Hurricane Katrina Disaster Updates

[BillyGoatGruff]

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

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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:

I'll believe what the survivors I know told me they saw and underwent.
It ain't a crock. And there's a lot of stuff that's being sat on to keep people from freaking out that their communities are possibly playing host to the people who beat their way to the head of the bus lines at the Super Dome with rebar.

 

[BillyGoatGruff]

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.

I-10 between New orleans and the Texas border has virtually been destroyed.
You can tell from the aerial photos. So if the storms did THAT to an interstate, imagine what they did to the state roads. How is repairing those "pork"?

 

[BillyGoatGruff]

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.

Hey, the concept of a billion dollars probably didn't exist back during the Napoleonic Era. Hell, there wasn't a billion dollars worth of gold in the USA treasury back then--possibly not in ANY country's treasury at the time.

 

[GonzoReiter]

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:

It's always the case, rumors run rampant..."I heard this, I heard that, etc"...rarely do the facts fit when it's all said and done. I wasn't in NOLa so I'll take the word from reputable sources like the Times-Picayune over the intranuts spreading e-mails and word of mouth horror stories.

I was in Houston, TX for the Katrina evacuee period and just in this small forum you could see examples of rumors "reported" here that were patently untrue.

 

[concernedperson]

Obviously, New Orleans and South Lousiana has to rebuilt. This is our country and this is what we do. I just want it to be thoughtful in its planning and execution. I would also like accountability to the American public for the tax dollars spent. And I truly don't want the state to be the only ones to control the funds.

Along with the estate tax issue benefiting few Americans, I would hate to see say isolated individuals with an over abundance of funds. Housing and roads are the biggest issues. Got to have I-10 back right as this is the lower south's main artery for getting supplies and people across country. There is no other route.

 

[Details]

It's always the case, rumors run rampant..."I heard this, I heard that, etc"...rarely do the facts fit when it's all said and done. I wasn't in NOLa so I'll take the word from reputable sources like the Times-Picayune over the intranuts spreading e-mails and word of mouth horror stories.

I was in Houston, TX for the Katrina evacuee period and just in this small forum you could see examples of rumors "reported" here that were patently untrue.

A lot of it was being spread by the reputable news agencies - under cover of the "reportedly", "we've heard" and other such.

 

[GonzoReiter]

A lot of it was being spread by the reputable news agencies - under cover of the "reportedly", "we've heard" and other such.

agreeance

 

[GonzoReiter]

Sept. 26, 2005
6:44 p.m.
(CBS) — CBS News correspondent Gloria Borger reports that Michael Brown, who recently resigned as the head of the FEMA, has been rehired by the agency as a consultant to evaluate it's response following Hurricane Katrina.

 

[concernedperson]

Sept. 26, 2005
6:44 p.m.
(CBS) — CBS News correspondent Gloria Borger reports that Michael Brown, who recently resigned as the head of the FEMA, has been rehired by the agency as a consultant to evaluate it's response following Hurricane Katrina.

Please say this isn't true. Is that how incompetents are reinstituted?

 

[GonzoReiter]

AP Story elaborates

CBS News Reports

 

[Buzz Mills]

Please say this isn't true. Is that how incompetents are reinstituted?

Promoted, and is now a big-bucks consultant to the new head of FEMA, making twice what he did before. j/k

 

[concernedperson]

AP Story elaborates

CBS News Reports

OK, I am appalled to think that this is under the covers and reconstructing itself. What is wrong with these people? I also think that no credit is being given to the first responders in s. Louisiana for not waiting for FEMA and going in with fishing boats and rescuing themselves. Now, that is hardy.If the Bush administration even tries to take credit I may lose it. This effort was local, not state and certainly not federal. And that could be why until today we had no footage but CNN is bringing it to us and I am seeing it with my own eyes and I don't need any supercilious official to tell me what happened.

 

[Marthatex]

And Hugh Hefner is going to conduct an internal investigation of the goings-on at the Playboy Mansion... stay tuned.

 

[Buzz Mills]

Monster Mold Threatens Health in the South

NEW ORLEANS - Wearing goggles, gloves, galoshes and a mask, Veronica Randazzo lasted only 10 minutes inside her home in St. Bernard Parish. Her eyes burned, her mouth filled with a salty taste and she felt nauseous. Her 26-year-old daughter, Alicia, also covered in gear, came out coughing. "That mold," she said. "It smells like death."

Mold now forms an interior version of kudzu in the soggy South, posing health dangers that will make many homes tear-downs and will force schools and hospitals to do expensive repairs. It's a problem that any homeowner who has ever had a flooded basement or a leaky roof has faced. But the magnitude of this problem leaves many storm victims prey to unscrupulous or incompetent remediators. Home test kits for mold, for example, are worthless, experts say.

http://tinyurl.com/cbugh