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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
I heard that the banks throughout the area and Mississippi and Alabama you got a call the bank message if you try to use ATM.
I wasn't going there. Scary thought
I've just been watching a press conference organized by Mayor Ned Randolph of Alexandria, LA on the local public service cable channel, in which he reminds everyone that Alexandria will be home to the refugees for an indefinite, unspecified length of time.
Since there are so many concerns about making a general donation to the American Red Cross (especially after Kanye West's remarks during the live NBC fundraising concert earlier this evening), I'm posting this link from the United Way of Central Louisiana which gives local addresses. You can contact these charitable organizations directly and cut out the middleman, and be assured that your donation will go straight to people being sheltered in Alexandria and Pineville:
http://www.guidetohumanservices.org/gths_hurricane_katrina.php
One of the organizations especially requesting help during Mayor Randolph's press conference was LifeShare Blood Centers. Here is a link with info about their Alexandria locations:
http://www.lifeshare.org/donation/centers.html#alexandria
Please remember that long after the sensational headlines die down, Rapides Parish will still be hosting thousands of refugee families. Your donations will be a lot more beneficial if you send them directly to where they're needed most.
Thanks for your continued interest!
FYI:(Just a drop in the bucket)
Housing
FEMA is leading housing plan
Looking to secure cruise ships for housing support; have identified 3 ships with 6,500. Need approval to move them close to New Orleans.
1600 dorm rooms identified
400 hotel room identified
45,000 mobile homes and trailers identified – need to find site to place them
Good to know. Thanks
CNN/Nagin- General Bush sent is "One John Wayne Type Dude"...
Even the ones who didn't work (and unlike some here I will continue to believe, until proven wrong, that most NO citizens had jobs and were not welfare leaches) would have had money for bus fare.
And if not, the Mayor could have made the buses free for special one-way trips out of town to the west and northwest. Somebody here has mentioned that the city did offer something like this but there were few takers.
yeah...i don't rememeber the 00 election threads running numbered like this do you?
LTG Honore isn't black. He was my brigade commander when I was in the 3rd Infantry Division. He's a Ragin' Cajun, but certainly not black.
I had the football game on between AZ and Utah -- gave up on cable news after I saw Jackson and Sharpton. Figured it was better to have football on the TV.
My list of people I can stand to watch is so small I have to think who I can put up with. MSNBC is OUT and CNN is almost OUT. I watch breaking news on CNN until Wolfie comes on and then turn it to something else. The guy that comes on after Fox and Friends doesn't get on my nerves -- cannot remember his name right now. I like Fox's reporters who were embedded. Like I said, my list is getting smaller and smaller. :)
Me too...
LOL! Breaking News...Alert...Alert - ATTENTION! A vet in a small town has taken in some refugee pets...END ALERT
The President issued an emergency declaration on Saturday at the request of the Governor. That the the feds certain power over coordinating activities. But who was in charge of the Louisiana National Guard? The President is being blamed because it took three days to get water there.
A New Orleans police officer tells the crowd that MRE's will be passed out in front of the New Orleans Convention Center, Friday, Sept. 2, 2005, in downtown New Orleans.
IS THIS THE SAME OFFICER THAT WAS ON GERALDO RIVERA'S BROADCAST LATER IN THE DAY SAYING NO FOOD WAS DELIVERED!!!!
Actually, they *are* being put in Reliant until more of the Convention Center is ready.
This is a plan that Texas has been thinking about and revising for a very, very long time. Don't worry too much about it - we're looking at it as both a neighborly duty and as a dry run should something *really* bad ever happen here.
That's why we've got a big problem on our hands.
And you would be right.
thats a pretty long list..we will relly make progress when 2 more are added, a new mayor of NO, and governor of LA..
This looks pretty nice to me. Sure looks like it's the luck of the draw for these people.
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