Posted on 09/06/2005 10:15:17 AM PDT by Abigail Adams
This thread is for Katrina news and updates.
I heard it. And I'm confused.
Late last week I heard/read some of the NG from Louisiana were returning home to relieve the NO Police. I don't know if it's true or not.
If it's true, it's incredible! How can these grown men (NO Police) walk away after a week and allow these young people who have been deployed for 18 months to fill their positions?
Quite Frankly, I am appauled, if it's true. For heaven's sakes. The NG members have been gone from home for 18 months. Some of them surely lost their homes in the disaster, too. Nobody's worried about them. Just haul them in to relieve these poor devils who've spent a week in hell in NO. So what it the kids have spent 18 months of hell in Iraq.
Post Tramatic Distress Order after one week? I saw the pictures on TV. I know it was bad. I'm just thinking if the police can't deal with a week of it and deserve some R&R in Vegas, what on earth are we going to do for the NG members who relieved them? Maybe we can put them on the Cruise Ships the evacuees are rejecting.
Is there something else going on here that we aren't aware of? Probably so.
Am I the only one who thinks the Feds are going to be happy to see the police go?
It appears to me there is a lack of confidence in the police somewhere in the chain of command.
No wonder my gut instinct had me on edge that Saturday Night not so long ago on Bourbon St. My 6th sense was telling me the police weren't capable of protecting me.
WDSU video of interview last night(?): Looks like Katie Couric was giving Nagin the what-for, asking him, isn't it your job to have things in place for evacuation plans, etc.? He said, not for a category 5 hurricane. Hmmmm.
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Seven Children Found Wandering Together
Six-year-old in charge; group later reunited with parents
Monday September 05, 2005
They were holding hands. Three of the children were about 2 years old, and one was wearing only diapers. A 3-year-old girl, who wore colorful barrettes on the ends of her braids, had her 14-month-old brother in tow. The 6-year-old spoke for all of them, and he told rescuers his name was Deamonte Love.
Thousands of human stories have flown past relief workers in the last week, but few have touched them as much as the seven children who were found wandering together Thursday at an evacuation point in downtown New Orleans. In the Baton Rouge headquarters of the rescue operation, paramedics tried to coax their names out of them; nurses who examined them stayed up that night, brooding. Balance at this link:
http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2005090522/
bump;
Which unfortunately had not spontaneously turned on him and shot him full in the face.
Stagnant flood water, apparently.
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and raw sewage, vehicle gas tank leaks, etc., combined with an existing humid swamp climate in which mold and mildew has always been predominant.
Penn launches verbal attack on Bush
Oscar-winning Hollywood actor Sean Penn, who has been assisting rescue efforts in New Orleans, has launched a scathing attack on President Bush.
He said the US government did not "seem to be inclined to help". "We were pulling drowning people out of the water, it's the ultimate distress and human suffering ... dead bodies," he told GMTV.
Yes. It's a godawful mess alright. Those poor people who refuse to leave... just the most simple folk, clinging to what they had. They really have no idea it's over.
from A/P
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Sad Story of Boy and His Dog Grips Nation
Among the thousands of crushing moments from last week's deadly hurricane, one image brought the anguish home to many: a tearful little boy torn from his dog while being shuttled to safety.
It tugged at the heartstrings, prompting an outpouring from around the country of people on the hunt for both the boy and his dog Snowball in hopes of a reunion.
They've been scouring shelters, posting notes on the Internet and making phone calls to track them down. One woman set up a Web site to help people pair up pets with their owners. Another set up a reward to encourage someone to come forward with information on Snowball's or the boy's whereabouts.
"Everyone wants to know about Snowball," said Laura Maloney, executive director of the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The boy was among the thousands who ended up sheltered at the Superdome after the hurricane. But when he went to board a bus to be evacuated to Houston, a police officer took the dog away. The boy cried out _ "Snowball! Snowball!" _ then vomited in distress. Authorities say they don't know where the boy or his family ended up.
link:
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050906/ap/d8cek2ag0.html
Brit Hume is the only one I know who showed the pictures/
Take a look at Karl's post, HAL.
I guess the Mississippi IS open for business.
Interesting -- the GOV is leading when I voted. That is who I voted for. If anyone else spots another poll let us know.
Is that for real? I didn't listen to his news conference.
Too many ruptured gas lines, particualry when the ground got saturated in one day with twenty feet of water in many places. Many of the buildings and homes will be inhabitable because the ground will shrink down and take the buildings with it. Mother Nature reclaims every thing eventually.
Yes...they will probably move more of the City officials to those ships....until the Convention Center is cleaned.
How about a Cat 3 or 4...the mayor shows his stupidity more each day...does the MSM even notice?
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