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Mayor: 200 trapped on Ninth Ward rooftops; bodies floating in Bywater
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| 02:37 PM CDT on Monday, August 29, 2005
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Posted on 08/29/2005 12:39:10 PM PDT by Smogger
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To: OXENinFLA
If they're seeing bodies, I doubt it (unless they were recently buried)....
When I toured NOLA, they told us that the crypts are set up so that they can store the remains for 1 year + 1 day, and then they go back in and there's nothing but a skeleton left. The skeleton can then be stored in the crypt... this is how one average sized tomb holds the remains of over 200 nuns.
To: RobbyS
I'm pretty sure I could walk 60 miles in 3 days , if I knew there was a hurricane chasing me. I've done 12 in 2 1/2 hours for the Army SFQT, and all I had chasing me then was the Sergeant Major.
To: Huck
"Well, I'm not saying don't pluck em off their damned rooftops."![](http://webpages.charter.net/aircover/USAflag.gif)
With government Dollars for the helicopters and boats?! Oh my, you liberal, you!
< /mocking! >
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posted on
08/29/2005 2:03:41 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Muzzle_em
It isn't up to FEMA but for citizens everywhere in this country to re-institute civil defense in their cities, towns and neighborhoods. Once that is done,you will see better preparedness for disasters and greater safety for citizens. You might even see plans to protect citizens' lives if terrorist strike again. Right now the plans only include shelter for the governmental elites. In the 1960s all major cities had shelters and plans and trained volunteers to run Civil defense programs. The American people need to reinstitute civil defense, train volunteers and start to assume responsibility for their own safety and not rely on the federal government.
To: Huck
let's just get the gubmint to buy everyone flood insurance.I believe the gubmint already runs their own flood insurance program..
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posted on
08/29/2005 2:04:06 PM PDT
by
cardinal4
(Cindy, your 15 minutes are just about up...)
To: Southack
They should be billed for it.
166
posted on
08/29/2005 2:04:26 PM PDT
by
Huck
(" 'Neo-Con' is like an old headline. Nobody will know what it means in 10 years."--Keith Richards)
To: Veritas et equitas ad Votum
Did you ever stop to think the government just might not want to risk their lives to go in and rescue the home owners. Boy I sure would hate to live in your little world.
To: exnavychick
The biggest 'Uh Oh' moment here was when everyone realized there was only 1 way out of town...up to a certain point, you could cut off and take back roads, but for the majority, it was just 4 lanes west and that was it.
It was a nightmare, and I'll be honest, the planning sucked.
168
posted on
08/29/2005 2:05:34 PM PDT
by
najida
(I run with scissors and I don't play well with others.)
To: cardinal4
Why not have a taxpayer funded insurance program to pay for everyone's disasters? Do we have that? After all, can't leave people on their own, can we?
169
posted on
08/29/2005 2:05:37 PM PDT
by
Huck
(" 'Neo-Con' is like an old headline. Nobody will know what it means in 10 years."--Keith Richards)
To: Diddle E. Squat
They're claiming the e x a c t same spot as the previous breach..?? Listen, uncle Butch's wife works a Chalmette hosp. and their calling it 9+ feet..that's catastrophic damage, intentional or not bodies will float. The elderly die in their homes..animals of all sort will perish and we will laugh at the insane comments about people evact'ing on foot over here. I wonder if these posters ever walked w/o a limb/s before? How about the blind w/o family? I could go on..for hours..or days..but you get the message. I'm looking for employment up here right now as I type this post. It will be a total loss for alot of people. Families will be displaced and seperated from each other for long periods of time. I pray for those left behind...without any options. If we can give billions to the muzzie loving Indonesians..we can give to our own.
Take care, BC
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posted on
08/29/2005 2:06:32 PM PDT
by
BayouCoyote
(The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
To: Huck
"They should be billed for it."![](http://webpages.charter.net/aircover/USAflag.gif)
The U.S. Coast Guard has actually done that; it has billed people for some nautical rescues.
After the fact.
Get them saved first, even if you have to use government resources and taxpayer Dollars.
171
posted on
08/29/2005 2:07:03 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: PhiKapMom
"What is with some of these folks?"
I am far from perfect, but a few words come to my mind:
selfishness , cold-heartedness , blindness etc....
To: BayouCoyote
Ahhh sweetie,
this is one of those 'walk a mile in their shoes moments' (OK, so it sounds libish--- you can slap me later).
But no, not everyone gets that it can be simple and quick one can go from one of 'us' to one of 'them'.
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posted on
08/29/2005 2:09:11 PM PDT
by
najida
(I run with scissors and I don't play well with others.)
To: ArmyTeach
Don't depend on the roads.
Hard won point I could not keep from forcing to every one!
It took my girlfriends mother 7 1/2 hurs to get to Baton Rouge from New Orleans. Never again!
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posted on
08/29/2005 2:10:14 PM PDT
by
BayouCoyote
(The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
To: Southack
Get them saved first, even if you have to use government resources and taxpayer Dollars. yeah, not much choice there. then give em a free pack of saltines and send them on there way. Once upon a time americans ate the family dog when times got bad enough.
176
posted on
08/29/2005 2:10:17 PM PDT
by
Huck
(" 'Neo-Con' is like an old headline. Nobody will know what it means in 10 years."--Keith Richards)
To: ClancyJ
So we should abandon NO? One of the largest ports in our country? Vital for petroleum refining and transport inland up the Mississippi?
We should abandon vacation areas that bring millions if not billions to the states?
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posted on
08/29/2005 2:10:47 PM PDT
by
pa mom
To: Huck
"Once upon a time americans ate the family dog when times got bad enough."![](http://webpages.charter.net/aircover/USAflag.gif)
We're so much wealthier, as a nation, now than then that such barbarism is no longer required for survival.
178
posted on
08/29/2005 2:12:15 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: BayouCoyote
Bayou. Isn't that a french word for a place with a lot more water than land?
179
posted on
08/29/2005 2:12:44 PM PDT
by
Huck
(" 'Neo-Con' is like an old headline. Nobody will know what it means in 10 years."--Keith Richards)
To: BayouCoyote
yeah, don't let the ignorant know-it-all squawkers here get to ya, most of us have a sense of how bad it is. Best of luck, I realize that it is all very frustrating.
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