Katrina Live Thread, Part XIV

Various ^ | 2 September 2005 | Various

[OKIEDOC]

Haven't you figured out that rich libs don't give great amounts of money to causes unless they are politically correct.

Larry King is nothing more than an old commie with suspenders.

[RDTF]

It seems to stop often and I have to relaunch it

[NautiNurse]

Whoa (Harrigan) - is that photo from the LA riots? It's not clear in your post.

[Warren_Piece]

WOW! they just did a story of a family that closed on their house in NOLA.

Last Friday.

It's under 20 feet of water, and they're here in a shelter in Nashville.

Life turns on a dime, doesn't it?

Wow.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

You are absolutely correct. The nomination of a SC CJ must have the advice and consent of the senate. I see no provision regarding multiple vacancies, as this is a first. Humble apologies.

[nunya bidness]

Do you have a link to the tac feed and the air ops feed?

[max_rpf]

Local TV interviewing refugees at Airport. Trying to ask if they are mad at the army for not coming sooner. People are saying hell no,,they were grateful to see them. Locals were scaring them to death. Hahahhaha,,take that Jesse and Al and put it in your pipe and smoke it!

My thesis as to why the LSM has had such a hard time finding evacuees that want to trash Bush.

All these evacuees turned on their televisions/radios Sunday morning to learn that there was a mandatory evac order in effect... They had been following the storm for days, but had not been in a panic over it since the city was still 'safe'. Now they see the mayor talking about the big-one and ending his message with "God bless us" and realized that this storm was going to be the real deal.

As they watched the neighborhood empty out, they tuned in and learned that they were supposed to go to the super-dome, but when they went outside to catch the public bus it never came. Then the LSM began running pictures and figures of 20-30k expected to show up, so rather than chance a long walk (if they were even able), went upstairs and barricaded themselves in the hallways and bathrooms of their homes.

The next 10 or so hours they watched the LSM telling them they were all going to die, and when the storm hit they believed it. Many of them thought that this was the end as they heard pieces of their buildings shear off, etc.. How many, for the first time, realized how precious life is -- their anger would have been at those that abandoned them to their fate.

The next morning all is well, Shep Smith is hitting the bars and cheering how everyone had overreacted. Lassie les bon temps roulette!!! Then the flooding started. These people know who is to blame, the flood and the aftermath are a direct result of the initial betrayal which, by the shear grace of god, survived only to face their next challenge.

[bwteim]

I need to step back for a while... catch you in the AM

Here is the top of the last WWL TV I just posted...

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html

Updates as they come in on Katrina
10:09 PM CDT on Saturday, September 3, 2005 Tom Planchet
9:26 P.M. - (AP) The overseers for Louisiana's charity hospital system was working Saturday to learn the whereabouts of many patients evacuated late Friday. It did know some.


8:47 P.M. - (AP) The last bedraggled refugees were rescued from the Superdome on Saturday and the convention center was all but cleared, leaving the heart of New Orleans to the dead and dying, the elderly and frail stranded too many days without food, water or medical care.

No one knows how many were killed by Hurricane Katrina's floods and how many more succumbed waiting to be rescued. But the bodies are everywhere: hidden in attics, floating among the ruined city, crumpled on wheelchairs, abandoned on highways.

[NautiNurse]

Hopefully, the moving van was delayed delivering the furniture.

[OKIEDOC]

Time for Bush to stick in the lefts rear and break it off with a good conservative.

Damn there's going to be some fight and not in the near to distant future.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I read it on Drudge. Was going pretty well till I got to the blame game part... and yes, she and Richard Simmons, and John Goodman and Nicolas Cage, etc., were all powerful enough names they could have made a difference in the cesspool they allowed to grow and abscess... and I think she is wrong, I think a whole lot will never move back to LA once they get a sense of another world.

Personally, I think they should take one of the closed military bases and turn it into a new, small, city for all the displaced citizens... it would certainly be cleaner and nicer than what many of them have been living in.

[BurbankKarl]

Some of the images that Maxine Waters missed during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, which her started in her congressional district

[texasbluebell]

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters: Rescue delay shows "class division"

I once saw her name spelled MaRxine here on FR, which fits her a little better.

[Arizona Carolyn]

What for????

[NautiNurse]

Take care - and thank you for all of your wonderful updates.

[tcrlaf]

I see a response that was slowed by Wargamed, politicly correct beauracracy, and hobbled by lawsuit avoidance until BUSH put a size ten in somebody's rear.

If you remember, a few months ago there was some LIB screaming about a disaster excersise that included "Minority Civil Unrest" as being racist?

And the Governor of Louisiana STILL has not declared a state of Emergency!! A Health emergency, yes, but not a LEGAL state of emergency...

[Arizona Carolyn]

Tell them to call Bill O'Reilly he can send in Col. Hunt and company (not joking)... if he really has this power then use it.

[NautiNurse]

KALB now reporting that Jesse Jackson is expected to visit Alexandria, LA.

What is a FReeper in good standing going to do about this situation?

[RDTF]

very good idea - my guess is some big engineering/Contracting firm is already lobbying that idea.

[Warren_Piece]

Another Wow! 500 people in B'ham donated their tickets to the Alabama opening football game to the Red Cross. 500 evacuees staying at shelters in B'ham got to forget their troubles for a while and watch a game.

Roll Tide, indeed.