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To: Howlin
"In the outlying areas, help IS there. The people are NOT rioting; ...."

As I've posted earlier, this is not the case 40 miles outside New Orleans. Got a phone call that refugees/Americans were being dumped off in store parking lots, not given food nor water. Looting stores, private homes. Carjackings. Neighborhoods not affected by the hurricance are being looted and trashed. No food left in stores -- all looted. Neighbors starting/wanting to organize in order to protect themselves. There appears to be NO planning in the evaucation of many, many people -- even if they're able to be plucked from a housetop or fortunate to get on a bus -- no planning as to where these people should be placed. Texas can handle 50,000 evidently -- but there are so many more. According to caller, no law and order -- no national guard presence. His employer told him and his co-workers to go home and protect families.

640 posted on 09/01/2005 5:50:53 PM PDT by EverOnward
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To: EverOnward

So in isolated areas where people from NO are dumped, they're having the same problems as they are in the city?


655 posted on 09/01/2005 5:52:58 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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