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Posted on 08/30/2005 6:51:27 AM PDT by NautiNurse
TX troopers sealed off the border yesterday....La. doesnt have the personnel
President Bush returning to Washington, D.C. because of the hurricane.
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You are exactly right!!!!!
flat-out guarantee: the ants are fire-ants, and they are pissed.
the flood of 18May95 in NOLA taught me about messing with floating clots of irked fireants.
Milllions of C.Y.!
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Wow! They're sending the USS Iwo Jima?
What a great idea indeed. [I reckon it
will take a ship to get in there, at this
point.]
I always wonder what we'd do and if our EOC would flood in the event of a major storm...our city EOC is downtown near 8th street and 4 ave south.
It's easy: media helos would be getting in the way of essential flights. OTOH, I'd be surprised if the media helos weren't being requisitioned for essential tasks.
dood....
So is Brian Williams still staying in the Superdome? If I were him, I would pull strings to get myself out!
Anywhere is better then trap on a roof in rising waters. Texas is close by and we are generious folk here. Finding temporary housing for 80,000 or 500,000 is doable.
I have seen many similar comments and people need to understand very clearly:
The water CANNOT RECEDE from the City of New Orleans.
The water must be pumped out. The vast majority of these people will need to be rescued/evacuated long before any sort of reasonable life sustaining services are available.
This is not a 'wait it out and hope for the best' situtation - it is a 'get out as soon as you can anyway you can' situation.
It may be because they are flying rescue in the area, which would have them back and forth all over the relatively small area (compared to numbers of flights). Too, the ones under duress most likely don't have television to panic them. There is no video feed in the Superdome is there? That would be the main place that panic could ensue and really cause problems.
WSDU - Report of two deaths in the SuperDome
"Leave the city immediately if you can. Take Crescent City exit."
Evacuees calling Superdome conditions "miserable". No a/c, bathrooms are filthy with overflowing trash. Natl. Guard keeping people from leaving. Two have died inside the dome.
"Bodies floating by, according to survivors."
They are broadcasting from Jackson, MS.
""The plan was to get everyone out by telling them to evacuate. But people don't often respond, either because they have no vehicle, no money, etc. Tragic beyond belief.""
Knowing that was a mitigating factor, it should have been part of the plan. The truth is those in charge of New Orleans and this state have enriched themselves and neglected their duty. Even my liberal sister is starting to get it. The light is being shown on the corruption finally. I hope every last one of the crooks pays for their criminal negligence.
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