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Posted on 08/30/2005 1:34:04 PM PDT by NautiNurse
No time to read everything but FEMA is here and helicopters are ferrying people from NO to LSU. Tent city going up on the track field. Families living in dorms with their kids, nowhere to put them. LSU and TUlane medical school are closed, trying to set up a med school in Baton Rouge. FEMA says Baton Rouge is now New Orleans. Tulane wants their students to come to LSU and decision on that is not made. Vet school doing something, don't know what. We are housing 300 people from FEMA and other fed agencies.
Everyone looks sad here.
Gulfport, MS: CNN reports that a man wearing a "DEA" shirt carrying an M-16 went into an office building. Building is now surrounded by police.
There were a few of those, but it was founded (and paid for in the very highest currency) by men from all over the world. Germans, Brits, even Frenchmen.
That said, I think we should can the interstate rivalry. We *all* have other problems right now.
They are starting the looting in Mississippi now?
getting more and more difficulty to read the bad news, lizarde....don't worry about the typos....some of us have blurry vision right now, anyways.... : (
I really hope they come out carrying a looter in a body bag. God help me, I really do hope that.
It's been happening for the last couple hours.
ropery?
Angry, desparate, opportunistic, and in a tomorrow we die mindset.
LOL.. the five finger discount kind of donation.
Army Corp. has engineers out at levee now. They have filled the giant sandbags - currently attaching slings that will attach to helicopter. This afternoon, will begin dropping giant sandbags.
Also attempting to close the gap between lake and canal.
The lake level has equalized with the water in the city, which means no more flowing in except at high tide - one hide tide coming this evening.
Lake is receding at 1/2 inch per hour.
I read somewhere on this thread that the Dallas Independent School District has even offered to let some of the kids from hurricane to come to their schools...
News conference on the breach: Water level in the city has pretty much equalized with that of the lake. Water is not rising in the city. Lake is down 2' since yesterday, and going down at a 1/2" an hour rate.
Been out doing errands for two hours...this is all anyone is talking about here (Central Florida)- everywhere I went I heard snatches of conversations...people driving to the coast to find relatives...people driving in convoys to bring help...people going out to gas up their cars..no matter where I went I heard people talking about it.
My 8 year old daughter likes to make stuffed animals. She wants to make toys for the kids.
I seriously doubt the looters have more than the fuzziest concept of "tomorrow."
Soon they will be hanging them from the few street lights remaining.
With big signs saying "looter" attached.
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