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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse
From another thread, a freeper told me this:
Yep, and Saturday and Sunday a New Orleans TV station was stating that people who left pets behind would be prosecuted for animal cruelty. So no doubt at least some people didn't evacuate because they had pets. Regardless of what you feel about pets, it was a bad idea to discourage anyone from leaving.
More like Patton. From what I've read and heard it's the Colonel who is mostly responsible for getting things under control.
Interesting dynamics. Tells me that W is being supportive rather than accusatory, which is probably by far the most effective tactic. There's time later to dwell on incompetence -- these are still the folks who are notionally in charge, and it's important to get them back on the rails.
Blanco is probably shell-shocked and embarrassed, and Landrieu is probably being herself.
W's a good man.
Do tell; I have laid off CNN (just can't take them anymore).
Re: DU call for Nagin for Pres:
When you're desperate to keep from sinking, you'll grab anything that floats by.
Including a turd.
Multiple times
MSY medical staging and triage: they were set up to handle 200 pt/hr...they have been managing 800 pt/hr...and they are doing it!
Thank God! Hannity is going to drop the no politics rule. About time. Wish it wasn't necessary, but these people have to be hit down hard.
calm down, mary
Is Audra Lee the Governette?
When you're desperate to keep from sinking, you'll grab anything that floats by.
Including a turd.
Nagin's a sinker, not a floater.
Where's that gif with the pres layin' a smackdown on somebody? His tie flappin' and everything...
WHAT!?!
Behind as in left them in their house or behind as in let them go?
FoxNews says 9,000,000 MRE's have been delivered to SuperDome. Weren't they supposed to have a bunch of MRE's stored there before the hurricane hit? What happened to them?
Airlines begin airlift out of New Orleans
By LESLIE MILLER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON Relief flights donated by airlines began to fly into Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans at a rate of about four an hour, beginning midday today.
Transportation Department spokesman Greg Martin said the planes will be bringing in supplies and leaving with people. Most of the flights will take refugees to Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
The first flight today, he said, was a Spirit Airlines MD-83.
Even before an announcement could be made, Southwest Airlines Co., dispatched a Boeing 737 from Dallas to New Orleans just before noon today, according to airline spokeswoman Paula Berg. She said the plane would take evacuees to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.
The airport building and runway weren't damaged much by Hurricane Katrina, but navigational aids such as radar weren't working.
Martin said the Federal Aviation Administration was able to establish limited operations within a day of the hurricane. Work over the past few days allowed the airport and air traffic control to sustain a more systematic relief effort Friday.
Air traffic controllers in New Orleans are handling about 300 flights at any given time, Martin said. "All of them are providing humanitarian relief," he said.
The airport is now able to handle nighttime flights thanks to runway lights provided by the military, he said.
More than a dozen passenger airlines and their crews volunteered to provide emergency airlift to more than 25,000 New Orleans residents stranded after Hurricane Katrina.
They are Alaska Airlines, America West, American Airlines, ATA, Continental, Delta Air Lines, Jet Blue, Northwest, Southwest, United, US Airways and Air Canada.
US Airways announced they will begin this afternoon and continue at least through the weekend. US Airways will provide a 126-seat Boeing 737-300 aircraft, as well as other aircraft as needed.
The mission would be styled after a program in which the military uses commercial airliners to transport troops.
While airlines said they were willing to fly airlifts, they want the government to pay the cost of the operation. The nation's major airlines have lost billions since the recession and terror attacks of 2001. AMR Corp., the parent of American, the nation's largest carrier, has lost more than $7 billion.
Airline officials said they were working through a trade group, the Air Transport Association, and the federal Homeland Security officials to secure approval for airlifts.
Airline pilots have been agitating for rescue flights for several days, at least since an American Airlines Boeing 757 landed at New Orleans' Louis Armstrong Airport to deliver supplies and evacuate more than 100 stranded employees and passengers.
"If we save one life wouldn't it be worth the effort?" said Jeff Grinnell, an American Airlines captain. "We're ready to go."
AP/Eric Gay
A fire burns on the east side of New Orleans early Friday morning
all I did was post the fact....it was a copy/paste from WWL...chill
Heard last night they had shower facilities set up outside the Astrodome.
Shep just said "Hope to have the evacuation finished today"
Harrigan a bit ago said "Once the NG got here, many heads poking out of buildings."
Either Harrigan is hallucinating, or Shep is delusional.
My money's on Harrigan... ;)
No, she's one of the evacuees in the Astrodome.
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