Posted on 09/03/2005 1:05:29 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
.......The thugs laughed as they knocked the door down. "They told us they could do what they wanted, because the police weren't going to come anyway," said LeRoy Doucette, 56, husband of the chief custodian.
Some ex-students
Eventually, the gang forced the terrified school staff and their families - including several chronically ill and disabled people - into the school's auditorium. The staff recognized some as former students. "They thought it was a joke," said Evelyn Jenkins, 61, the school's parent-teacher liaison officer.
...The gang slept all day, the staff said, then set off from the school at night in boats to loot local businesses and homes. They broke into the computer room and pried open the locked freezers with hammers and crowbars.
As the floodwaters rose and cut off the school from the rest of the city - and perhaps from civilization - the invaders drank, smoked and partied. Sometimes they fired their weapons, staffers said, and at other times quarreled, with violent threats.
Huddled in the auditorium, the frightened defenders took turns sleeping while others kept watch. ...
When friends and volunteers approached in boats to evacuate the staff, the thugs threatened to hijack the boats and drove them away. When relatives of the staff brought food and water to the school, the thugs seized almost everything - giving the school's defenders only a few jugs of water. LeRoy Doucette said he saw the looters taking random potshots at passers-by.
....Finally, the staff put signs on the roof of the building begging for help. As helicopters hovered overhead, boats with armed men approached. The thugs were kept at bay, and the hostages were freed.
But the boats took the school's defenders only as far as a dry, deserted section of town....
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
In a healthy society, during such a crisis with no outside help, the men from 16 to 60 would form into "emergency teams" (committees of vigilance being an out of style term.) These teams, with prior military in positions of leadership, would quell looting and perform rescues and begin food and water distribution in an orderly fashion.
In NOLA, with generations of fatherless hoodlums, the unaccompanied men either sat on their asses, or formed looting and raping gangs.
This is the future of our broken cities, if the power and water ever go out for 48+ hours.
Just wondering how many gang members will be bussed to unsuspecting communities who with outstretched arms are going to help these "poor souls." Western states, get ready…
There is hardly any part of the USA that isn't within 400 miles of a major metro center, except for maybe Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota.
I like those places, but I think that Just being outside of easy walking distances of the Major Metro areas will be sufficient in most cases.
We did not see the thugs going outside of New Orleans to any great extent, and the people in the rural areas are quite willing to form militias, I believe.
An excellent suggestion.
Damn......hope they don't just forget an forgive and get the "former students" they knew who did such too em. Folks who go to a shelter that takes their firearms are victims waiting for the slaughter from such sub species.
No, Mr. Jenkins, the only ones who will do that are those who did not know New Orleans BEFORE this tragedy. There have always been criminals in NO who preyed on the weak. I grew up in MS, two hours away from NO, and have been there many times. Even back in the early 60's we knew better than to walk the streets after dark.
This is not a new phenomenon; it's just being played out on national TV, against a backdrop of pure misery.
I saw that too, and the question was not answered. The people on the bridge were not allowed to leave either, and they had been waiting for relief for days. It doesn't make sense to me that it took that long. It was also stated that buses had driven right by those people to go to the Hyatt Hotel in order to evacuate "dignitaries and guests".
It's obvious that there was NO advance disaster planning.
MSNBC just showed an aerial shot of a family relaxing in the backyard pool. Evidently the mother and father had made sure to have enough supplies in their home to withstand living without power or running fresh water.
The mother gave a thumbs up sign to the cameraman indicating all ways okay. The kids were laughing and having a good time.
Those are the kind of NOLA residents that I am sure the progects people wish they had for neighbors.
That's just my "what I'l like."
And I'm only talking about cities of a million plus. Smaller cities (not below sea level!) will in most cases be able to restore order quickly.
the pool is a cool refuge
my kin in mississippi were driving in their cars to stay cool in 100 degrees
folks forget that most of the southern half of Miss is severely damaged...not just the coast.
Yours & mine.
But our cities are going to put their asses in jail!
I've decided to post this here as I do not want to start a thread and clutter up FR. But I want to tell you quickly about a phone call I just got from a dear friend from New Orleans whose son, daughter-in-law, and grand-daughter escaped from New Orleans. They are alright but their story is horrific. The night the levee broke water climed six feet in their area. They live two blocks north of Claiborne Ave. in Mid-city also known as the Carrolton area of New Orleans. Richard (we went to college at Loyola U together in the 70s) was able to foat his wife and daughter on an air mattress to the Mississippi River levee and they walked into Jefferson Parish, Harrahan area I believe. All along the way they saw dead bodies floating around them. Richard was visiously bitten by a cat and his hand became infected. They were found by his wife's brother and taken to Oschner Hospital in Jefferson Parish where he was given some treatment. Her brother took them to Austin Tx where Richard's sister lives. My friend, his mom, was crying while telling me the story. She will call me later when they are settled so as this thing unflods there will be so much coming out. Please pary for those who didn't make it.
It will be very many.
Diva in Michigan
I've decided to post this here as I do not want to start a thread and clutter up FR. But I want to tell you quickly about a phone call I just got from a dear friend from New Orleans whose son, daughter-in-law, and grand-daughter escaped from New Orleans. They are alright but their story is horrific. The night the levee broke water climed six feet in their area. They live two blocks north of Claiborne Ave. in Mid-city also known as the Carrolton area of New Orleans. Richard (we went to college at Loyola U together in the 70s) was able to foat his wife and daughter on an air mattress to the Mississippi River levee and they walked into Jefferson Parish, Harrahan area I believe. All along the way they saw dead bodies floating around them. Richard was visiously bitten by a cat and his hand became infected. They were found by his wife's brother and taken to Oschner Hospital in Jefferson Parish where he was given some treatment. Her brother took them to Austin Tx where Richard's sister lives. My friend, his mom, was crying while telling me the story. She will call me later when they are settled so as this thing unflods there will be so much coming out. Please pary for those who didn't make it.
It will be very many.
Diva in Michigan
double post, sorry
40 years ago, I suspect those former high-school students would have been taken to the bayou for a necktie and gator party.
"Rebuilding New Orleans makes about as much sense as having a cancer removed from one part of your body and then transplanted to another part."
Part of me thinks fence the thing off, ship all the violent prisoners from around the country there (and just leave these types of thugs there), and airdrop supplies once a week. No rebuilding, no nothing.
The other part of me says "The South will Rise Again!" (Which it will).
Poor choice,...those locations are all high and dry. There are plenty of hungry critters in the bayou.
Oh my God. It's hard to imagine. Thank you for telling me. They'll need to talk this out.
An elderly woman in Houston stopped me in the aisle of a grocery store to tell me how she survived the hurricane in Galveston that took over 5000 lives. It never leaves them.
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