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bttt

[Uncle Ike]

"As LAST refugees escape.."

What??

I know I've been getting a much-needed 8 hours of sleep, but I think I would have heard in the hour that I've been up that the NG and CG had abandoned the house-to-house rescue/recovery effort.

Did I miss something?

[chainsaw]

Jessee Jackassson doesn't like them being called refugees. But that is exactly what they are. Get with it Jessee, Stop reading the bible and start reading the dictioary in your spare time between your race bating blackmail attempts on business.

M-Webster-Refugee:
Etymology: French réfugié, past participle of (se) réfugier to take refuge, from Latin refugium.

[WideGlide]

Echoing the mayor's prediction, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Saturday she expected the death toll to reach the thousands.

This coming from the two idiots that have trouble predicting getting wet in a rainstorm.

[RFEngineer]

"As Last Refugees Escape, New Orleans Turns to Its Dead"

"New Orleans" isn't gonna lift a finger. If the dead are turned to, it'll be by outsiders, if NO is to be cleaned up, it will be by outsiders, if NO is to be rebuilt, it'll be by outsiders.

NO is a city of losers whom have now be foisted upon the welfare establishment of cities around the country. They remain useless, shiftless, slothful whiners.

[sweetliberty]

"Nita LaGarde, 105, was pushed down the street in her wheelchair as her nurse's 5-year-old granddaughter, Tanisha Blevin, held her hand. The pair spent two days in an attic, two days on an interstate island and the last four days on the pavement in front of the convention center.

"They're good to see," LaGarde said, with remarkable gusto as she waited to be loaded onto a gray Marine helicopter. She said they were sent by God. "Whatever he has for you, he'll take care of you. He'll sure take care of you."

And in the midst of this horror, a refreshing breath of the human spirit whose faith is in God. No whining or blaming....just gratitude and simple faith. May God bless this dear lady and may she be a lifelong example to her granddaughter.

Thought y'all might appreciate a small light in the darkness, the rest of the article notwithstanding.

[Nathan Zachary]

"Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., a physician, said "a lot more than eight to 10 people are dying a day."

One would expect in a city of that size, that on any given day more than ten people die, even during the best of weather.

Do people suddenly stop dying when a disaster strikes? Why are their deaths suddenly blamed on the disaster? It makes for more dramatic news I suppose...

[jordan8]

I wonder if the murders will be fully investigated or will they be covered up?

[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.

[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.