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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse
We lost power Monday at 2:30pm and were still having very high winds (Cat 2 gusts is my guesstimation) on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. At that point we were still hearing reports of Nawlins having dodged a bullet, rumors of a levy break and that looting had begun.
After Hurricane Ivan I remember driving past large souviner shops in Gulf Shores AL that had no walls and merchandise still on many of the shelves and an awesome view of the wind chime section of the store. I never saw a looter, even before the NG got there.
What's going on at Harrigan's location? I'm trying to catch up.
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National Guard scanners talking about bringing in "contractors" and that they have to come in via Air Force.
Could it be that they are employing military contractors like Blackwater to come in and augment National Guard forces, since the Army/Navy can't perform security functions for the state?
I can't imagine they are bringing in civilian contractors to cook hamburgers and pass out bottled water this early in the pacification of New Fallujah.
That's just another reason why they're called presstitutes.
"When we found out about the convention center yesterday, we started diverting supplies to get them fed, too. And now we're finding literally as we do evacuation, that more and more people are beginning to manifest, show themselves in areas we didn't they were there so we're doing everything we can to get there," he said in an interview with CNN Friday."
The above snippet is from CNN's lead story. This is the most horribly incompetent operation imaginable. Blanco just came up with the clever idea of commandeering state buses. I stand by my previous statements on this matter, and may extend them.
Part of the mandatory evac order gave him the authority to seize those buses. Whether he had the drivers for them is another story.
wow...
Great post illustrating the problem with LA
I still think they had more problems than MS and AL, but your illustration is wonderful.
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Which will be brought up in Congress later, if people are smart, and will cause a massive overhaul of liability law.
Fox just said President Bush would like to "touch down" in NO.
Where is the thread for those of us who can't believe that the images we are seeing on tv are coming out of the United States?
I keep shaking my head in disbelief at what I'm seeing. It looks like a war zone from some far away country.
1) District of Columbia
2) Connecticut
3) New Jersey
4) New York
5) Massachusetts
6) Maryland
7) Hawaii
8) Nevada
9) Alaska
10) Illinois
Of course they are also the STINGIEST states in terms of charitable giving. Mississippi - the nation's poorest state in terms of average household income - ranks No. 1 in giving when measured as a percentage of income, followed by Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. By contrast, the nation's wealthiest states are much less generous. Connecticut - with the highest average household income - ranks 44th in percentage of income donated to charity.
Source: CATALOGUE FOR PHILANTHROPY
So frankly some of the comments on this thread and others make me sick.
NO isn't New Fallujah. Rush said Detroit is. NO is New Tikrit (think about the cronyism that took place because of Saddam there.)
You haven't been on the predestination threads, have you? ;-)
At the airport, likely. I think he should go there, bypass Baton Rouge and leave the area afterward.
wow.
As for blaming Bush, at least on the 11 a.m. update, CBS did say MS and AL governors praised the President's response.
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