Posted on 08/30/2005 5:25:03 PM PDT by va4me
****ALL RESIDENTS ON THE EAST BANK OF ORLEANS AND JEFFERSON REMAINING IN THE METRO AREA ARE BEING TOLD TO EVACUATE AS EFFORTS TO SANDBAG THE LEVEE BREAK HAVE ENDED. THE PUMPS IN THAT AREA ARE EXPECTED TO FAIL SOON AND 9 FEET OF WATER IS EXPECTED IN THE ENTIRE EAST BANK. WITHIN THE NEXT 12-15 HOURS****
>>>When this is all done, a lot of questions need to be asked why the governor didn't enforce a full, mandatory evacuation (with public transportation for the poor) out of the city.>>>
There will be alot of questions asked of the governor. A crisis is when you see what someone is made of and this woman is not made to lead in a catastrophe. Shame for La. Shame they were more worried about governement handouts than someone who could take care of them in a different, better way.
I think we pretty much all agree that stealing food if you are hungry is something we would all do. And just leave it at that. Nothing to argue about, it's just a fact of life.
>>>The city will fill with water until it equilibrates with the water level of the lake ( = 3 feet above sea level.)>>>
So this is what they have been talking about for 250 years now, huh? Wow.
Amen. Yeah, I kind of left that out in my "brilliant" analysis, didn't I? You need a place to pump the water into. Putting it right back into the Lake isn't going to pay the landlord here, is it?
>>>But I was watching the weather channel Friday afternoon. Was she? What the hell were these people thinking?>>>
NO KIDDING!?!! Even at the best case scenario, the weather service was in near panic at the no avoidance of national disaster for New Orleans. What did, they think just suggesting to the poor to leave was enough?
Something airlifted in by helicopter. Junk cars, whatever.
I live in a town half the size of NO. After the beach erosion caused by Dora, we brought in thousand railroad cars filled with new England boulders, and lined about twenty miles of beach.
NO has had decades to prepare for this. I can hardly count the number of Discovery Channel shows I've watched predicting this.
It's all flooded, for miles around.
This page has a link to a video of a helicopter tour of NOLA and surrounding flooded areas:
http://www.wwltv.com
Look below the photo for the first link, "Aerial video of city".
The video has been split into several parts, 1 through 5, due to its length.
The reporter could not believe the extent of the flooding.
You think looting is harmless?
Breakdown in law-n-order is infectious, like a disease:
"The New Orleans police officer shot in the head by a looter Tuesday was expected to survive, officials said.
The officer, who has not been identified, was in surgery at West Jefferson Medical Center after being shot in the forehead, police said.
The officer was shot by a looter after he and another officer confronted a number of looters at a Chevron store at Shirley and Gen. DeGaulle.
Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies on the scene arrested four people in connection with the shooting. One of the looters reportedly was shot in the arm by an officer during a shootout."
River, on the New Orleans Chalmette city line.
It's the keel of the ship that's about to break...
Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies on the scene arrested four people in connection with the shooting. One of the looters reportedly was shot in the arm by an officer during a shootout."
Just 4!! Those JP's should be reprimanded for their terrible shooting..DAMN!!
Another thing, J parish is the neighboring parish with it's own PD. I live less, well use to live less than 4 miles from that location. Congrats to the JP's!
This is about the only case where I don't really care about the looting.
What's being looted today would be ruined by the water tomorrow. As far as I can tell, looting is essentially harmless at this time.
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The whole place is sinking according to an Army Corps guy I heard this afternoon. If the Mississippi changes course as I understand it does on occasion, if the Gulf erodes any more land as it is doing, it's goodbye New Orleans. I ain't no engineer, but to me, who lives in the highlands no where near any major body of water, the area looks too wet to sustain life much longer. I can't imagine living in a place with giant cockroaches and high humidity all year long. Yuck!
Nice.
You shoot looters early to maintain order. You warn the ones taking food to leave notes on what was taken and where they can be found later. You kill the ones taking TV's.
Why?
Before you know it, they are looting the Children's Hospital.
My Dad had that thankless job roaming the streets in Watts in 1967 in the National Guard.
Thieves have no honor..if only it was a matter of survival, but it seems..chaos has started in New Orleans.
You were right, and I was wrong. Guess I was thinking with my brain, that theywere innocently going to stop with food or water. I was naive.
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