Hurricane Katrina

There are several stories that came from NOLA and these two deserve a read. The first is from a RN at Methodist Hospital in NOLA and here group had only two flashlights o work with, About 100 people took shelter in the waiting room and before the ordeal was over some had even threatned the staff with death by stabbing! She inclueded plenty of photos as well. Now she is minus her drowned SUV, and out of a job.

www.nola.com/forums/feedback/index.ssf?artid=711

The second is about a man with a combined service of 25 years that was concerned about an olf USAF buddy in Mississippi. He got his 30 year old deuce and a half ready, donneed fatigues and his .45 and went to his friends place. He did a great servive while the FEMA was still scratching their hidquarters. He got involved in one shootout with neither side taking blood. This story should be on 20/20 or a movie of the week! He is 100% disabled and on pain meds also.

www.lonestar-mvpa.org/ when the page comes up click on the red letters about Katrina and read and look at the photo of the "Sarge" and his truck. Expwct some emotion on your part when you read this.

 

Read both of those stories. I encourage everyone else to do the same and to share them with as many other people as they can. The positive stories of human nature deserve as much or more air-time as the negative ones. God bless all of the poeple who were able to do something to help during the crisis, and God forgive those who did something to hinder things or take advantage of the situation.

 

And now Mexico has invaded!

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=280143





I'm very glad neighbours are helping each other!

 

Yes, bravo for all of the countries that are offering to help.

 

hehehehe...then the Dutch thought, hey, Invading sounds like a good idea!



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"Sir could you please speak English ?"

looking through the pics of Mississippi....nothing but chaos, and a shambles. what a bon fire they are going to have...and N.O. what a biological nightmare. Still do not think they know what they have amongst them. the mayor and governor ought to be beaten to a pulp

 

It looks like somebody did already invade doesn't it? These pictures are so reminiscent of post- combat distruction we would see on this forum.

 

actually a look of despair and where do we go now and what can we do. Every person I have seen on the helping end and seen through the medias eyes looks very very weary and they should be ............

 

Also I heard just yesterday that Michael Moore is going to make a movie of it all....

 

I can hardly wait! All of the facts clearly illuminated by an unbiased and impartial source will be so wonderful. I was worried that I might not be able to make the clear factual connection between the formation of tropical depression Katrina and how it was strenghtened into a massive hurricane completely under the power of the racist, gay-bashing illegitimate republican regime headed by George W.Bush.

 

Bush and vacation and Hurricane Katrina...

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushfishingvacation.htm

 

My thoughts and many blessings are also with the victims of Katrina. Personnally I think that this is a big wake up call for not only the U.S. but for all countries. The world nowadays tends to over analize things, why do they happen, what causes these problems, how can we fix it? Stop! Its all about getting back to the basics. Something that we are thought as very young children and seem to forget over the years and that is SHARING, CARING, and TREATING PEOPLE THE WAY WE WANT TO BE TREATED. I think that the world would run smoother if we just got back to those basics.. I also feel that maybe bringing religion back into everyones life would not hurt either. No matter what religion you prefer, it should not matter. Maybe I am gulable and nieve but that is just how I feel. I am sorry if I offended anyone but that is just my personal opinion. Thanks for listening.

 

I'M STILL HERE YOU BASTARDS!!!

 

Good to hear that not only are you still there but that you must have power and internet access restored. Welcome back.

 

Michael Moore making a film on Katrina?! WOW!

I'm going to be looking forward to it!

I love Bush-bashing material, no matter what it is, but Moore's stuff is even better and funnier!

Not that I need Moore to see how global warming (some one said Kyoto protocole? ) mattered or how the mayor, the governor and the president screwed things up.

 

Fried you continually live in an illusion........if you only knew what had already been set up especially for Louisiana and the losers mayor of N.O. and the govenor are still playing their mind games with each other. I find it rather amusing and so do many of my friends here and in Mississippi. I was in close contact before Katrina with several in MS that lost nearly everything in Biloxi and watched Waveland be taken off the face of the earth. I beleive I have posted several serious enough pics, the rest are too bloody graphic. and it ain't over boy till Novembers end if....

 

Who's Moore going to get to play this guy?

http://24.153.117.153/bld.nsf

 

Yeah… my illusion world!

Thousands of people are dead, the most beautiful city in the US is a ruin and there's no one to step forward and have the guts to accept some responsibility. As in Pearl Harbour or 9/11… everybody blames everybody, but no one cares about solving the chaos at every level that screwed things up.

 

Fried, the tragic loss of life is horrible, but in my few visits to New Orleans I would never have nominated it for the most beautiful city in Louisiana, let alone the world. It was a dirty, poor, smelly old city. It had charecter, and it had rich history, but to me it was mostly just another dirty smelly waterfront town too full of people who wouldn't, couldn't or just didn't leave. I am not talking about the hurricane either, just in general.

How do you take responsibility for a hurricane?

How do you take responsibility for thousands of people who will not take responsibility for themselves?

Things did not go the way they could have. They could have gone much better. Very much better. I believe I did hear several people step up to the microphone and accept their share of the blame though, including the President.

There was a part in the book Band of Brothers where the author reflected on how the men of Easy company felt about the people of the different European countries that they passed through. The conclusion was that the men most closely identified with the people of Germany. They had the lifestyle that was closest to what most of the men where used to and they were industrious. Whenever the fighting stopped they were out salvaging and cleaning and restoring. They had the least respect for the French. They seemed to just leave everything where it lay as if they were waiting for someone else to come along and clean it up for them. Maybe there is too much French heritage in New Orleans. They seemed to sit there and expect everyone to come and take care of them, or save them, or fix everything.

 

Unfortunately, New Orléans is one of the cities of the US I hadn't have a chance to visit. But my mother has, many times, along with most of all major cities there. She's the one who says that. But maybe, by beautiful, she meant precisely that: History and Culture, not nice urbanisation and a good cleansing system. Otherwise, Toronto or Houston would be more beautiful than Paris or Vienna… Or perhaps her opinion is biased, because she's French?

The same excuse the Republicans use for everything: individuality, self-continence, self-responsability, self-care, personal freedom… bla, bla, bla! That's just a cheap excuse to avoid responsability, like in many other affairs, because there's a limit. It's human lives we're talking about. You don't put 'self individual consciousness' before the lives of people, whether it is in an emergency like 'Katrina' or health programmes. People die and 'it was his/her/their fault', so, who cares?

I wonder why, then, if that's the common thinking with the right over there, Bush didn't think of the Iraqis' self-responsability in overthrowing their own tyrannical régime?

Ah, indeed! The same coward, lazy and smelly French! They certainly cannot be compared to the brave, industrious Germans! Specially in WWII!

As if France hadn't recoverd from WWII, and got herself one of the highest levels of life in the world. Why was that? A miracle? Poles who did all the work?

Louisiana has not been French by how many years? Almost 200. Is the language, culture, 'race', Napoleonic Code, inferior to the Anglo-Saxon ones? Sure! Maybe that's why it's all so f****d up: the French damned heritage!

Surely Montréal and Québec can be compared with New Orléans. Sure the people live alike.

Well… enough of this. The thread is going nowhere and this makes me ill-react.

Regards to everyone…