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Posted on 08/31/2005 4:00:15 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Homeland Security Handouts probably went for that communications RV that's underwater...
Shep says someone is coming on shortly to talk about the citizens he has seen walking around NO with AK-47's.
There is a difference from 9/11. There was still power, and a limited area was affected. I agree with you that someone should be passing information somewhere, helicopters flying over with loudspeakers or something. But, I don't think 9/11 is comparable.
Shep just said corresponent Goldblatt is witnessing citizens walking around with AK-47s...
I suggest you try to find an 80s Statler Brothers version. It's the most beautiful version I've ever heard.
Thank you for your lovely post, and for your screen name.
I suspect what he's alluding to is walking around FIRING AK47's at will...
Unconfirmed reports of citizens of NO walking around with AK47's per Shep on Fox news.
Hmm...good point:) Perhaps I chose the wrong word...landing next to the dome- bringing in supplies...
Anderson Cooper talking about the bad smell in Bay St Louis...body recovery..finding bodies every HOUR..
Did the Clinton administration do ANYTHING other than issue warnings about how terrible everything was going to be after they got out of office? I could have told you that in 1993.
"To: jeffers
I hope you are not making excuses for the pitifully poor management in New Orleans right now. "
I'm telling you, personally, that we don't have time to waste even asking that question until all of the people at risk are either safe or dead.
The Feds are in charge now. If they make mistakes that put people at risk, then that problem would need to be indentified and fixed, quickly.
But until all of those people have been rescued and fed and watered or buried, what happened two days ago or five days ago or years ago, simply doesn't matter.
We have higher priorities now.
This is a triage situation.
The overriding criteria right now how to be, "which action will save the most people?"
Nothing else matters.
Also from that page:
HELPPP from writes:
5851. BAPTIST HOSIPTAL EMERGENCY
by Jillybean82, 8/31/05 16:52 ET
Baptist hospital has been taken over with guns. it is horrible. I talked to my friend who is a nurse. she was screaming that is terrible. there are bodies just everywhere. people are stealing all there supplies.
i don't know how to get this information to the news station. This is first hand information.
there is 25ft of water in the hospital. Please please help.
- Jilljill0782@aol.com
Obviously can't be verified at this point, but distressing.
Good God in Heaven, it's complete chaos down there!
BOTTOM LINE...
In ANY Major Disaster, and, GOD FORBID, one of this size. it's ALWAYS been known that it takes 36-72 hours to mount any kind of a large rescue effort...
Local municipalities are ON THERE OWN for the first 48+ hours..
They taught us that 20 YEARS ago, when I was a CD volunteer. The idea of community self -elp and self-reliance broke down when the first looter looked at the cop and smiled, and he walked on
they is local and state governments.
People are dying in attics as I type this post.
They aren't Shep is in the middle of these people. A three-year was having heat stroke this afternoon and finally his crew dropped water and ice down to them to help revive him...
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