Posted on 09/01/2005 2:07:51 PM PDT by Murtyo
FYI, there's a thread for images below, too. Just cross-referencing. That one is over 700 posts long, so it's probably time for a new spot.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473113/posts
That is one very sad picture of the woman in the yellow with her child. This is beyond awful.
New Orleans under water (aerial photos)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475067/posts
Thousands of residents from New Orleans gather at a evacuation staging area along Interstate-10 in Metarie, La., on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. AP Photo/Dave Martin
Residents are rescued by helicopter from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005 in New Orleans. AP Photo/David J. Phillip
www.NOLA.com has a great site at http://www.nola.com/hurricane/photos/
A rescued baby cries in the arms of a policewoman after being brought to land on a boat from floodwaters in New Orleans September 1, 2005. Authorities are still rescuing people from their flooded homes three days after Hurricane Katrina stuck. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
Mississippi National Guardsman Kirk Larson takes a break on bags of ice while handing out ice and water to people affected by Hurricane Katrina in the parking lot of Crossroads Mall in Gulfport, Mississippi September 1, 2005. (Frank Polich/Reuters)
I LIVE JUST SOUTH OF JACKSON MS. AND WE JUST GOT BACK OUR POWER AT 2:30 TODAY. ALL THE MEDIA TRYING TO BLAME FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (PRESIDENT BUSH) IS A LOT OF CRAP THERE IS DAMAGE IN THIS STATE THAT NO MATTER WHAT THEY HAD HERE WOULD HELP MUCH CAUSE THEY COULD NOT GET TO THEM. THE ROAD HAD TO BE CLEARED BEFORE THEY COULD GET PWOER TRUCK IN TO WORK. AND YES I'M IN A CITY. THERE IS DAMAGE ALL THE WAY UP THE STATE. BY MEAN DO WE HAVE IT A 100000000% LIKE THEY DO ON THE COAST AND IN LA. BUT IT WAS BAD HERE. WE LOST POWER MONDAY AT 1:00 PM BEFORE THE HURRICANE EVER GOT HERE. SO FOR THE MEDIA TO START THE BLAME GAME GAME IS NUTS. THERE IS STILL HUNDERED OF THOUDSANDS OF PEOPLE HERE WITH OUR POWER AND WE ARE 300 MILES FROM COAST. IT IS UNREAL MUXH DAMGES THERE IS HERE. OUR DAUGHTER AND HER FAMILY LIVES AT GULFPORT AND THEY ARE WITH US ALONE WITH 2 YOUNG CHILREN. AND THEY MAY NOT HAVE HOME OR JOBS TO GO HOME TO. SHE IS A NURSE ANC COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AND HE WORK A VA (RETIRED NAVY)HOSPITAL. AND WE DO NOT KNOW YET WHAT IS LEFT OF EITHER HOSPITAL. NOR DO WE KNOW ABOUT THERE HOME. THEY HOME IS ONE AND HALF MILES NORTH OF I 10. FORM WHAT WE KNOW HATTIESBURG IS LIKE A WAR ZONE THEY HAD TO CUT THERE WAY TO COAST WITH CHAINS SAWS TO GET THERE (POWER CO. AND ANYONE WHO WAS GOING THERE TO HELP. SO IF MEDAIS HAD THERE WAY ALL THE HELP, IF THEY WERE ANY CLOSER WOULD BE IN NO SHAPE TO HELP. CAMP CHELLBY WAS ALSO DAMAGED. WE HAVE POWER COMPANIRES HERE FORM GA. , AL, PENN. AND MANY MORE. THAT IS JUST WE HAVE SEEN OUR TOWN. THANKS TO ALL OF THEM FROM THE BOTTOM OF ALL MISSISSIPPI.A HEARTS. THEY HAVE BEEN SO KIND TO US AND WORKED DAY AND NIGHT TO GET US POWER AND FOR THAT WE ARE GREATFUL. THERE IS NO WAY THIS IS GOING TO BE FIX OVER NIGHT AND ALL OF US MS. KNOW'S THAT. IF THEY HAD ALL THE STUFF SETTING OUTSIDE OUR CITIES THEY COULD NOT DO ANYMORE THAN IS BEING DONE. THERE IS SO MANY TREES DOWN IT UNBLEAVEABLE. AND IT TAKE TIME. DON'T GET ME WRONG WE WANTED OUR POWER BACK BUT WE KNEW THEY WORKING AND DOING IT AS FAST AS THEY COULD. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE MEDIA FOLLOW THESE POWER WORKERS AROUND FOR ONE DAY. WE SEEN THE SETTING IN THERE TRUCK EATING LUNCH AND RIGHT BACK TO WORK. I WANT TO SAY ONE THING TO THE MEDIA SHUT UP ! ! !
JohnRob has this site designed so that threads don't max out until reaching 65,000 + posts !
If anyone having page loading problems (esp. dialup users) would simply go to their preferences page and choose 20 or 50 messages per page under 'Thread Pagination', 98% of refresh complaints would vanish.
Could you post that over here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472358/posts
Yes, post it there but please don't do it in all CAPS and remember that punctuation and paragraphs are your friends.
BUMP.
G-d speed to you and your family and all those affected. Thank you for your post.
Refugees being dumped 40 miles outside no into store parking lots
People being dumped off busses have not eaten in days and are not given food nor water
People looting stores, private homes where no water/wind damage to homes took place
Carjackings
Employees told to go home and protect your families
Neighbors planning on forming block militias to protect families from gang members being dumped off in their communities - NO presence of government - No presence of law officials - chaos
Because there is no National Guard, no police presence in communities 40 miles outside New Orleans, there is no food on store shelves because of looting
According to caller (a man who never ordinarily cries but in tears on phone) from 40 mlies outside NO, the media is not reporting how awful the conditions are
And not reporting the thousands of dead bodies in devastated area
Advised caller to get children up north ASAP out of harms way -- Hopefully there'll be a way to do that
It's hard to be patient and listen to the politicians yack about all that they are doing KNOWING there are people who are being put in harms way because of the disorganized, chaotic, irresponsible way the refugee problem is being handled -- there is NO coordination whatsoever at this point -- a complete system breakdown in many communities OUTSIDE New Orleans
He just got power after h*** in a hurricane. Let's forgive his screaming and ranting.
Just a word of advice.
WRITE EVEYTHING IN CAPS - AND NO ONE WILL READ IT - BECAUSE - IT IS JUST TOO HARD ON THE EYES.
itslikewritingwordswithoutanyspaces.
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