Posted on 09/04/2005 12:04:03 PM PDT by joinedafterattack
I'm in for $100 if you get this done. Freepmail me with details.
put me on a ping list, I will send some $$$s to pay for this too.
Some Can't Evacuate New Orleans for Ivan
By MARY FOSTER, Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS - Fleeing to safety was not an option for some people as 140-mph Hurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to submerge the below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years.
Latonya Hill, who waited out the dangerous storm sitting on her stoop Tuesday, said the official pleas for residents to pack up and leave meant little to her.
"Got no place to go and no way to get there," said the 57-year-old grandmother, who lives on a disability check and money she picks up cleaning houses or baby sitting.
"They say evacuate, but they don't say how I'm supposed to do that," Hill said. "If I can't walk it or get there on the bus, I don't go. I don't got a car. My daughter don't either."
Hill is among the estimated 100,000 people in New Orleans who rely on city transportation to get around, making evacuation impossible for them. Yet, no shelters were open in the city as of Tuesday night and there were no plans to open any.
The city was working on setting up a shelter of "last resort," Mayor Ray Nagin said. No shelters had been set up yet because of concerns about flooding and capacity, Nagin added.
At 5 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Ivan was centered about 220 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and moving north-northwest at 12 mph. Forecasters said Ivan could bring a coastal storm surge of 10 to 16 feet, topped by large, battering waves.
More than 1.2 million people in metropolitan New Orleans were warned to get out as Ivan approached, and those who could streamed inland in bumper-to-bumper traffic in an agonizingly slow exodus, spurred by dire warnings that the hurricane could overwhelm New Orleans with up to 20 feet of water.
Forecasters said Ivan, which killed at least 68 people in the Caribbean, could reach 160 mph and strengthen to a dangerous Category 5 by the time it blows ashore as early as Thursday somewhere along the Gulf Coast.
New Orleans, the nation's largest city below sea level, is particularly vulnerable to flooding, and Nagin was among the first to urge residents to get out while they can. The city's Louis Armstrong Airport was ordered closed Tuesday night.
Up to 10 feet below sea level in spots, New Orleans sits between the nearly half-mile-wide Mississippi River and Rhode Island-size Lake Pontchartrain, relying on a system of levees, canals and huge pumps to keep dry.
Experts said Ivan could.., sending water pouring over the levees, flooding to the rooftops and turning streets into a toxic brew of raw sewage, gas and chemicals from nearby refineries.
The mayor said that he would "aggressively recommend" that people evacuate, but that it would difficult to order those who rely on public transportation to do so, since they would have no way to leave.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...id=519&ncid=716
Direct hit by Ivan could spell doom for New Orleans
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle News Services
NEW ORLEANS - More than 1.2 million people in metropolitan New Orleans were warned to get out Tuesday as 140-mph Hurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to submerge the below-sea-level city during what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years.
Residents streamed inland in bumper-to-bumper traffic in an agonizingly slow exodus amid dire warnings that Ivan could overwhelm New Orleans with up to 20 feet of filthy, chemical-polluted water. About three-quarters of a million more people along the coast in Florida, Mississippi and Alabama also were told to evacuate.
Walter Maestri, an emergency manager in New Orleans, America's most vulnerable metropolitan area, has 10,000 body bags ready in case a major hurricane hits. As Hurricane Ivan's expected path shifted uncomfortably close to the low-lying urban soup bowl, Maestri said Tuesday he might need a lot more.
If a strong Category 4 storm such as Ivan made a direct hit, he warned, 50,000 people could drown, and the city could cease to exist.
"This could be The One," Maestri said. "You're talking about the potential loss of a major metropolitan area."
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2796077
BTTT
Someone said the boy was arrested. Have you heard anything about that?
ChadGore's post below at #25 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477221/posts?page=25#25 shows the same incompetence with the municipal buses. Also note in that photo that what appears to be personal cars are high and dry...
His schoolbus photo at #24 also seems a lot better than the other cropped photo.
Best of luck!
whoever designs this, keep in mind you will have to make sure the size fits the column inches of the newspaper.
One round trip with 300 buses loaded could have gotten 12,000 people out of NO in one trip. That's if the each had a seat (40 per bus). SRO gets probably 18,000 people out in one round trip. What is better, a 3 1/2 hr bus ride to Houston, and get there with wet pants, or 5 days in the Superdome? Let Sharpton and Nagin spend 5 days in the stinkin' Superdome.
See? Who needs buses when you've got body bags. Black body bags too boot.
Don't you people know anything? Our military intervention in New Orleans is a quagmire. Thousands are dead, resistance continues from Democrat remnants, and Nagin has still not been captured.
that's liberalism...talk about helping people and do nothing.
The regular buses hold 35-40 kids and the larger, Bluebird style buses carry 77 passengers.
Has anyone taken the time to count the number of buses in that picture? I'd like to know..
Anti Nagin Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!
Ummm, yeah. We all know how will the sanitary facilities worked in the SD and the Convention Center.
Or even just the flooded streets.
You might consider adding to it the photo of the 18-year old kid who commandeered the school bus and got 70-80 passengers he picked up to safety to the Astrodome. That certainly refutes the pathetic argument of the mayor made on WLS that he couldn't use school buses because they didn't have bathrooms.
And I'm in for $50 so this can be seen. I don't know if the Baton Rouge paper would run it, but there are papers elsewhere that would, for sure.
He could put this on his site and it'd be in talking points all over the country in minutes.
bump for later...
I'm in for $100.
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