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Schoolmarm
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02-18-2001

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 1:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Schoolmarm a private message Print Post    
Need help with Cajun/New Orleans recipes for a fundraiser lunch....see my post in the Cooking Corner, if you have ideas. I'm trying to get my students involved here!

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 1:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Moonie, so sorry to hear about your brother. I will be making donations to BF...you are an awesome person to do all this help for everyone

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 2:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
How's this for eerie? National Geographic article published a year ago.

http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 2:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Moonie, I am sorry for your brother's house, but so glad he is safe.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 3:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
I just heard from my housemate, and our friend from New Orleans is safe somewhere in Mississippi right now. It sounds like he managed to get out with his car between the storm hitting and the levees breaking, by driving through the apartment complex and over peoples' yards. He was stuck for four days before FEMA let him cross some bridge (hearing this second hand, so I don't know which), and he's been sleeping in his car for a week. Now he's trying to get some gas and get someplace to get back on his feet. His apartment had five feet of water in it when he left (fortunately, he's about a foot and a half taller than that), so I don't know how much he managed to get out with him. But he's alive, and now we're in touch with him, so we can help him out with whatever he needs.

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 3:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
At this website you can look at aerial photos done by NOAA of the area. If you know where a house, or neighborhood is located, you can actually see if the house is still standing... you might need a regular map to help hone you in on the right box. Each box does identify the city when you click on it.

http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 4:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Herckleperckle a private message Print Post    
Wow, Juju. That is just incredible. The ineptitude on so many levels is just infuriating.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 4:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Heard an interesting comment today in reference to why did it take so long to get help to these areas....we are talking about a 90,000 sqaure mile area......roughly the size of Britan.

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 6:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Herckleperckle a private message Print Post    
I had heard that, Annie. But if I am correct, that is the total area affected (3 states). The flooded area of NO is a subset of that figure.

Dr. Phil has shown up to help people at the Astrodome. (I am watching Larry King. Why is Larry King STILL on TV?? That man should retire.)

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 6:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Yes, the total affected area. They have to take care of everyone.

Ddr
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08-19-2001

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 6:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ddr a private message Print Post    
Plaquemines Parish has yet to get anything from FEMA or the state. Other parishes are having a hard time getting in touch with FEMA. I think my parish prez today said he finally got in touch with them yesterday. He had been trying all week.

Major developments happening here. We have a 1 million square foot building presently empty and they are turning it into a food storage distribution facility for charitable organizations. Prez asked me to help coordinate this. I'm meeting again with the people who started this tomorrow.





Buttercup
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09-10-2000

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 6:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Buttercup a private message Print Post    
You are an amazing person, Ddr

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 6:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Herckleperckle a private message Print Post    
True, Annie, but people in the other areas did not need rescuing (as far as I have gathered). So the priority was (or should have been) to get to those who were trapped.

Oh, wow, Ddr. That is such a statement about his confidence in you. So proud of you!!

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 6:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
From the official website of state of Louisiana:

The Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation has been established in order to help provide immediate assistance to our citizens in need through a network of Louisiana charities, non-profit and governmental agencies, including clearinghouses like the Louisiana VOAD (Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster). The Foundation is also designed to support long-term family restoration and recovery by focusing on education, housing, health care, legal assistance and jobs for Louisiana families whose lives have been altered by Hurricane Katrina.

By postal mail, please make donations payable to Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, Inc. and mail to:

Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, Inc.
Fed. Tax ID No. 20-3399944
c/o Division of Administration
1201 North Third Street, Suite 7-240
P.O. Box 94095
Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9095
Inquiries may be directed to: LouisianaRecovery@la.gov

http://www.katrina.louisiana.gov/donate.htm

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 6:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Herckleperckle a private message Print Post    
They've got themselves together to oversee their own. That is wonderful!

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 6:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Tish, for that info. It looks like a great place to help out.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 6:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Ddr, that speaks volumes about you!

Ddr
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08-19-2001

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 7:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ddr a private message Print Post    
Tish, THANKS for that link! We have been scrambling all week for info and complaining that the state did not provide one centralized location. This is going to make it a lot easier.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 8:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
Tish, that is exactly what is needed!!! Thank you.
I'll pass it on.


Azriel
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08-01-2000

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 9:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Azriel a private message Print Post    
I just talked to one of my daughters. She's a supervisor in the LA state highway dept. in North LA. She said immediately even before the storm guys from her division volunteered to go down and work on the roads surrounding NO. The state office in Baton Rouge was so inundated with requests due to the storm work that everything was immediately backed up.

It took a couple of days to get the okay for them to go down, but finally it came through and they packed their trucks with water and went down. They are in a community that was hard hit right outside of NO. They had only been there working for a few hours when people lined the streets with homemade signs that said, 'THANK YOU' and 'God Bless you for helping us'.

So, they have a catering truck that goes out when they have emergency situations like this to feed the highway workers. The office hadn't sent the okay for the catering truck. There was no place for the guys to get food down there. Nothing was open. They worked two days without food although they had plenty of water, then the people on the side of the road with the signs found out and they went down to the church relief center and brought a meal back to the workers.

The people back at my daughter's office said F the system and took up donations and went to the grocery store and bought $1000 worth of food and loaded the catering truck up and sent it off without any official okay. They said they will sort it all out later.

Anyway, there are a lot of good people from LA pitching in and I hope you will keep praying for all the volunteers.

Ddr
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08-19-2001

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 9:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ddr a private message Print Post    
Az, that's basically what we did too. We were told by the State what we could do and said F the system and we will do what needs to be done for the evacuees. If it had been up to the state, they would have only been served EMRs and water.

Azriel
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08-01-2000

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 9:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Azriel a private message Print Post    
You know Ddr, they are used to dealing with hurricanes, floods and tornadoes in LA. Things usually run as smooth as they can run when you are dealing with paperwork pushers, but this is so over the top that the poor state workers can't process everything. We need to seriously overhaul how our state system operates in an emergency. Some of the red-tape needs to be relaxed or done away with when you are dealing with a disaster.

Oh! I saw some footage of people getting off the buses in Houston and they were feeding their babies with bottles of formula. Everyone had the same kind of bottles and I thought THAT'S PROBABLY BOTTLES THAT DDR'S PEOPLE GAVE THEM WHEN THEY STOPPED THERE ON THE WAY OVER!

You don't know how much we admire you and those wonderful people working with you, Ddr. Keep up the goodwork!

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 10:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
{{hugs}}

Dh was commenting that things changed when FEMA went under Homeland Security??? I do agree that there are thousands of wonderful people taking action and working so very hard, and so very long!!

Prayers, reaching out!!

Ddr
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08-19-2001

Monday, September 05, 2005 - 5:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ddr a private message Print Post    
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."




I say punch him already.



Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Monday, September 05, 2005 - 6:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
My mom just called to tell me she has heard that people will be able to collect LA unemployment benefits regardless of where they end up living. She said they gave an 800 number for people to start the process of collecting benefits. I read somewhere that in just a few days, they had had 4,000 claims -- the normal amount for a full month. They expect to reach 750,000 claims before it's all over.