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Fruitbat
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08-07-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Fruitbat a private message Print Post    
A chilling aerial view of homes on the other side of the levy still standing and dry, rooves intact and the other side flooded. It was just a short swim for many.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Kar, there is no one there? The officials have just abandoned the refugees at the Superdome??????

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
Today in the paper they are talking about rescue workers, some are being fed high on the hog, with Outback Steak providing food, just for rescue workers, they are having to guard the perimeter so lowly refugees dont get in!!

Other rescue workers had to break into a grocery store for water.

Most of those being rescued are touched when someone tells them there is a greater need next door... a 14 yr old boy was gathering people in great need, and brought tears to the Coast Guard rescue team, that was yesterday.

Because today there is such huge hot spots of serious violence, all rescue efforts have been suspended. Now everyone is frustrated.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
Sorry Texannie, one report from a policeman said (in NO) that he is helpless to do anything, he has no way to communicate for back up, he has nowhere to take the looters, he is just hoping his presence is a deterrent...

In Houston, if a person came in to the Astrodome and tried to rape a person, there would be a policeman there to help, to arrest the perp.. in NO we havent heard the horror stories of what "anarchy" is, what people had to deal with.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
CNN is now showing the catostrophy at the Convention Center, "people need to see this" no one has medical training, we saw a man have a seizure, and they tried to help him, but know, no help is there, and there is nothing for them to do. They showed the grandmother in the wheelchair with a blanket over her, dead, the feces its tramatic..

while officials are sleeping in a warm bed, and drinking water...

where are the supplies? where is the water. arent there trucks getting into NO at all??

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Oh, Ok, Reader.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
Yes Texannie, they have stopped boarding the buses, the National Guard is standing around the crowds to try and keep order.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
THe people are now screaming at the reporters, where is the National Guard, we've been here two days? Where are buses? Where is water? Why cant anyone get here but you? No food, No water, isnt there water somewhere?

they are getting angry.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168122,00.html

Fats Domino is missing.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
an apartment building is on fire off of I10, and there are people in the building... they cannot get the firetrucks in, there are people in a building next to it, screaming for help knowing that there are people in the building that is burning...

but so far, they are still on Stand Down for rescue efforts. its not safe

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Texannie, I was talking about the Convention Center, not the Superdome. The Convention Center was the secondary evacuation shelter for those who couldnt make it to the Superdome.

You can't blame them for being scared and angry. People are dying in front of them. Fox News is reporting the same thing, people stranded on the freeway, thousands of them, no food, no water, people dying in the street.

Max
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08-12-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
If there's no food and water in the Superdome, how on earth is there alcohol? The reporter was talking about how some people there drink all day and the violence escalates at night as a result. This is ridiculous!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
The whole town of Waveland. MS is just gone.......we used to go there.....
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/obliterated.town.ap/index.html

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
from the Astrodome, there are 2,000 refugees there right now, but people are driving up and trying to get in. There is no civil authority in New Orleans, so they are not getting buses in. Once they leave NO there is no communication, when a bus leaves... some of the buses arrived overnight, and most werent from the superdome...

The buses picked up people on the way, also from churches that heard of the plan, and the churches had no food and water, so they brought them to the Astrodome.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
Max, I think they were talking about the Convention Center, they loot and find alcohol...

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Ok, got it, Kar.

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
I'm still thinking of Biloxibelle. And everyone else, of course.

Max
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08-12-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
Reader, that makes sense. Geez. I'm with Karuuna. Today, I'm am not so proud to be an American.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Reader, they are letting anyone who arrives in the Astrodome now. There was some confusion overnight, but now all are getting in.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
You do wonder when will the act? I do feel that we are not in a 3rd world country, but how many times have we seen pictures from Africa with storages of food, but not getting it to those in greatest need?

I'm seeing a definate correlation

Fruitbat
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08-07-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Fruitbat a private message Print Post    
Max, liquor stores were looted.

Never mind food. One can live without food for weeks. The heavier you are the longer you can survive. By the looks of things most can survive many, many weeks without food. LOL! Water is the huge problem. Usually 3 days is all that one could make it in that heat.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
That's right after 9/11 every state was ordered to come up with an evacuation plan... wth is happenning?

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
Texannie, last night when the first bus came out, they did open up the gates, found out they werent from NO, and then scrambled to figure out what to do, those people were shown on tv as being very angry... so they let them in...

Today on a report they interviewed a woman that drove to the Astrodome, and she was given a list of shelters to go to and a list of phone numbers of the Red Cross, she was given money for gas... she wasnt angry, but looked numb. The reporter at that time said the astrodome is trying to accomadate everyone, but they are expecting busloads of people from the Superdome, and were not expecting these numbers to just show up.

Its like no one has a clue of how many people are affected and needing help, Houston is stepping up, Baton Rouge is shown as stepping up, but it seems to me, much more help is needed, Texas is huge, and has a huge heart, but they will need help.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/katrina.recovery/index.html

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- As promised, federal rescue and National Guard teams were arriving Thursday to help the ravaged Gulf Coast recover from Hurricane Katrina.

.........



Max
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08-12-2000

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
According to the Lt. Governor of LA, people who are left chose to stay?! What an uninformed statement to make! NO is a city with a VERY high poverty level and many people didn't have a way to leave! Where were the busses when the evacuations were ordered? What was the plan for these people? I guess they were expendable, eh? The reporter asked the Lt. Governor about that and said she didn't get an answer.