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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse
"CNN has a woman on the phone from the Convention Center. She's saying how the guard is there, they're getting food and water and how happy they are to see them. Presstitute says so your feeling good and the woman says yes. They cut away from her for now, but told her to hold on."
Some more great news. Finally, it feels like someone is in control of the situation. Just in time.
Interesting email, from my new Tank-truck guy:
Mr. Goldberg: I'm sick and tired of the media's treatment of the Katrina relief efforts. I run a trade association of tank truck carriers trying to assist in the relief efforts by transporting food and potable water. I'm in regular contact with many of the companies, and here are some "on the ground" facts:
1) Large trucks (80,000 lbs. gross weight) almost always have to use the Interstates. For trucks attempting to come in from outside the area, most of those roads (approaching the disaster area) are either closed or have bridges out. The so-called secondary roads may be somewhat passable, but their bridges (over rivers and streams) are not built to sustain such loads. Simply stated, you can't get there from here.
2) Trucks domicled in those areas (because that's where the companies traditionally serve customers) are still underwater, thus the equipment is not accessible;
3) Nobody in their right mind is going to take loads of gasoline and fuel oil into a city controlled by unfriendly folks carrying automatic weapons. A tank truck loaded with 8,000 gallons of gasoline can produce a very impressive fire;
4) Those local trucking companies can't contact their drivers. There's no power, thus (even) cellular is unavailable, and many of the drivers homes (in places like Kenner, Slidel, Metarie, etc) have been destroyed and families dispersed. I have one member with about 120 drivers and mechanics in that immediate area. To date, management has been able to contact 12. Those in the National Guard have been mobilized and are not available to drive.
5) Pumps -- needed to load the vehicles -- don't work because there's no power;
Finally, it's very interesting to see the media not-so-subtly inferred racism. NO's neighboring communities, noted above, and others are mostly composed of middle-class white neighborhoods. They too were flooded with the same level of devastation and face the same food/water shortages. So far, they've been "off camera". I'm genuinely puzzled by this.
If only George Bush could join the Governor in a photo-op "cry-a-thon" all of these problems would go away.
I love animals but PEOPLE come first
Just a point of order...it takes a lot less than that to start a riot in American inner cities. But otherwise, your post (in fact all your posts)is and have been outstanding.
"To: Peach
"This is obscene. I do not understand how healthy people could be airlifted before those with life threatening illnesses"
Survival of the fittest?"
No.
Triage.
If the river levees break, or the leaking POL storage tanks ignite, we will lose the ability to save large numbers of people.
In any event, people can only survive a few days without water. Others need medical care. We do not have an infinite period of time to rescue these people. It is a race against the clock.
If you have to choose between one guy on a vent or ten guys that are sick but can sit upright in the chopper, you choose the ten.
It is called triage, it is a decision that sucks worse than any other and it is the only way to save as many lives as you can.
Writing a few checks just does'nt seem to cut it. My offer strikes me a just being neighborly common decency; i.e., the least I can do.
Pondering that question...
I'd bet there will be a shift of focus. Instead of showing us the obvious relief..she (and others) will turn their focus to All Blame All The Time.
A group of recovery room nurses who were trapped inside the Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans cry and hug one another after being evacuated to Baton Rouge. The nurses said the hospital was without power for days and as many as two-dozen or more critically ill patients who died over the past five days were left behind.
Exactly . . .
How sick is that kind of politics during somehting like this?
My hubby has been making that point as well...why didn't the mayor evacuate these folks by train PRIOR to the hurricane!
Fox just said that some big containers of oil are leaking into the Mississippi River....uh, oh!!!
Don't go here today - this has been discussed and cussed already ;)
Just reportedf that W is heading to NO..will he meet with LA governor and NOLA mayor?...
I wonder (seeing he called Bush43 every nasty name you could think of yesterday and started used the race card) how bad it will be this afternoon?
Fortunately I am wont be watching CNN today.
Speak of the Devil...
WWL just had a report that the Revvvrund Jaaackson, had "tried" to rescue some people, but people on I-10 formed a human chain around his bus.
He then proceeded to bash Bush, saying his trip through the devastated area was "ceremonial" (snarl), and would do no good.
That guy is such a jerk.
my deepest apology
Okay. As you can tell I'm watching this fire closely, because of concern about where it might be. I guess that tall building in the background is not One Shell Square. That might be the hotel with the "W" on it. That might be closer to the Quarter. Is anyone else familiar with this area?
Greta doing her walk arounds in Houston....but, at least, she isn't dissing the officials running the Astrodome shelter like her putrid collegue did this morning.
Well, what will poor Paula Zahn talk about tonight?
I'm sure she'll find something. I never watch her. CNN went to commercial. Guess they don't want good news to be broadcast. They didn't bring that woman back.
ACKKK GRETA IN HOUSTON.
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