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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Read about the 1927 New Orleans floods. It destroyed and propelled the political careers of many, including one Huey P. Long.
What Day/Time Did Supplies Get to the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center ?
Answer: Noon Friday 2 September 2005.
"Five days after Hurricane Katrina devastated this city, help was finally making its way Friday to Convention Center Boulevard."
National Guard Lt. Col. Jerry Crooks said troops had served more than 70,000 meals outside the convention center and had 130,000 more on hand.
"The National Guard arrived at the center en masse shortly after noon Friday."
Within minutes of the soldiers' arrival at the convention center, they set up six food and water lines. The crowd was for the most part orderly and grateful.
Reference:
http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/090305/new_rescuers001.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5253390,00.html
My hubby is a big LIB (long story) & he said what Hastert said before Hastert said it
Why do they not take them and house and feed them for the next 6 months in their own homes?
Funny, two threads ago there were pictures of supplies that had been dropped by chopper late Thursday.
Governor George Pataki (NY) presented a $2.5 million donation to the Red Cross during a benefit concert Friday night for Hurricane Katrina relief, while tons of supplies and city workers head to the Gulf Coast from the New York area this weekend.
The governor is sending a group of response and recovery specialists and a dozen disaster management specialists to the devastated area.
A huge group of city workers are on their way to help evacuees along the Gulf Coast. The Port Authority is also sending teams to New Orleans. The New York Air National Guard, the FDNY, NYPD and Office of Emergency Management are also helping out.
Seventy buses left from police headquarters Saturday, bound for New Orleans and 30 more will leave Sunday from Staten Island. The convoy includes more than 200 MTA personnel and 170 NYPD officers along with dozens of vehicles including highway cars, supply and communication vehicles. Police officers will provide security and help board the evacuees, once they reach New Orleans. The buses will then move residents to Texas and Arkansas.
The convoy of bus operators and police officers, all volunteered to go.
“All these people in the United States decided to come and help us on 9/11, so now it's our turn to them," said NYPD officer Drew Palmer.
"To go down there and lend a hand, try to bring some people up to safety, get them to some where they can get some medical help and, places to sleep, shower, maybe eat," said MTA bus operator Peter Cabrera.
The task force is also bringing food, water and other supplies. They will be deployed for about a week.
... gonna need a bigger cuss jar...
"and that they'd only found guns at the places where shooting had been coming from."
They ran off, cowards. Melted back into the crowds to catch a bus to new potential victims?
I was hoping they would die.
The cuss jar accepts paypal also! ;-)
Ironically, I mistook one of the fires reported yesterday for the awesome Riverwalk -and mhking corrected me. Now it may be true.
They would never do that
"Re Hastert: It's not what you say, it's when you say it."
Talk about bad timing, you would think a man in his position wouldnt be as foolish.
AMEN!!!!
absolutely. they would have helicopter footage of all those flooded school buses that were not moved out before the hurricane hit, over and over again, like the Rodney King video.
I just found this story about the hijacking of gas tankers on the way to Mississippi and the possibility of having to have armed escorts. I have heard rumors about this since yesterday, but it's not really being reported widely. I guess this is why the gas lines are still so long and there is still so much anger and violence in the gas lines.
http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=3802127&nav=2CSfe6Nr
They're not worried.
In a generation or two, Texas will vote for them.
I think he feels responsibility for all the companies whose websites he provides, who might lose their shirts if he goes?
FNC announced a little while ago that there will be a Katrina special on at 5 eastern - Hannity & What's his name, Greta, and 1 or 2 others.
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