Posted on 08/31/2005 10:28:28 AM PDT by spycatcher
You can get local retailers to collect money for the Salvation Army.
If everyone else is like my family in Mississippi, the following would be useful:
Bottled water, batteries, diapers, nonperishable food.
Like my relatives, many people had their own water wells and need electricity to for the water pumps to operate. So if your friends could chip in for a generator, it would make some family's year. I was able to purchase a couple of generators and a lot of water in Texas this morning and send back to my family.
Make lots of cinnamon toast. Series cash is best also pray and welcome to free republic
thanks
Yep, it's looking like N.O. is going to be 10-15K alone.
I can say that the people who were smart enough to get out did so. How many lives would have been taken if the city was full when the storm hit?
Have a friend looking for Ed and Patti Jenkins from Van Cleave, Miss; also, for Gary Llandelar from Pascagoula, Miss
"I can say that the people who were smart enough to get out did so. How many lives would have been taken if the city was full when the storm hit?"
Yes, at least we had the capability to warn people beforehand. Unlike the tsunami where it was on them with no warning. Without warning, we would have seen casualties similiar to the tsunami.
Just wow!
The tsunami's wave was thousands of miles long, not 1 mile long, hitting India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, even Africa 5000 miles away. The wave was 80-100 feet tall when it hit Aceh (Indonesia). And while Katrina might be worse as far as economic damage, the human toll will not compare to the 200,000 dead across the Indian Ocean. Comparisons aside, we need to do all that we can to help those suffering now.
Long, wide, deep, what I meant was a mile wide, 25' tall and thousand of miles long. I was under the impression the wave could be no taller then the up down movement of the earth below it. I also understand that could not have been more then 40 maybe 50 feet.
Maybe you could contact the Houston Astrodome directly? Stuff for the kids is a great idea.
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