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Superdome Evacuation Halted (rich people first..please.
Fox News ^

Posted on 09/03/2005 9:23:57 AM PDT by Dr. Marten

At one point Friday, the evacuation was interrupted briefly when school buses rolled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to the head of the evacuation line — much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the stinking Superdome since last Sunday.

"How does this work? They (are) clean, they are dry, they get out ahead of us?" exclaimed Howard Blue, 22, who tried to get in their line. The National Guard blocked him as other guardsmen helped the well-dressed guests with their luggage.

The 700 had been trapped in the hotel, next to the Superdome, but conditions were considerably cleaner, even without running water, than the unsanitary crush inside the dome. The Hyatt was severely damaged by the storm. Every pane of glass on the riverside wall was blown out.
 

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: chicomtool; drmartenilliterate; incompetence; katrina; katrinafailures; neworleans
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To: SauronOfMordor

Sorry, I don't live on FR. I have a life. I post on here maybe 2-5 times a week.

Hey, how are those fantasy movies going for ya? Get a life.


181 posted on 09/04/2005 7:05:47 AM PDT by Dr. Marten ((http://thehorsesmouth.blog-city.com))
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To: dfwgator

LOL! Or racist Bush refuses to swim with the poor, pampered elite believes he's too good to swim.


182 posted on 09/04/2005 7:07:11 AM PDT by bvw
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To: Last Dakotan

If YOU read earlier posts, the robbing, raping and beating was not exclusive to whites...


183 posted on 09/04/2005 7:12:42 AM PDT by Hand em their arse
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To: Hand em their arse


WOW! :)


185 posted on 09/04/2005 7:21:52 AM PDT by onyx (North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: Dr. Marten; Bommer; Allosaurs_r_us

Update 2: He's back and he's cranky


186 posted on 09/04/2005 7:26:12 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor
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To: onyx

oops!! i thought i asterisked that out... yikes, i may catch hell for that one, huh?


187 posted on 09/04/2005 7:42:11 AM PDT by Hand em their arse
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To: Dr. Marten

Libs hate Bush so much that they look for every opportunity to find him responsible.

This belongs on the backs of Blanko the Crybaby and Nagin the Flip Flopper Non Drug Addict.


188 posted on 09/04/2005 9:47:26 AM PDT by uncitizen
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To: Hand em their arse
If YOU read earlier posts, the robbing, raping and beating was not exclusive to whites...

Never said it was. The whites however were targeted on account of race.

189 posted on 09/04/2005 12:52:11 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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bttt


190 posted on 09/11/2005 6:58:08 PM PDT by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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