She mentions so many helicopters is sounds like Baghdad, yet they report no aid.
The woman is holding a bottled water, yet they claim there was no water handed out in Metrarie at the staging area.
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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse
I don't know anything. I wish I had a crystal ball but I don't.
I don't want to be an alarmist, but you asked so....possibilities include a significant fire, natural or man made, significant civilian unrest, say a riot at the dome, a big firefight between Guard and looters, with significant collateral damage, long term damage to refining plants, long term closure of the Mississippi or any of the ports involved, river levee breaks, sending a wall of water across what's left and then the obvious, simply that the magnitude of the rescues still needed is so large that we don't get to a lot of them in time.
I think it's important to be aware of the worst case scenario, but once you get there, I think it's even more important to work hard putting as positive a spin on things as you can. Negative storm energy got us in this mess, positive energy will get us out.
Burbank Karl is reporting that the firefights, skirmishes, and even cops or hospitals getting overrun that we have seen for two nights running have now been replaced with arrests.
That's good enough for me, and on that note, I'm outta here.
Night all.
Yea .. Joe mentioned that he was in office for many many years
These libs do not want to go down this road
Though there have been many jokes through the years about the corrupt politicians in NO ... it's all true
Oh and while I'm on my rant .. Joe is getting on my ever last nerve
12,000 people in the AstroDome now; they changed their minds and let the buses that had already arrived in Houston to unload.
Later buses will be diverted to Dallas; Perry has declared his state in an emergency (so he can get funds).
Mayor Schmitz, "shoot to kill" proclamation, from a less politically correct era:
http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906.2/killproc.html
(I wish I knew how to get these images to load directly w/o the link!)
"Houston knows the difference between those who steal buses and those who steal televisions, shoot at rescue workers, or who stick up hospital pharmacists for drugs.
We greet these refugees not with zero tolerance, but with a generous welcome. And with an Astrodome that, while not ideal, will be air-conditioned, well-supplied and well-supported.
Now the mayor is blaming the Iraq war for not having the resources. This guy is losing it.
She mentions so many helicopters is sounds like Baghdad, yet they report no aid.
The woman is holding a bottled water, yet they claim there was no water handed out in Metrarie at the staging area.
FRmail!
Some people do not understand how orders of magnitude make a difference.
The structures may be sound but there will be problems with mold. Any place that is somewhat warm and damp will have problems with mold. Let it set for several months and you will have an extreme problem.
Does anybody besides me want to smack the ever living CRAP out of Joe Scarborough?
Some of those patients in those hospitals are resting in Kansas City and Houston hospitals tonight.
Knowing this, the local and state officials should have asked for more help and done more to reduce the number who actually stayed in the city. The rescue effort so far has been amazing, but the city moved resources from law and order to the rescue effort, instead of leaving the police in place and utilizing the National Guard to aid in the search.
I'll say this once again --- strong male leaders were crying after 9/11.
It's okay to cry at national tragedies. Shows you have a heart.
The men leaders cried then. The women leaders can cry now too.
Meanwhile his police force has just walked away from his city. Telling.
Bobby Demaisip, left; Billy Seller, center; and his father, Leland Seller, right; watch television as an electric fan cools them at their camp site in Hattiesburg, Miss., Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. The men are from Orlando, Fla., and have come to Hattiesburg to work in the cleanup of Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
uh, yes, I called them buffoons.
but that was based on the reporterette claiming there was a major miscommunication re: numbers they would accept....
it was later corrected, by reporterette, and I posted that I stand corrected.
Sorry if I am just a simpleton babbling, we're not nearly as smart as you, just reporting what I heard. Take care...
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