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Katrina Live Thread, Part XIV
Various ^ | 2 September 2005 | Various

Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse

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To: BurbankKarl
I keep hearing all these long lead times before New Orleans is back on line.

Actually they don't have to have all the city totally pumped out before bringing water and sewage back on line.

They probably won't let some come back because their houses were totally destroyed.

Hopefully some won't come back.

My son is a small housing contractor and is telling me that there's going to be a lot of work for everyone willing to work, and soon.

Wouldn't be surprised that a lot of welfare poor end up with reparation like settlements from the government before this is over.

IMHO
5,901 posted on 09/03/2005 9:27:31 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

SUSAN IS A DISGRACE! TRYING TO SAY MARK IS ON TALKING POINTS AND SLAM HIM.

Sean cut the harpy off, thank GOD. Didn't take long for her fangs to show did it?


5,902 posted on 09/03/2005 9:28:16 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: Howlin

Did you just hear Susan Estrich on FNC

She said she is betting the next pick for the court would be Clemans because she is from New Orleans


5,903 posted on 09/03/2005 9:28:30 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: terrasol

What is the source of that? I received two GOP emails to donate to the Red Cross. There was another thing with a pin, but I am not sending the GOP any money anyway.


5,904 posted on 09/03/2005 9:29:16 PM PDT by BurbankKarl (u)
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To: OKIEDOC

Some of the people that are being helped may have been homeless before this happened...and they are much better off!


5,905 posted on 09/03/2005 9:29:24 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: John Jamieson

Gov. Perry has announced a new program.

In order that Louisiana not lose valuable populations, we are beginning an exchange program. We'll send one liberal from Houston, San Antonio, or Austin for every refugee we get. This way, the populations remain constant.

Oh, my. It looks like our first shipment tried to "pet the big lizards" and got eaten by alligators. Oh well. We've got plenty more!


5,906 posted on 09/03/2005 9:30:14 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Sammie42

Oh, Lord. If this hurricane had to hit, WHY did it have to be one of our most crooked democratic states; this is what they have been praying for to put the screws to the President.


5,907 posted on 09/03/2005 9:30:40 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: OKIEDOC

Yes, I am hoping all the construction workers leave Los Angeles and head there for that easy FEMA money....and scams.


5,908 posted on 09/03/2005 9:31:56 PM PDT by BurbankKarl (u)
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To: Sammie42
Witt is bringing in Wesley Clark! OMG, is he the one responsible for Gore being there too?

What are you talking about? Is Al Gore there?

5,909 posted on 09/03/2005 9:32:38 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: mystery-ak

I'm starting to get physically ill. My intuition tells me this is going to get really nasty.... not from the poor people who were evacuated. From politics.


5,910 posted on 09/03/2005 9:34:00 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Arizona Carolyn

I accidentally clicked on the Free Dominion web instead of FR. Some here wanted to document the events. I didn't read through much that's on this, but, if anyone's looking for a day-by-day lead up to Katrina, this may be a resource (credits FR):

http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=44783&sid=0350baab4159aacc00030bece01d004b


5,911 posted on 09/03/2005 9:34:12 PM PDT by Seattle Conservative (God Bless and protect our troops and their CIC)
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To: Howlin

yes, Gore came in this afternoon, Fox got him on video but he refused to talk to them!


5,912 posted on 09/03/2005 9:34:37 PM PDT by Sammie42
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To: Seattle Conservative

My recollections exactly. I don't remember if it is soft are hard. We have one kind here in E TX that they have opened up again, after closing it nearly 100 years ago.


5,913 posted on 09/03/2005 9:35:02 PM PDT by mathluv (Mercy shown to an evil man is cruelty to the innocent.)
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To: Peach
Remainder of the paragraph--

Some officials in the state suspected a political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly.

They were so worried about their own keisters, the Governette and the Babbling, Cussing Mayor added their contribution to the greatest natural disaster this country has seen.

5,914 posted on 09/03/2005 9:35:22 PM PDT by Tarheel ( Murphy's law #21--Internet flame wars are started by two cats who did not like their supper.)
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To: DouglasKC

Tucker has grown in my estimation over the past day and a half.


5,915 posted on 09/03/2005 9:36:21 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Howlin
The link PROMULGATION OF EMERGENCY ORDERS on the New Orleans home page gives promulgates the mandatory evacuation order (No time or date is given; I wonder why). Notice that the mayor exempted essential personnel of operating hotels and their patrons. So he did legally protect the city against lawsuits by hotel operators. But what about those essential personnel, probably all residents of NO?
5,916 posted on 09/03/2005 9:37:43 PM PDT by gpapa (Boost FR Traffic! Make FR your home page!)
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To: Soul Seeker

Some of my liberal friends are all mad at me and want no more emails... I kept sending them blurbs with the truth. They cannot TAKE the truth. One is Canadian and basically believes what the Canadian Networks are telling them about the President.... ~LOL~ I can't take it any more. Too much stupidity makes me crazy, thank God for Free Republic!


5,917 posted on 09/03/2005 9:38:38 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: BurbankKarl
More Louisiana Hospitality

Evacuees forced to wait outside bus station

By Allen Powell II River Parishes bureau

Several dozen New Orleans residents seeking transportation out of Baton Rouge Saturday were denied entrance to the Greyhound bus station on Florida Street. Instead, the would-be travelers say they were forced to wait outside on the sidewalk for hours.

The travelers, many of them recent evacuees from New Orleans, waited for the chance to buy tickets to Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and northern Louisiana. Several of them said they had been waiting at the station since the early afternoon and by 7 p.m. hadn’t been allowed to wait inside, use bathroom facilities or get water. Many of the travelers said they only wanted to purchase tickets or pick-up tickets that had already been purchased by family members.

Terrance Pierre, who said he was evacuated from Xavier University on Wednesday, said he had been waiting outside of the station for more than five hours to purchase a ticket to Texas. Pierre said he was just trying to reunite with his family and friends.

“I’m just trying to get a ticket with my own money,” he said.

Through security guards at the station, the bus station’s manager declined to discuss why the people were not allowed inside.

Travelers said they were told that there had been a disturbance at the bus station on Friday, but that could not confirmed with station employees. In addition, they said they were told that the bus station’s booking system was not operating.

Officials from Greyhound’s national office could not be reached for comment on Saturday night.

Although the crowd appeared orderly, six Baton Rouge police cruisers arrived at the station at about 7:20 p.m... A security guard at the door told officers that some people in the crowd had been banging on the station’s doors, a claim all of the travelers vehemently denied. No one was arrested, and the officers left after instructing travelers to line up along the front of the building. After the officers left, bus station employees began allowing some people to enter the station to use the restroom, but most were forced to remain outside.

5,918 posted on 09/03/2005 9:39:19 PM PDT by BurbankKarl (u)
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To: Howlin

Al Gore was spotted today visiting hurricane victims, but wouldn't give an interview.

I'm sure he's telling the victims how inept the Bush administration has been and how angry they should be.


5,919 posted on 09/03/2005 9:39:30 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: Types_with_Fist

I heard some talk about medivacing a soldier who had some type of infection in his arm maybe starting with a spider bite. His arm was swollen to 3X the size of the other. They initially were sending out a medic, then the guy trying to evac the soldier said no...he'd already been seen by a ?PA and he didn't need a medic to come to him...he needed to be taken to a hospital. Thats the last I heard of that conversation.


5,920 posted on 09/03/2005 9:39:58 PM PDT by not_apathetic_anymore
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