Posted on 08/30/2005 10:06:30 PM PDT by Free Vulcan
Edited on 08/31/2005 3:28:17 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Late Tuesday, Gov. Blanco spokeswoman Denise Bottcher described a disturbing scene unfolding in uptown New Orleans, where looters were trying to break into Children's Hospital.
Bottcher said the director of the hospital fears for the safety of the staff and the 100 kids inside the hospital. The director said the hospital is locked, but that the looters were trying to break in and had gathered outside the facility.
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No Children's Hospital Looting 4:35 p.m.
Doug Mittelstaedt, vice-president of Human Resources for Children's Hospital in New Orleans, said one of the biggest issues at the hospital on Wednesday was debunking the prevalent rumor that looters had stormed the hospital.
Mittelstaedt said things actually were operating smoothly at the hospital - the generator was running efficiently and efforts to relocate patients were going well - but fighting the rumor was a major issue.
Officials had to lock the doors of the hospital because people had arrived, apparently thinking there was a mob scene and they could get in on looting.
He said the hospital has been flooded with calls offering assistance from other Children's Hospitals in Louisiana and Texas. "The amount of calls we have gotten for support have been overwhelming," Mittelstaedt said. "The phones literally have been ringing off the hook."
With so many calls, Mittelstaedt said officials have been able to match up the 100 patients with hospitals that specialize in the particular treatments for each.
A Democrat. And ( I hate saying it) a woman whose response to the crisis does not go far beyond hand wringing and excuse making.
No lights, pilots unfamiliar with the topography and power lines it would be suicide.
dawn53 wrote: You're your own "grammar police."
Yep. LOL (o:
dawn53 wrote: "I don't know that anybody expected the situation to deteriorate this quickly, I sure didn't."
You're right, after all the water is still rising in New Orleans last I heard...
"Authority is still in the Governor and Mayor's hands, I guess. They need to call in the Feds to take over."
I would agree with you on this - turn it over to the National Guard at least, if not the available military in the area. I'm not a fan of martial law, but I don't think that's what we're talking about.
Rescue Operations are needed. They are calling some areas' search efforts "Recovery Operations" at this point - I say shuffle those in areas where most all are deceased over to NOLA to get the people out... But, I'm not an expert here.
Martial law needs to be declared yesterday. I remember Old Man Daley issuing shoot to kill orders during the '68 riots. The same needs to happen here.
bluepistolero
This is unreal.
I use to think those movies of the ruthlessness of the future after the world was destroyed by the bombs were nonsense.
Apparently not. The evil elements are mad and out to take what they can.
I hope these kids have their parents there with them.
Nobody will watch out for you like mom or dad, despite what the liberals would like us to think.
Oh I was thinking more a long the lines of stuff that goes Whoof and inflames on impact. Where is a pack of rabid rottweilers when you need them?
Understood, you are right. It does need to be an organized effort. Even with a contingency plan I suppose it's extremely difficult to move that many people and supplies.
The Lady Guv needs to wipe off the makeup and take off the high heels, get out the hip waders and get out there slogging.
I thought about the druggies today. I figured some battles would break out in cities recieving the refugees as the dealers and junkies began plying their trade elsewhere. Having been to the French Quarter once or twice, I wondered where the hookers, strippers, pimps, muggers, and thieves had ended up. Looks like they stuck around.
I believe this is what allowing people to loot gains you. I'm a pretty hard nosed person when it comes to looting. We all pay for it in higher insurance premiums and taxes. Today they even shot a police officer.
There should be an understanding from here on out, if you're caught looting, your life is on the line. It had been my understanding that looting would not be tolerated. Then the 1992 riots in LA came along and people looted with glee.
I guess this is supposed to be a consentual reparation or something, but I'm not buying it.
We have 500,000 troops, and only 130,000 are in Iraq.
It's just that every available person is deployed trying to save people who might drown in the next few hours.
The looters know this, and take advantage.
We have raised a generation of "humans" who only do what is right when they are certain they will get caught, and otherwise do whatever the h*ll they feel like.
Just last week I wrote about how parents trampled one another to get cheap computers in Richmond. That seems so trivial now that looters are shooting police in the head and threatening to take out a hospital.
This almost makes ME want to get some guns. You can't count on police in emergencies, and you apparently can't count on the goodwill of a population raised to behave themselves, because the liberals have been in charge of education for the past 40 years and this is what we end up with -- a generation of lawless rioters and looters barely contained by an ever-increasing police presence.
Full story mentions they are armed and most are wearing fur coats.
My guess is lots of them would kill the children if it would get them the drugs.
She's waiting for a man to fix it. She talked the talk, but when it's time to walk, she runs - the other way.
I figured they had evacuated the hospitals. Poor children, I hope their parents are with them.
I would guess security is the only reason the looters haven't gotten in, but a few guards with handguns won't be much of a match for a hundred crazed people with ak-47s.
you wrote:
"when you put people in project-housing and give them handouts they don't learn how to deal with day-to-day life.... and these are the same people who think looting WalMart or the local WinDixie is okay..."
SADLY..it is OK..as these people are in survivor mode right now. A stark and painful reminder..that the federal gov can not help all at any given moment of a natural tragedy of this magnitude. Looks like Waterworld the Movie to me...I love this region..born near and raised in symphony with these folks...I have been crying all day..let's help these people anyway we can.
And some other things as well. Like prisoners.
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