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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
By the way, thanks for the information you posted on choice of gun for a small woman with little strength! I'll be buying a Glock 30 with .45ACP thanks to your advice to another poster. Living in a hurricane prone area and seeing the extent of civil unrest with this disaster has caused me to rethink my survival kit. Also added to the list is a (hands free) backpack and an air mattress.
Heheheh. Which would be relevant -IF- the governor had any role in managing the recovery and relief effort. She had, and blew her "chance" to do her job.
Blanco and Witt will be but a buzzing gnat to those who are managing the recovery and relief. Witt and Blaco can take over after the city has been fully evacuated.
Most American's, in flyover country, are not racists.
Certainly, if you knew anything about our President, you would know he is definitely not a racist.
I'm beginning to think the real racists are the LEADERS of the black caucus, NAACP, and our press.
I resent Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, Shiela Jackson Lee, Carol Mosley Braun, etc. for trying to make this disaster a racist issue. The Civil war and segregation are past; let sleeping dogs lie.
Lets move forward as Americans and help these people. They need everything to pull their lives back together.
A word of advice, the American People are the most generous in the world, but if people keep telling us we hate blacks and like to see them suffer they are going to feel a backlash from American generosity... and none of you will have anyone to blame but yourselves....
of course, you will try!
True, and the size, and scope, of this disaster are, if not, unprecedented then very close. It takes time to get the help in sad but true. Good to see it is starting to come in faster.
Are you watching Fox? did you see that couple sitting on the bridge with an umbrella over them? They not only looked healthy, they look well fed and bathed. Just wondering how that could be. Maybe they had a generator?
So why are they sending them by train to Lafayette, only to be bussed later to Dallas??? Couldn't Lafayette find places for these people to stay? Or are they full up? If they're not full, seems like someone is trying to dump people on other states... Just an observation.
I have been repeatedly thankful that we have not had to face the situation of Al Gore handling this. Ugh!!
In all seriousness, I will be interested to see what California does. My fear is that the NIMBY mentality will dominate the major metropolitan ares.
ping to CANG 146th Wing, Channel Islands CA
Ray Nagin for president???
Someone on CNN just suggested this.
I wonder if the Superdome folks would vote for him.
You might want to tell the US Air Force that.
The HDRs were dropped from the air-planes via one-time-use,heavy-duty card-board containers called Tri-Wall Air De-livery Systems (TRIADs).
Each TRIAD contains 470490 HDRs. As the planesapproach the drop zone, they are depressurized and the cargo doors are opened,then the pilots pull the aircraft nose upabout seven degrees,causing the contain-ers to roll out of the aircraft.
The containers are tied to a static line, or harness, that tightens and flips them over once they are clear of the aircraft,releasing the prepack-aged rations, which float down.
The empty cardboard container is then released, and the harness retracted. Thismethod eliminates the need to drop pallets of food via parachute, permits wide distribution of the rations, and prevents palletized loads from falling into enemy hands.
That's why we couldn't simply commandeer cruise ships to move out/house refugees - virtually all are flagged in other countries (Panama, Liberia, Bahamas, etc.), and seizing a ship of another nation is an act of war.
Congressional Black Caucus on WWL live!
Exactly. And for those that don't know, the Red River really IS red. It's not polluted, it just has a lot of natural iron oxide in it.
I couldn't believe it either, the first time I saw it.
Um, HDRs don't float so that's a NOGO for NOLA. Maybe Alabama and Mississippi.
If they would, they must be, or have the same mentality, of the people that put him there in the first place, and not learned a thing in the last few days.
Get them to a place with running water....
Staging area - Dallas does not have a significant passenger rail terminal. Certainly not one that can handle an entire trainload of evacuees.
They're also screening them in Lafayette, or they're supposed to be.
It is not dumping. It is like triage. First, get people out of the disaster area. Then determine physical, medical, mental issues. Relocate to *prepared* areas for short-term humanitarian care, get the kiddo's in school. Then develop interim accomodation. Texas volunteered. Each and every county that has any capability.
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