A WDSU news crew captured images of looters raiding a Winn-Dixie on Basin Street.
Posted on 08/30/2005 7:27:49 AM PDT by WxMan2000
Its all Bush's fault. Neocons were waiting for something like this to happen so they can take over. </sarcasm>
NOLA/Times Picayune has them - unpixellated.
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083005_a19.pdf
Does anyone know the status of the 4300 and 4400 blocks of Canal Street? Also, Aurora Oaks Drive in Algiers? My kinfolk are sick with worry about their homes.
A WDSU news crew captured images of looters raiding a Winn-Dixie on Basin Street.
I normally don't like Shep and like Steve Harrigan, but in NO, I've thought Shep's reporting was superior to Steve's. Especially after Shep first arrived. He had good info about the city and how the storm could affect them. Haven't watched coverage since Sunday, so I don't know if he kept up his good work.
It didn't happen in LA during the Rodney King riots?
I don't advocate looting, but how are you going to distinguish between looting for sport and looting for need? I suspect there are thousands of people, perhaps tens of thousands of people, who are or will soon be without food, potable water, clothing, and electricity, and under the current conditions, they cannot be reached by emergency workers. Are you suggesting that NOLA police or the National Guard should shoot to kill anyone caught breaking into the local bodega for fresh water and other necessities. If you are, then you really, really need to rethink your Judeao/Christian values.
There's a HUGE difference between being "outside", and being a "looter".
Shep is righ about civil rights being suspended. It's illegal, but they're doing it anyway.
Detroit riots 1967.
righ = right
I have a cousin who lives in NO...of course, cannot put a call into him, all I get is a quick busy and a "all circuits are busy" message.
He lives on Independence Street.
The last time martial law was imposed was in Hawaii right after the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.
A levy or levee is a long earthen dam...I believe they are 20-25 feet high in that area...Two areas have washed out, one spot is said to be two city blocks wide...
I won't comment on that picture.
Shep Smith may be sensationalizing again...
A 200-foot section of the Seventeenth Street Canal (which flows between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi) gave way, and it's dumping water from the lake, through the canal, into neighborhoods east of the canal. This is what people were truly scared of, that Lake Pontchartrain would spill its banks.
If the French Quarter is starting to flood then that is VERY bad news, because from what I've been reading here, the FQ is actually one of the higher parts of town.
}:-)4
This is the doomsbay case scenario that meteorologists have always feared. Not buildings crashing down from wind, but the flooding we're seeing now. It will take months to pump all that water out, so many parts of the city will be uninhabitable until then.
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