Posted on 08/29/2005 12:39:10 PM PDT by Smogger
Mayor Ray Nagin said that 200 people were stranded on rooftops in the Lower Ninth Ward and several “bodies are floating in the water” in the Bywater neighborhood and in Eastover.
Nagin made the announcement in his first press briefing after Hurricane Katrina slammed just east of the city, but did plenty of devastation to New Orleans.
Nagin said that the 200 stranded people included 20 police officers who were riding out the storm at their homes in preparation to take over shifts from other officers. He said that boats would be dispatched on rescue missions later in the afternoon.
Mayor Nagin issued a "boil water" recommendation for water in the city - except for Algiers and the CBD due to a water main line break that may have compromised the water.
Nagin said at least 20 buildings in the city had collapsed and that it might be 48 hours before residents would be allowed back to their homes to assess the damage.
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Bump.
Because they'd rather not add your body to the morgue count. Probably because they think that just because someone may be stupid doesn't mean they deserve to die.
There are a lot of moccasins floating around out there, why not pick up a pair sometime?
Oh man, that was wicked! ;-) But true. That little whiny Demo weenie really ticked me off this morning.
*Sigh*
Yes, because someone who may behave foolishly deserves to DIE. Aren't you glad no one condemns you to death for the foolish things you have done in your life.
Yeah, walked.. good answer.. sheesh, get a grip dude. I guess they could have just put the kids in the shopping cars and wheeled their way to Atlanta in 4 days.
Yep. I'm all for limited government, but there are a lot more pressing abuses of our taxpayer dollars to get upset about.
Are you always this stupid or did you just "stay in a Holiday Inn" last night?
Quite possible. When the Flint River flooded here in GA a couple of years ago, one of the more serious problems they encountered was LOTS of coffins popping up out of the ground and floating away on the floodwater. They would run into stuff and be broken open, and then the bodies would be floating around loose.
Friend of mine from Albany (ground zero of the flood) said that all the public works people were permanently grossed out because they kept encountering bodies and parts of bodies all over the place. Some were so traumatized that they wound up going on disability.
So yeah, the bodies could be of folks who were already dead. Let's hope so.
The NO guy backs up and goes through the steps, yada yada yada, and finishes with "...and IF the city floods, and
IF the pumps stop working, we'll open the appropriate gates to let the water flow out..."
Hah! Good thing death isn't the punishment for foolish posts, or a lot of folks would be on death row!
I was listening to one New Orleans resident being interviewed on the radio today.
He lent several of his neighbors $50 so they could buy gas and leave town.
Not everyone has gas money to leave everytime a hurricane warning is up.
And not everyone has a car.
And where do they stay when they have trouble even getting money for gas?
What if their car breaksdown on the causeway or only a few miles from home?
And meanwhile, their homes are looted while they are away, and they have no insurance because there's no money.
What do they do when they have no money?
Do you realize there are people hanging on to rooftops right now because they have no car or no money for gas?
Exactly. There are many reasons for not evacuating, and hardly any of them are just willful stupidity.
Let's shut down the NOAA. Every natural disaster will be an act of God, then. No need to warn the citizenry, eh?
We form governments from among ourselves to provide for the Common Defense.
In cases like this, residents would want police and other Common Defense (read fire, power, etc.) to be able to be back in these areas before letting other citizens because the "other citizens" just might be looters.
It takes time to clear roads of power lines, trees, bodies, etc.
Loooking at the map, One would have had to find the few islands of high ground in the area. You have to get more than 60 miles before you are away from water of some sort.
Loooking at the map, One would have had to find the few islands of high ground in the area. You have to get more than 60 miles before you are away from water of some sort.
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