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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
You misunderstood my post. I was referring to all of the local help that is being provided throughout Southern towns to all of the evacuees who have suddenly appeared.
Lots and lots of generosity, sympathy, and efforts. Tons of it.
Would be nice to see on TV, I think. Sorry if you disagree.
Thanks. I know that sounds low but I live outside Washington DC which is probably lower.
Um, how many authorities do you suppose were watching TV instead of rescuing people off their rooftops? Since there was no electricity, no telephones, the satellites were out, just how do you suppose they were supposed to see the frantic histrionics?
I don't know, but knowing his methods wouldn't suprise me.
We've got a few of those too....But the GED and education program that are connected to the Welfare program have REALLY cut down on them.
i believe it is repaired already...
Thinking:)
Wow.
I was right - only five posts away.
This is Blanco and Landrieu's mess - all three Landrieus.
Sen. Mary, Brother the Lt. Gov., and daddy who was a former NO mayor.
If anybody had the knowledge, wouldn't they? All huddled together "demanding as much if not more money than New York got for 9/11"
Can someone get in trouble for saying a Senator needs her ass kicked in the middle of Bourbon Street?
*Somebody early suggested using hill, nadler, kennedy, etc as plug material.*
Ok... now that is funny.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Friday announced that he will send up to 1,000 city employees to help in rescue and recovery efforts along the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Villaraigosa signed an executive directive Friday allowing municipal employees to be paid with city funds while working with the American Red Cross along the Gulf Coast.
Villaraigosa also directed the managers of various city departments to devise a plan this weekend that would relocate hurricane victims to Los Angeles.
"The city of Los Angeles stands ready to do everything it can with civic leaders and community leaders, as Angelenos, to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina," Villaraigosa said during a news conference held in his office Friday afternoon.
In immediate response to the hurricane, the Los Angeles Fire Department sent a 70-member Urban Search and Rescue Task Force for a nine-day operation, Villaraigosa said. Another such task force is on standby to head into the Gulf Coast.
The city has also sent a 14-member Swift Water Rescue Team and 10 support staff to the Gulf Coast. Los Angeles firefighters have rescued 400 people in the hurricane-ravaged region.
The Los Angeles Police Department's Special Operations Bureau also has a 30-member Tactical Support Team on standby in case they are called up to assist with security efforts in the region.
Yelp....And they've been there before too...OTOH until the flooding is taken care of in NOLA, not much an electrician can do.
And therefore a surefire way to keep you on the hook for starting the new threads. ;-)
Even those who escaped before the storm are now homeless...more than we know yet.
New Orleans did dodge a bullet - it was hit by a Category 4 hurricane, not a 5, and the levees failed only after the hurricane had passed. This meant New Orleans filled to the level of Lake Pontchrain in a day and a half AFTER the 100+ mph winds stopped, rather than in an hour and a half with 140+ mph winds still blasting through. That saved scores of thousands of lives - maybe 100,000+ lives.
Ohio isn't taking in folks.
We can't afford the ones we have.
Man, I've got to move.....
Here is the problem. People are going off that if we are not prepared for this, what about terrorism. We are prepared to respond to terrorist attacks. We have been so focused on terrorism since 9-11 that the government forgot the biggest danger to America - mother nature. The money is not being spent to prepare for natural disasters like it is for terrorism. How do I know this? Because my mother is a EMA director in Ohio, her biggest issue with FEMA (it really is Homeland Security in charge, not FEMA) is that the federal funds focus too much on terrorism alone and not on ALL possible disasters. This will have to be a lesson for all gov't on how they handle preparing for all disasters.
Has anyone heard if the CANNABILISM reported today by Randall Robertson, liberal black activist and president of Transafrica, is true?
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