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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
yep, I'm listening & may have to throw a very cute size 5 shoe at the set
She took a one year maternity leave. Her baby boy is due the end of October,
even at the convention center, people have water. the photos are right here on this thread. helicopter deliveries of water are everywhere.
the evacuation issues, the medical issues, the sanitation issues - those are legitimate. but the security situation is hampering alot of that.
Was it the conclusion of the Super Bowl, wasn't it, that FEMA was supposed to test the movement of a lot of people to safety (as a simulation)after the game in the stadium, to clean out a major city in the event of a WMD attack or pandemic? Where are their notes? This is a disgrace. The terrorists have not, most assuredly, planned their next major attack in such a way as to make the city of their choice "implode" socially from above, by an incorrigble domestic criminal element, after they have set off the 'initial charges'. We should not be surprised when it happens.
After all of the people who have said they have no water, you don't believe them? Maybe you ought to drive out there and find out for yourself.
And Askel's apartment looks dry. Wonderful, unlooked-for news.
Doesn't look like to me they helped much either -- why didn't they bring back supplies? Am sure Fox could have found a way to at least get water to those folks but then that would have ruined the story.
Been around journalism for years and you can take it the bank that a true journalist would have found a way to help those folks without keep shouting no one is helping them. Shep is not a journalist but a reader of the news and way over emotional.
Shep has become the story of his own making. If he is shuttled back and forth from Baton Rouge that makes it even worse IMHO!
Linda Vester must be kicking herslef because she took an extra long maternity leave right when the biggest story in her lifetime was breaking!
It may be Chalmette. Where is that in relation to the Central Business District?
Re: people needing help/gas in mississippi
It's really bad there for those small towns. No power, no gas, can't get food cause can't get gas, or money cause the atm machines aren't working. Not to mention water/ice shortage,,,,please pray for these people. My brother stood in line for 3 hours to only be allowed to get $10 in gas,,,,and by the way,,,help hasn't come yet and some of them are dying,,,,and MOST of them are white. But since so many resources are spent trying to rescue NO, Miss has to wait,,,,someone please tell me how that is racist,,,WHITE PEOPLE literally dying in miss and not screaming and blaming, just prayin and everyone of them saying, well, we are blessed, it could be worse,,,,
I can see keeping families with very young children together, but any single or detached able-bodied male should go last. If those same men had any sense of decency they would volunteer on the spot to help rescue and get vunerable women, children and the elderly out of harms way.
Than why did O'Reilly pointedly ask him who he is blaming after his rant?
The young man who commandeered the school bus and drove those people to Houston is a hero. He should get a Presidential Medal of Freedom. I wish there were more like him in NO and fewer of the idiots shooting at the rescuers.
"There were reports of snipers all over though. At police, at firemen, and at rescue vehicles."
One cop was shot point blank by a junkie and the snipers at the hospital were after oxycotin.
This is not a major issue in a city where you have thousands that drowned in their own home or died of heat exhastion intheir attacks after the water came up 9'
A little off topic, but am I alone in despising Sheppard Smith?
They can only fit so many pounds of food and water in a helo. And you don't dare deliver just "some" because you'll have a riot on your hands as 30,000 people fight for it. Plus the helos are busy plucking people off roofs. Makes more sense to make a huge delivery with trucks.
And speaking of trucks, there is limited access to the area. Big trucks with heavy loads can't travel on many secondary roads because of their weight.
I think the initial help should have and could have been local and state help. IMHO.
I heard FEMA ran a study last year of what would happen if New Orleans flooded. Obviously they didn't do very good planning as a result of what they learned.
Yeah. After over four days and apparently not on the overpasses.
Good point--they did have their acts together.
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