Hurricane Katrina Disaster Updates

[less0305]

So are we still at the point where the Mayor says yes, she says no? Do they not have AT LEAST one daily briefing of oh, I dunno, important things like whether to make mandatory evacutation, "mandatory?" :banghead:

She was asked if they were on the same page....she said she thinks he's still working off the mandatory order that came out Sunday and the fact that that order hasn't been rescinded, so she thinks that at this time it would be better to still try to convince people to leave.

 

[DEPUTYDAWG]

She was asked if they were on the same page....she said she thinks he's still working off the mandatory order that came out Sunday and the fact that that order hasn't been rescinded, so she thinks that at this time it would be better to still try to convince people to leave.

"She thinks?" How 'bout we have one of the media hounds go 'round him up, bring him to her, or call her (if the phones are connecting at the time) and have her, as GOVERNOR, actually ask him!

 

[Details]

She was asked if they were on the same page....she said she thinks he's still working off the mandatory order that came out Sunday and the fact that that order hasn't been rescinded, so she thinks that at this time it would be better to still try to convince people to leave.

What the heck is wrong with her?!!! I think she's paralyzed, too afraid to make decisions for fear of criticism. She should resign.

 

[DEPUTYDAWG]

What the heck is wrong with her?!!! I think she's paralyzed, too afraid to make decisions for fear of criticism. She should resign.

I wonder how effective the Lt. Governor would be? Sometimes they know more of the detail of the true happenings...more "hands on," so to speak.

Can't be much worse, is my guess.

 

[Details]

<sigh> Really, what is wrong with these people!

The stepped-up evacuation came as workers trying to get into the city to restart essential services came under sniper fire. More than 100 officers and seven armored personnel carriers captured a suspect in a housing project who had been firing on workers trying to restore cell phone towers, authorities said.

“These cell teams are getting fire on almost a daily basis, so we needed to get in here and clean this thing up,” said Capt. Jeff Winn, commander of the police SWAT team. “We’re putting a lot of people on the street right now and I think that we are bringing it under control. Eight days ago this was a mess. Every day is getting a little bit better.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9156612/

That's why they have to have a mandatory evacuation - most of the people remaining behind are good people who just hate to leave home... but some of them are these nutcases and thugs that make it impossible to fix the city.

 

[Paradise]

I hadn't been on the ncmec site lately and I'm glad to see that most of the missing/children looking for parents cases have been resolved.

 

[Buzz Mills]

I hadn't been on the ncmec site lately and I'm glad to see that most of the missing/children looking for parents cases have been resolved.

Paradise, can you post the link to the ncmec website--Thanks.

 

[mysteriew]

Because people have become frustrated over using the many Internet lists of missing persons in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Bill Wolcott decided to do something to help consolidate all the information.

180+ volunteers are helping him upload pictures of missing persons and catgorize information. Born on September 1, 2005, his website Photofreeway offers those looking for displaced and lost people a place to upload pictures and/or text, see a listing of shelters, and do a mega search of all online missing persons' websites with one click.
http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/hpaxton1127533405

 

[mysteriew]

Paradise, can you post the link to the ncmec website--Thanks.

http://www.missingkids.com/

 

[mysteriew]

To most folks, the mountains of rubble along U.S. 90 look the same. But Deborah Johnson knows what the splintered boards, ruined furniture and tumbled bricks once were.

"That was a pawn shop. That was a waffle shop," she says, pointing over the steering wheel, then pulling out of the parking lot of the Edgewater Inn. "And this is the only hotel left on the beach."

Johnson, 42, has delivered the mail in Biloxi for 12 years. Since Hurricane Katrina, though, some of her route is barely recognizable. The postal worker lost at least 200 of 1,100 customers.

Near the Edgewater sits a battered barge decked out like a pirate ship, the skeletal remains of Treasure Bay casino. A half-mile away, on the wrong side of the road, sits The President casino.

But it's the ancient oaks that really get to her.

"You look at the trees and you see everybody's clothes," Johnson says. "It just gives me chills."

Especially the purple clothes, a color favored by one of her elderly customers. Johnson does not know what became of her.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/12740421.htm

 

[Buzz Mills]

The news this morning said that 40 billion is being requested to rebuild the New Orleans levee system. It makes one pause, and wonder if this is a wise thing to do. The total requested aid package for Louisiana is 250 billion, which is said to be (after adjustment for inflation), more than was paid for the entire Louisiana Purchase to begin with.

 

[Marthatex]

I was reading slate.com this morning and evidently this is alot more than the Army Corps of Engineers had ever said it would cost. Evidently this may now include alot of pork. Blanco wants new highways, among other things.

See http://www.slate.com

Guilt sure makes people throw money at things, doesn't it?

Also since no bidding is required on alot of these contracts, we'll be spending tons more than necessary on many things and certain companies, usually connected to certain people, will be raking it in. At least it can probably be more closely monitered than Iraq.

 

[Jeana (DP)]

The news this morning said that 40 billion is being requested to rebuild the New Orleans levee system. It makes one pause, and wonder if this is a wise thing to do. The total requested aid package for Louisiana is 250 billion, which is said to be (after adjustment for inflation), more than was paid for the entire Louisiana Purchase to begin with.

True, but its a major port city. Too many goods go through that area to just not rebuild it.

 

[Marthatex]

The issue is not rebuilding it, it is the amount of money being requested, and overseeing the expenditures.

 

[scandi]

WOW!

http://gangsta411.com/bigcrock.htm
"This crocodile was found in New Orleans swimming down the street. 21 FT long, 4,500 lbs, around 80
years old minimum.


Specialists said that he was looking to eat humans because he was too old to
catch animals. This crocodile was killed by the army last Sunday at 3:00 pm, 9/18 currently the crocodile is in
the freezer at the Azur hotel. The contents of it's stomach w ill be analyzed 9/22
this Friday at 2:30pm. {Can't get the pictures up!~}





Scandi

 

[Sassygerl]

WOW!

http://gangsta411.com/bigcrock.htm
"This crocodile was found in New Orleans swimming down the street. 21 FT long, 4,500 lbs, around 80
years old minimum.


Specialists said that he was looking to eat humans because he was too old to
catch animals. This crocodile was killed by the army last Sunday at 3:00 pm, 9/18 currently the crocodile is in
the freezer at the Azur hotel. The contents of it's stomach w ill be analyzed 9/22
this Friday at 2:30pm. {Can't get the pictures up!~}



I got this email the other day and found the pics are real, but this croc was not found swimming in New Orleans........

http://www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/crocodile.asp

In any case, it's one big crocodile!!!!!!!!

 

[scandi]

Hi Sassygerl,

You mean this was a CROC ?




[color=cri9mson]Scandi[/color] ;}

 

[Buzz Mills]

Hi Sassygerl,

You mean this was a CROC ?




[color=cri9mson]Scandi[/color] ;}

Can't you just imagine?

The largest alligator ever recorded measured 19 feet 2 inches (5.8 meters) and was found in Louisiana.

The longest saltwater crocodile was a massive adult male killed on the Fly River in Papua New Guinea in 1982. The animal was nearly 21 feet long.

Important Fact To Remember: Crocodiles have 66 teeth

 

[Sassygerl]

Hi Sassygerl,

You mean this was a CROC ?




[color=cri9mson]Scandi[/color] ;}

Yeppers..what a big croc eh???

 

[Details]

I just found a new article, sounds like a lot of things in NO were a croc.

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09_26.html#082732

Following days of internationally reported killings, rapes and gang violence inside the Dome, the doctor from FEMA - Beron doesn't remember his name - came prepared for a grisly scene: He brought a refrigerated 18-wheeler and three doctors to process bodies.

"I've got a report of 200 bodies in the Dome," Beron recalls the doctor saying.

The real total was six, Beron said.

As the fog of warlike conditions in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath has cleared, the vast majority of reported atrocities committed by evacuees have turned out to be false, or at least unsupported by any evidence, according to key military, law enforcement, medical and civilian officials in positions to know.

"I think 99 percent of it is bulls---," said Sgt. 1st Class Jason Lachney, who played a key role in security and humanitarian work inside the Dome. "Don't get me wrong, bad things happened, but I didn't see any killing and raping and cutting of throats or anything. ... Ninety-nine percent of the people in the Dome were very well-behaved."

But other accusations that have gained wide currency are more demonstrably false. For instance, no one found the body of a girl - whose age was estimated at anywhere from 7 to 13 - who, according to multiple reports, was raped and killed with a knife to the throat at the Convention Center.

About 15 others joined the medical operation, as people collapsed from heat and exhaustion every few minutes, Baldwin said.

"Some of these guys look like thugs, with pants hanging down around their asses," he said. "But they were working their asses off, grabbing litters and running with people to the (New Orleans) Arena" next door, which housed the medical operation.

I've gotta say, I owe the New Orleans people caught up in Katrina an apology - I believed the reports, and it turns out they are false. There was looting, but not as much outrageous violence as reported, by far. Sounds like they responded well to horrible conditions. :clap: