Posted on 09/01/2005 7:13:53 PM PDT by lawnguy
I hope you all got to see the 2 Nurses on Greta's show just now. They represent the very best of human nature, and the dedication to their patients was just an inspiration.
They could have gotten out, but they didn't.
Please give more info for those of us without cable.
I just flipped over to Fox from CNN (I know), but a reporter told dullard Airon Brown as much as 50% of N.O.s police force have abandoned their jobs. Up and quit and left the area. They refuse to risk their lives while being shot at to save the scum who are looting. Can't say I blame them.
I just flipped over to Fox from CNN (I know), but a reporter told dullard Airon Brown as much as 50% of N.O.s police force have abandoned their jobs. Up and quit and left the area. They refuse to risk their lives while being shot at to save the scum who are looting. Can't say I blame them.
I can't blame them either. They should have been able to shoot the looters. Now they are saying the looting has switched to just survival items. No more TVs being carried around. Gee, maybe they are clueing in that electrical appliances aren't that valuable right now.
Gee, Gretta came on the tube so I turned it off. I'd rather be freeping.
I'll be certain to watch the rerun, I would like to see some uplifting reporting.
Olberman had Sharpton on earlier and blamed whitey for all the problems by neglecting the "infrostruksha". Notice how liberals hate whitey until they need something from them? That pig Olberman was in complete agreement with the Revs. racist rant.
Would you expect something different from Sharpton? (This is a rhetorical question, I know you aren't surprised.)
I'm in WPB, FL, 2 uncles in Mesquite, TX. Are you near the dome stadium?
They were two health care professionals who stayed @ their hospital and refused to leave their patients. They were forced to move patients up 7 flights of stairs after the elevators stopped. They have gotten almost no sleep and expressed no regrets about their situation.
They are an example of the people who make the country work.
I saw them. They said they trained to be nurses so they could help people, and they would not leave while their patients needed them. Now they're stranded too. I hope someone gives them a break--and a ride to safety.
No, I'm in Austin. Astrodome is 3/4 hours away. Mesquite is 3 hours the other direction. We do have folks here though in some of our centers also.
At one point, they even moved all their patients seven floors, by hand and in the dark. Finally, as their hospital was dying as a medical institution, they stayed at their posts until all their patients had been evacuated. Then and only then, they got on a boat and went to the Dome to seek evacuation for themselves.
I hope I told their story correctly. And, yes, these women are heroes. Why did they do this? As one of them said, "That's what it means to be a nurse."
Congressman Billybob
Latest column: "The Dutch Solution to the New Orleans Problem"
Thanks for the info. These are the stories that keep us focused on the majority of our good neighbors.
Everyone is thinking all of New Orleans is like the looters we're seeing on the news. These two nurses are really a lot more like the New Orleanians I've known for so many years. It breaks my heart to see people saying the city should be "nuked" because of what this group of criminals is doing. I pray they air more stories like these, because I know there are LOTS of them, still untold.
DateLine is showing a lady who is living in someone's timeshare. Apparently the person who told her to go there left before the storm. But they filled the bathtub with water, trash buckets with water, every glass and bowl and baking dish in the place with water before they left.
Bump for later
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