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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
I guess they abandoned their posts while the NG was playing cards....do I need a sarcasm tag?
The red thing, right? But it is still in the canal in that pic. It was there for repairs.
At one point today it was communicated that there were tankers full of fuel trying to get to NO to fuel some trucks but they would not go into NO without a police escort.
I'm not sure I should reply to your post...but I will take a deep breath and try...
They don't need clothes from Talbot's. They need ordinary, clean, clothes of the type they are used to wearing. It might be a novelty, but I don't think they would appreciate them . . .now. Maybe sometime they would.
Been there done that. Gave some really nice stuff to a family whose house was destroyed by fire. They might have bartered with some of the nice stuff I donated, but I doubt they ever wore them. That was back when my kids were able to have really nice things from good stores.
Now I don't care about those fancy clothes any more. Am so glad I'm past that. I have sufficient and could show up at almost any function properly dressed. My sister has given me two nice coats and some nice-quality summer outfits. I'm saving them for something special mostly and wearing my cheaper stuff because that is me now.
Nothing at all against you.
Some didn't, and some of them are floating around dead, too.
WHEW!!! Behold, the Power of nagging. ;o) All these reports of stations being flat-out of gas all along the Alabama-Mississippi-Louisiana route made me too nervous for them to be on the road right now.
Indeed I have. At least our local channels are carrying OUR state's news. It is devastating. Biloxi took the eye.
I don't blame them. Looters and shooters are still out there.
That was some great news today about the port now open to deep draft vessels.
Thanks for sharing that story...you made me feel a lot better....I just know this is not playing well in the US despite the MSM constant barrage..
Has this been posted? Slideshow of amazing images.
http://www.poynterextra.org/Katrina/gallery/index.htm
LOL
Been thru this numerous times but here we go again:
76834 is the zip code for Coleman, Texas
Am a upstanding tax paying, registered voter, property owning citizen of Coleman.
So why not??
If someone has a problem with that then they have WAY too much time on their hands.
ON THE STREETS
Algiers was once an affluent New Orleans suburb. Today it is a war-zone. In one incident, a gun battle broke out between a group of residents keeping watch on the streets and three armed men turning into the road. They estimate that 25 shots were fired, says Daryl Holmes. She used to live in Algiers and has many friends and family trapped in the area. Holmes is now acting as a point of contact between residents and the outside world and trying to highlight their plight. Of the three guys, two were hit one in the back and the other in the shoulder. All three got away.
Whats happening in Algiers is a microcosm of the rest of New Orleans. It is total social breakdown. It is very, very, very scary for everyone. To me, it is less a racial issue than a conflict between the haves and the have-nots. On top of that there is screaming panic a sense of who cares what happens, we are all gonna die. It is out of control.
There are small groups of armed residents walking the streets in Algiers. I understand completely why they would want to do that, but its amplifying the anxiety. There are armed looters walking openly on the streets, and they are facing them alone.
Somebody needs to get some help to these folks. Many of them desperately want to get out, but they cant see a path to safety through the incredible violence surrounding them. Are there no authorities left? Is everybody gone? For Algiers, the storm is coming again.
Fergie Lewis, who lived in Algiers and is now trying to get help for her friends still trapped in the area, says some 100 people are now having to face down and kill armed men on their own doorsteps. The residents still left are now under siege from the mob, she says, adding that they had to kill four people in an attempt to protect property and life. She asked the international press to send this message out: Please get the state police in!
Race war, class war and pure unadulterated anarchy have now gripped New Orleans despite the eventual arrival of the military. When the National Guard did finally roll into New Orleans on Friday, Lieutenant-General Steven Blum, commander of the National Guard, declared: The cavalry is and will continue to arrive. He said 7000 Guardsmen would be in the city by last night.
At least a thousand corpses, some being eaten by rats, are floating through the citys drowned streets. Wealthy whites are shooting indiscriminately at blacks who they believe to be murder gangs and looters; women, children and grown men are being raped and killed in alley-ways; cops are running away from the frontlines and telling survivors that its now a case of every man for himself. People are killing themselves in despair. Rescuers, heli copters and hospitals have been sniped at.
One of the first places looted was a Wal-Mart store which had its arms and ammunition stocks emptied. In downtown New Orleans, screams could be heard from tenement blocks as men wielding stainless steel baseball bats knee-deep in a toxic stew of floodwater, effluent and chemicals methodically beat their way inside the buildings. Some flooded streets bubbled with gas escaping from beneath the water.
TB, West Nile fever, typhoid, cholera and dysentery are on the way. Mosquitoes are swarming around survivors who walk through corpse and rubble-strewn roads. The victims continually ask where the water is, where the police are, why the army isnt there, why the government is not doing anything. One said: Its hard for me to believe that this is America. Another chanted Where is Bush! Where is Bush!
Bodies of dead elderly folk sit propped up in their wheelchairs on the sidewalk with tartan travel rugs thrown over them; nearby shopping malls burn to the ground and fires spread across the city. Pointing to a dead elderly woman in the street, Daniel Edward says: I dont treat my dog like that. You can do everything for other countries, but you cant do nothing for your own people. You can go overseas with the military, but you cant get them down here.
The destruction, like the violence, seems to be splitting along racial grounds. The citys old Georgian piles, owned by affluent whites, have survived, but the crime-ridden slums and housing projects, which were home to blacks, have been swept away. The city has a two-to-one black-white population split and most crime is being seen as a black-on-white issue although there was also violence and chaos in white areas.
Military analyst Colonel Bill Cowan fears a Saigon situation on the streets, where helicopters landing to save stranded people will be overwhelmed by desperate survivors. This scenario has already been seen at evacuation points where buses arriving to ferry survivors away have been mobbed. One helicopter came under sniper fire at the Superdome.
According to Henry Whitehorn, chief of the Louisiana State Police, many officers have been handing in their badges. They indicated that they had lost everything and didnt feel that it was worth them going back to take fire from looters and losing their lives, he says, while insisting the looters will not take control of the city of New Orleans.
Debbie Durso, a tourist from Michigan, said that when she asked a police officer for help he told her: Go to hell. Its every man for himself.
Some 88 police officers retreated when confronted by an angry crowd at the convention centre, while they were trying to investigate rapes and beatings. Mayor Ray Nagin later issued a desperate SOS and ordered 1500 police officers to suspend their search and rescue missions to restore order in the city as reports of murder and mayhem mounted up. Then the National Guard were issued with orders to shoot to kill. Louisianas governor, Kathleen Blanco, said that among the soldiers were 300 battle-tested guardsmen: They have M-16s and are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.
OK--I know it's rude to trash the police, but they really did not stand in the gap real well. Can you imagine if the 2/3 of the police in New York had abandoned their posts during 9/11?
Of course, there were a bunch of firefighters who went missing--rushing up the WTC while others were coming down.
Zipcode, I was teasing you!
Yes, I know. So much focus is on NO. What I've seen of MS is just heartbreaking. There is another area also not in focus: downriver from NO in St. Tammany and Plaqueminnes. I don't know. I just think the scope of the whole thing is unprecedented. They might also be focusing on NO too much because of concern about the MS river levy. Who knows? (*sigh).
Yeah. That worked great dropping them on the wide open areas of Afghanistan. But here's a Foxnews alert for you. New Orleans is under water. You know what you get when you drop food and water into flood waters. A bunch of contaminated food and water.
Where would they be sent? I have a 10 year old and an 8 year old who have outgrown some clothes (and have too many in their size, too). I also have a 22 month old but we are expecting #4, so I need to hold on to some of her clothes.
Floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina pour through a levee along Inner Harbor Navigaional Canal near downtown New Orleans. (AP/Vincent Laforet/Pool)
Picture - Aug 31, 2005 <- Not hotlinked
The barge is to the right. There will TONS of photos showing this, as it seems to be the primary cause of consternation. An important point to keep in mind is that there were multiple breeches. The media and others will try to talk about "the" breeh, instead of specifying which one.
Well, that's good to hear.
You just let me know, and I've got your back.
Geraldo on with army corp of engineers. the chopper sandbag operations on the levees run 24x7. all except one of the city's pumps are functional. they are fabricating some special portable pumps at a foundary someplace.
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