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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse
See the list at the top of the thread, last full paragraph.
This is probably the last day that it will "be getting worse" in N.O. ... after this, the number who have died of thirst, starvation, etc., as well as the number of those who have finally gotten out of the city, will have lowered the number who need help, and those available to affect, and be effected by the crimes.
That's the kind of people you would want to "stay" at your home!
He sounded like a very decent MAN, with a sweet family!
My heart breaks for them, and others!
Reporter-Jeff Goldblatt
bump to that. But before some quick reader thinks that your 'cite' was my quote... and I get flamed;)
NOLA MAYOR: "someone needs to get their ass on a plane and sit down and figure this thing out..."
I hadn't read that update. Thanks so much.
The current person being interviewed on WWL radio is calming presence.
"but I don’t think I would make the statement that people in New Orleans should be THANKING GOD that they did not live in north Korea."
Nor did I, I assume you are referring to the original poster's comment that started this tea-kettle tempest off.
Given the misinterpretations that simple sarcasm that isn't tagged is subject to all the time on FR, I am not sure why people are so insistent that the original poster is doing something bad, or being patronizing, or trying to imply so of the things that are being attributed to him by others. Clearly different people are adding different shaded interpretations to what he said.
Maybe they can use SEVERAL different vacant installations?
I can't imagine where these people will end up after the Domiciles?
sw
Correct, but the politicians won't draw the correct conclusions. The federal government has failed. There is no wall that would keep out a cat 5 hurricane to the west of NO, so any promise to do so would represent another fed gov failure. It's ok to provide federal aid AFTER the crisis as we are now doing. But anyone from now on who thinks the federal government is going to keep them safe is an idiot.
From what I've been reading on here, it sounds like they're literally doing drive-by supply runs; shoving MREs and water off the back of a truck and driving away. If that's the case, then of course the young and strong will get it all and the kids and elderly will suffer.
That's what's so frustrating. Just a couple of miles (or less) away from 15,000 desperate people, up on I-10 westbound, we've got an incredible force assembled. Aid workers, military, police, volunteers in their thousands...helicopters, trucks, buses by the hundreds...tons and tons of supplies. And yet we can't help these people with anything more than some dump-and-runs off the back of a truck? Argh, it breaks my heart thinking about it.
I know the boots on the ground there are doing everything they can, but still, just DAMN. I just have a lot of trouble accepting that this is the best we can do. Maybe it is, but it's very hard to accept that if true.
}:-)4
WWL Updates as they come in on Katrina
06:42 AM CDT on Friday, September 2, 2005
Tom Planchet
6:42 A.M. - BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is trying to make clear that the government understands how dire the situation is in New Orleans.
There's been a growing chorus of complaints from refugees and the city's mayor, who complain about what they say has been a slow federal response to the hurricane, flooding and lawlessness.
Mayor Ray Nagin said last night that the feds "don't have a clue" about what's happening.
Mike Brown tells CNN he didn't know the New Orleans Convention Center was being used as a staging area for evacuees until he saw news coverage. He blames that on a lack of communication with city officials. As Brown puts it, "we don't know where everybody is."
6:40 A.M. - "New Orleans is an economic disaster. This tragedy is so unprecedented people could be out of work for three, six, nine months or longer," said Rajeev Dhawan, director of the economic forecasting project at Georgia State University.
6:39 A.M. - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers are demanding an investigation into gasoline prices after thousands of motorists called a government hotline to complain of price gouging.
The Energy Department reported more than 5,000 calls to its price gouging hotline Thursday from around the country, although officials emphasized there was no way to immediately determine how many of the allegations were valid.
6:37 A.M. - The mayor of New Orleans is seething over what he sees as the government's slow response to his city's disaster. Ray Nagin went on WWL Radio last night to say the feds "don't have a clue what's going on." He added, "Excuse my French -- everybody in America -- but I am pissed."
The mayor says he needs troops and hundreds of buses to get refugees out. Nagin accused state and federal officials of "playing games" and "spinning for the cameras." He says he keeps hearing that help is coming, but "there's no beef."
They just said, explicitly, that there is a shoot-to-kill order. I would like that verified by another organization.
ABC reporting the explosion and fires earlier are railroad cars. Sheriff has reported the non-toxic contents.
No, it's different, but not worse.
I'm begging everyone, even though we're tempted to turn the channel, DOCUMENT the behavior of the press. Once this is all over, there needs to be an FR and Blogsphere investigation into the behavior of the press. Reporters egging on shell-shocked people to criticize the authorities are the kind of behavior we need to document. While they're investigating the Fed authorities (so predictable), we should be investigating THEM. Fox is not immune, in fact some of the worst "Egging on" has been on Fox, including Shep.
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