As Last Refugees Escape, New Orleans Turns to Its Dead

AP ^ | Sep 4, 2005 | Allen G. Breed

[grey_whiskers]

When the Blacks were ordered out of New Orleans they got a bottle of water and a MRE.

There was no Cat-4 hurricane, followed massive flooding in the Gaza Strip. Not to mention that the area affected by Katrina was about eight times the size of entire NATION of Israel. You must be channeling DNC talking points.

Nice try, though.

[Husker8877]

Not to downplay in the least the major significance of the suffering and dead in this tragedy, but I do think (and hope and pray) that these numbers are over-inflated. Of course I have no inside info, and it is just a guess based on past crises.

Recall immediately after 9/11, many posters--including very, very "prominent" FR posters (no names, but others may remember with me)--were stating with what seemed at the time to be reliable inside information that the 40,000+ body bags that were available would not be enough. I remember it well. Thankfully, that turned out to be a huge over-estimation.

After the January 1994 EQ in LA, early predictions were for hundreds of dead. Again, thankfully, that was not borne out.

In contrast, I readily admit that the asian tsunami numbers were beyond what anyone could have imagined (though certainly under different circumstances and living arrangements.)

I am hoping and praying that in the "fog of war" as it is, these estimates are also grossly overstated. I just don't want to just accept these initial estimates without having some tempered thought. And I absolutely have ZERO confidence in the massively corrupt Louisiana democrat politicians, from the mayor, to the parish presidents, to the governor, to the LA senators.

Sadly, I honestly think some of them (Landrieu, et al) would be tickled pink if the numbers were huge, because it would be all the more ammo to bash the president that they just can't beat. And I think and hope these slimy incompetent corrupt politicians are very wrong.

[Grizzled Bear]

(Stop reading the bible and start reading the dictioary)
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Jesse doesn't need to stop reading the Bible. He needs to start living it.

[GOP_1900AD]

And I turn to a gang banga, foul mouthed mayor, and busses sitting idle (and now flooded out).

[Travis McGee]

I hope that sooner or later the MSM discovers that New Orleans did have a written emergency plan to cover the evacuation of the poor, but that the idiot mayor of New Orleans ignored it, and allowed the evacuation buses to be ruined by the flood, forgotten.

The city leaders had at least two full days to use these hundreds of buses to evac the poor, exactly as their own emergency management plan called for.

Here's the southeast Louisiana evac plan supplement, most recently revised in 2000. Go to page 13, read paragraph 5. It states:

5. The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating.

[onyx]

Standing O! Good work, keep 'em coming!

[Travis McGee]

I wonder if these damning pictures and their context will make it to the MSM?

[onyx]

Keep spamming and we'll see!

Better yet, do a thread of its own. I'm serious.

Title: Three pictures, better than 5 million BS words from MSM.

[Travis McGee]

It's like the MSM was covering the Titanic sinking, and concentrating on the slow arrival of rescue, and never mentioning the lack of liferafts.

[onyx]

Indeed. That's thee perfect analogy. Gem perfect.

Now go post your genius on a thread of its own, including that analogy.