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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse
I think they need to separate the men from the women to different shelters... this coed thing is asking for trouble as well as traumatizing a whole generation of children.
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Goes a long way to explain why NO ONE has taken the lead in New Orleans for Days....
Waiting for others to bail you out is NOT a proactive solution, and would have gone a LONG way to preventing the looting and lawlessness...
Leaders are elected to LEAD...
CNN-Just Now-
Police told them to get off the streets, it's deteriorating..
Said total disconnect between the Governor and reality...
Oakwood Mall burning to the ground..
Sorry, but American citizens in America are NOT "refugees".
They are "evacuees"....and, language counts.
#1 Answer - friendly fire.
police told CNN reporter to get off the street.barricaded with PO on roof . too dangerous. gangs attempting to rape woman. police Ordered women not to go down a certain street.
reporter basically mocking governor who said "we will not tolerate" ...basically yempty words.
I only heard a small part, but agreed with what he said.
I have a feeling where they get to they wont leave..
I'm also pretty sure there wont be a bus to take em back to LA
Over in Columbus we've got about 100 or so at First Baptist.
What's your location?
Thanks for your comments.
Disasters do bring out both the best and worst in human nature, unfortunately.
Maybe the Mayor and Jesse Jackson can lead the crowd out of town now.
WWL Updates as they come in on Katrina
05:33 PM CDT on Thursday, September 1, 2005
Tom Planchet
5:33 P.M. - AUSTIN (AP): Texas has agreed to accept another 25,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees -- and they'll be heading for Dallas. Officials earlier announced refugee groups estimated at 25,000 apiece will be housed in Houston and San Antonio.
5:30 P.M. - NEW YORK (AP): NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue says it's unlikely the Saints will play in New Orleans this season after the devastation Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath inflicted on the city.
The Saints will move into a hotel in San Antonio, Texas, this weekend and practice in San Antonio in preparation for their regular-season opener at Carolina September 11. They have spent this week in San Jose, California, and played their final exhibition tonight in Oakland.
But it still hasn't been decided where they will play their regular-season opener September 18 against the New York Giants or play the rest of their games.
The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, which runs Giants Stadium, has offered to host the upcoming Giants-Saints game there. It would likely be played Monday, September 19 because the Jets will play Miami that Sunday at Giants Stadium.
Tagliabue said moving the game to New Jersey is one possibility.
He also said games could be played at another NFL stadium or at a non-NFL stadium. He didn't name any specifically, but the Alamodome in San Antonio seats 65,000 for football.
5:27 P.M. - (AP): House Speaker Dennis Hastert says it makes no sense to spend (b) billions of dollars to rebuild New Orleans, which is seven feet under sea level.
Hastert, in a transcript supplied by the newspaper, said there was no question that the people of New Orleans would rebuild their city, but noted that federal insurance and other federal aid was involved.
Hastert's press secretary, Ron Bonjean, said Hastert was not suggesting New Orleans should be abandoned or relocated.
Hastert announced today that the House, currently at the end of its summer break, would return for an emergency session tomorrow to approve some $10 billion in federal aid for hurricane victims.
5:24 P.M. - (AP): Even when Katrina's floodwaters are pumped out of New Orleans -- a process that could take weeks -- the city will be anything but dry.
Buildings, vehicles and their contents will be waterlogged and covered with mud. Whatever debris is currently sloshing around in the floodwaters will be strewn about the city in enormous piles.
Everything will be waterlogged, most of it ruined. It will be a monumental task just coordinating the collection and disposal of debris and trash.
Virtually everything worth keeping will have to be washed off, decontaminated and dried out. The city's drinking water distribution system will need to be flushed out and disinfected, a process that could take weeks or even months.
Buildings will have to be stripped down to their studs and dried out with dehumidifiers, a process that can't even begin in New Orleans until electricity is restored weeks or months from now.
For many homeowners, the expense and effort may not even be worth it. The median home in New Orleans costs about $87,000 -- by the time you figure in debris removal, demolition, drying and rebuilding, it may be cheaper simply to knock the whole house down and build a new one on its foundation.
5:18 P.M. - WWL-TV: Seven children, ages 7-years to 4-months-old, were rescued this afternoon and are waiting at an evacuee station for their mother, who is missing.
5:14 P.M. - WWL-TV: Hibernia Corporation is requesting that all of its employees who live in areas impacted by Hurricane Katrina call the following toll-free number: 1-800-707-0489. They want to find out where you are and how you are doing. If you need help, they will put you in touch with the right resources.
5:11 P.M. - WWL-TV: Robert M. Gates , President of Texas A&M University, said the Galveston campus will welcome 1,000 displaced students for up to one year. They will be charged the state minimum for tuition.
5:08 P.M. - WWL-TV: The Oakwood Mall is on fire. Emergency crews are on the scene, but water pressure is so low, firefighters are having a tough time keeping the blaze under country.
5:04 P.M. - Cecil Picard, State Superintendent of Education: All Department of Education meetings have been cancelled for the month of September. He urged displaced families to get their children registered in school systems outside Louisiana. Picard said he wants to make sure that every displaced teacher, bus driver, cafeteria worker, counselor and custodian has a job.
4:58 P.M. - (AP): The New Orleans suburb of St. Bernard Parish is little more than "water, water everywhere" with a few rooftops sticking above the floods of Hurricane Katrina, a government official who escaped the devastated region said Thursday. Click here.
4:50 P.M. - Rev. Jesse Jackson: "We cannot turn on each other. We must turn to each other." Jackson said he'll be in town as long as he can; maybe five or six days. He asked people to help one another, calling the aftermath of the disaster "a great faith tester."
Some news from the front. This was just sent to me by a friend who has relatives in Alabama. One relative is former VN helicopter pilot and is now helping out in NO. Here's the family report that was sent to me:
"He has had about 3 hours sleep in the last 48 hours. He started flying "missions" into New Orleans on Tuesday. Got on the roof of one hospital and almost got mobbed. He said it is horrible down there. Right now he is at the hospital in Shreveport and will probably be going out again before much longer. He is just trying to rest up so he can get started again. Patients are dying in the hospitals down there, no power, no generators. "
How true.
jeffers post #106 last thread deserves a place here, too: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1474387/posts?page=106#106
sanjay gupta says hospital taking fire..couldn't understand a lot of his report.
Wow. What a picture - sad and shocking at the same time.
And rates a bump from me again, too
They need to show the looting split screen with Gov Blancbrain speaking....like they did during the LA Riots.
A perfectly honorable use of the flag, IMHO.
Isolated? It's been rampant.
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