Katrina Live Thread XII

I count 68 buses in that pic............

You can fit what, 30-40 people on each?

941 posted on 08/31/2005 7:37:11 PM PDT by hole_n_one

According to Fox, some of the critically ill children were air-lifted to Houston. One parent might have gotten to go, the other has to find own way there.

942 posted on 08/31/2005 7:37:16 PM PDT by mathluv (Mercy shown to an evil man is cruelty to the innocent.)

Makes me green as well -- have noticed oil slicks starting to appear in some places as well.

943 posted on 08/31/2005 7:37:45 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)

Listen to this spinning about the looting Greta has some city official of NO.

944 posted on 08/31/2005 7:37:48 PM PDT by Dog

Sorry Gov....leaders DON'T BEG ....they LEAD.

Not only that, but they need to lead in a timely fashion.

945 posted on 08/31/2005 7:37:55 PM PDT by meyer (Eastern Tennessee)

I never said I needed to see it.

I said journalistically, I think it should be shown.

946 posted on 08/31/2005 7:38:00 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)

To: rwfromkansas

If you don't have a TV or radio, how can you find out there is a bus?

Actually, they went up and down streets with bullhorns and PA systems telling people about the buses to the Dome.

947 posted on 08/31/2005 7:38:10 PM PDT by Tuxedo (This space for rent.)

To: rwfromkansas

If you don't have a TV or radio, how can you find out there is a bus?

If there are no buses provided how can you get on a bus?

948 posted on 08/31/2005 7:38:13 PM PDT by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)

Aren't all these looters who are trudging all over the city through the filth likely to be some of the first one's to get sick and start spreading disease? The children, too..

949 posted on 08/31/2005 7:38:21 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn

Hi folks, I thought I'd say a little about my area, which isn't exactly a media hotspot. I live in Jones County, MS, nearly a hundred miles north of the Gulf. We were pounded all day Monday, with the most intense winds- up to a 110 miles an hour- between 12:00 and 3:00 or so. It was awful- I have never been through a genuine hurricane before, so I have nothing to gauge it against, but let me tell you it was no fun. There were trees splintering and crashing all around our house. There was of course no power or telephones; no cell phone service, and our battery powered radio was little good because no local station was on the air. We have been getting news in tiny snippets; word of mouth, the occasional radio bulletin that concerns our area. Not having even basic communication technology is maddening. Being stuck in a hot, humid house with four other people in the midst of a raging storm is no fun. Talk about stress... The next day we got up and saw the damage. Our yard was- is- like a war zone, tree trunks splintered ten feet up, the grass invisible beneath a carpet of pine limbs. Our power line is curled up in the ditch, snapped. The road in front of our house was clogged with tree after tree after tree. Our neighbor down the road had every last one of his ten or twenty fifty-plus year old pines leveled.

One of the nice things about Mississippi, however, is that there are lots of guys with pick-up trucks, ATV's, and chainsaws, so our roads were cleared by Tuesday evening. We drove into Ellisville, our little town, after driving under dangling power masts and lines, and around great old oak trees and pecans. It was awful. I nearly cried. Century-old trees toppled, houses with holes in them, roofs crumpled like tin foil. People just walking around or sitting on their porches looking out into space. It's hot. If you've never lived down here you don't know what it's like. You lose the AC and life quickly gets miserable. You think you're under stress; try it when it's a hundred degrees outside. Our house lacked water for part of Tuesday; some parts of the county still don't have water. But we're fortunate; at least seven people died in our county, where there were no evacuation orders or anything.

Tonight I'm at a relative's house in Winston County, MS, a hundred or so miles north of Jones County, where they now have power again. We're going to stay here for a few days, then go back and clean up and wait. I have no idea when I'll be able to go back to school; we have no idea when we might get electricity again. Meanwhile I'm still in a sort of state of shock. I feel like I have jet-lag or something, only more intense. I feel selfish- the coast and NO are far worse; I can't imagine now what it must have been like- still is like- for people in Southeast Asia. I was reading St. Bernard of Clairvaux before the hurricane hit, in which he talks about us only knowing what the sick or hungry feel when we have been there; only then can we truly love them and 'share in their sufferings'. I think I have a faint glimmer of what he was talking about. I would like to say I've had further epiphanies and bursts of compassion, but I haven't. I've felt miserable; angry, tired, so on. I'm tired of rammen noodles (I had spaghetti tonight at my grandmother's; it was great); my parents' and brotherd' nerves are as shot as mine, and it shows! But we'll survive; we're alive and our house is undamaged. We have a place to go back to. There are so many in my state that don't. There are people in my county who don't. South Mississippi is an open wound tonight.

950 posted on 08/31/2005 7:38:31 PM PDT by Cleburne

951 posted on 08/31/2005 7:38:34 PM PDT by Dog

"I mean if it was sooooooo damned obvious shouldn't those folks be able to help him out?"

I don't know. Maybe they hoped he would just die. Maybe they simply could not believe he was asking a question with such a "damned obvious" answer. And let's just say they gave him a mapquest quality answer guiding him to rescue Nirvana. Since they don't have electricity within several hundred miles of Shep's satellite van, do you really think anyone roaming the streets of New Orleans would have heard the answer? The bottomline is, there is just no helping some people.

952 posted on 08/31/2005 7:38:38 PM PDT by Rokke

As far as looting? Yeah, Haley did one thing right, RUTHLESS with looters he said.

Blanco can't speak intelligently about anything. She should be thrown out of power in my estimation, she is unfit for this position. The Mayor of NO actually seems somewhat more realistic but he is the least inept Mayor NO has had for a while and that is still INEPT.

Haley on the other hand, he is going to pay a huge price. Why was only 30% of Biloxi and Gulfport evac'd?

953 posted on 08/31/2005 7:38:44 PM PDT by james_f_hall

Excellent idea regarding the emergency staples supplied on the trains. Have you heard of this being suggested as a plan or are you and I the only ones in the world to think of this......?

954 posted on 08/31/2005 7:39:11 PM PDT by Toespi

They are currently holding a press conference in Baton Rouge in which the state official is currently demonstrating that he knows absolutely nothing. He's the spokesman for the Office of Emergency Preparedness, but he's clearly trying only to butt cover for the governor.

Total retard.

955 posted on 08/31/2005 7:39:17 PM PDT by Dog Gone

To: Arizona Carolyn

Looters are good candidates for flesh-eating bacteria.

956 posted on 08/31/2005 7:39:36 PM PDT by Tuxedo (This space for rent.)

To: Libertarian444

"Bonnano blamed the lawlessness on the lack of National Guard troops to protect the citizens on the deployment of the NG to Iraq."

That's just flat untrue. These Louisiana Democrats can sure lie with the best of them. How is it the Governors of the other States can deal with this crisis, without blaming the Federal Government?

957 posted on 08/31/2005 7:39:58 PM PDT by popdonnelly

To: james_f_hall

Whether or not it was a good plan, the SuperDome seats over 70,000 people.

Monday night there were less than 5,000 people there.

And nobody was turned away at the door.

958 posted on 08/31/2005 7:40:12 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)

yeah I read that. We begged people to get out. Fine and dandy. They didn't listen to you because you are an inept LEADER. People listen to leaders. They don't listen to beggers, in fact they ignore them.

959 posted on 08/31/2005 7:40:18 PM PDT by james_f_hall

I saw a picture somewhere (Biloxi or Gulfport area, not sure which) of a burial vault that had the front sheared clean off and the caskets spilled out and dumped all around in front. That's probably what happened, the storm surge broke open aboveground vaults and floated the contents out. As if there werne't enough horrors there, eh?

That was an above-ground mausoleum. The good news about that is that bodies above ground decompose a lot quicker than those underground. Also, they're all embalmed, so they pose no health threat.

960 posted on 08/31/2005 7:40:39 PM PDT by sinkspur (We who have been given much must help those who now have nothing.)

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