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Katrina Live Thread XII
Various ^ | 31 August 2005 | Various

Posted on 08/31/2005 4:00:15 PM PDT by NautiNurse

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To: Diddle E. Squat

I think it is the response that was unpredicted. They seem to have NO CLUE how to organize. This is going to have to be revisited to prepare MUCH better in the future.

This possibility has been predicted for over 50 years, and still, they are fumbling.


3,741 posted on 09/01/2005 9:16:51 AM PDT by conservativebabe (God Bless Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida)
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To: freeperfromnj
"The scope of this is beyond anything we could have imagined."

Yes there are folks saying these people who are dying on I-10 should help themselves and walk to the SD, from what I am hearing the SD is about at the breaking point. ALso the food and Water distribution is not worked out.

We are 72 hours in now and the infirm out there going to start dying faster now. The healthy human body can only take so much, and those with medical problems are in severe danger from dehydration and exposure in that heat.

If they can't get the looters stopped and resume rescue operations the death toll is gonna soar.

This is just a frigging nightmare now.

3,742 posted on 09/01/2005 9:17:03 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: mewzilla

Ever single pump failed. Every single one. Pre-strike report I read said that only one, the largest one, had an independent backup generator.

There will be congressional hearings.


3,743 posted on 09/01/2005 9:17:08 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Howlin
FEMA has suspended operations at the most critical time for these people.

I don't blame them.

Chaos, panic, anarchy. Airdropping food and supplies might do some good. Won't restore order, tho.

sw

3,744 posted on 09/01/2005 9:17:33 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: mikegi
CNN: FEMA suspending rescue operations due to safety concerns. Send in the NG.

As a historian mentioned on talk radio during the Big quake that destroyed FRISCO early 1900 and the fire that destroyed CHICAGO
Looters were shot
3,745 posted on 09/01/2005 9:17:36 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: dawn53
Report on CNN about the Convention Center was pretty bleak.

How much was truth and how much was ranting by the reporter?

3,746 posted on 09/01/2005 9:17:45 AM PDT by mhking (The world needs a wake up call gentlemen...we're gonna phone it in.)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Congressional hearing. I hear there's a possibility freaking Congress will give these jerks immunity. Screw Congress.


3,747 posted on 09/01/2005 9:18:29 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Dems_R_Losers
Kids are actually pretty resilient.

And the pictures posted keep reminding me that, for little kids, where your mother is, that's where home is.

3,748 posted on 09/01/2005 9:18:37 AM PDT by maryz
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To: SE Mom; cajungirl
The situation in downtown Baton Rouge appears to have been an over-reaction, but we are not getting a lot of information.

Apparently, there was something going on in the facility where the "refugees" are being kept, and a number of police officers, perhaps the SWAT team, were called in to help. The Mayor decided to close the courthouse, which is right next door, and everyone went nuts with rumors.

Tensions are very high here; people are very nervous. No one knows if it is paranoia or not, but the rumors and fear are swirling. Even if there is no real danger, we've worked ourselves up into a dangerous panic.

Hopefully, we can all just calm down, and get ourselves back together.
3,749 posted on 09/01/2005 9:18:43 AM PDT by Thrusher (Remember the Mog.)
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To: r9etb
This sounds like (though it may not really be) something a lot bigger than "normal" looting.

Well it's looting by individuals and wholesale looting by gangs. The gangs however, are going to be attacking rival gangs and anyone else that gets in the way of their crime spree since the police are spread so thin. Not to mention they figure it's a good time to rub-out the competition.

3,750 posted on 09/01/2005 9:18:49 AM PDT by Smogger
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To: Diddle E. Squat
"There will be congressional hearings."

Yes, and the MSM will report it was BUSH"S FAULT, no matter what the hearings uncover.

3,751 posted on 09/01/2005 9:19:48 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: conservativebabe
The reporter on CNN said that in one part of town, the people being rescued were calm and gracious; in another part they were angry and violent. Now with the suspension of rescue efforts those poor decent people will pay for the indecency of their "neighbors".

But the liberal MSM will cover everything with "moral equivalency", blame everything on Bush, and give the criminals a total pass. It is just INFURIATING!!

3,752 posted on 09/01/2005 9:20:35 AM PDT by milagro
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To: Diddle E. Squat
There will be congressional hearings.

Let's hope they're brutally honest hearings, too. There's massive corruption involved here, as well as unbelievable incompetence, and (in the case of the looters) a fair bit of a society reaping what it has sown.

Sadly, I don't think our political leaders are capable of the sort of serious and concentrated thought that will allow them to learn the proper lessons from this.

3,753 posted on 09/01/2005 9:20:40 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: girlangler
And the anger and frustration needs to be directed where it belongs, to the power brokers in that town and state.

How about LBJ's Great Society that created this underclass of criminals
3,754 posted on 09/01/2005 9:20:42 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: spectre

Airdropping food will result in thugs with guns trading taking control of the stockpiles and trading it for God knows what...


3,755 posted on 09/01/2005 9:20:57 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
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To: uncbob

I really don't care how it looks to the ACLU types any more. If you're on a roof or in an attic and don't have a firearm in your hands..you're worth saving..for those causing trouble..make a bullhorn and flyover announcement that you have 2 hours to come out with your hands up, no weapon or be shot on site.


3,756 posted on 09/01/2005 9:21:24 AM PDT by WoodstockCat (Gitmo? Let them eat Pork!)
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To: Smogger
Not to mention they figure it's a good time to rub-out the competition.

That's what I have been predicting

Let them go to it
3,757 posted on 09/01/2005 9:22:17 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: milagro

I suspect you're right. The main blame lies of course, on Mother Nature, but also on the imcompetency of the LA government. The mayor is a moron. The governor, from what I have heard from her mouth, is a moron.


3,758 posted on 09/01/2005 9:22:23 AM PDT by conservativebabe (God Bless Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida)
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To: milagro

It's hard to understand what is going on down there. What are the criminals thinking? Why is it so difficult to get food and water to people? Why is there seemingly no organization to these efforts?

It's such an unimaginable situation. Is it because LA is filled with incompetent leaders? Or is it because the scope of the disaster is so huge?


3,759 posted on 09/01/2005 9:22:44 AM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: Ovation_girl
calm down there skippy.....I wasnt saying it wasnt. Im sorry im not allowed to voice my opinion.

Plese, by all means, go back to telling everyone else what to think.

3,760 posted on 09/01/2005 9:22:56 AM PDT by Tiger Smack
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