Katrina Live Thread, Part XIV

Various ^ | 2 September 2005 | Various

[Seattle Conservative]

Just curious - did you reply to her mail saying Bush told Blanco and the Mayor of NO yesterday that he's taking over, and, since he is in charge, the military in on the scene and folks are getting out, getting medical help and getting fed, etc? In otherwords, the ADULTS are in charge now.

[oceanview]

what did Mitt Romney say?

[Howlin]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476641/posts

New Orleans Mayor Suggests CIA May Take Him Out Over His Criticism of Federal Efforts (CNN)

[Michael Goldsberry]

"I'm going to regret my inexactitude for the rest of my life."

Just don't forget that you were correct. ;)

[Txsleuth]

Gen. McInerny was just on Fox for a few minutes...I missed some of it..but Bridgett asked him a question that I missed,

but his answer was, "that is a city's job, and you need a strong city government to do that...like Rudy Guiliani did during 9/11".

Don't know exactly what they were discussing..but I am sure it was one of the dozens of things that President Bush is being blamed for...that he shouldn't.

[CajunConservative]

I'm not sure if it's that drastic, regards Texas. But, I'm fairly sure that Louisiana just became a firmly red state.

And guess which senator is up next for reelction ;) Ms. Mary may be out of a job.

[RDTF]

LOL! They would be much better at making sure he never works in public office again. He's not worth it.

[BurbankKarl]

hahahaha....

[Seattle Conservative]

"Notice a trend...all us conservative guys have dated liberal chicks...LOL!"

That's because you're not thinking w your brain

[oceanview]

if this were Japan, both Nagin and Blanco would commit ritual suicide.

[John Jamieson]

Yes. The lake got really full with storm surge, broke the levees and flooded the city. Lake's been draining ever since. Water now higher in city than lake. Fixing the levees will keep water in the city. Not good.

[LadyBuzz]

Do I remember that Mary was voted out and just got back in or was that Carol Mosely Braun?

[Types_with_Fist]

Ms. Mary may be out of a job.

That's exactly what I've been thinking. NO was like a... voter factory for the crooks that have always run the state. That's what all those flooded buses were for, doncha know...:-)

[bwteim]

For complete text see
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html
Updates as they come in on Katrina
04:29 PM CDT on Saturday, September 3, 2005
Tom Planchet
4:27 P.M. - WWL-TV: Clean up crews can be seen collecting the debris and garbage around the evacuation point at the I-10/Causeway Interchange. There are no more evacuees in the area.
4:23 P.M. - (AP): Only pockets of stragglers remain in the streets around the New Orleans Convention Center, and paramedics have begun carting away the dead.
CUT CUT
4:20 P.M. - WWL-TV's Mike Hoss: Army Corps of Engineers hope to have the breech at the 17th Street Canal repaired by Sunday.
4:18 P.M. - Hoss: Several West End restaurants have been reduced to rubble.
CUT CUT
4:03 P.M. - RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA (AP): The Saudi-based Organization of the Islamic Conference expressed its condolences Saturday to the United States over the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in the U.S. Gulf Coast region and Louisiana.
CUT CUT
4:01 P.M. - (AP): President Bush plans to return to the Gulf Coast on Monday.
In this morning's radio address, the president recounted yesterday's visit and said he saw "a spirit that cannot be broken."
CUT CUT
The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard Myers will fly to Louisiana and Mississippi tomorrow.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is planning a trip to Mobile, Alabama.
4:00 P.M. - (AP): Fire broke out in the Saks Fifth Avenue store in the Canal Place shopping center in downtown New Orleans on Saturday, and firefighters brought in tanker trucks of water to keep it under control.
No other water pressure was available because of Hurricane Katrina, but Fire District Chief Donald Schulz said the blaze was contained after several hours. Cause was not known.
****
"All I can tell you is people ran out of the building as we went in," Schulz said.
Asked if he thought they deliberately set it afire, Schulz said, "They weren't sales clerks."
***
Firefighters had to cut through a window to get in.
Several fires have been an added aggravation during the ordeal that followed Monday's devastating hurricane which has forced an evacuation of the entire city.
One fire Friday destroyed a four-story residence building diagonally across the wide Canal Street from the shopping center.
"This district seems to have had more fires than any since the hurricane," Schulz said.
Another, bigger fire also broke out Friday with a thunderous explosion in a warehouse downriver from the French Quarter and continued to burn late Saturday.
A towering column of billowing smoke hung over the fire, which had spread along the row of warehouses.
Terry Ebbert, city em emergency operations director, downplayed the danger.
"It's not serious. It's not a toxic chemical. It's pretty well confined," he said.
3:55 P.M. - WWL-TV: Peyton and Eli Manning made a surprise visit to a shelter and helped the American Red Cross to deliver food, water, Gatorade, baby formula and diapers to the evacuees. More than 30,000 pounds of non-perishable items in total.
"This is home," Peyton said. "I don't know how many we're gonna help, but we gotta do something."
One woman at the shelter commended the Manning brothers for coming to town.
"That really is beautiful," she said. "They've lifted our spirits."
3:48 P.M. - Lt. Jack West, Covington Police Dept.: No incidents of any injuries to police deputies, despite previous reports saying officers had been shot by looters. Only one looter had been arrested.
3:40 P.M. - Sen. David Vitter (R): Spent the whole day in the area, in Gretna and the Oakwood Mall. Vitter said the Shopping Center was damaged by looters. He voiced concern that problems aren't just being shifted from New Orleans to the airport.
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3:36 P.M. - Rep. Charlie Melancon (D): We must ask tough questions about levee and coastal restoration projects.
3:31 P.M. - (AP): Storm casualties in Mississippi from Hurricane Katrina as released by official sources. A total 144 confirmed deaths Saturday:
--Harrison County: 65 dead, reported by Harrison County Coroner.
--Hancock County: 30 dead, reported by Harrison County Coroner.
--Pearl River: 17 dead, reported by Harrison County Coroner.
--Jackson County: 10 dead, reported by Harrison County Coroner.
--Forrest County: Seven dead, reported by Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny Dupree.
--Jones County: Six dead, reported by Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
--Adams County: Two dead, reported by the MEMA.
--Stone County: One dead, reported by Harrison County Coroner.
--Hinds County: One dead, reported by MEMA.
--Lauderdale County: One dead, reported by MEMA.
--Leake County: One dead, reported by MEMA.
--Simpson County: One dead, reported by MEMA.
--Warren County: One dead, reported by MEMA.
--Interstate 59: One dead, National Guard soldier killed in traffic accident, reported by the Mississippi National Guard.
3:26 P.M. - Tab Troxler, Dir. of Emergency Operations, St. Charles Parish: Asking residents to return to the parish to begin the rebuilding process and in order to stabilize the local economy.
St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Dept.: It is safe for residents to come back, you do not have to be afraid.
3:22 P.M. - (AP) Hurricane survivors must decide: rebuild or retreat? Click here.
3:12 P.M. - (CNN): Firefighters told CNN the blaze started under "suspicious circumstances." Smoke wafted from the upper floor of the Saks Fifth Avenue store...Earlier, a CNN crew saw looters leave the mall carrying filled Gucci and Brooks Brothers bags. Click here.

[RDTF]

LOL! But the conservative chicks are much better looking. And we wear makeup, do our hair and don't wear burkenstocks :)

[Dog]

Fox: Gov Blanco has HIRED Former FEMA Director James Lee Witt as her new FEMA guy....and of course he hits the ground running....attacking putting FEMA under the umbrella of Homeland Security.

[plushaye]

I wonder if this remarkable story from AP is about the photo you posted with the little black girl holding the hand of the old white lady in the wheelchair:

"Nita LaGarde, 105, was pushed down the street in her wheelchair as her nurse's 5-year-old granddaughter, Tanisha Blevin, held her hand. The pair spent two days in an attic, two days on an interstate island and the last four days on the pavement in front of the convention center.

"They're good to see," LaGarde said, with remarkable gusto as she waited to be loaded onto a gray Marine helicopter. She said they were sent by God. "Whatever He has for you, He'll take care of you. He'll sure take care of you."

LaGarde's nurse, Ernestine Dangerfield, 60, said LaGarde had not had a clean adult diaper in more than two days. "I just want to get somewhere where I can get her nice and clean," she said. "

[queenkathy]

Ya Know I've been thinking here. {That's a big mistake} Seems to me with all the race chat on MSM, if it were true, whites would be telling the young blacks to start helping pass things out and clean the floors etc. I see none of that. They are all sitting and I see lots of whites and blacks in the NG and the Red Cross. What hogwash Al and JJ are.

[Txsleuth]

Do you know who has REALLY made me mad during this...

Ex-Sen. John Breaux....everytime he has been on Fox..and even on Hannity's radio show..all he does is complain..

Today, he was asked how he felt the rescue was going, and he went all the way back to the levees not being funded and fixed...and blah, blah, blah..

Well, he was a Senator from Louisiana...why didn't he get it done then? No one asks him that...but he hasn't had one interview that he hasn't complained...blech

[LadyBuzz]

and shave our legs & armpits on a regular basis