Posted on 09/25/2005 6:14:46 AM PDT by Comstock1
The damage that has hit SW Louisiana and SE Texas is much worse than is being reported by the MSM. While there is very little in the way of a body count, houses and businesses by the hundreds have been destroyed. Entire communities in Cameron Parish have more than likely been erased from the map.
Here is link for some images from SW LA. You'll have to scroll down.
http://forum.lakecharles.com/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_topic/f/14/t/000023
And then ask why the utter destruction of several coastal Lousiana towns with comparable populations is treated like a mere passing curiosity . . .
Exasperating . . .
The MSM has become absolutely grotesque. And they're only going to get worse. Every time I think it's not possible for them to sink any lower, they redefine the word nadir.
On CNN.com's front page:
-Cameron Parish under as much as 15 feet of water
-Up to 90 percent of homes destroyed in Cameron
-Several buildings smashed in Lake Charles
-Nearly 1 million without power in hurricanes' wake
Thanks for a very interesting local perspective- keep us updated on your travels through the mess. Hope it is better than expected.
Well, I thank you for the flattering thoughts, but I keep most of this stuff ( poorly ) organized in my grey old head. And while I ran businesses around here for years, I'm a homemaker now. Turned around one day, and zip! Years and youth had flown away while I wasn't paying attention.
Where did I put that stuff? :)
The victims of Katrine and Rita have years of expensive litigation ahead of them. Nobody in the MSM is even talking about hurricane victims being disappointed after they filed insurance claims. Thus far, their focus has been on FEMA's inadequate response, Bush's political fall out, and anti-war demonstrations.
The MSM ought to be focused on several new issues: (1) 350,000 displaced voters from Louisiana transplanted to other states, (2) At least 200,000 jobs lost forever, (3) Thousands of homes destroyed that will not be rebuilt because of insurance disputes, (4) Financial hardship of people whose insurance claims will be denied outright, and (5) The financial impact on the court system of massive insurance litigation claims that may go nowhere.
As usual, the MSM is asleep or just out to lunch.
Now they're all finally getting in on the act and telling us what we already know. They don't want to appear as being behind the curve, and since the news is out, they might as well join in.
This is what MSM should have done before going around saying, "We dodged a bullet" so prematurely. If they claim they couldn't reach the affected areas until now so they didn't know about the devastation, ask them how they could conclude we dodged a bullet without having gotten into those areas to confirm whether or not there was devastation. Seems to me they simply should have been cautiously optimistic at best, and held off any proclamations of dodging a bullet until having more information. Once again, they're caught with their pants down.
What a disgusting, insidious article. They actually felt the need to make this distinction. They are truly twisted and grotesque. I consider them an entirely alien species that just happens to look human. Their thought process is just too different and incomprehensible, too warped and perverse. Perhaps they evolved from apes, after which something went terribly wrong.
I guess that's what happens when you build your house next to the beach. Idiots.
I'm sorry, but if you build on the beach in hurricane county, you should be prepared to lose it all. It's not a matter of if, but when.
Does anyone remember the woman that was staying in Beaumont or Port Arthur because her 91 year old grandmother was recouperating from recent heart surgery? Her screen name started with green and then something or another.
I just have been wondering how they fared?
This is truly disgusting! There is a picture in my mind of the family with the mother standing in the doorway of a small blue house. She is barefoot and holding a baby. There are 4 small children in a boat in front of the house. The water is nearly into the house. They look very poor but they are white so I guess they are well off.
Yes it is. The northeastern liberals think if it is south of the Mason Dixon line, it don't exist.
5 dead in Beaumont.
They had a generator working in a closed apartment. Three children and two adults died. One 12 year old girl survived.
oh, I didnt hear that part.
The road to Avery Island was submerged, so residents didn't know if the Tabasco plant had suffered damage. The island is really a little hill, but its highest point is only 152 feet above sea level.
Tabasco's New Orleans employees had been relocated to the corporate office on Avery after Katrina. The Commercial Appeal was unable to reach Tabasco representatives late Saturday.
Thanks for the insult.
"They look very poor but they are white so I guess they are well off."
The whole thing is sickening; people using the misery of others for political purposes.
"Wildwood, Avalon and Cape May"
The only nice places in Jersey worth worrying about!!! LOL
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