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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
WWL: There is a fear in Baton Rouge that the crime from NOLA is being transferred there.
News woman mentions failure at state and local level.
Belgium sending 32 doctors and nurses, 150 countries have offered aid. Half a billion from Kuwait.
Lets hope more survived than we thought.
Those evacs looked to be in good shape for a 7 day strand.
"WWL-TV - showing footage of an old USAF UH-1 SAR chopper performing rescue, Miami-Dade Police Aerospatiale copter with a VERY large infrared/camera pod on its nose flying around surveying."
Excellent. That's what I was asking about earlier in the thread. Someone said they were only good at night (and that made sense to me). It sounds like they also have infrared machines that work in the day too.
My guess is that the ones they're still picking up were prepared for disaster but could not get out for one reason or another (car died, no fuel, no cash to get alternate transport).
WWL-TV: Treasury Department in DC is sending 30 US Mint Police to help restore order and defend what's left of Federal buildings.
I was listening to the scanner link two nights ago and the officials said all critical patients were being evacuated to Baton Rouge.
Rick Perry just announced he's moving evacuees OUT of Texas to other states.
That was me. They're not useless during the day, but they're of much reduced effectiveness when your ambient air temp is about human body temp. However, if I ID'd the pod correctly, it also includes a powerful optical camera, which is most likely what they're using to survey roofs carefully.
This is from a current Reuters article:
"At St. Aloysius Catholic Church in Baton Rouge, several hundred local parishioners and storm survivors attended Sunday service. "I wish we could take your broken hearts and give you ours," Rev. Donald Blanchard told the gathering.
In addition to consoling storm victims, the church's lead pastor, Jerald Burns, said Katrina's tragedy needed to be a rallying cry for parishioners, church leaders and government leaders to help the needy.
"It's not what God is asking of us," Burns said. "It is what God is demanding of us.
Some people walked out of the church in tears in mid-service. "
Does anyone see anything in what this pastor said that would cause people to walk out in mid-service?? If he had said it was all President Bush's fault, I would understand, but sounds like he just called people to help others in Christian service.
The whole article is at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050904/ts_nm/church_dc
"Some evacuees see religious message in Katrina"
I am getting sick of seeing Jesse Jackson squawking on every channel.
Yup. Not surprised. We're not quite full up yet, but we ended up being the national triage area. We have a certain minimum care level, and we can't take too many more without compromising that. We're not Louisiana and we don't treat people like cattle unless we don't have another choice.
That said, we can send some on to other places now that they've been stabilized and cared for. I suspect Oklahoma and New Mexico are next up.
Oddly enough, WWL-TV doesn't seem to be showing him. At all.
"Authorities assert that any increase is just rumors, and to just exercise normal care. Everything is under control."
Good idea on the mint, imagine the money stored there.
I hope they locked up before they evacuated!
Under the circumstances could they be expected to say otherwise? I dont know either way, hope its all calm.
They are greeted by uniformed police personal.......all wearing blue rubber gloves!!!!!!!
WELCOME to Lubbock.........what a sight!
For some odd reason, nobody in Louisiana trusts anyone in state or local government there... I can't imagine why on earth that would be....
(/sarc)
WWL giving first death count...26 bodies morgue, 22 others from I-10, Jefferson 10, Bernard 100.
True. We had only planned on 150k. We expanded to 220k, and the buses and planes are still coming. Looks like we can process another 20-30k, and get them firstline support, but they will need to be relocated for the medium and longterm assistance. We are not sending all of them away.
That's standard issue - was here in the DFW area as well. Nobody is offended, it's just prudent precautions against some of the *nasty* diseases that these people may have been picked up. Especially in this era of nasty, bloodborne killer diseases.
None of the interviewed refugees seemed to have a problem with it.
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