U.S. Sen. Bill Frist of Tenn. volunteers at the makeshift hospital at the New Orleans airport where many of the victims of Hurricane Katrina were waiting for evacuation, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005.
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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
> A moment of prayer, certainly, then---"Everyone evacuate",
I heard on other threads (or was it earlier on this one)that she still hasn't declared an "emergency", which would have enabled the Feds to eliminate a lot of the middle-man bureacracy. Some speculate that it is to preserve the patronage function of the NOLA party hacks for letting contracts down the line.
What is means is that other countries we have helped in the past are helping us now, as they should.
But you're too myopic with your gloom and doom to see that.
Geraldo will get to her. he's a grandstander I know, but he will get to her.
Bartender Deidre Rick, 24, serves drinks while wearing a tank top and shorts, joking: "I'm finally on the diet I wanted to go on." A woman identifying herself as Diana Straydog, "the last Native American in New Orleans," puffs on a long Dominican cigar obtained "at a Katrina discount."
Hamilton and Bellomy, who said he got some medical training while in the Air Force, have been trying to administer first aid. A local character they know only as "V" got his head busted the night before by thugs looking for money, Bellomy said. He was trying to get V to stay sitting to keep the wound, patched with a butterfly stitch, from opening up.
Sure he is......LOL.
thank you and thanks for the spelling correction,,,my bad,,,i type (and talk) faster than i think....that's not good most of the time,,,, :)
"not to be picky, but if you want to "google" it, the correct spelling is "Dysentary", :
I did not know that -- I searched Google-news using the spelling "dysentery" and got lots and lots of hits -- mostly about that shelter in MS
When you write fox please ask them to send someone over to mississippi to those rural communities who have been without water, food, gas, etc for days in 102 heat index,,,tell them to note all the *white* Peeps there and please broadcast it so the world will know this is not a racial thing,,,,the white peeps in mississippi have been stranded just like the blacks in NO---
MSNBC showed that Aaron Broussard breaking down talking about someone's mother who kept calling to be rescued and drowned...
UPDATED: 6:28 am CDT August 18, 2005 WDSU
NEW ORLEANS -- Two more Jefferson Parish officials are being drawn into the corruption probe dubbed Operation Wrinkled Robe, according to a newspaper report.
The Times-Picayune reports that investigators have issued subpoenas to Parish President Aaron Broussard and 24th District Judge Kernan "Skip" Hand.
The story says the subpoenas are related to political donations made by Bail Bonds Unlimited to Hand's campaigns.
Last month, Judge Alan Green was convicted of mail fraud as a result of the ongoing investigation.
He was caught by FBI video surveillance taking an envelope stuffed with money from a Bail Bonds Unlimited employee.
Oprah and NAACP -- AND there is still people stuck in houses and the inept governor is doing tours already???
Before Aaron Broussard began crying, he said (someone).. "it's all their fault!!" but I didn't catch the name. Blanco?
Go to the front of the class! You win the spelling bee. hehehe.
MSNBC to show that interview again with him crying at 10pm.
no way, he was praising Blanco on meet the press. Its all FEMA. FEMA did everything to him. local and state officials are the greatest.
U.S. Sen. Bill Frist of Tenn. volunteers at the makeshift hospital at the New Orleans airport where many of the victims of Hurricane Katrina were waiting for evacuation, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005.
Fascinating description of NO from mgno.com's live blogging in LA:
From Sig's morning recon: People are pretty much gone from the Dome, but there are around 100 who will not leave -- they are entenched and being referred to as Die Hard Saints Fans jokingly by the authorities. They would have to be forcibly removed. The stench from the Dome is sickening and all authorities in the area wear breath masks; the trash is piled up all over the place and human excrement is everywhere.
By the Casino, the various agencies have a very big presence with mini HQs in the area. Also the Dome and the Convention Center have large agency presences.
A lot of people still don't know where to evacuate. A lot of people were so scared of looting that they kept their presence hidden and are just now being discovered.
From an official source: New Orleans already had a big homeless population. A lot of the already homeless refused to leave without their shopping carts. So they won't go near the evac centers, even though we have heard reports that the helocopters will now allow people to bring their shopping carts with them.
And, to top it all off, as if to confirm my earlier post about government, the State and Federal governments are still at each other's throats. This crisis is going to require some leadership if things are gonna get better.
A lot of tankers have been going by. I'm not sure what's in the plain, nondescript silver ones are carrying -- could be fuel, could be water for the rescuers and relief effort.
Also, like you I've heard the rumors of cannibalism, but I have no confirmation from any of the police.
The city really does look like a ghost town. It's so bizarre to see streets which are normally highly trafficed having such a limited flow of vehicles. And at night it's weird to see all these high rises with no light coming from the buildings. No street lights, no traffic lights, the clock on the Whitney Bank building on Poydras and Camp -- a widely recognized feature -- is stopped. The debris is still everywhere. Cars abandoned all over the place. Abandoned and trashed. And the quiet. Aside from the occasional vehicle, this place has no sound. Every piece of glass that used to be a high rise window which hits the ground can be heard blocks away.
I wonder how things will be different in this city when this is all behind us.
Update: On cam, way down the street, you can see what appears to be an armed military foot patrol. First one I've seen.
So no need for vaccines against dysentery---or cholera---for what i read it says they are spread through unclean environments,,,---it doesn't say anything about it being airborn----am i correct on this???
http://www.flickr.com/photos/slightclutter/
Check out this guy's photos from Houston. Very moving pictures, including of the renegade bus, in which most of the passengers were teens or younger.
The big boys are going in! Our neighbor is a Marine and he just left Pensacola for NOLA today. He said, "It must be bad if they called us... we are only trained to hunt and then take the appropriate action necessary.... We are not not trained for crowd control and don't do rescue missions." He also mentioned that they were suited up with rifles and night vision goggles.
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