Katrina Live Threads, Part XV

Various ^ | 4 September 2005 | Various

[jeffers]

That pile of crap in the 17th St. Canal breach won't hold baby spit when they start trying to pump NO dry. You heard it here first.

Stay tuned for the second NO flood.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Restoring and enhancing infrastructural integrity of the impacted areas. We must rebuild and enhance our communities, while at the same time preserve the cultural uniqueness of our state. First and foremost among the infrastructure improvements are the levees. Restoring and enhancing the levee system and assuring its structural safety and permanence are essential to any economic restoration. We can not expect businesses and individuals to invest in a city that could be catastrophically flooded during another hurricane. Nor can one expect that anyone will insure these kinds of investments, or make loans against them, if they cannot be secured from the risk of flooding. A major effort to secure the levee system is a precondition to any of these other goals. Federal funding would be the appropriate source for funding this endeavor.

Dear Governor Blanco, Why do you think FEMA gave your state over 30 million dollars, in the first place? What did you do with the money, because you all sure didn't use it for the intended purposes. Don't leave town. Cordially, The Prez

[Soul Seeker]

Levin up. Playing Dershowitz's disgraceful comments about Rhenquist a day ago on FOX.

[John Jamieson]

I don't know, neither do you.

How many died because the used the Superdome instead of removed those people completely? I think that set the remaining rescue effort back by days.

[BurbankKarl]

Q. How many people were shooting at you

A. The same small percentage of people in any city.

Q. How many?

A. Can't give you a definitive number, numerous.

Q. How many are still out there

A. We are still out there looking for them.

A. Jackson....some of them are in the rescue centers

Q. How many rapes in the Superdome

A. We heard those claims

Q. How many officers shot

A. One shot in the head, one shot in the leg.


Jackson: People are seeing this through the keyhole of the media...these people are not refugees, they are citizens. Brings up whites-finding foods, blacks-looting...The case here is not looting, the case here is drowning.

[jeffers]

You hang tuff...we needya.

[GOP_Proud]

< "I know Cuba offered medical aid last week. I wasn't aware we had accepted it. Have we?"

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No.
Ahem... (Hell No!) >

If we did we'd have 1600 MORE refugees on our hands.

[Spktyr]

The key line there is: "Most important, perhaps, it has a contingent of 500 uniformed, Texas lawmen who stroll the concourses, ramps and stands in white Stetsons, to make sure people behave."

Should have added "heavily armed" to that description.

[B4Ranch]

"I KNEW I liked Geraldo!"

I wasn't so impressed by him or Shep. This is an email I sent to them after the emotional report about the people stuck on the Interstate without any "directions.

Geraldo & Shep,

I saw your emotional reports about the people suffering their way through Katrina. You guys aren't fools. This isn't your first disaster.

Why didn't you tell the young men who had shoes on their feet to go out and find food and water for the elderly, the women and children? So what if they have to walk 10 or 20 miles to keep the babies and moms fed? Fifty young men could have gone to the food stores and instead of looting for Nikes sneakers, watches or electronics, loot for subsistence materials to keep their own families alive. Carry the materials back to the needy in shopping carts or in back packs, whatever is necessary.

Tell the people that hot water heaters have 30 or 40 gallons of drinkable water in them. Wipe the bathtub with Clorox and fill it with water before a city loses it's water pressure, don't bitch about not having anything to drink if you can't think 12 hours ahead!

I think either of you could have made a serious contribution to the recovery effort if you had used your heads and given these people directions on how to stay alive. I do hope to see a better performance from you both during the next hurricane.

Sincerely,

[wolficatZ]

YOU need to be on Fox giving an alternative viewpoint..

[BurbankKarl]

Jackson saying Global Warming will cause Houston and New Orleans will be revisted us.

[oceanview]

Levin talking about NO now, he clearly is surfing some FR threads.

[SE Mom]

I truly detest this man. It always crosses my mind that MLK jr would be ashamed of Jackson.

[GOP_Proud]

< But some freepers are dump... >

oh no! Now we have to add "dump" to hugh and series.

[owl37]

"I don't want to be here any more than two, three months."

Wow. I would have set my limit at two or three days.

[Types_with_Fist]

one shot in the leg.

That was a Guardsman shot in the leg.

[Spktyr]

One *very* important difference, though.

Most of Houston is NOT below sea level and was built with flooding in mind.

[BurbankKarl]

That is way too much thinking for that crowd there...

[John Jamieson]

Don't think their done yet Jef. I also don't believe the Corps is dumb.

Where's your engineering degree from?

[Arizona Carolyn]

I just mentioned his background suprised me. I don't know what to think of him right now. I did listen to him on CNN saying he had just learned about the convention center after I'd been watching coverage on how bad it was from there for several days. That suprised and disappointed me.

The only thing I KNOW for sure is until the Army arrived I was about to have a nervous breakdown along with Shep over the plight of the people there, particulary the babies.

There will be plenty of time for finger-pointing after this is over... I have a bad feeling, however, that Jessie and his friends are going to turn this into a 2006 issue and anything that will get them elected makes me shudder.