Posted on 08/30/2005 8:50:20 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War
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Weber sat among hundreds of refugees rescued Tuesday from rooftops, attics and floating debris in the 9th Ward and St. Bernard Parish by an armada of more than 100 boats. Officials from the Coast Guard estimated they pulled thousands of people off of rooftops and attics, many with stories as grim as Weber’s. Officials believed hundreds and maybe thousands more remained in peril. They declined to estimate the number of dead. That will come later.
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Then, in an evening press conference, Mayor Ray Nagin announced that the already crippled city would take yet another blow: Another surge of water from the failed 17th Street Canal levee that could push an additional 10 feet of water into already waterlogged neighborhoods – and possibly flood the remaining dry sections of Uptown.
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Uptown resident Keith Williams started his own security patrol, driving around in his Ford pickup with his newly purchased handgun. Earlier in the day, Williams said he had seen the body of a gunshot victim near the corner of Leonidas and Hickory streets.
"What I want to know is why we don’t have paratroopers with machine guns on every street," Williams said.
Like-minded Art Depodesta sat on the edge of a picnic table outside Cooter Brown’s Bar, a chrome shotgun at his side loaded with red shells.
"They broke into the Shell station across the street," he said. "I walked over with my 12-gauge and shot a couple into the air."
The looters scattered, but soon after, another man appeared outside the bar in a pickup truck armed with a pistol and threatened Depodesta.
"I told him, ‘Listen, I was in the Army and I will blow your ass off,’" Depodesta said. "We’ve got enough trouble with the flood."
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I've heard about the magnetic poles shifting occasionally over the many eons of Earth's existence.
Other than confusing migratory birds and homing pigeons, I don't know what effects this will cause, although I assume navigation aids will be affected.
Do you know of any specific effects of a shift of magnetic poles?
That happened with Andrew, too. They didn't find Homestead had been destroyed until the second day aerial reconnaisance.
No. They made a tough decision.
They decided it was more important to divert the helicopters to rescue work as the attempt to plug the levee didn't have much hope of working anyway...it was too wide.
The heard they'd been dumping all sorts of things in the breach, including a lot of junk cars from salvage.
They gave up and went to save lives.
I think the difference is that insurance proceeds don't have to be repaid. The other payouts will probably be in the form of a low interest loan.
"They ought to take the governor of LA out and shoot her in a public display and then take the mayor of NO out and let the crowd tear the prick from limb to limb."
LOL. Are you sure your name isn't "no mercy"?
This is the reason we need local militias
More and more, New Orleans is looking like a city which should not be saved. It is doomed to a future repeat because of it's precarious, below-sea-level location and utterly incompetent government.
LA used to have one of the best State Defense Forces/State Guards/State Militias in the country. Hurricane Andrew, you may recall, did not stop at Florida, but crossed the Gulf and hit Louisiana too. The LA State Guard was in the streets, pulling armed secuity patrols *3 days* before the LANG could get authorization from the Feds to turn out with their Federal equipment.
VietVet
The story now is, what is to be done.
Every hour that people are not being removed from the cesspool that is the former New Orleans is an hour closer to epidemic disease and mass casualty.
The city that was New Orleans no longer exists. Too much time is being wasted on the past, and not enough is being spent on the present and the immediate future.
Just one example, from my field of expertise:
Vectorborne disease, including malaria and yellow fever, has the potential to become a huge, short-term problem. There is a Federal ban on the production and use of DDT.
What is being done to suspend the ban, produce large quantities of DDT, and obtain or produce sufficient equipment for widespread aerial spraying of SE Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast?
If there is any excuse at all for FEMA, it is for large-scale evac and rescue operations.
Where is the temporary housing for 500 000 people going to be located and when will it be ready?
If FEMA does not have a contingency plan for this, then FEMA should be dissolved.
What would happen if a nuke went off in San Diego? Where would the survivors go?
A FEMA contingency plan had better extend beyond the plan for the press conference praising state and local partners.
Yeah, so if we're supposed to lose our magnetic shield and the atmosphere is supposed to be blown away by solar winds and leave us a dead planet like Mars, HOW COME we still have an atmosphere?
Supposedly this phenomenon of reversal of the magnetic poles has happened in the past ...maybe dozens of times. Yet Earth still has life.
Could you clarify what is supposed to happen? I don't believe the Chicken Little report on NOVA.
Had a few beers there myself when I lived on Calhoun.
So, how many cans of beans are you up to now?
they look like confused, impotent little alligators.
I was thinking the same thing - and he'd save the buses too!
"Free flowing liquor and complaining about the government?"
Sounds like the last Democratic National Convention. Actually, I would complain myself if I was up to my knees in fetid flood water.
Need more guys like him.
Hey Bruck -
If you have time, read the whole article. I have the eerie feeling that much of the country is ignorant of what's really happening (and what may happen) down here.
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