Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII

Various ^ | 1 September 2005 | Various

[BenLurkin]

Poor planning on their part has created a huge crisis...

Sure looks that way.

[EBH]

And someone needs to answer for that, when this is all over. Right now the powers that be are trying to recover from the vacume that was created. People are dieing from...the incompetence exhibited in the beginning.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Children are incredibly resilient with respect to pets, IMHO. Family, friends, neighbors, or even strangers dying before them is a very different thing. This comes from personal experience with both events.

[oceanview]

under state control - its no problem.

[Tuxedo]

The sad thing about the Snowball story is it is the tip of the iceberg in tragic stories we will hear over the next several weeks. This was one of those hundred-year storms, like that which struck Galveston (also a Category 4) and it gets harder each day to grasp the enormity of these situations.

[Will_Zurmacht]

dear lord!

i imagine the landlord will be getting paid by the gov. for housing them, plus school districts get add'l funding bills, etc.
.....that's the dirty little secret in a lot of this stuff.

oh, my angry muslim neighbors are loving this hurricane...
One told me this was a curse by Allah for Americas ways...
I replied "Oh, like when he killed all those muslims in the Tsunami?"...
that shut him up.
He sits by the mailboxes and acts obnoxiously to the American girls...but I digress...

[Cedar]

"Korea, CCTV, and NHK are on regular prog."

I may be wrong, but earlier I was shocked to see NBC, CBS, and ABC on regular night programming too. Shocked.

At least Dateline last night did their show on the crisis.

Thought for sure they all would pre-empt regular programming tonight. Maybe they did later on, and I missed it.

I bet if this tragedy happened on the East Coast all the 3 major networks would be showing it 24 hrs. a day. Just a thought.

[RummyChick]

I don't know. But she also said there could be no guns inside the Superdome because everyone was searched. Evacuees claim that isn't true.

[Mad Dawgg]

"If the President were to declare a state of insurrection, then he could send in federal troops without violating the law."

Excellent choice, if memory serves you just canceled all insurance in the area. If so you have just declared anyone who has any property damage in the area they will not recover any insurance funds. Imagine the economic devastation of such a decision.

[eternity]

Let's face it. All this is totally over her head.

[fedupjohn]

"Washington, November 12, 2004 -- After five days of fighting, U.S. and Iraqi forces are now said to be in control of nearly all of Fallujah..."

Great post....buuuut how long were we staging and positioning for the move on Fallujah: I think it was about a month. Ha Ha , didn't think of that did ya. Hey guy, just funnin' with ya, but I'm serious.

[LikeLight]

Sounding more and more like a BlackHawk Down situation in the making . . .

Mogadishu on the Mississippi . . .

Let's hope not . . .

[Soul Seeker]

Chuckie has just alerted us after lives are "saved" they'll begin a Blame Bush campaign.

[Cedar]

Don't worry. I believe God is the real source of all help.

[cajungirl]

wwl radio is on the lsu campus. As is Times Picayune.
The WWL people have been on non stop and are about to collapse.

[lightman]

government has a duty to do precisely what governments are established to do, protect and defend.

"that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men...."

[BurbankKarl]

Deven Hull, of Charleston, S.C., armed with a shotgun, questions a motorist in Pascagoula, Miss., Thursday. Hull's family home was one of the oldest homes on Beach Boulevare. A growing number of looters have left exhausted residents frustrated.

[MarMema]

I live down the street from Northwest Hospital and can see them going thru the drills. From the outside, and w/o an actual disaster, it looks like they are prepared. But here's the question - I'm sure hospitals, police, fire, etc in NO have these drills as well. What happened, or didn'thappen, for there to be such a lack of response? Is the extent of the disaster just too great? Are we fooling ourselves w/what we could do in a real disaster? Are the folks in NO just not competent?

Thank you. That has been exactly my point. What happened? Why were almost a thousand boats turned away that came during the beginning of the flooding offering to help?

I have been slowly coming to the conclusion that these people are throw-aways for some reason.

[Palladin]

More idiocy from Blanco:

Blanco demands apology

9:15 p.m.

An angry Gov. Kathleen Blanco demanded that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., apologize for his statement that it might not make sense to rebuild New Orleans. It was “unthinkable,” Blanco said, that Hastert would “kick us when we’re down. I demand an immediate apology.”

At a press conference Thursday night, she said that 300 soldiers from the Arkansas National Guard arrived in New Orleans fresh from Iraq and are under orders to restore order from the “hoodlums.’’

She said of the soldiers: “They have M-16s and they are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot to kill . . . and I expect they will.’’

U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville, said that 1,500 people had gathered on the Chalmette ferry landing awaiting evacuation, possibly by ferry, to Algiers. Making a plea for those refugees to receive food and water now, Melancon estimated that about 100 are dead, possibly from dehydration.

[MEG33]

One would think they did not understand our form of government.