Posted on 09/05/2005 12:57:55 AM PDT by v. crow
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In the absence of information and outside assistance, groups of rich and poor banded together in the French Quarter, forming "tribes" and dividing up the labor.
As some went down to the river to do the wash, others remained behind to protect property. In a bar, a bartender put near-perfect stitches into the torn ear of a robbery victim.
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"Some people became animals," Vasilioas Tryphonas said Sunday morning as he sipped a hot beer in Johnny White's Sports Bar on Bourbon Street. "We became more civilized."
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I was going to say the same about the Salvation Army. I would agree. Yes, 9-11 donations turned me off to them too.
Some people organize, some don't. The key seems to be education, and a desire to make things better than what one currently has. Those at the Superdome didn't seem able to do it, maybe they were too big a crowd.
Did you notice the article mentioning how police were running people off certain blocks, and kicking them out of the hotel?
One man's order is another man's chaos.
There was a hurricane that struck Corpus Christi in the 60's. I lived 40 miles away, and remember people talking about the Red Cross and how the RC wanted people (who lost everything) to "repay" them for their help. I will never donate to the Red Cross and prefer the Salvation Army. Even my Dad talked negatively about the Red Cross going back to WWII.
I was in a meeting with probably 25 mid level managers, where, the discussion went on and on about the company buying bandaids for first aid kits.
After 1/2 hour of discussion (and that is 25 mins too long), I just pulled out a $20 bill and said "I'll buy $20 worth of bandaids, if we can move the meeting on". I got a written repremand for "not being a team player". BTW, I framed the letter. LOL
For every positive act that the Red Cross does...there is a negative act. And thats the biggest problem with them. Their management folks get too big a head and start going in a direction that has nothing to do with helping folks. If you divided the entire Red Cross into state districts and forbid them from going national...they might behaive in a better fashion. But this national structure of the Red Cross has serious problems and probably can't function as a real center of assistance anymore.
We need more LEOs to handle the extra big city citizenry. The hospitals are gettin full up too.
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Must be difficult to type with one hand while holding a drink in the other....
Amazing in a city like New Orleans where Sodom is a sister city, and a storm of boblical proportions , the most Sodom-like part of the city is unscathed. Soon they will be back to performing sex acts in the street as usual.
Now how come with mandatory evacuations these folks are still there and the only problems they seem to be having is whether or not the liquor will hold out till the next beer truck arrives.
The strong will survive, even prosper
The rest ???
Th city will be shut down for about 9 months, where will these tourists stay? Who will protect these tourists from bad "tribes"?
These tribes expect the National Guard to risk their lives so they can party? Make them leave the city.
good show!...and "something" actually got done...the 20 bucks. :D
Seems the media hype that the entire city is drowned is so much bull from the media.
Only one side of the canal was breached and everything on the other side is completely dry.
The survivors and victims do not stand a chance between the officials and the thugs .
Police came through commandeering drivable vehicles and siphoning gas. Officials took over a hotel and ejected the guests.
An officer pumped his shotgun at a group trying to return to their hotel on Chartres Street.
"This is our block," he said, pointing the gun down a side street. "Go that way."
Barry Maturana hangs his artwork up Saturday on the fence behind St. Joseph's Cathedral in Jackson Square. Maturana tries to move on with his life and show his pride in the city of New Orleans by cleaning up the area around his home and continuing to display his work.
Has the governor even BEEN to New Orleans since the flood? When was the first time she went there, does anybody know?
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