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

[tgslTakoma]

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.

[Richard-SIA]

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!

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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.

[in the Arena]

...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...

[zarf]

So how were the accommodations while you were at Belleview?

[dfwgator]

This also solves the little looting problem. The bad seed problem. All of their problems.

Travis Bickle's dream come true.

[YaYa123]

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.

[bluepistolero]

Are you talkin' t'me?

bluepistolero

[geopyg]

WOW! That photo of the buses is so sad when you think of all the people they could have gotten to higher ground.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

Thanks so much for the link.

I can always count on the Freepers whenever anything of import is happening in the nation.

[spunkets]

3ft shark in flood waters of NO, per AM 870.

[grey_whiskers]

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!

[oceanperch]

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.

[Flux Capacitor]

----Both Nagin & Blanco can plan on not being re-elected.----

Blanco's a shoo-in. Bank on it.

-Dan

[skr]

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.

[cryptical]

Blanco's a shoo-in. Bank on it.

New Democrat voters floating down the streets by the dozen.

[fortunecookie]

Sometimes when there is a big disaster, folks will say it's almost biblical or almost apocalyptic. This is both biblical and apocalyptic.

[jocon307]

"That's 'cuz our governor is the biggest "dike" there is!"

Bada bing!

[LibFreeOrDie]

It's getting worse: Children's Hospital under siege

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473893/posts

[D-fendr]

[Off Topic rebuttal alert]

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[Inyo-Mono]

3ft shark in flood waters of NO, per AM 870.

I was wondering when they would show up.