Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII

Various ^ | 1 September 2005 | Various

[Smogger]

Plenty of people have led their neighbors to safety.

I don't know what more they could do having arrived at an evacuation point commandeer a bus or some water?

[Pepper777]

""I have seen some wonderful human beings in some of those clips, people that I would love to sit down and get to know. Listening to some of the elderly women and their faith, the gentleman that was carrying out his neighbor's kids one at a time, these things give me hope.""
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Excellent post!

[Cedar]

I know we were here at FR discussing the breaks when it first happened....was that late Monday night or Tuesday night?

Things are a blur now.

[BurbankKarl]

Mike Kennedy, of St. Louis donates cash to a St. Louis Fire Department member as part of a hurricane Katrina relief fund the fire department is creating, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005, in St Louis.

[Arizona Carolyn]

They have been told what to do ever since we brought the first slave to this country... don't you think the collective we did the same thing to the American Indian... a once proud people that we reduced to handouts. I honestly don't blame them for that. We and our Government allowed it to happen each and every one of us bare a certain responsibility for this. Just like the people in Iraq who have to be told what to do because of what Saddam did to them. When you program people -- any people of any color -- not to think for themselves then you need to be prepared to care for them without complaint.

[tcrlaf]

Haven't got the whole response thing figured out here, yet...

there has been footage ALL DAY of trucks and helicopters unloading supplies, and taking people out!

[Irish Eyes]

Thanks

[doug from upland]

I was kidding about the arm shot. Does anyone know when the first attempt was undertaken to deliver water and food? When did the shooting start?

[Petronski]

Not sure you could know the superdome has food and water unless you're there, and I'm sure there's a lack of TP and disposal.

If the Superdome is ever reopened, they're going to need a bond issue to reclaim and refit it.

Fifty-thousand people, three-days, no water. I'll say no more.

[Smogger]

Dallas and San Antonio are offering to help. The great state of Texas has stepped up big time.

I second that. Of all of the states in the Union I would have to say that Texas has stepped up to the plate big-time.

[BurbankKarl]

I am sure they will spend it on the 200 shelters they are running, including the Astrodome, San Antonio and Dallas.

[Peach]

I think it was Monday night the levy broke; Monday late afternoon Shep was saying NO dodged a bullet.

[RoseyT]

"Because the government will want to keep the numbers as low as possible"

Uhh ok. So instead of (insert however many thousand) people dying in Hurricane Katrina it'll be (insert however many thousand) minus maybe a couple of hundred. Gotcha. Makes perfect sense.

[doug from upland]

You sure keep late hours. :)

[uncitizen]

they didn't want cloths etc.. his answer was they have the infrastructure in place to buy every thing that the people will need

Ahh. I get it now. It's easier for the Red Cross to line their own pockets with cash than with a used sweater.

Reminds me of an time a few years back when the kids and i were returning from the grocery and stopped at a stoplight. There stood a "homeless vet" looking for handouts. My son jumped out of the car to hand the man one bag of our groceries. The man declined the food.

[Deo volente]

Yeah, that big clump of 'hair' over his forehead is his trademark look!

And that stupid camera angle showing him from the back, looming large and looking at the screen where his guest appears.

I can't look at his show anymore. Haven't for years.

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

Thanks for the frank and common sense asssesment. I was unaware that the Superdome was aequately supplied with water and food. I read the bizzare Nagin's cry for help saying supplies were running out and took that to mean at the SD.

But come to think of it, I saw a video where the people outside of a "Civic Center" I believe looked pretty healthy and laid back. Many sitting on their duffs. I would not at all be concerned about them. I thought there were thousands gathered without food and water.
I have very mixed feelings on what is going on there-(probably because I just don't know what IS going on down there.

[Ingtar]

Memphis, actually Millington, has an empty Navy base. Barracks, kitchens, fences around it. I would have thought it would be perfect.

[Peach]

The shooting started Tuesday. I don't remember looting being an issue Monday.

The hurricane happened Monday. Tuesday morning I woke up to madness and a whole new world. Looting. Water rising. Loss of control.

[CindyDawg]

You would THINK that SOMEONE in those groups would step up, take charge, and start to head them out in order...

Well, if all is as posted a 20 y/o and a bunch of teenagers did. They took a bus of women and children to Houston. It was reported that they pooled their money to buy gas and diapers along the way. Reading what he said, this wasn't a polished college student either.