Irma Simmons is carried by New Orleans Fire and Rescue officer Thor Barr Monday after being rescued in a New Orleans Police Department boat in the 7th Ward of the city. (AP)
Posted on 08/29/2005 6:14:55 PM PDT by Howlin
Several people have requested a thread JUST for images of the storm.
Post them here, please.
I have friends in Covington, LA...any pics from there would be appreciated. They decided to try and ride the storm out. Haven't been able to get a hold of them since. :( We told them to LEAVE, but they wouldn't.
Keeps the cars from floating away? It's going to flood the car anyway, so you might as well let it in. It's not something I would have though to do.
The dolphins must be a wonderful diversion to the people who stayed at the hotel and weathered the storm. I'd be hanging out by the pool watching them as often as possible. They are just so cute!
No, and most likely we won't. Like Chavez and his cynical offer to sell cheap oil to the poor this winter, these leaders are more interested in making political points than they are in actually going in to help people.
Besides, what how would they help? Paying back the money we've loaned them more quickly? Not accepting our foreign aid? They're barely able to help themselves, let alone "lower" themselves to helping us, even by offering something symbolic, like search helicopters, dogs, or personnel.
Nope, once again, the "evil capitalists" are going to prove to the world that there is one system that doesn't require the help that's not being offered. We help each other. That's why you're going to see power trucks pouring in from other states, license plates from all over the country getting as close as possible to render assistance wherever they're allowed to, and money coming in from groups and individuals to help give the area a fighting chance to recover from this devastation.
All the while, we're pulling two other countries out of the depths of tyranny and pouring aid to impoverished nations everywhere. Let's take those foreign aid dollars that are being sent to the Palestinians and pump them into rebuilding Biloxi, Mobile, New Orleans, Gulf Shores, and the other cities that actually add value to the world, rather than export terror.
/rant
I currently live in Homestead. The bill to turn the air base into a cargo landing site for MIA is pretty much dead in the water now. 9-11 seems to have put an end to it. We not have daily F-16 flights out of the base and many more military stationed their.
When I first moved to Homestead we saw very few people in military uniform in town, since 9-11 we see many more from all branches of service.
Katrina was also much wider than Andrew. :-(
A salt water pool? Huh?
Thank you! I had just been wandering what a side view looks like.
What the heck is on fire there?
Chills on reading caption. We do have many heroes in this great country of ours. Thanks for posting this great pic.
WDSU reported yesterday that the building on fire is a yacht club.
That will be priceless. They chase the storms and bug people who are preparing for the storm. A few years ago a reporter in Key West asked a resident why he was still there when they should be evacuating. He asked the reporter why he was there. LOL!
I saw that interview - made me cry. To think that these folks have no where to go is just heartbreaking.
Ping to the picture of the Hyatt New Orleans in Post 24.
I was supposed to go to a convention in New Orleans in just over a month. The HQ hotel for that convention is the Hyatt. I want to pass along the picture source to the administrators running the convention. (Thanks in advance.)
We were supposed to have a convention at the Hyat in Oct. Wonder what the plans are now?
I don't think they're going to be "fine" for long without water, power, food and everything rotting from the water. (Not to mention potential disease, snakes, alligators, etc.)
It's very heartbreaking! Going through the storm is traumatic enough but to lose everything on top of that seems more than one can bear. Really puts the focus on how precious life is.
Irma Simmons is carried by New Orleans Fire and Rescue officer Thor Barr Monday after being rescued in a New Orleans Police Department boat in the 7th Ward of the city. (AP)
Marshall Martin, on the roof, passes 3-month-old Christopher Collins to New Orleans Fire and Rescue officer Jonathan Pajeaud while the child's grandmother, Sheila Martin, waits on a water craft during evacuations in the 7th Ward of New Orleans on Monday. (AP)
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