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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
A brief postscript to our discussion about the media in this thread last night and this morning, Fox News just had a tour of the emergency command center. They had huge screens on one wall with 8 different TV news channels playing, including cable and local news channels.
The military gentleman giving the Fox reporter the tour praised the media saying that it was thanks to the news they had the initial situation reports from the "front" and they could see where help was needed, or words to that effect.
TOM DELAY IS ON WWL!
Next stop American Idol.
And why is the gas STILL under pressure? Even if the shutoff valves are underwater, it should be possible to send someone with a dry suit to operate them. If nothing else, find someplace far enough away from other buildings that heat dissipation would not be a problem and burn off as much gas as possible there.
He heard about all the food that they were now serving.
"He said if a category-five storm hit Galveston, Clear Lake could be under 25 feet of water."
Everyone here claims the sea wall makes all that impossible. There are neighborhoods in Houston that flood whenever an ant spits. I can't imagine 18 inches of rain in an hour.
I'm a weenie. I "evacuate" if there is even the potential of my electricity going out for more than 24 hours.
I did not take Frist's statement as negative at all, only an acknowledgement that at some point we should look at the process and procedures regarding this story.
American Red Cross shelters:
-- Louisiana: 127 shelters; 51,480 people
-- Mississippi: 102 shelters; 13,510 people
-- Texas: 49 shelters; 23,850 people
-- Alabama: 47 shelters; 3,760 people
-- Georgia: 17 shelters; 880 occupants
-- Tennessee: 9 shelters; 70 occupants
-- Florida: 8 shelters; 1,380 occupants
-- Arkansas: 1 shelter; 1,250 occupants
-- Missouri: 1 shelter; 0 occupants
Good job Red Cross
Let us not also forget one of the most dispicable, uninformed 'news broadcasters' everyone's non-favorite Aaron Brown. There's also Paula Zahn - -I suspect she'll uphold the CNN mantra.
Which kind is in Utah? I remember that it was the largest field of that kind outside of Indonesia (?) before the toon federalized the land so it could not be used for mining.
He saw Jesse Jackson and leaped at the chance to get his face on the news too.
MSNBC: FBI was guarding the Internet Hub in NEw Orleans?
On NBC one of the reporters rode along in a dump truck with a guy who was going in to flooded area to check on his boss's house. They came upon a flotilla of neighbors helping each other, but who needed rescue. The dump truck driver didn't want to stop for them. But the reporter pressed him to help. So he did and the people were taken to dry ground.
Wow, what is it with people who don't want to help other people? Is this really America? Sigh.
Seems like too many already.
Behind in your rent, work on your NO accent.
It was in NO wasn't it, that a man said his wife took a taxi to NY to go shopping and was killed in WTC!
AHHHHHHHHH That's why Al Gore was there! Protecting his invention!
Have to add Phoenix and possibly Tucson to that list. 1000 are enroute.
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