I pack heat.

 

I don't own anything outside of a couple rifles and shotguns.

I pack heat.

 

I don't own anything outside of a couple rifles and shotguns.

I BRING THE HEAT!

 

(I also announce my presence with authority.)

 

Is anyone wondering why aid wasn't better planned?

This is getting ridiculous. You mean to tell me that in the U.S., we can't do a better job of rescuing people. Why didn't they force people out days before it hit? Why not send all the resource needed to get everyone out, even if by force?

It's anarchy down there.

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

Is anyone wondering why aid wasn't better planned?

 

 

 

Maybe because there was no way of knowing how bad it was going to be...?

 

 

We have not heard from 2 of our agencies and the one we have heard from hasn't heard from 9 of their employees.

 

Bekins has sent 3 trucks with supplies down today, and employee donations just from corporate is already over 7K.

Is anyone wondering why aid wasn't better planned?

 

How about prevention of loss of life??

N.O. has known they were a disaster waiting to happen. They KNEW the storm was gonna hit hard. They had 2 days of advance warning. They could have ordered everyone out of town and bussed them out if neccesary.

Someone dropped the ball big time. This could have been a clean up mission, instead they're trying to save lives and collect bodies.

 

 

Not be funny, but it looks like frickin' Haiti down there right now.

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Here's a lot of before and after satellite photos of the city. 

 

Jawdropping.

i think those photos finally made me realize how crazy this is

They could have ordered everyone out of town

Yeah, it's not like they ordered the first ever total evacuation of the city or anything.

Yeah, it's not like they ordered the first ever total evacuation of the city or anything.

 

 

500K residents and God knows how many tourists and employees that don't live in the NO area... No problem.

Yeah, it's not like they ordered the first ever total evacuation of the city or anything.

 

In 2 days, they couldn't go neighborhood to neighborhood and drive a lot more people out by force? Time will tell that they had no solid plan in place for this. I understand that there will always be some loss of life, but this extent is ridiculous.....what's going on now is an even bigger joke.

Bush says they'll have 24,000 troops in N.O. by next week, next week?

Agreed, it is much easier said than done. A lot of poverty-level families simply couldn't get out, didn't have the means to do so. an 80% compliance rate (which some now suggesting will be revised downward) with evacuation orders is pretty damn amazing. And 10K + people with medical conditions or no means to get out did exactly as they were told and got to the Super Dome. It is not their fault it failed them as a rescue center.

 

Right now, the lack of a coordinated national emergency response is appalling. People are no doubt dying where ever they are huddled up in attics and among the remains of collapsed houses. For the neighborhoods that are completely inundated with floodwater, response crews should have been going systematically from house to house and busting holes in the roofs to check for survors.

Bush says they'll have 24,000 troops in N.O. by next week, next week?

 

Well, this is from the guy who always seems to show up a day or two late for national tragedies.

I was just looking at those pictures of before and after. Absolutely astounding.

I heard 2 assholes this morning say... "They were told to leave. It's their own fault."

Well, this is from the guy who always seems to show up a day or two late for national tragedies.

 

Ouch.

Can you imagine what it will be like there by Monday??

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9159941/

 

 

Fats Domino missing in New Orleans floods

Musician and family didn’t evacuate when hurricane came

I read that on NBC5. Sad.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9159941/

Fats Domino missing in New Orleans floods

Musician and family didn’t evacuate when hurricane came

Wow. Along with Dr. John, Fats is prettty much the living embodiment of New Orleans musical spirit.

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/interactive.a...9145300,9115520

Wow.  Along with Dr. John, Fats is prettty much the living embodiment of New Orleans musical spirit.

 

 

 

I read the entry from his niece on craigslist. So sad.

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/interactive.a...9131216,9107338

 

 

 

The second slide on that one is Highway 90 in Mississippi that is totally gone. Just gone.

Wow.  Along with Dr. John, Fats is prettty much the living embodiment of New Orleans musical spirit.

 

Harry Connick Jr. has been down there.......trying to help I guess.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti...EWS01/509010477

 

IU and IUPUI make room for displaced New Orleans students

By Staci Hupp

staci.hupp@indystar.com

 

Indiana University and IUPUI are joining a list of colleges nationwide that have made room for New Orleans students whose fall semesters were upended by Hurricane Katrina.

 

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis will allow students enrolled in colleges in the area hardest hit by the hurricane to register at the school, even though normal admissions had been closed. Officials said Wednesday some students already have made inquiries.

 

IU has opened its Bloomington campus to displaced college students. University officials said that up to 12 freshmen from Tulane University enrolled at IU this week and will move into dormitories on the Bloomington campus today through Monday.

 

"Given the number of calls, there could be several more," said IU spokesman Larry MacIntyre.

 

Admissions officials at both IU campuses were peppered with telephone calls Tuesday from New Orleans-area college students who can't go back to school because of the severe flooding. MacIntyre said most of the callers had applied to IU in the past.

 

Thousands of college students in southern Louisiana have put their studies on hold for weeks or months. Officials at Tulane, a private school in New Orleans, evacuated about 400 students to nearby Jackson State University. Contingency plans are on hold until damage estimates are firmed up, Tulane President Scott Cowen said in a written statement.

 

Purdue University officials talked about opening their campuses but hadn't as of Tuesday afternoon, a spokeswoman said. Elsewhere, the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma had enrolled up to nine students Tuesday.

 

University officials will clear application and late registration fees, but the students will pay full tuition costs.

That's awesome of IU. Sad that we're not hearing of more aid like this happening in the surrounding states. What the hell are the states to the left doing...?? Texas seems to be the only one offering any help.

Any guesses on what the final death toll will be in just N.O. when it's all done?