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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Blanco herself supported Bush to the media after her press conference ( video is on WWL site), and said he was the one who told her to begin the mandatory evacuation.
These people in charge locally were apparently completely clueless from the get-go.
"Right, whatever you say Kennedy."
Glad you see the light
The lady I'm talking about was a thirty something old white lady in Mississippi complaining that Haley Barbour should do something and that George Bush should get out of the White House and come down and do something.
Hurricane Katrina refugees are shown at the Reunion Arena shelter in Dallas, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. After opening the Astrodome in Houston on Wednesday to accommodate up to 23,000 hurricane survivors, the state agreed Thursday to house up to 25,000 more in San Antonio and an additional 25,000 in Dallas
Entitlement mentality for sure!
Great find! Blanco obviously has a track record of not taking things seriously.
This is one of those "laugh till you cry" things. It's amazing how overconfident people get - normally, this only affects the idiot in question, but if you're Governor of a state, it affects all the millions of people who have the misfortune to be under your "care."
Those pictures of Marine Life in Gulfport just leave me speechless..this is like 300 F3 tornadoes on the ground at one place at once.
I'm hearing it on local radio every day.
Bad timing, I agree, but the talk started yesterday about "bailing out a city that never should have been".
I posted about it yesterday.
I thought it was pretty tacky.
This is why humanity is doomed to repeat its mistakes. Because when organized society takes it on the chin, the element that rises to the fore is that which takes civilization back thousands of years (i.e., the law of the jungle).
Well what did they do with all the monies allocated by HSD for common communication. I'm OEM over here in NJ and all our communication is common. If they do not have adequate equipment then the money was wasted or used to buy votes.
The word "catastrophic" gets tossed around so much that it has become a cliche and has pretty much lost it's meaning, but this is a truly catastrophic event. I was one of those who believed (quietly) that the media was over-hyping the potential for death and destruction just to pump up their ratings, and I based this on their over-hyping of the aftermath of the three hurricanes that I lived through last year, storms that were like a little afternoon shower compared to this thing. To be fair, I think even the media didn't really believe it was going to be as bad as they said it was going to be. Well, it was much, much worse, and I was as wrong as wrong could be.
To put it bluntly, I don't know if there really is any practical way that anyone, Republican or Democrat, could have adequately prepared for something as catastrophic as this. For all the things we can do, for all the power we think we have, we're still just puny little things when compared to nature, and nature just loves to remind us of just how little we are when we start to swagger.
This has gone way beyond the finger-pointing and name-calling we love to indulge in, and I think our elected leaders are starting to get this, and are realizing that digging out and putting things right again is going to take huge amounts of time and effort. And as such, right now we cannot afford the petty partisan bickering. All we can do is roll up our sleeves and do the best we can.
I am certainly not so naive that I think this will last forever - we'll be back to the sniping and the name-calling and the blame-laying before we know it. But for now, we're beginning to realize we really do have to work together, even if just for a while, and I am very relieved to see it.
I am tending to 3 adult cats and 5 kittens while my daughter and SIL are out of town to attend my grandson's graduation from his first stint as a Navy Seaman Recruit..
I adore my animals..I really grieve when they die or are sick ..I helped feed these kittens in 2 hour shifts when their stray mother abandoned them at one week in the compost pile...but priorities have to be made. People first, animals when possible.
May God protect the rescuers and comfort the suffering..
Maybe she's in shock. Or terminally dumb?
I watched the people that were grabbing the bottles of water from the military and told my husband, just wait... they will turn around and sell it to the people who really need it.
Re: 1541 Unbelievable. What is it? "Gee. I've always wanted a free ride in a helicopter."
Some of those links on the side of the website are very interesting.
Apparently there was discussion in Congress & Senate about $$$ needed for upgrading LA's coast. Even if the $$$ were granted, the article is dated July 22, 2005. There certainly would not have been time to make improvements to the levee or coastal area near New Orleans. It would have taken years, not a month and a half.
NBC live, Dateline Special on Katrina, now.
Two sources of help for Snowball:
http://www.noahswish.org/
I posted this earlier today regarding their work:
9:14 a.m.: Volunteers Head to La. To Look For Lost Pets
A Madison County, Ill., prosecutor is leaving this week for the Gulf Coast to offer assistance to some lower profile hurricane victims -- family pets.
Amy Maher is a coordinator for a national organization called Noah's Wish, which works to save as many pets as possible during such catastrophes. The group expects more than 100 Noah's Wish volunteers to arrive in Louisiana Thursday.
The volunteers will provide temporary shelter for animals whose owners are unable to care for them in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. If they can't be reunited with their original owners, some of the rescued animals could also be brought back to Illinois and put up for adoption. -- Associated Press
Per their web site, they reached Slidell today...
and from Houston for animals needing shelter:
http://www.spcahouston.org/spcahouston/Default.asp
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