The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

[Olivia77]

Wal-Mart has, in many cities, opened the doors to the stores in the areas affected and has allowed people to come in and take what they need.

Telephone companies are donating about two million dollars worth of free long distance.

Airlines are donating seats so that people can get to families in other areas of the country.

Pet food companies are donating hundreds of thousands of pounds of pet food to the animals affected.

The American Bar Association is calling for ALL American attorneys to donate their legal services for ANYTHING that the victims need by way of legal services.

This is just what I've heard about in the free hour I've got to watch television before I went to sleep last night. I'm pretty sure that this is the very tip of the iceburg.

Thank you, that is good to know!

 

[amandab]

I remember hearing that Anheuser-Busch donated a truckload or more of canned water. Canned. Threw me, too, but that's what the report said. Of course, I can't find it now to source it.

The company I work for, Clarcor, donated $50,000 to the Red Cross.

 

[Mabel]

Will New Orleans and even some of the other coastal cities affected by this disaster ever be the same?

I am just sitting here wondering how many people won't return to NO. It will be months before things even return to a semblance of normal. Many of the people who have been displaced will begin new lives - get new jobs, new friends, possibly find new places to live - will they return? I believe I would count my blessings and start a new live elsewhere. What would you do?

I think for some it will depend on what their extended family does. Many people like to be close to their relatives. I doubt there's time to take that into consideration when these people are being sent out to shelters in various states. They're all going to have to find each other somehow and make plans.

 

[Buzz Mills]

I remember hearing that Anheuser-Busch donated a truckload or more of canned water. Canned. Threw me, too, but that's what the report said. Of course, I can't find it now to source it.

The company I work for, Clarcor, donated $50,000 to the Red Cross.

Donations by corporations have been fairly widely reported. Walmart gave 17 million outright plus opened their stores as mentioned, guaranteed all affected employees a position in another Walmart, and gave affected employees money. Intel donated 1500 laptops, plus 4? million. I've heard at least 25-30 corporations mentioned and I don't watch the news that often.

 

[Buzz Mills]

They raised the elevation of Galveston, and that was in the early 1900s. I think they can do the same with N.O.
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Galveston wasn't below sea level to begin with, sinking more each year, and was considerably smaller than New Orleans is/was. Let's see what the great minds come up with as this catastrophe was predicted as "a disaster waiting to happen" by quite a few people. The wetlands which acted as a buffer protecing New Orleans from storm surge were effectively doomed by the straightening of the Mississippi River. This is an apppropriate time to consider all of the options, and ramifications, prior to rebuilding New Orleans.

 

[poco]

NEW ORLEANS (Sept. 8) - Across miles of ravaged neighborhoods of clapboard houses, grand estates and housing projects, workers struggled to find corpses Thursday and persuade this swamped city's last stubborn residents to leave. Fears grew about the risks posed by putrid floodwaters, and officials braced for what could be a staggering death toll by preparing 25,000 body bags.

Government tests confirmed that the floodwaters are thick with sewage-related bacteria in amounts at least 10 times higher than acceptable safety limits. The muck is believed to contain E. coli, certain viruses and a type of cholera-like bacteria.

The danger of infection was not limited to the New Orleans area. The bacteria are feared to have migrated to crowded shelters outside the state, where many evacuees are staying. Four deaths -- one in Texas, three in Mississippi -- have been attributed to infected wounds, said Tom Skinner, spokesman for the CDC.

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050824033709990005

 

[less0305]

I remember hearing that Anheuser-Busch donated a truckload or more of canned water. Canned. Threw me, too, but that's what the report said. Of course, I can't find it now to source it.

The company I work for, Clarcor, donated $50,000 to the Red Cross.

I heard that same report. Anheuser-Busch is specially making the cans of water specifically for this terrible tragedy. They have the metal and ability to make cans - probably not plastic bottles - so they're making the canned water to send. Works for me!

Wal-Mart - BIG WOW - Corporation gave like 17 million in funds. Walton kids gave 13 million in funds. The Corporation donated 3 million in product that has been sent to the area of devastation and shelters. Employees can walk into any Wal-Mart anywhere in the U.S. and have a job immediately regardless of the store's actual needs - and be handed $250 in cash that very day, and then receive cash cards for additional funds later. I hate to hear the Wal-Mart bashing in my day to day life - I really don't want to hear Wal-Mart bashing after this. Someone in my neighborhood just might get an earful of something they don't want to hear!! Wal-mart is a hero in this also.

 

[Mabel]

It was said that Walmart sent truckloads of supplies to NO immediately after the hurricane struck and was turned away. Perhaps this is all a PR move by Walmart to counteract the bad publicity they've received lately, but that doesn't mean it's not a commendable effort. I hope it works for them.

Continental Airlines is transporting displaced pets to foster homes accross the country for free.

 

[rollerbladr123]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050908/ap_on_re_us/katrina_the_bodies_hk1_1;_ylt=ApEEqkC_c0S0ms7pIjmhzwYbLisB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
New Orleans Faces Task Identifying Dead

Quote 1 NEW ORLEANS - With the waters receding, New Orleans faces a ghastly task of epic dimensions not seen by an American city in perhaps a century: collecting, identifying and then burying potentially thousands of corpses, many of them bloated, decayed or no doubt mangled beyond recognition...

more at link...

 

[Casshew]

It's the kind of place where no one wants to live.
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Yikes. Any port in a storm as the saying goes.. is that what officials are thinking?? or maybe New Orleans was just as bad as N/ Philly?

I just don't know what to think - old expressions keep coming into my heald like 'beggers can;t be choosers' but all of these survivors have rights and their country needs to look after them to the best of their ability. I hope they are okay in that less than desireable location.

 

[poco]

Boy, once they got moving, they got quite a lot of them relocated in a relatively short period of time.

 

[mjak]

Linda, Is Northy Philly the area across the Deleware and opposite Camden?

mjak

 

[Linda7NJ]

Linda, Is Northy Philly the area across the Deleware and opposite Camden?

mjak

Close, but to the right and way down Broad Street going away from Center City area. It's very simular to North Camden ( Walt Whitman Bridge area)

HORRID!!

 

[Linda7NJ]

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"DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies," Dan Buckner, a funeral home director, said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of the Department of Homeland Security.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/a...RTICLE_ID=46175

 

[concernedperson]

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"DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies," Dan Buckner, a funeral home director, said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of the Department of Homeland Security.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/a...RTICLE_ID=46175

I read that article and I was horrified but I think it will be true in the end. I heard earlier that 14 people were found dead in Memorial Hospital in Kenner. I had some extended family rescued from the administrative building on Thursday. They didn't check the hospital? The pile on from all this is hard to handle.

 

[tipper]

I heard this morning they found a nursing home where the workers had abandoned the residents who all died.

 

[poco]

I heard this morning they found a nursing home where the workers had abandoned the residents who all died.

How horrible!!!! I wonder how many more stories like this we will be hearing.... geez!

 

[Jeana (DP)]

I heard this morning they found a nursing home where the workers had abandoned the residents who all died.

That's what I thought at first too, but its not true. The workers died in there too. Here's an article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/national/nationalspecial/07chalmette.html

 

[mjak]

Close, but to the right and way down Broad Street going away from Center City area. It's very simular to North Camden ( Walt Whitman Bridge area)

HORRID!!

Thats what I thought. How in the world do they expect these people to take care of themselves in that place?????? Those poor people.

mjak

 

[tipper]

That's what I thought at first too, but its not true. The workers died in there too. Here's an article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/national/nationalspecial/07chalmette.html

That's good to hear. I've been feeling bad all day for those poor residents.