Katrina Live Thread, Part XI

Various ^ | 30 August 2005 | Various

[tcrlaf]

To ALL...

I've been gone for a while....

Am I just imagining it? Or are the reporters all fleeing New Orleans?

[Cboldt]

Shep has been standing on that highway giving location information - speaking to a police officer ...

And that public official, the police officer, has no more power to get supplies than does the state police woman later interviewed.

The big lesson, IMO, is to learn self-reliance, and admit that public coordniated efforts can not be reliably well-executed. The organized effort is very well intentioned, but can't reasonably be expected to get everything right.

[Spktyr]

Yes, but since it's a Dim-dominated city, what makes you think they have actual bullets? Like, that could hurt their constituents! (Criminals) /sarc

[Pyro7480]

Please do not post Islamic rants or your response to them on the thread. Thank you.

[Howlin]

http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showtopic=48689

Is Grand Isle still there?

[winodog]

It makes me wonder what might have happened if Katrina had not been weakened at the last minute and had slammed the coast with a full 5.

[beyond the sea]

Jean Misserve

.... a double fault.

[Rumierules]

Those with the means and resources to help could easily be discouraged from doing so because of the looters/ hi-jackers.

Unfortunately, the looters have too many apologists.

[Spktyr]

At this point, *everyone* who is left (except the looters) are trying to get out.

[Moose4]

Yeah. Somehow my checking account being overdrawn suddenly doesn't look so bad.

}:-)4

[spectre]

Drama? You are one cold hearted SOB...That kid was/is on the verge of death. KMA and GTH...how's that for drama?

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[Coldwater Creek]

I hope that it is just a rumor!!!!!!!!

[Peach]

Will they be able to get the fire under control and what is the probabiity of natural gas leaks?

[Blogger]

I doubt it.

[LibWrangler]

You know, I found that blog by reading Hugh Hewitt's site.

I should have known.

[tcrlaf]

***Becoming all to clear that the LA elected officials had no idea what they were doing, unbelievably sad..***

These people live in Hurricane Alley, and the city doen't even have pre-positioned WATER?

Even Indianpolis has some limited stocks of water or MRE's before they have to start robbing the Wal-Marts!

What Democrat idiot is going to take the blame for decades of improper planning?

[dfwgator]

I mean think about it, we are literally witnessing a city dying right before our eyes, imagine if CNN was around during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, or Galveston or the Johnstown Flood. This could wind up making those three seem pale in comparison.

[AmericanInTokyo]

This fellow (and more like him) may well be a lot more effective than spineless, pandering elected officials in Baton Rouge steeped in and handcuffed by their political correctness when it comes to looters and public security:

But who gives the order? When is the order?

[Not A Snowbird]

Yeah. Somehow my checking account being overdrawn suddenly doesn't look so bad.

Spending too much on Livingston's cat food?

[backhoe]

"I think a lot of our priorities just got rearranged." Agreed. I had a call yesterday from a friend who called me and said after seeing this tragedy he feels very lucky to have a home, a job, a family, and friends. Just the basics.

Damn straight- we're cool, dry, and have a sound roof over our heads. That Angusburger I had for lunch? There are probably over a million people on the Gulf Coast who would kill for one, and think it a meal fit for a King.