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Katrina = Cat.5 = Goodbye New Orleans

^^They're stuck in a Bellsouth Central Office. Those buildings are built like bunkers and many still have emergency power. They've had to fight off the looters because they're the only facilities with lights on at night.

Ozymandias
 
randycaver said:
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Anderson-Cooper-Landrieu-Katrina1.wmv

check out anderson cooper telling it like it is to a jackass politician
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I liked Mayor Nagin's interview way better.

"And they don't have a clue what's going on down here. They flew down here one time two days after the doggone event was over with TV cameras, AP reporters, all kind of goddamn -- excuse my French everybody in America, but I am pissed.

I don't want to see anybody do anymore goddamn press conferences. Put a moratorium on press conferences. Don't do another press conference until the resources are in this city. And then come down to this city and stand with us when there are military trucks and troops that we can't even count.

Don't tell me 40,000 people are coming here. They're not here. It's too doggone late. Now get off your asses and do something, and let's fix the biggest goddamn crisis in the history of this country."

The full thing: link is in third paragraph

They've been playing it repeatedly on CNN. It's great! This is the same mayor who freaked out live on air when the heavy duty sadbags were not dropped in time to reinforce the levees and then the flooding started. That was the first time he lost his cool. This was the second.
 
Sayign that the president called and urged it in no way means they wouldn't have done anything without him asking this, they do evacuations of every coastline when a bad one is comign. And bush would do this with any major hurricane bringing danger (calls, speaks to the governor). And this makes you wonder even more why the hell the administration didn't plan any method of search and rescue, and find a way to feed these folks.

Sorry dude, it aint a newsflash that the president knew a bad cane was coming. You are reachin bro.
 
OK, just to make this REALLY clear, let's really look at the so called "democrat" state officials that the freeps like you are pinning the blame on (not that they doesn't deserve it) in order to deflect criticism from the feds and WH:

Read this from Wikipedia:

Before his election, Nagin was a member of the United States Republican Party and had little political experience; he was a vice president and general manager at Cox Communications, a cable communications company and subsidiary of Cox Enterprises. Nagin did give donations periodically to candidates, namely President George W. Bush and former Republican U.S. Representative Billy Tauzin in 1999 and 2000, as well as to Democratic U.S. Senators John Breaux and J. Bennett Johnston earlier in the decade.

Days before filing for the New Orleans Mayoral race in February 2002, Nagin switched his party registration to the United States Democratic Party, presumably in order to improve his chances.
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Just another Republican, running government like a business.
 
My mom used to date tha mayor of a little town in georgia, valdosta. He did the same thing, ran as democrat, but he was a die hard republican. can't trust any politician by their labels, and focus on their actions.
 
^Read one of the other threads, Nagin spent 10 minutes on TV ripping Bush and the feds.

And this makes you wonder even more why the hell the administration didn't plan any method of search and rescue, and find a way to feed these folks.
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The storm was weakening as it came in, no one thought it would be this bad. If you remember, right after Katrina made landfall there was a fleeting and false sense of security. People were saying that New Orleans was spared.

IMO, the biggest bungle here is on the part of local authorities for not forcing people out. The authorities could have taken a bunch of buses and gone into these neighborhoods to get people out who didn't have the means to do so themselves.

I'm going to merge this into the main thread.
 
It's nice to see my state and school (UCONN) doing something to help.

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/state/hc-02182543.apds.m0503.bc-ct--hurrsep02,0,7642380.story?coll=hc-headlines-local-wire

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The University of Connecticut on Friday joined other colleges in the state in offering to accept students from Connecticut who were displaced from Gulf Coast universities affected by Hurricane Katrina.

The four schools in the Connecticut State University system are also opening up slots for affected college students. Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport extended the offer to anyone from the Northeast.

"If they were from the region, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, I don't think we'd be turning anyone away," said Sacred Heart spokeswoman Funda Alp.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell said she asked CSU's trustees to grant free tuition to students from Connecticut who were attending colleges affected by the hurricane. They would only need to pay room and board.

Sacred Heart said it would work with students on tuition.

UConn's offer applies to all its campuses. The school said it will also accept up to 20 students from Tulane and Loyola law schools in New Orleans.

The school says it has already discussed the program with more than three dozen students affected by the disaster.

Fairfield University said it would offer advising sessions and placement in classes at its University College, the school's pre-admission section for people looking to get onto a degree track.

Mitchell College in New London was opening its doors to any student who was affected by the hurricane. The college also said it would work with students on financial aid.

"We wanted to get something out there as soon as possible. A lot of those students are pretty stunned and they don't know what to do," said Kimberly Hodges, associate admissions director at Mitchell.

State Rep. Donald Sherer, R-Stamford, the ranking Republican on the legislature's higher education committee, called several college officials on Thursday and asked them to get involved. He said it would be ideal to have schools across Connecticut waive their tuition so the students can commute to a nearby college and not miss a semester of education.

"My goal in kind of organizing this effort was to get as many students, especially Connecticut students who were evacuated, back into the classroom," he said. "I wanted this to be our part, Connecticut's part, in showing our support."

Also Friday, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport offered to open diocese elementary and secondary schools to Catholic school students from the Gulf Coast.

"Our schools will provide for tuition expenses for the time they are with us, and provide help with uniforms, books, and other supplies," Bishop William E. Lori said.
 
m885 said:
^Read one of the other threads, Nagin spent 10 minutes on TV ripping Bush and the feds.



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?? I dont need to read any threads, I heard him doing it, and loved it! was just commenting on politicians in general and their actions, not their labels.

hey beaner! yeah, there is a thread up top with links to how to help, I would put that up there.
 
Apparently, foreign nations offering aid aren't the only people getting snubbed...

Daley 'shocked' at federal snub of offers to help

Tribune staff reports

September 2, 2005, 2:44 PM CDT

Frustration about the federal response to Hurricane Katrina has reached Chicago City Hall, as Mayor Richard Daley today noted a tepid response by federal officials to the city's offers of disaster aid.

The city is willing to send hundreds of personnel, including firefighters and police, and dozens of vehicles to assist on the storm-battered Gulf Coast, but so far the Federal Emergency Management Agency has requested only a single tank truck, Daley said.

"I was shocked," he said.

"We are ready to provide considerably more help than they have requested," the mayor said, barely able to contain his anger during a City Hall news conference. "We are just waiting for the call."

The mayor's remarks came at the announcement of a city-sponsored "Chicago Helps Fund," which will accept donations from citizens for the hurricane relief effort.

"The people we see suffering on television are our brothers and sisters," Daley said. "It's incumbent on all of us, as American citizens and fellow human beings, to do our part to help them through this terrible tragedy."

The rest of the article can be found here.
 
My Aunt is alive and okay! They're on their way to Fla for the next few weeks.I was just watching NBC.I'm trying to understand why the relief efforts have taken so long.Why can't food, water ,medical treatment get to these people? Our country has failed them miserably.They need everything.I'm too emotional to even type anymore.I just hope they get more relief. ASAP
 
PattyOC14me said:
My Aunt is alive and okay! They're on their way to Fla for the next few weeks.I was just watching NBC.I'm trying to understand why the relief efforts have taken so long.Why can't food, water ,medical treatment get to these people? Our country has failed them miserably.They need everything.I'm too emotional to even type anymore.I just hope they get more relief. ASAP
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Glad to hear your aunts okay.

Everyones wondering exactly the samething as you are right now.
 
US media to sleeper cells, nine days before anniversary of 9/11: Hey Mohammad Aliljljkasuhssl, lookee how well we respond to disaster scenarios! Yeeeehaaaaaw!

Strike while the iron is hot...

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