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Lurknomore
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07-07-2001

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lurknomore a private message Print Post    
WoW I never heard of any of it. Just one man who refused to leave his dog it was gut wrenching and he finally left when someone promised to take care of the dog until they could send for him.

I like whipped cream w/chocolate. My problem w/frosting is to make it I know how much sugar goes into a good buttercream LOLOL. I don't mind a mix for the cake, but can't stand the pre-made frosting BLECH.

I MUST find my chocolate zuchinni cake recipe. It's the bestest cake and I finally perfected it. I have one copy on my main puter which isn't working and I was sure it was on a CD but can't find it. It's SOOO moist it doesn't need any topping. Ok now I'm just purely torturing myself.

OMG Ragan thinks he for sure is getting the 25 grand. OH the egos!!!!

Bubbles
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08-31-2008

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bubbles a private message Print Post    
Shootit is 1:00 here I best go to bed. Nite everyone!

Lurknomore
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07-07-2001

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lurknomore a private message Print Post    
Did I know you were in WI? My former lifelong best friend (and wait until you hear how ironically it ties into our chat here) runs a Cajun restaurant in WI w/her DH who is from LA.

We didn't get pets that I know, but we did get a planeload of people. I tried to offer my home, but you had to be in a church that was part of some program. That bugged me too!

Jarreau
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03-02-2008

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jarreau a private message Print Post    
I know of one woman that refused to leave without her dog - the rescuers came by 7 straight days and she wouldn't leave without her dog. The rescuers even told her how to get water - empty out the hot water tank. The rescuers just finally gave in. She was flown to Amarillo Texas and she smuggled her dog onto the plane. The rest of her family was in my shelter.....

Lurknomore
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07-07-2001

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lurknomore a private message Print Post    
LOL wimp it's 2 here...what's your point? Pleasant dreams cuz!!!

Lurknomore
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07-07-2001

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lurknomore a private message Print Post    
your shelter???

Jarreau
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03-02-2008

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jarreau a private message Print Post    
Well Lurk, looks like we outlasted the wimps......

Lurknomore
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07-07-2001

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YaY us!!! lol

Bubbles
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08-31-2008

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bubbles a private message Print Post    
Lurk, Interesting. I am in Green Bay,,,Packer Country

Jarreau
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03-02-2008

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jarreau a private message Print Post    
Well, the shelter where I volunteered (and eventually ran)! We had over 300 people in a small community center! These were primarily people that evacuated before the storm hit. Shelters were being set up all over the state when the storm was forecast.

Lurknomore
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07-07-2001

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lurknomore a private message Print Post    
I'm trying to remember the name of her town...Menasha I think. I'll have to tell you bout her sometime (when you aren't wimping out lol)

Jarreau
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03-02-2008

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jarreau a private message Print Post    
I'm about 100 miles west of New Orleans. Just outside of Baton Rouge so, we got a lot of evacuees. It was something to see - helicopters filled the sky day and night - flying in and out of the hospitals, etc. The basketball arena at LSU was a triage center - they would bring in busloads of people once they were able to get them out of New Orleans. It was like a MASH hospital - something to have lived through.

Bubbles
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08-31-2008

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bubbles a private message Print Post    
Sunday night Dateline had a recap of the first 5 days of Katrina. So sad. They showed at the end an update of some of the people that were shown in the stories.

Lurknomore
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07-07-2001

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lurknomore a private message Print Post    
oh WOW Jarr that's crazy...bet it was huh? And interesting bout those type of shelters...never heard of them either. Odd what made the news and what didn't. I swear media in this country is becoming downright scary (this from a person with their degree in Mass Communications..though tech I did that because I had a double major in PR and Advertising and that was the only way to do it).

Jarreau
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03-02-2008

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jarreau a private message Print Post    
Bubbles - WHO DAT Nation here!!!!! Who Dat, Who Dat, Who Dat gonna beat them Saints!!!!!

Bubbles
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08-31-2008

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bubbles a private message Print Post    
Menasha is 40 minutes away from here. Extreme Home makeover did a house in the Neenah Menasha area last week.

Lurknomore
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07-07-2001

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lurknomore a private message Print Post    
I had been considering moving down there about a year before Katrina. I've always ADORE New Orleans and esp the people there. One thing I loathe bout New England is how strangers treat each other (or don't). But in New Orleans and even Lafayette it was SOOO warm. Then I ran into some ugly prejudice which stunned me. Had no clue it was going on until I went to hug my friend's husband's sister and she recoiled. Guess if you are Christian there it's a problem to some.

Lurknomore
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07-07-2001

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lurknomore a private message Print Post    
WoW not that far...someone else here is from near there too. I remember having this discussion last year but damn it no clue who. I hate when my brain freezes

Bubbles
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08-31-2008

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bubbles a private message Print Post    
my husband says dees dem der does. But not as bad as in fargo, but he does say it with the d more than th I do not however.

Jarreau
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03-02-2008

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jarreau a private message Print Post    
Bubbles - I missed that - someone told me about it today. On National Geo channel tonight they had a documentary that was done with individuals personal video. It was pretty interesting. Unless you came down here and actually saw what was going on, you cannot imagine it. It was something else. And, it makes me mad when I see some of the things said about Bush and how this was handled. It was of a proportion that this country has never seen. And personally, I think we did a pretty damn good job of taking care of these people. We did the best we could with what we had. People in my small community were coming to the shelter and cooking jambalayas and bbq'ing. We had clothes donated for days - we could give them all away. And toothbrushes - we had enough toothbrushes donated to give one to everyone in the entire state!

Jarreau
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03-02-2008

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jarreau a private message Print Post    
Someone down here didn't want a hug! They must have been a Yankee transplant......

Lurknomore
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07-07-2001

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lurknomore a private message Print Post    
What amazes me is that there wasn't a massive uproar afterwards about what happened. Like I said above, I never believed what I saw could happen in America.

And I've yet to hear how America can send aide...troops, water, shelter into other countries in days, but a week after Katrina folks were first getting water. And the bodies in the street....I'm tearing up thinking of it.

BTW hope you saw Treme. Just brilliant IMHO!

Lurknomore
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07-07-2001

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lurknomore a private message Print Post    
hey HEY watch out w/the Yankee comments please!!!!!!!

Bubbles
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08-31-2008

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bubbles a private message Print Post    
See if you can watch it on the internet under Dateline stories. I liked the reporter and he did not mix words. I do not think the reporting would get you mad, more the politics they show. It slammed the help that got there so late. I think Brian Reynolds was the reporter .

Bubbles
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08-31-2008

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bubbles a private message Print Post    
They had no excuse. Parachute drops should have happened immediately.. It was a shame, an awful shame.