[dangus]

>>In a small sign of progress, authorities said the New Orleans airport will reopen to commercial flights on Sept. 19<<

"Miss, is there something you're not telling us?"
"Yes, we're out of coffee."

[frogjerk]

DIMS: "WE TOLD YOU NAGIN AND BLANCO WERE SAINTS!"

OR

DIMS: "This has nothing to do with BUSH"

[Names Ash Housewares]

Hopefully it stays this way. I worry because the deepest parts have not been drained yet. Are those houses also part of the sweeps? Checking attics?

Still this is very good news indeed if it shows the trend.

[conservativehusker]

...said the last of the bodies at the convention center would be taken out on Friday. ....

They are still there???????????????????????

[Alouette]

I predict that total body count will be <1000

They were estimating 30,000 on 9/11.

[IrishGOP]

they sound disappointed.

[sgtbono2002]

I posted a week ago that I predict as many dead as one thousand, Not near what the incompetent Mayor predicts. Probably a few more in Mississippi and Alabama .

[dfwgator]

Michael Brown's fault!

[Pessimist]

And in a related story:

N.O Alligators demand immediate shipment of Alka-Seltzer.

[Caipirabob]

No bodies, just "content-lookin' an' fat" gators, yes?

[tiki]

I sure hope this is true. There were still too many deaths at the Superdome.

[FlingWingFlyer]

This has to be very disappointing news to the 'RATS and their toadies in the Liberal "media." We may need to put the NYT and WaPo on suicide watch.

[snarkytart]

SO all this hysteria was for what?

I mean, I understand it is not comfortable waiting on an bridge a few days to be rescued.
I grew up on the water and had to leave via a boat several times as a kid when a bad storm hit. However, there does not appear to be the hundred of deaths caused by lack of food and water and flooding as suspected at first.

That means most people either left before the hurricane hit or they were rescued.

Now can people calm down with all the "OMG! WHY! WHY!"

sheesh.

[Graymatter]

New Orleans airport will reopen to commercial flights on Sept. 19

Very peculiar things going on down there. Mandatory evac was illegal before the hurricane, before the flood; but it's fine and dandy now. Cops are getting vacations in Vegas while someone else confiscates weapons from homeowners who will later be forcibly evacuated. Commercial flights will resume in about a week, yet nobody can LIVE there, so what's with the commerce? Hired security may keep guns to protect those who can afford to hire them. Reporters may stay, as long as they make no trouble, but not residents. It really looks like the President is giving them enough rope to hang themselves, but in the process they're hurting the people, the law, the respect for the law; and the President's reputation is being tarnished while the Democrats' stock is rising.

[Dog Gone]

Are they searching inside the homes, or just counting the floaters in the streets?

[teenyelliott]

authorities said the New Orleans airport will reopen to commercial flights on Sept. 19.

Ummm, am I missing something? Who wants to go there right now?????

[clintonh8r]

Greyhound Ray must have been sandbagging (pun definitely intended) with that 10,000 number...

[konaice]

"Numbers so far are relatively minor as compared to the dire projections of 10,000," Ebbert said.

I'm sticking with my initial prediction of around 2500 in NOLA. Someone else suggested 25000, but I doubt it will get that high.

[Unsh8kableFaith]

Thank God for that. :-/

I assume by "sweeps" they are referring to what is plainly visable street-to-street. I'm fearful of what will be found when houses are entered.

Hoping for the best,
-U.

[Halls]

NOOOO?? You don't say?

Let's hope that the number stays lower than $1000 and I bet it will.