Posted on 09/03/2005 5:20:40 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
Mississippians Worry They're Forgotten
POSTED: 7:42 pm EDT September 3, 2005
JACKSON, Miss. -- In Mississippi, there is misery and despair among victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Survivors are wondering how long it will take to get food, clean water and shelter. And they're more than angry at the federal government and the national news media.
Anger at the government stems from the belief that aid has been too slow in arriving.
There's also a feeling that Mississippi has been getting short shrift from the news media, which seem to be focusing most of their attention on New Orleans.
Mississippi's death toll from Katrina stands at 144. Along the battered Mississippi Gulf Coast, crews have begun searching boats for corpses.
President George W. Bush toured ravaged areas of the Mississippi coast on Friday with Gov. Haley Barbour and other state officials. They also flew over flooded New Orleans.
I was looking for an organization to donate to in Mississippi - I think LA is going to get lots of money, which it probably needs, but it seems to me that sending all the money to LA is like rewarding bad behavior.
Any suggestions on a relief organization that would keep the money in Mississippi?
We appreciate the help, and like you we love Brett Favre!
That's because Mississippi actually took the brunt of the storm proper. NOLA was flooded. The Mississippi Gulf Coast was flattened.
NOLA's abject helplessness has masked the even worse damage in Mississippi.
Comus-- Could you give us a first-hand account of what's going on in Pass Christian?
Thanks for all your help!
For your critique #36
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476706/posts?page=36#36
Joe "I'm really, really, really a Republican" Scarbourough has already taken over that job.
I'd really like to ask all of those idiot reporters who act like getting in and out is sooooo easy to map out their routes and tell us how you would move a 80 ton truck over them with supplies.
The "armchair first-responders" are making me ill.
Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton
Old times they are not forgotten
Look away, look away, look away Dixieland.
Oh I wish I was in Dixie, away, away
In Dixieland I'll take my stand to live and die in Dixie
'Cause Dixieland... I was born
Early on one frosty morn'
Look away, look away, look away Dixieland.
Glory... glory hallelujah
Glory... glory hallelujah
Oh Glory... glory hallelujah
His truth is marching on.
So hush little baby
Don't you cry...
You know your daddy's bound to die
But all... all my trials Lord
Will soon be over
Dixieland... I'm comin' home...
Glory, glory hallelujah His truth will be marching on His truth is marching on
It's a gift. :>)
Steve Carragan reporting from Pascagoula again....Mississippi, you're not forgotten....you're just not acting like barbarians and hooligans....and your silence is deafening!
Prayers to all in Mississippi...keep the faith...help is coming.
Your respect and appreciation is reciprocated. Thanks.
NO is sucking up all the air....but I didn't forget.
What did Trent Lott say? I haven't seen nor heard him. I did hear that he encouraged the President to go to MS.
This org is from NC, but right now they are concentrating on Leakesville and Meridian MS. This is where my donations are going: NC Baptist Men
Not forgotten, but not as desperate as a residents that are waist deep in water and must be airlifted out if they are to escape.
Any suggestions on a relief organization that would keep the money in Mississippi?
Bank Plus will match any donation up to
$250,000 for Ms relief
https://www.bankplus.net/default.aspx
Thank you, I'll check them out.
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