Posted on 09/06/2005 10:27:35 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama
What the eff?
"Gee should I stay in NO with no food or water and live in water toxic enough to give me a chemical burn, or, should I take the chance I may have to take a dump in a roadside ditch? On top of which, my MRE's were cold. These people are indeed stuck on stupid IMO."
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Not to mention they didn't let the people decide - they just turned the busses around. What about that neighborhood where they have pulled 160 people out of the water yesterday - you don't think those people would like to go somewhere safe, even if they can go to the bathroom without the bus stopping?
I hope to God that the governor of Louisiana never holds another important job unless it's trustee at a women's prison.
OOPS...Sorry...so, what does a President of a Parish do? Is he like the Mayor?
Oh, okay. Now I get why those 400+ school and city transit buses that were left in parking lots to be flooded, couldn't be used to transport 10s of thousands of people out of harm's way. Naturally, it would be impossible to open the windows and the wind of a 60+ mph highway drive do the trick, and stop periodically to let people off to answer nature's call in the roadside bushes. Might as well die if the alternative is a 4 our ride on a non-air conditioned bus with no bathroom. < /sarc>
That idiot NOLA Mayor responded to a question about using schopol busses to evacuate with this: "School busses. Where are the Greyhounds?"
As if school busses weren't good enough to get people out of the cesspool.
I suppose that refugees would just rather stand around in subtropical heat with no climate controls in hip deep water. Who are the idiots running this train wreck ?
Pure speculation by an obviously biased reporter. Short of facts, long on biased speculation.
She may be up for a promotion to inmate when this all gets sorted out!
Reading is fundamental =)
Ahh, that's an update. Last I heard, they were coming back with a couple of college students who needed a lift back to DC, and some folks were going to be flown to DC from some other locale.
Had to be FEMA - the governor can do no wrong.
The buses were turned away Friday, says the article, and one can reasonably infer that his means Friday, Sept 2nd.
I've read a few of your posts, and IIRC, had a dialogue on one matter (I forget which). My impression of your reporting is that is tends to misprepresent facts.
Per the Red Cross ...
Hurricane Katrina: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans?The National Guard is not FEMA, and as the Red Cross notes, the National Guard that denied them entry after the hurrican was under the control of local (i.e., Louisinan State) authorities.
* Acess to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard and local authorities and while we are in constant contact with them, we simply cannot enter New Orleans against their orders.
Thank you for finding that. I knew I'd seen it someplace but haven't had the time to go looking for it today. :)
ROTFLMAO
At the suggestion of writer Michelle Malkin last Friday, I have cobbled together a blogsite called Texas Clearinghouse for Katrina Aid to serve as a clearinghouse for refugee efforts in Texas.
Texas is getting more refugees than any other state -- that's fine, we'll take them all -- but we need help providing them with food, clothing, and shelter.
If you are a refugee, you can information that will help you find relief. If you want to donate or volunteer, you can find someone who needs you.
Right now the site mostly covers Houston and Dallas but I will add various churches, schools, and other charities in San Antonio and Ft. Worth tonight. My wife is down at Reunion Arena in Dallas as we speak handing out care packages and otherwise ministering to the refugees as a representative of her employer.
There are a lot of churches and other organizations in Texas that need help in dealing with the problem and I would be most appreciative if you would get the word out.
Many thanks,
Michael McCullough
Stingray blogsite
Actually I heard a busdriver interviewed who stated he was sitting with a bunch of other busdrivers about 20 minutes north of the city earlier in the week, but were told not to go in until they had armed guards for each bus....he also stated this had come from the governor. So they just sat.
THE PLAN (if you want to call it that)
Wasn't the bulk of the evacuation complete by Friday? They probably had more buses than they could afford to keep refueled by Friday.
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