[Knitting A Conundrum]

what a great, descriptive phrase: the coordination was on loose hinges.

[AFPhys]

Please read jeffers' post#106. I wish all public officials and others would at least read it, shut up, and mull over what he says there whether they agree with it entirely or not.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1474387/posts?page=106#106


A small snippet:

This is a huge disaster, and it is important for America to learn how to think big. If you aren't capable of walking past ten dying people to save 100 dying people, then at the very least, stay out of the way of those who can.

You know what the price is, if you don't.

When you start thinking big, you start understanding that one person doesn't count anymore. Not the mayor, not the governor, not even President Bush. Bush will not fix this, the New Orleans police will not fix this, and the National Guard will not fix this.

They aren't big enough.

Three hundred million American people are going to fix this, or else it isn't going to get fixed.

So for all the sidewalk superintendents, all the finger pointers, all those who would grab political power over this, I have one very simple question.

Do you stand with us, or are you going to just stand in the way?

[Knitting A Conundrum]

There is an old friend's aunt I am worried sick about. We think she was stuck at home, near the Lakefront area. 84. She would have died before going to the Superdome with the type of people there. She had dogs she truly loved like the children she never had.

Is she still in her attic? Did she even make it into her attic? And what about her great-nephew, who is a young man who lived in New Orleans East? Are they or any of her other nephews with her?

Griefs.

[AFPhys]

It was a moronic phrase. The whole coordination structure for a hundred miles around was GONE. How the heck would YOU have taken care of this? Cell phones gone. Electric, including emergency generators, soon useless. Roads and bridges wiped out. You propose that every city, or FEMA, maintain a system of runners and boats to communicate? This is being handled quite well, considering nearly a hundred thousand square miles has been devastated by this disaster of epic proportions.

I can think of nothing - nothing - that rivals this problem - in history. Everyone who is keeping their head about them is doing quite well... I simply wish the governor had been more firm in the leadership position - but I don't think leadership is the reason she was elected. Perhaps, for that, the blame lies on the voters of N.O. and elsewhere.

The Netherlands' official is a total maroon.