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City a woeful scene (New Orleans deteriorating further)
New Orleans Times-Picayune ^
| August 30, 2005
| By Brian Thevenot, Gordon Russell, Keith Spera and Doug MacCash
Posted on 08/30/2005 8:50:20 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War
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To: Dont Mention the War
Somebody please tell me whose responsibility it was in New Orleans to order an evacuation of the residents, and why they didn't put these school buses into use - to get people out of the city before the storm hit?
Instead of herding people into the Superdome, why didn't the mayor order the use of these buses, and get those people out of the low-lying areas?
An aerial view shows flooded school buses in New Orleans. Water began rising in the streets Tuesday morning, swamping an estimated 80 percent of the city.
To: nj26
Oh give me a home where the belt-fed's roam, and looters are scared away.....!
Where never is heard a "Gun Control" word, and criminals fear to stay!
Damn I'm glad I live in Nevada right now!
Worst we get is drought and heavy snow, flooding is rare and brief.
Looting and car-jacking just about unheard of, not safe occupation's here.
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posted on
08/30/2005 9:54:43 PM PDT
by
Richard-SIA
("The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield" JEFFERSON)
To: Peach
...these people have been on television and radio all night and the people who need them cannot hear them. You've nailed it...so often when the eye of the world is on their realm our politicians become camera whores and forget their true responsibility to the citizens.
They need to stay off the airwaves, meet at a command center with FEMA and the Red Cross and get their act together. People are stuck in attics and dying as I type this.
Amen...champion the issue and send the press secretary to the media...
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posted on
08/30/2005 9:56:06 PM PDT
by
in the Arena
(CAPT (USAF) James Wayne Herrick, Jr. (Call Sign: FireFly33). MIA Laos 27 Oct 69)
To: SubMareener
So how were the accommodations while you were at Belleview?
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posted on
08/30/2005 9:56:35 PM PDT
by
zarf
To: bluepistolero
This also solves the little looting problem. The bad seed problem. All of their problems.Travis Bickle's dream come true.
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posted on
08/30/2005 9:57:02 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Peach
Alabama and Mississippi will be on the road to recovery long before Louisiana begins the process. I can already hear the New Orleans mayor, the governor, and Mary Landrieu blame the president for Louisiana failures. They will say Louisiana's problems are bigger than Mississippi or Alabama. they will say Louisiana and New Orleans deserve more assistance, more attention, more money, more federal money faster. They will say the president has shown favortism to states with Republican governors.
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posted on
08/30/2005 9:57:32 PM PDT
by
YaYa123
To: dfwgator
Are you talkin' t'me?
bluepistolero
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posted on
08/30/2005 9:59:00 PM PDT
by
bluepistolero
(Evolution is the opiate of the messes)
To: tgslTakoma
WOW! That photo of the buses is so sad when you think of all the people they could have gotten to higher ground.
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posted on
08/30/2005 9:59:02 PM PDT
by
geopyg
("It's not that liberals don't know much, it's just that what they know just ain't so." (~ R. Reagan))
To: Dont Mention the War
Thanks so much for the link.
I can always count on the Freepers whenever anything of import is happening in the nation.
To: Dont Mention the War
3ft shark in flood waters of NO, per AM 870.
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:00:14 PM PDT
by
spunkets
To: Richard-SIA
Damn I'm glad I live in Nevada right now! Anti under-prepared Democrat Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!
(And yes, I do mean Torpedo....)
Yeah, I'm in Arizona, and we never get mass flooding.
That's 'cuz our governor is the biggest "dike" there is!
No cheers, due to Katrina.
Prayers for all!
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:01:26 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: rightwinggoth
Is it because people are getting stupid due to drinking themselves into oblivian?
I heard on the news that a couple of guys with AK's came in and shot up a police station then left after there was return fire no injuries.
Then an Officer trying to do his job in stopping looters was shot in the face, he is ok. Must have been a graze.
What the hell is wrong with people?
What a bunch of losers to go off like wild Gorillas.
Kudos to those acting in Brotherly Love and doing the right thing.
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:02:25 PM PDT
by
oceanperch
(Central Oregon Coast Rocks! Pride of the Pacific Northwest)
To: jocon307
----Both Nagin & Blanco can plan on not being re-elected.---- Blanco's a shoo-in. Bank on it.
-Dan
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:03:03 PM PDT
by
Flux Capacitor
(Trust me. I know what I'm doing.)
To: tgslTakoma
Good point. I was thinking of whatever city bus system they had or even semis, whatever it took. It would've kept those busses from being ruined, as well.
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:06:03 PM PDT
by
skr
To: Flux Capacitor
Blanco's a shoo-in. Bank on it.New Democrat voters floating down the streets by the dozen.
To: Dont Mention the War
Sometimes when there is a big disaster, folks will say it's almost biblical or almost apocalyptic. This is both biblical and apocalyptic.
To: grey_whiskers
"That's 'cuz our governor is the biggest "dike" there is!"
Bada bing!
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:10:55 PM PDT
by
jocon307
To: Dont Mention the War
To: SubMareener
[Off Topic rebuttal alert]
According to Glatzmaier, the ongoing 10% decline doesn't mean that a reversal is imminent. "The field is increasing or decreasing all the time," he says. "We know this from studies of the paleomagnetic record." Earth's present-day magnetic field is, in fact, much stronger than normal.
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:15:10 PM PDT
by
D-fendr
To: spunkets
3ft shark in flood waters of NO, per AM 870.I was wondering when they would show up.
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posted on
08/30/2005 10:15:51 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(Life is like a cow pasture, it's hard to get through without stepping in some mess.)
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