Hurricane Charley came through Aug 13 last year. I have "U loot U die" and shotgun toting photos d/l Aug 14. There is also one with a pail that says "Sightseers $10".
Good message.
WWL
Updates as they come in on Katrina
07:39 AM CDT on Monday, September 5, 2005
Tom Planchet
7:35 A.M. - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- The Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon raised more than $3 million by late Sunday night in a unique edition of the annual event that benefits both the Muscular Dystrophy Association and victims of Hurricane Katrina. Viewers pledged more than $3 million by 10:30 p.m., according to Bob Mackle, a telethon spokesman. The total amount of donations to aid hurricane victims was not immediately available, he said. The telethon, which started at 6 p.m. Sunday, ends Monday afternoon.
7:20 A.M. - Senator Frist volunteers as doctor, criticizes administration's response.
7:14 A.M. - (AP) Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., lashed back, saying she won't tolerate federal officials' denigrating local efforts to deal with the catastrophe.
"If one person criticizes them or says one more thing, including the president of the United States, he will hear from me," she said on the ABC's "This Week." "One more word about it after this show airs and I might likely have to punch him. Literally."
7:08 A.M. - New Orleans Times-Picayune editorial: "Every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be fired, Director Michael Brown especially."
7:07 A.M. - WWL-TV: Residents of Jefferson Parish are being allowed back in without having to show identification, as previously planned. A long line of cars is streaming in at a good pace.
7:05 A.M. - Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff on the coming death toll: "We need to prepare the country for what's coming... It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine."
7:00 A.M. - (AP) -- A week after Hurricane Katrina, dozens of military and U.S. Coast Guard helicopters filled the air over New Orleans. But it's getting harder to find people who needed rescuing. One Navy helicopter crew flew in from Pensacola Naval Air Station, only to spend most of their 13-hour shift fruitlessly searching flooded neighborhoods.
6:55 A.M. - (AP) Miles-long lines of vehicles crawl into Jefferson Parish today. The traffic began moving into the parish about 6 a.m. and officials plan to allow traffic in for 12 hours, though they encouraged residents to inspect their property, pick up personal items and leave.
The parish, which has about 500,000 residents, has been closed since a mandatory evacuation just before Hurricane Katrina hit a week ago. Wide portions of Metairie and Kenner suffered heavy flooding and authorities say thousands of homes were damaged.
6:45 A.M. - Robin Cooper, CLECO spokesperson: 7,000 homes in St. Tammany have power restored, but 73,000 remain without. Power restored to hospitals.
That's funny.
We were in Orlando for my 40th birthday that week. We got all the gawking we needed at Disney's Animal Kingdom. It was pretty hard hit.
The pictures on the local news were horrible, but it was great to see how orderly things went.
The run on gas was an eye opener, too. It was quite scary - we thought we were going to get stuck down there.