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Updates as they come in on Katrina

02:09 PM CDT on Friday, September 2, 2005
Tom Planchet

2:05 P.M. - (AP): A mix of cheering and swearing has greeted National Guardsman pouring into New Orleans.

As a convoy of relief trucks swarmed through downtown, some near the city's convention center threw up their hands and screamed "Thank You, Jesus!"

Others weren't as pleased. One man says "hell no," he's not happy to see the Guard, saying troops should have shown up days ago. Michael Levy says he'll be pleased when 100 buses arrive to evacuate people.

Levy says people at the center have been sleeping on the ground "like rats." And he says if he had his way, New Orleans would be burned down.

1:57 P.M. - WWL-TV: State School Superintendent Cecil Picard is asking the School Superintendents of St. Bernard and Plaquesmines Parishes to call him as soon as possible.


4,897 posted on 09/02/2005 12:17:45 PM PDT by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: bwteim

"As a convoy of relief trucks swarmed through downtown, some near the city's convention center threw up their hands and screamed "Thank You, Jesus!"

I cant begin to imagine what a beautiful site that is to these people.


4,907 posted on 09/02/2005 12:20:54 PM PDT by No Blue States
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"One man says "hell no," he's not happy to see the Guard"

You just can't please some. I saw a woman on FNC this AM who complained, "Well yeah, we got water now, but we don't have any ice! It's HOT down here!"

I swear I'm not making this up..


4,944 posted on 09/02/2005 12:29:13 PM PDT by Hard Way (Razor nothin'. I'm firing up Occam's Chain Saw)
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Others weren't as pleased. One man says "hell no," he's not happy to see the Guard, saying troops should have shown up days ago. Michael Levy says he'll be pleased when 100 buses arrive to evacuate people.

Typical...so typical.

5,023 posted on 09/02/2005 12:50:13 PM PDT by BureaucratusMaximus (Watching cradle-to-grave liberalism shred itself to pieces in the calming breeze of reality)
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