Wonder where he got that idea?
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Posted on 09/04/2005 6:14:35 PM PDT by NautiNurse
When my husband and I arrived around 4 this afternoon, there was a crowd of cars with volunteers from the local churches. Men were cooking burgers on the grill and women were setting out home baked cakes and treats. Our area is almost entirely white, so it was easy to recognize the evacuees. The kids were playing in the pool. Adult evacuees were sitting at picnic tables and enjoying a good meal. There was a few washers and dryers set up under the shelter. There was an army of people folding clothes from the local Caring and Sharing, serving food, and chatting with the evacuees.
The dormatories have become home for the families. This is a summer camp with two wings in each building holding bunk beds arranged in a large room. It is designed for all boys or all girls, but to accomodate the families, each side was set up for a gender. Males in one wing, females in another. This keeps families near each other, but seperates gender for modesty.
The first family I met had husband, 3 year old girl, 8 year old cousin, and wife due to deliver in November. They were overwhelmed at the love being showered on them. Mom was having heart burn, and the medical volunteers checked her out and got her some meds for her and one of the kids. She was upset at not being able to get her "nest" arranged. Tomorrow I will take a few boxes and things to help her. She missed having her husband right with her to help. I later told him how much it meant to her to be able to depend on him, he was a good husband. His eyes watered up. He said he would do anything for her.
They had seen unbelievable things in the Dome. There were dead with their throats slashed. Young girls taken by the gangs to the upper decks and raped for hours. Anyone that tried to stop them was killed. The stench of death, urine, and feces burned their noses.
The guards would play games with the number system for filling the buses. They would call a group's number, then change it. They did nothing to stop the drugs, theft, and murder of the gangs.
These people feel so blessed to have been rescued. They are just now understanding the scope of the damage. The lobby TV is the first time they have seen that the damage goes all the way to Biloxi. Now they understand why it took so long.
But they will never understand the gangs. They knew the criminals in NO, but cannot believe that evil they witnessed.
Our communities have taken these people in. Yes, there are huge risks. But God spared THESE people and brought the to our doorstep. The blessings being poured out are amazing.
I knew it.... at first, I thought, well, the Fox team has doomed ol' Dusty.
I know that makes a great story - and Geraldo might redeem himself to a few.
Yet each one of us will have dozens of images or sounds of the plight of this tragedy that most likely did not end this way.
The one that will forever be with me was a young girl, about 7, in pink shorts standing on a curb (under water), pleading, begging the camera team/reporter: Please help us, please help us. Help us push our car."
An older man, as I posted a day or three ago, probably her grandfather, appeared trying to push an older sedan that was in water up to the windows. Belongings were piled in the back. The team went on and left them in the water. I have never seen a follow up. I cannot get her voice or her face out of my head. I pray that she and her family survived.
NOPD 1st Dist officers Nicole Barbe and Sgt. Danny Scanlan in their makeshift police car after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005.
Because they couldn't read the plan? /sarc
One of the worst educational system in the nation...
Thousands will soon be living large on three Carnival cruise ships. In complete luxury, with meals and spa. We'll see if the rapes and murders continue, and if the MSM will report.
Guess we will have plenty to talk about again.....
I call them Hurricane People
Yes you can compare this to 9/11. There was leadership in NY and an absent of leadership in Louisiana. That is the comparison.
The NAACP has now demanded that the victims of Hurricane Katrina have a fund just like the victims of 9-11.
OOPS---that last post of mine came off as cruel...
I can see how ANY one in Louisiana would be doing a lot of crying right now...what has happened is horrible, and I don't begrudge them their emotions...
BUT, I think the tears we have seen on TV are manufactured for "effect" to get the heat off of themselves and on to President Bush...
Especially Mayor Nagin, Gov. Blanco and Sen. Landrieu...she is in Washington..and she has the power to put forth bills that would have perhaps helped NO...but hasn't as far as I know..
And to cry and then threaten to "punch" the POTUS...is not what we want the world to see...or our children that need the reassurance that the "grownups" can take care of things.
Those will be the relief workers, not the evacuees. I hope.
Anyone know just what Gov. Blanco is doing?
And what does that "philanthropic fund" she is creating really mean?
well, of course they will.....
I refuse to let the feds take the blame for the New Orleans and Baton Rouge corruption and incompetence. Brown may not be the most riveting speaker, but by gosh he was on the TV urging people to evacuate before the governor or the mayor did a damn thing!
That is the funniest thing I have heard in weeks. I can't stop giggling. I am going to send this to everyone on my e-mail list.
They might be living on the ships, but I guarantee you they aren't going to get the same kind of service they'd get as cruise passengers. At least they'd better not!
Thank you so much for that personal story, which gives me hope that many of these folks will actually wind up with a better life, away from New Orleans.
Speaking of that, isn't the Secret Service required to investigate all threats to the President.
Why hasn't she been arrested yet, anyway?
"Honestly, I am developing a list of people I once respected and have now crossed off my list."
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