I saw the news today, oh boy..........
I just can't believe what I've witnessed today. I can't believe I'm living in the United States of America.
Earlier today, I saw a video on MSNBC of thousands of very angry people outside of the New Orleans Convention Center.
These people have been stranded with little if any food or water since Monday. One young woman was sweating profusely, obviously very ill. An elderly woman, supported by the arms of bystanders, was on the verge of fainting. I saw a baby drifting in and out of consciousness in the arms of his furious and frightened mother. People in this crowd have died. The bodies have not been removed.
Harry Connick Jr. was there with them and was calling the different cable channels on a cell phone pleading for help.
I do not understand why a country of our resources, THREE DAYS OUT, cannot manage to have at least food and water outside of the superdome and convention center, not to mention the other areas accessable to stranded refugees.
On the day of the Oklahoma City bombing, I was down there, and the red cross had food and water available for ANYONE who needed it by early afternoon.
No, the OKC bombing doesn't begin to compare to this disaster. But if we could respond to a completely unexpected disaster in such an organized fashion, you'd think SOMEONE could get a chopper loaded up with some gatorade and drop it off at the superdome by the third day of the disaster.
This is just unbelievable.
Bush said this morning: "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."
coughBULLSHITcough
KEEPING ITS HEAD ABOVE WATER
New Orleans faces doomsday scenario
and
....topping levees in Chalmette and eastern New Orleans, and pushing water into the 9th Ward and parts of Mid-City. High water flowing from Lake Pontchartrain through St. Charles Parish also would flood over levees into Kenner, according to the model.
and
Hurricane Katrina could bring 15 inches of rain and a storm surge of 20 feet or higher that would "most likely topple" the network of levees and canals that normally protect the bowl-shaped city from flooding.
and
If that sounds far-fetched, consider this: New Orleans sits below sea level and is locked in by an extensive levee network, like a giant flood-prone bowl; a modest Category 3 storm could deposit up to 27 feet of water in some neighborhoods. A few years ago, the American Red Cross ranked the prospect of a hurricane's hitting New Orleans as the country's deadliest natural disaster threat, with up to 100,000 dead.
And now the big dick is saying he's going to visit on Friday, just what they need.
Earlier today, I saw a video on MSNBC of thousands of very angry people outside of the New Orleans Convention Center.
These people have been stranded with little if any food or water since Monday. One young woman was sweating profusely, obviously very ill. An elderly woman, supported by the arms of bystanders, was on the verge of fainting. I saw a baby drifting in and out of consciousness in the arms of his furious and frightened mother. People in this crowd have died. The bodies have not been removed.
Harry Connick Jr. was there with them and was calling the different cable channels on a cell phone pleading for help.
I do not understand why a country of our resources, THREE DAYS OUT, cannot manage to have at least food and water outside of the superdome and convention center, not to mention the other areas accessable to stranded refugees.
On the day of the Oklahoma City bombing, I was down there, and the red cross had food and water available for ANYONE who needed it by early afternoon.
No, the OKC bombing doesn't begin to compare to this disaster. But if we could respond to a completely unexpected disaster in such an organized fashion, you'd think SOMEONE could get a chopper loaded up with some gatorade and drop it off at the superdome by the third day of the disaster.
This is just unbelievable.
Bush said this morning: "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."
coughBULLSHITcough
KEEPING ITS HEAD ABOVE WATER
New Orleans faces doomsday scenario
and
....topping levees in Chalmette and eastern New Orleans, and pushing water into the 9th Ward and parts of Mid-City. High water flowing from Lake Pontchartrain through St. Charles Parish also would flood over levees into Kenner, according to the model.
and
Hurricane Katrina could bring 15 inches of rain and a storm surge of 20 feet or higher that would "most likely topple" the network of levees and canals that normally protect the bowl-shaped city from flooding.
and
If that sounds far-fetched, consider this: New Orleans sits below sea level and is locked in by an extensive levee network, like a giant flood-prone bowl; a modest Category 3 storm could deposit up to 27 feet of water in some neighborhoods. A few years ago, the American Red Cross ranked the prospect of a hurricane's hitting New Orleans as the country's deadliest natural disaster threat, with up to 100,000 dead.
And now the big dick is saying he's going to visit on Friday, just what they need.
posted by Lisa Hoke at 7:41 PM
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