posted on 08/31/2005 12:18:23 PM PDT by cryptical
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To: hispanarepublicana
oodbye Desire Oyster Bar. Goodbye Royal Sonesta. Goodbye Pat O'Briens. Goodbye Commander's Palace. Goodbye Brennan's.

Oh man... don't say that. I love those places, and Central Grocery, and Evelyn's (a litte dive next to the Quarter House were we always stay) and a dozen other places....

79 posted on 08/31/2005 12:19:24 PM PDT by AFreeBird (your mileage may vary)
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To: DarthVader
Goodbye, Le Booze. This was probably my fave spot in New Orleans. Last time we were there, the mounted police ducked their horses' heads into the bar so the bartender could feed them sugar cubes. The bar is no deeper and no wider than the width and depth of, well, the bar. There's just no other place like New Orleans.


80 posted on 08/31/2005 12:20:02 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (No amnesty needed...My ancestors proudly served. [remodel of an old '70s bumper sticker])
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