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― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link
>"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.<
He's not exactly wrong, you know.
― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Knowing rotten mother nature luck, there could be another hurricane hit in the area before the end of the year. :( It won't matter how strong the hurricane would be at that point.
― donut gon' nut (donut), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Officials at LSU and local hospitals say they are triaging thousands of people being brought from outside the Baton Rouge area for medical care. The people are being bused in.
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The American Red Cross says it has thousands of volunteers mobilized for the hurricane. Spokesman Bradley Hague said it's the "largest single mobilization that we've done for any single natural disaster." The organization has set up operational headquarters in Baton Rouge.
--The Environmental Protection Agency dispatched emergency crews to Louisiana and Texas because of concern about oil and chemical spills.
--The Coast Guard closed ports and waterways along the Gulf Coast and positioned craft around the area to conduct post-hurricane search and rescue operations.
--The Agriculture Department said its Food and Nutrition Service would provide meals and other commodities, such as infant formula, distilled water for babies and emergency food stamps.
--The Defense Department dispatched emergency coordinators to Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi to provide communications equipment, search and rescue operations, medical teams and other emergency assistance.
--The Health and Human Services Department sent 38 doctors and nurses to Jackson, Mississippi, to be used where needed, and 30 pallets of medical supplies to the region, including first aid materials, sterile gloves and oxygen tanks.
Some six-thousand National Guard personnel from Louisiana and Mississippi who would otherwise be available to help deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are in Iraq.
Even so, Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita said the states have adequate National Guard units to handle the hurricane needs. He said about six-thousand-500 National Guard troops were available in Louisiana, about seven-thousand in Mississippi, nearly ten-thousand in Alabama and about eight-thousand-200 in Florida.
Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard says there is no plumbing and the sanitary situation is getting nasty. He told WAFB-TV that he is carrying around a bag for his own human waste.
Regarding the last bit: EURGH.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
i was gonna say. they shouldn't break their backs cleaning up the city when hurricane season isn't even over yet.
― ian quiche-lorraine (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― 3, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― 3, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
This may come as a shock, but not everyone here is from Great Britain.
― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― 3, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― ian quiche-lorraine (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Put me down for that crazy information fetish too, I guess.
― Vic Fluro, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link
the bbc is good for american news because it's not quite as tainted by conservative interests as u.s. cable news is.
― ian quiche-lorraine (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― ian quiche-lorraine (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― 3, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― 3, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― ian quiche-lorraine (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link
It's a fair assessment. I'd say this, though -- w/r/t Iraq, I find it important to document what is going on, a continuing acknowledgement and bitter, sick anger. There are thousands of people who have died now, our fellow citizens, far more Iraqis, others, and the decisions and mindsets of the people currently in charge of our government are part and parcel in terms of how this will get resolved, what if anything will come of what's been happening now for almost two and a half years. If it is pornography to observe what is being said, how it's being said, where the second thoughts are emerging among that horrific clique of hawks, the emerging sense that 'mistakes were made' -- and that people are dead because of it -- then call it that if you must. But I will watch and I will call attention to it because I want it documented, even in this own small one-person way of mine. We are not living in a cocoon, but I think our government is doing its best to pretend we should. I find that contemptible -- and whatever else I think about it, without pretending I've never used understatement and sarcasm about it all before, I don't find anything at all about Iraq simply 'most unfun.'
As for Katrina, you can call it my realization that this is getting worse all the time. No, I won't be posting about it forever. But it is happening right now, and I admit my attention is on it, and perhaps some of the information might be useful to other folks. Perhaps I am wrong.
Finally, the reason for said BBC 'fetish' is simple -- when 9/11 happened, I realized that CNN and other mainstream American media outlets would swiftly become unwatchable, their sites unreadable. I felt the jingoism coalescing almost immediately. Since that time I rely on the BBC site for basic world news, and while they obviously have their own biases at work which it would be foolish to ignore, I have not chosen to look back.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Jeff Parish President. Residents will probably be allowed back in town in a week, with identification only, but only to get essentials and clothing. You will then be asked to leave and not come back for one month.
holy shit.
― mike a, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― 3, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.abc-cafe.com/chrisfennessy/images/splash_page/BHH2001.jpg
― The Original Jimmy Mod: Kind Warrior (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
yes, that's exactly it. it's not snobbishness -- all those cgi american flags and that bombastic music is egregious and nauseating.
― ian quiche-lorraine (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link
are, i should say.
― ian quiche-lorraine (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link
There are several reports that the Uptown area remains unflooded, particularly around Magazine and Jefferson (at least to Webster), and along Baronne Street (though it was unclear where on Baronne).
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
If you think Ned only dwells on "misery" then you might be dwelling on it yourself. You obviously havent' seen the hundreds of positive and sunny posts that Ned makes all over the place that have nothing to do with death, nor destruction. I should say am most familiar with Ned of ILM, but still.
― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link
i'm finding it hard to pay attention to much else.
― ian quiche-lorraine (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― 3, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― 3, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link
I hope Rock Hardy is doing fine.
― donut gon' nut (donut), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― donut gon' nut (donut), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― 3, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― 3, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Original Jimmy Mod: Kind Warrior (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
god whatever.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link