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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
"Rescue workers from Vancouver, Canada, try to convince a resident of Chalmette, a community 7 miles (11 km) east of New Orleans, to evacuate his home, September 3, 2005. Rescuers from Canada are scouring the community for the first time Saturday for survivors of Hurricane Katrina which devastated the New Orleans area August 29."
Excellent. Some Canadians doing great work. I've seen a photo of a Canadian picking up stray pets too. Might be the same bunch.
"I wonder if rescuers are using/can use police and army helicopters using infra-red radar, the type that are used to pick out the heat from human beings? Our police helicopters use them to pick up the image of thieves hiding in bushes etc. I wonder if this can show if people are alive in attics?? Does anybody know if this would work through metal roofs?"
Heard a bit on CNN about the CIA (?) spy Sats. And yes they can pick up heat signatures.
But the person (a lady) didn't want to give too much info on it.
safe travels for amom. Tell us more.
Except for that, she wrote a moving tribute to NO. Her books are great, if you like vampire stories. I do, and have purchased several different ones. I wish I had her email, because I would like to direct her to these threads. She is very misinformed about NO's official incompetence. Her question has an answer, but will she listen?
Excellent. Hope whatever technology they use (spy or not-spy) will get them quicker to those trapped in attics.
LINK: June 3, 2004: IEM Team to Develop Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans & Southeast Louisiana
Excerpt:
IEM, Inc., the Baton Rouge-based emergency management and homeland security consultant, will lead the development of a catastrophic hurricane disaster plan for Southeast Louisiana and the City of New Orleans under a more than half a million dollar contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In making the announcement today on behalf of teaming partners Dewberry, URS Corporation and James Lee Witt Associates, IEM Director of Homeland Security Wayne Thomas explained that the development of a base catastrophic hurricane disaster plan has urgency due to the recent start of the annual hurricane season which runs through November. National weather experts are predicting an above normal Atlantic hurricane season with six to eight hurricanes, of which three could be categorized as major.
As was said on the other thread, that 500,000 hurricane evac plan didn't work out too well. So their response is to RE-HIRE him??
How can they not refund the tickets? I'm sure considerations will be made for next season, but will the Saints use this opportunity to set up in Los Angeles permanently?
Mexico keeps 10 days worth of provisions in it's emergency hurricane shelters. MEXICO! We should adopt those standards as the folks in NO were told to bring their own supplies.
Could people still be actually on roofs? With the amount of choppers in the air (media, medical, searchandrescue), how could this be? And with the glut of choppers, why not post a five hundred cash reward for every person brought in?
Does it show again? What happened?
"Excellent. Hope whatever technology they use (spy or not-spy) will get them quicker to those trapped in attics."
"will get them quicker to those trapped in attics"
Shaking my ole head here and laughing a sick laugh of dispair.
They can get precription meds to some NG in less than 12hrs (he/she) forgot to bring enough BP meds before being deployed), but they can't with all the high tech stuff that BB has now, to be able to rescue and feed and medicate and transport out of there in over 120hrs? (5 days)
I'm just at a lost for words.
Heard (not confirmed, but maybe never will be, due to the news black-out) that several babies Died in the S-Dome while waiting to be evac'd out due to HEat Stroke, no fluids, nothing to keep them cool.
Never mind (re: Landrieu). Found it in Breaking News, LOL.
Don't know bout NO but we live in NW AR. we have a food bank here W/food stacked to the ceiling do all these cities have these do you have on just wondering hopefully our food bank is sending the bulk to shelters or NO directly
also this just our city all others have one too!
Supposedly, they were all closed before the storm hit because the winds exceeded safety limits.
That said, and given the now-obvious inability of LA authorities, there probably were people on them when they were destroyed.
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