Posted on 09/02/2005 2:49:29 PM PDT by Guenevere
I saw a report yesterday from a radio repair person who was being sent to New Orleans to help get the police communications system back up and running. He and his party were denied access to the city by state troopers!
re: don't know about Brit. Wasn't he ill?
That's Tony Snow who had surgery for cancer.
For openers, what were you doing staying in New Orleans until after the airlines has suspended flights?
What were you doing while 400,000 plus New Orleans residents were getting the hell out of town?
Did you not take note of a shrinking number of people around and a general effort to leave the city?
What did you think that swirling cloud the size of the Gulf of Mexico was?
It was advertised exactly as what it was, a 165 mph killer storm. That was well known and broadcast widely for days before you decided you were having too much fun in New Orleans to let a lil' ol' hurricane spoil your fun.
I read the author of this sympathy appeal is from Florida.
Anyone from Florida who doesn't take a hurricane seriously ain't too bright.
In short, you are a couple of fools who are very lucky to be alive.
The answer to the question, "Who is in charge?" is quite simple.
When it comes to saving your own life, You Are In Charge!
reference ping, another testimonial of a state gov. roadblock.
Yes. It certainly was.
Rumor circulating around here is Academy, which had four stores in New Orleans, gave keys to the police, told them to take all the weapons in stock, and on the way out to leave the doors open for people to take what they needed.
LOL! You like to interject your opinion into a discussion not posted to you and then have the audacity to tell someone to give it up. That's some weak B.S. buddy....
Somebody had control of the checkpoint(s). Ought to be pretty clear who, after the situation settles down.
On the radio this morning cursing (G__D__) Bush, Tsunami victims, and Iraq. F___U mayor.
Kudos to the Marriott. Some businesses are better than others. I was in FLA, had to leave early b/c Georges was coming, and the only chain that didn't gouge on the prices was Hampton Inn. I remembered that. I'll remember Marriott, too...
I don't have your needs, tomodachi.
This is the result of a huge centralized government where the feds are seen as the providers of everything. Everybody is so conditioned to looking to Washington to make a decision that if tthey can't get hold of the federal bureaucrats then NOBODY makes any decision at all!
I've always believed that NCLA. But on this thread and many others, people are being taken to task for holding that opinion. Nanny government will SAVE ME......they PROMISED! I was waiting for a BUS! It's not MY FAULT! I'm amazed, thousands died because of the "government said so" mentality and there are hundreds of posters on FR defending that position. I truly don't understand....
I was just reading an old article from Monday mornings's newspaper (before the hurricane hit) that was left in the "reading room".
"... tourists...packed the lobbies of high-rise hotels, which were exempt from the evacuation order to give people a place for "vertical evacuation."
Granted, I'd have left sooner. But, it sounds like they were told "you'll be safe here".
Don't take it personal, i'm spun up today. I don't like tens of thousands of deaths any more than you. We are no longer the independent survivors the American people used to be.......
"For openers, what were you doing staying in New Orleans until after the airlines has suspended flights?"
From what this woman said on the radio, apparenlty they were scheduled to leave on a Sunday morning flight, but Delta then cancelled the flight. From then on they were looking for a way out (although I would have flagged down a car, a taxi, or anything else, and offered them whatever it took to get me to Houston, or even just to Jackson, LA.)
..and I might suggest you didn't read that closely...
..the couple had a flight out on Sunday, ....and it was cancelled.
Would you care to restate your words?
Times of crisis destroy the cultural "needs" hierarchy, and debase civilization to mere survival. In those circumstances, a cop is probably less a benefit than a detriment if he adheres compulsivley to process rather than principle.
There comes a time when it's proper to discard the niceties and "git 'er done." If that means feeding your family, protecting your shelter, or fighting off bands of two-legged predators, then that's how it is.
While I was in NO last month, there were two hurricane warnings (one degenerated into a TS and the other veered off). The "hurricane plan" everybody had in mind was to check into a high-rise hotel and party out the storm. This was their "vertical evacuation".
The last time I was in NOLA was 16 years ago at the Sugar Bowl. The game was fun, but the city was a dirty, rotten place that allows little children to go beg tourists for money on a good day. What do they expect those children to do on a bad day?
Thank you for that powerful personal story.
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