Posted on 09/06/2005 10:15:17 AM PDT by Abigail Adams
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Everything in my town has changed. We've been terribly hurt.
Don't even start to think you can tell me about suffering.
Are these fires deliberately set??? Do you know?
Posted url for this article ("Ghost Plan for a Ghost Town") before, but just found that it is its own thread on FR and want to link it to these Katrina threads; it paints quite a picture...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478711/posts
Is there a list of freepers and/or freepers with family that haven't been heard from yet...and where they are supposed to be?
Where are you? Baton Rouge?
Ellesu and Peach seem to have a lot of information about those things..
Some say candles started them, others say natural gas leaks.
From WAFB TV....
Order has been issued to forcibly remove residents from New Orleans.
I am kind of ignorant about such things...but won't there be a problem when they get electricity up...like a power surge... or anything?
Is the gas on in all the homes...I know there are houses in our city that have exploded before, just from a gas leak..and a spark.
I am searching for the information on the NO levy board and how they spent the money. Casino, hotel, etc.
Needed for confirmation, PLEASE!
Give me a few minutes to look through my files.
Meridian, Ms. With a Republican Governor and a Republican Mayor.
Talk about out of touch with reality. Perhaps it's me out of touch. I do believe some of these fine folks need to be on the SERVICE end of these TEMPORARY shelters. Change a few diapers, serve and COOK a few meals, give a lending hand. Bail a few out of jail, explain a few wife beatings, etc. AND then be told you are NOT doing enough. THEY aren't getting all THEY were promised.
I guess they can't turn off the natural gas because the pipes are underwater? (I don't know much about it either). But fires after floods are a common occurrence. Some of it down there is arson; some is carelessness...people trying to cook on propane stoves, etc.
They've got to force all those people out of there. Just remove them. The situation gets worse every day.
I saw Amanpour on CNN at the morgue that has been set up in Saint Gabriel....it is a huge place. They are expecting thousands of bodies. Christiane says we will be shocked once more when the water recedes enough to reveal all the bodies inside buildings.
This is the most specific to what you want. I've seen better articles pertaining to casinos but didn't save them.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476988/posts
#7 on this thread is interesting, although it doesn't deal with where the money spent.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1478664/posts?page=1
CLAIM: Bush cut funding for Army Core of Engineers and that’s why the levee’s failed.
Dozens of Democrats and media types have made this claim. A Washington Post’s headline today reads “Critics Say Bush Undercut New Orleans Flood Control.” Read a bit further, however, and you note that even these Democratic critics all admit that even at the highest level of funding, NONE of these projects would have been completed in time to have helped. And none of them would have upgraded the levees to withstand a Cat 4-5 hurricane. As one commentator put it, a more accurate headline would have been “No Government Plan Would Have Prevented Flood, Democrats Still Blame Bush.” In other words, this is another flat out lie, given widespread distribution by the media.
It is also perhaps inconvenient to point out that major flood control projects that could have been completed by now were in fact cut—by the Clinton administration. From the New Orleans Times-Picayune in 1995 (isn’t the Internet fun?): “The Clinton administration is holding back a Corps of Engineers report recommending that the $120 million project proceed. …Without the improvements - a flood gate in the Harvey Canal and raised levees along the Intracoastal Waterway - a tidal surge produced by a hurricane ‘could result in the catastrophic loss of life and property damage,’ corps officials reported.” Not that the Bush administration stepped in to do more since, but given the time these projects take – one item of ACOE funding that the Bush Administration cut was for a study about upgrading the levees, and the study wouldn’t have been completed until, I believe, 2008. (As a side note, the Internet also lets us discover that the New York Times, now on its Olympian high horse condemning the irresponsibility of the Bush administration’s funding cuts for the ACOE, in fact, last April bitterly condemned the very same legislation as an expensive boondoggle. The paper thundered that “the bill would shovel $17 billion at the Army Corps of Engineers for flood control and other water-related projects — this at a time when President Bush is asking for major cuts in Medicaid and other important domestic programs.” Ah well, no one ever expects to hold them accountable for anything.)
The city of New Orleans over the years has managed to find hundreds of millions of dollars for other projects, from building the convention center and a variety of other typical municipal pork projects, millions of which seem to have disappeared into the maw of perhaps the most corrupt local government in the country, but they found nothing to fund their own flood control. Couldn’t pass a bond measure to upgrade their decrepit sewers and pumping system, though.
I live in Southwest Lousiana near the coast, so this very well could have been us. The schools here have to go to alternating the local kids one day and the evacuees the next day. I have friends that live in New Orleans area. We are going to get one tomorrow from Metarie because he is stranded and has nothing left. Everything he owned was destroyed. He's a lucky one, he survived the floods. When you have a Marine scared you know it was bad.
My husband and I have remarked a few times, that it might not be so bad to just let parts of the city just burn, burn to the ground.
They are going to have to tear down most of the homes and businesses anyway..
I would try to save any historic district and of course the French Quarter and all that....but the neighborhoods that still have water up to the roofs...
Perhaps the main reason for NOT allowing them to burn down, is that they still need to look for the people...the ones that may still be there and the family that needs to know.
dang....
Our little town have taken in 200, now down to 50 or less. I spent about 10 hours there this week-end and will be back tomorrow for the lunch shift. Either I haven't heard about it, doubtful, or there have been no problems. From what I'm reading and hearing, the smaller these shelters can be kept, the better. I'm sorry that you got stuck with, what sounds like, ingrates. :-(
When you have a Conservative Republican in Meridian, Ms., saying they won't vote Republican again, you KNOW it's been bad and then impossible, for a LONG time.
Thank you, and GOD bless!
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