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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
WWL
Updates as they come in on Katrina
05:20 PM CDT on Saturday, September 3, 2005
Tom Planchet
5:05 P.M. - WWL-TV: The following is a release from Loyola University:
Loyola University New Orleans is closed for this semester and will reopen in January 2006. Our 27 sister institutionss have generously offered support by making arrangements to accept Loyola students this fall semester.
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4:27 P.M. - WWL-TV: Clean up crews can be seen collecting the debris and garbage around the evacuation point at the I-10/Causeway Interchange.
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There are no more evacuees in the area.
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NEW YORK -- A convoy of 70 city buses, accompanied by an assortment of support vehicles and volunteers, departed lower Manhattan on Saturday morning for a 24-hour trip south to help evacuate victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The caravan, including another 47 vehicles from the city police and mass transit, was expected to arrive in New Orleans on Sunday to start ferrying victims of the hurricane out of the crippled Crescent City. They left from Police Headquarters, just a few blocks east of ground zero.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, cognizant of the nation's outpouring of aid to New York after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, said the city "will help those who helped us." The group that left Saturday will join members of the Fire Department, the NYPD and the city Office of Emergency Management already on site in New Orleans.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses will bring homeless residents of New Orleans to Dallas and Little Rock, Ark. The task force from New York is also carrying food, water and other supplies for the ravaged region.
On Sunday morning, another 30 city buses will head south from Staten Island. The buses will spend about one week in New Orleans, as will the 230 volunteer MTA workers and the 171 volunteer NYPD officers, said Bloomberg.
Although the city employees volunteered for the trip, they will be paid while helping out in New Orleans, the mayor's office said.
The deployment of the buses may create limited service interruptions for city bus commuters, and the MTA will provide details on any changes over the next day, Bloomberg said.
On Thursday, city Fire Department sent three chiefs to Jackson, Miss., to help with command and control operations.
Maybe Gore thinks he's in Tennessee.
I've just been on an online shopping spree. Ain't nuttin like it when you want specific stuff!
Like I said somewhere upthread, my outlook has changed since viewing this disaster. Not only do I have a renewed respect for mother nature but since I live in a large city...I have gained an urgent desire to become more self-reliant due to potential anarchy/insurrection. This has been a wake up call for me.
I urge you to think hard about your location and it's particular problems and what you can do for you should all heck break loose.
His doctor might have sent him down there knowing there would be nothing to eat.
Newt lost me a long time ago, well, he never had me really, but for some reason he thinks we should care what he thinks.
"are we looking at a 5,000 -30,000 death toll?"
Conflicting information: In anticipating a CAT 5 storm FEMA got 25,000 body bags ready. Then in the next breath I have to listen to them say on tv with a straight face, "No one could have reasonably guessed that New Orleans could be stricken with both broken levees and a hurricane."
Many many of my neighbors on the North Shore chose to live there because they feared buying a house in the bowl. We shook our heads at the thought of how many dead there would be if a hurricane struck. Hearing people from N.O acted shocked that so many will have died from levee breaks reminds me of people acting shocked that cigarette smoking caused lung cancer.
" am pissed....there are white people that have been rescued"
There was just a guy on FNC (think he was their HS advisor or some such) and was saying that there are folks in Saint Bernard and other parishes in the suburbs that need rescuing and, that no one is paying any attention to them - it's all focused on NO. He said he's tired of all this race baiting as the folks in these areas haven't had any help and are primarily white and THEY NEED HELP NOW!
ROFL!
LOL!
LIBS cannot be big...didn't he get the memo?
Okay-corny. What can I say? It's a sickness, LOL!
He wishes the CIA was after his useless butt. It is probably the rubber room people after him.
LOL - actually I have redefined him as a conservative dem - but still a dem
LOL - Single-lady dittos to you! Sounds like something I might do :-)
"The Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses will bring homeless residents of New Orleans to Dallas and Little Rock, Ark."
But not NY? How interesting.
I recently saw a picture of a wall of low sulfer coal in Wyoming that was 80 ft high on the surface. I understand that 110 trains, each with more than 100 cars filled with coal leave Power River, WY every day.
Everybody's had to fight to be free,
You see you don't have to live like a refugee.
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That is a message that the demagogic party has been hiding from "their" people for 40 years.
Aside: one of my immigrant ancestors lost her husband in a fire in New Orleans in the 1860s. She had fled Ireland during the famine time with her parents and sibs. She found a way to get herself and her 5 kids back to Baltimore where she still had relatives. She had to have been a strong character; wish I could 'meet' her someday.
My great grandmother - Mary Flaherty's youngest - was baptized in St Patrick's Catholic Church on Camp street - not too far from the SuperDome. I keep wondering if it survived.
Didn't I read somewhere that onyx had left CA and moved to the South?
Slidell isn't inner city New Orleans. It's a wealthier burb of NO.
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