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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
I don't know if anyone has ever watched "Cops" in NO at Mardi Gras time, but it gives you a pretty good idea what was going to go down without the presence of the "Law".
Ants have been shown and reported.
Haven't heard of anyone being unlucky enough to be devoured by them, but then again, we probably wouldn't as they'd be dead.
This past summer, my job had a disaster drill. It was supposed to be a tornado hitting the building, but someone screwed up and sent everyone outside, in the heat for about an hour. Then, they realized their mistake, and pulled everyone back into the building and stuffed them all into one small room. After seeing this unfold, and a guy at the Astrodome holding up a sign trying to location their company's employees, I realized we have to do better and take our drills much more seriously.
I've noticed this as well. But it could be that the magnitude of the whole thing has overridden it. I'm not even sure NO had a big snake problem. Across the river and around the city in the marshes and bayous are probably where most of the snakes are. Those areas haven't really been in play with the NO flood. You'll probably hear plenty of snake stories from below NO in Plaqueminnes... if we ever hear from any communities affected down there.
Yes there is not only an excuse but a rule. I believe it is also the common law, if not by statute. Invited guests and legal vistors in a house or a place receive priority. It is both politeness and law.
Ants have been shown and reported.
Haven't heard of anyone being unlucky enough to be devoured by them, but then again, we probably wouldn't as they'd be dead.
Per TXCN - El Paso is now taking in refugees in their convention center. Lubbock, Longview and one other town or two have just opened shelters.
Brazos County is offering their evacuees jobs.
A very rational and humble observation. Well stated Warren_Piece.
Yep, most are in "overkill", like Americans can see this huge tragedy on their own.
NittanyLion posted:
To: ican'tbelieveit
I know that people will insist that it took the President to actually show up for the assistance to show up.
I can't imagine that his visit hurt. But like I said, perhaps this mobilization is a coincidence. It just seems that a lot of action is happening almost immediately after he got on the ground."
Temporary shelters for more than a million people don't just materialize out of thin air. It takes coordination. Out of all of the states surrounding those hit by the hurricane, Texas is taking the lion's share of the evacuees, and that's no coincidence. It is the state our President is most familiar with. He obviously got the infrastructure into place before he felt comfortable enough to leave his office and get a firsthand view of the damage.
In short, he did his job.
If just a very few others did their jobs as well, the period between the storm and the arrival of mass relief forces would have been a completely different scene than the chaos we have seen for most of this week.
The state's job was to hold the line till the cavalry arrived, and those at the top of city and state government abdicated their responsibility, and abandoned their constituents. That so many survived is a testimonial to heroic efforts by a few police and Guard.
I posted the link to the thread that it was brought up on in my post. (you can search on dennis prager to find it)
As far as I know it is NOT confirmed.
Considering the circumstances our country is in, and the need to house all these evacs, I would not really expect it to make the news if true.
Do I believe it? Its certainly possible.
Rumors of murder and general mayhem among evacuees in Monroe have been swirling amid the confusion of Hurricane Katrina.
The rumors run the gamut from the murder of volunteers in their homes to infant kidnappings. Local law enforcement said that's exactly what they are rumors.
http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050903/NEWS01/509030313/1002
"Brazos County is offering their evacuees jobs"
WHAAAAAAAT????? But they are VICTIMS!!!!!!!
/sarc
Thanks, I was just thinking that I was in Dubrovnik, Croatia when bombs were falling, and as a "tourist", the people there were very protective of me and my daughter. A man who had been hit by shrapnel in the stomach earlier while working at a soup kitchen for refugees took us under his wing, and we stayed with him and his wife.
Probably died after floating around in that soup in the bowl. :-P
MSNBC and CNN are viciously making everything into an anti-Bush, anti-Bush-administration rant. It is absolute propaganda dreck, it is sickening. It is being lapped up by the viewers.
Abilene is taking in 500.
Mainly at the Taylor County Convention center.
I understand that Brownwood will be taking in some as well.
No numbers as yet.
Yesterday my brother in TN got a call from La. evacuees looking for the number to the Salvation Army and Red Cross. He told them they had a residence, but gave the phone numbers to them and wished them well. He could hear the guy in the background yelling "That S.O.B. did not list our parish as being in need of disaster help! Our home is gone!" (Maybe FEMA told them they were not on the list.)
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