Posted on 09/01/2005 5:40:42 AM PDT by shadowman99
Looter are armed gang situation worsening.
They're already there. They are in charge of the Police Force.
Oh, yes, it will, and a lot of it will be via private enterprise. The business to be in right now is the construction business. It might take "many years" for some of it to come back, but the bulk of it will be done much sooner--but I say this with one caveat--they MUST get that governor and mayor the heck out of power, because they're in the way, whether the mean to be or not.
Thanks, PKM. I was getting worried because I do not want to dishonor my God by even appearing to make such statements. It's particularly worrisome when names I see and have known for years on FR jump in. This is such an overwhelming situation that I think emotions and fears run especially high. Thanks again!
And what would "the truth" be, exactly?
What are you talking about? Most of the houses were rebuilt within a year. Others are taking longer, the pace is largely up to the owners and/or their insurers.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,167243,00.html
"Those waiting to be evacuated are thought to include 10,000 PATIENTS, staff and refugees from nine city hospitals, and at least 7,600 prison inmates."
"Did you even bother to read the above before you quoted it?"
I believe my point was NO had been given a MANDATORY evacuation order, before Katrina hit. And, my point was, exactly: those folks couldn't just up and leave. Precisely the point. A mandatory evacuation, patients (cancer stricken children if I understand correctly BUT I may have read that wrong in a report about a hostile takeover attempt at the hospital) and prisoners (locked up) were left behind.
Now, at the DOME they are first evacuating "The most vulnerable are going to the Louisiana state capital, Baton Rouge." "Medical evacuations from the Superdome stadium have been disrupted after a gun shot was fired at a rescue helicopter."
Sheesh. Such idiocy.
He's in Venezuela getting the Order of Lenin award from Chavez for being a most useful idiot.
Blanco and Nagin are just clueless
as to what to do with this mess.
Very poor leadership. They should
be RUN out of office. NOW! Not
later.
Very true!
I don't understand something here. People are milling around outside the Super Dome so I don't understand why they can't be loaded on buses and moved out of the area. How does shots taken at a helicopter endanger loading buses outside the Dome?
I wonder if the environmental wackos will prevent the draining of NO. I mean think of all those pristine wetlands that have been created.
Do you know if insurers cover flood damage?
"care to tell me how you're planning on going north, on foot - or any other direction for that matter, in these conditions."
Are you serious?
Since you seem to feel its ok to insult people's intelligence in this forum, I guess you are fair game. It's called a storm warning. If a person lives in New Orleans, a city planted between an ocean and a giant lake, it should be implied you understand you have a precarious situation. I was born in those parts and much of my family has lived there (Houma, Lake Charles, Algiers, New Orleans).
Thus, when a powerful hurricane is approaching and the call goes out to evacuate, you evacuate. If you truly had to go on foot, that's a tough call. I guess I'm just skeptical that all of these people really had no way out other than on foot.
Regardless, I'm guessing people in Sri Lanka would have happily walked 60 miles on foot to have had a chance to escape their tsunami.
As to your point, only you are suggesting that the solution is for people to start their trek on foot NOW. See, that's what warnings are for. The guy you chose to insult was making the point that the people in the Superdome essentially ignored the call to evacuate New Orleans, instead spending the day before the storm waiting in a line - so that someone else could take care of them.
If a thinking human is going to risk their safety by not heeding calls & pleads to evacuate, those people really have given up - except for the fact that so much of our cultural/political landscape now says that's a reasonable and valid decision -- and that people should vote with it, vote, that is, for a system in which those who choose the easy out (giving up) get via redistribution.
No, FEMA does. Or one can purchase seperate flood insurance.
Charming. You're citing one of David Duke's organizations why, exactly?
Those are people who should not have been moved (medically speaking)--and they hoped to ride out the storm. They might have succeeded, had it not been for the gangs of looters. The idiocy is yours to think they were remiss for not leaving when the order went out.
Roger that.
the term "godless atheist" seems redundant.
God is on vacation this month.
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