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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Ouch! Ooey OUch!
lol!!!!!!!!
They say you could run that flood water in NO thru the Big Berkey water filter and have drinkable good tasting water.
Not really that I heard of, just little sheepish quotes so far.
Not sure about that, but he says he invented the Internet, so I guess all of us FReepers should be thankful as otherwise there wouldn't be a FR.
ROFL!!
Not that was priceless!
Add Charlotte to the list. As of this AM 200 landing at the airport with more to come. Also another 125 as patients in our hosps.
Just announced on Direct Tv that they are designating channel 100 for Hurricane Katrina info for relatives and family trying to locate one another. I think that is wonderful.
ROTHL - too funny (and perhapd true!)
Correction- Now that was priceless. :-)
The Feds had some weird press conference about protecting the nations infrastructure undercover during the looting, etc.
"GOPrincess wrote:
A brief postscript to our discussion about the media in this thread last night and this morning, Fox News
just had a tour of the emergency command center. They had huge screens on one wall with 8 different TV
news channels playing, including cable and local news channels.
The military gentleman giving the Fox reporter the tour praised the media saying that it was thanks to the
news they had the initial situation reports from the "front" and they could see where help was needed, or
words to that effect. "
This is the room I'm in as I type this, the room I've been in what seems like non-stop since last Saturday:
http://users.in-motion.net/~jefft/tech/home.html
As you can see, I'm in a pretty giood position to compare the information available via the network feeds with what has been available on the internet, primarily here.
All week, the media has been running between 24 to 72 hours behind the information we have had available here.
If FEMA really wants to get accurate situational awareness and assessments, they need to exchange those TV's for computers, and simply sign up here at Free Republic.
This suggestion is not made in jest.
We have the ability to harness the efforts of thousands of people digging for information. Liasons from numerous governmental and private agencies could benefit themselves and those they serve from this exact kind of information mining. Instead of a passive presence, which I do not discount even now, they would be able to actively solicit specific information as needed.
I do not know whether it is within Free Republic's interest or capabilities, but the potential benefit of this data flow cannot be overestimated.
I wish they would send some people here. I know our church would go nuts providing them with stuff.
I would love to be involved and be able to feel like there was something more I could do than send a check off in the mail.
I'm hoping that now that most people have been evacuated from downtown NO that they will focus on rescuing people who are still on roofs or in their homes.
That's an interesting item. Thanks for your input.
Yes he is - one of the few.
Yep, I'd be putting the bug on him so fast...
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