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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Would anyone who was in the throes of dehydration have managed to fight off the crowds sufficiently to actually get any water, even if it was airdropped in bulk?
80 showers installed on floor of George R. Brown Center here in Houston yesterday. Room for 3,000 more.
"Was I wrong in thinking that Witt was a Clinton hire that Bush should've asked to stay on?"
Like Richard Clarke?
Re the replacement and return to position of hazard and navigation bouys -- Thank Heavens for satellite GPS! At least I would think that GPS makes the job easy.
Exactly. And Kanye West thinks Bush doesn't care about black people. Amazing!
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Once you've been Clintonized, there's no going back.....only a few have successfully been deprogramed, but they have suffered for it..
"80 showers installed on floor of George R. Brown Center here in Houston yesterday. Room for 3,000 more."
Don't know why, but I just had a flashback to "Woodstock" -- "Breakfast in bed for three-hundred-thousand!"
I think I've been at this computer too long... ;)
I still switch between stations on commercials.
Late report from MSNBC: Governor of Louisiana has hired James Witt - former FEMA director to be her "liason" with FEMA. Witt of Clinton administration fame now has a new taxpayer funded job. Sick.
So (1) do such things naturally disperse as they fall, and (2) is their terminal velocity and construction such as to limit personal injury if they hit?
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To answer your question:
During the early morning hours on Monday 8/29, several cars parked at Pineville apartment complexes were broken into and their car stereos and speakers stolen. The police officer who originally responded said he believed the burglaries were intentionally done at a time when the police force's resources were directed toward the hurricane effort. However, when confronted with that remark by Newschannel 5, the Chief strongly denied this suggestion, stating that the police department had been more than adequately staffed in anticipation of the hurricane. After this, it was suggested that I need to prove the crime was genuinely committed by a refugee in order for the crime to be newsworthy. Neither KALB nor The Town Talk ever published any accounts of the burglaries. The local media seems to be taking the attitude that there was crime before the hurricane and there will be crime afterward, so who cares about somebody's car stereo?
Meanwhile, it cost me $300 to replace a shattered window, $10 for a copy of the police report, and that doesn't even take into account the fact that the burglars didn't bring the right tools for the job. They defaced the interior of my car so badly that the entire dashboard console has to be replaced along with the stolen stereo equipment. I've been told I'll need a rental car for two days while the auto body shop does the repairs. Pretty stupid considering that the thief will probably only fetch about $10 for the used CD player on the street, don't you think?
Someone in my neighborhood walked up to me yesterday and asked if I had replaced the stolen stereo yet. It gave me the creeps, because now I'm so paranoid that I don't know whether this was just polite conversation or whether I'm being watched so the replacement equipment can be stolen from me, too. I wondered whether it was a coincidence that suddenly I can't close the little door to my car's gas tank. I went to the nearest auto parts store and was told I'd just bought the last locking gas cap in town. Shortly thereafter, I received a call from a friend asking me to please be very aware of my surroundings when I go shopping. He'd overheard some disturbing conversations but because of the statements made on TV about putting people in jail for spreading rumors, he refused to be more specific.
I've lived in Pineville for two years and I always felt very safe and comfortable here. However, the mood in this town is changing this week whether the media and law enforcement want to suppress it or not. I imagine it's like that in Monroe, too.
Please, FEMA does not confiscate. They make the request, and generally the owner of the equipment honors the request. There have been numerous postings about FEMA confiscations in Texas. Simply untrue, and feeds hysteria. Texas, and Texans are helping as much as we can. Re-imbursement will come later.
Don't know. Was looking but can't find anything.
If you could keep us "pinged" that would be great!
Nonetheless it is important to hear from people with experience, because there have been significant possibilities that have been overlooked or just ignored. With political ramifications.
I am tired of the freepers, personally, with no experience or training, who echo the Blanco-deadhead-line that this was just too overwhelming and there is no way it could have been done differently or better.
Both Howlin and I have been wondering about the director of emergency services, who has been absent from the entire scene since day 1.
Yes it is a huge tragedy, but the mayor and governor have been shown to be hugely incompetent and should take the heat for their lack of action and negligence.
Some of us think we could have made better choices when people were dying. A lot of us think the flooding was more than accurately predicted.
See post number 11 on this thread
Chertoff emphasized the the PRIMARY control would be federal. I think President Bush 'got the picture' of more than the flood waters in NO. LOL He was gracious (in public) to the mayor and gov., that's style...grace under pressure, but HE gets things done instead of doing nothing but wringing his hands and swapping feel-good nothings.
Did anyone get the telephone number or website for volunteers to check in to help? Some official in the press conf. mentioned it but it was too fast to write down (great!)?
Do you use a meat cooking thermometer? My son just graduated culinary school and he taught me, the home grill meister, to use one. I had always relied on drippings to signal internal heat level of burgers. The thermometer works much better -- especially when I have to grill the adulterated-burgers my wife favors, or when cooking chicken.
Sounds like you and all of us need to be careful from now on. I really think life has changed for the whole nation in one way or another. Nothing will ever be the same. Just like after 9/11
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