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Posted on 08/30/2005 1:34:04 PM PDT by NautiNurse
You can't airdrop a Caterpillar D7.
Bobcat is about as big as a Blackhawk or something can carry.
omg
Thanks..I'll try later..
It's not moving sandbags. It's building a road out the the breach.
My sons best friend, a marine is stationed in Biloxi, he came home for the weekend and he was to go back Monday. He has no idea where to go and he can't get instructions on what to do. It appears he has no place to back to.
Northwest Airlines sending a DC-9 into MSY to evacuate NWA staff... Day late, dollar short..
Southwest evacuated THEIR staff and families on the last trip out....
Where's all the well fed able bodied ones that liberated the survival supplies? Are they still busy rescuing folks?
Stuck in 90+ degree, God knows how much humidity, with no facilities, not able to go outside, with no idea what's going on or become of your meager posessions. Yeah I might be a bit testy.
Prices slid as the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port regained power in St. James, La., and was in the process of starting an oil delivery to Exxon Mobil Corp.'s (XOM) refinery in Baton Rouge, La., in the heart of the refining region struck Monday by Katrina.
Crude Down More Than $2 as LA Offshore Oil Port Regains Power
by Leah McGrath Goodman FWN Financial News
This is my thought as well. Listening to President Bush tonight, when he spoke of how one day, the city of New Orleans will be "back on its feet," I had the thought that they'd have to implement something like the legislation (the Homesteader Act?) in the 1800's that encouraged people to move west.
And if there's hurricane activity in the Gulf area between now and the time the place is finally rebuilt, well.... it might take a lot of convincing.
What happened to NBC's Brian Williams -- last I heard him was the day after the hit on MSNBC, he was calling in from the Superdome and it sure seemed like the show's producer just cut him off in mid sentence with no explanation.
Fox News Channel: NOLA mayor estimates that there are still 100,000 that have to be evacuated from NOLA.
And on the world, or at least the U.S.'s biggest trading partner.
*cough cough* ;)
It's just starting to sink in.
Time to comandeer the cruise ships in Florida! (or use the Navy aircraft carriers)
Gives a new meaning to "glub, glub, glub", don't it. Sad.
Take a deep breath. Let me bring you back to earth.
You are getting a dose of television overload. They put those images up because we will look at them; and stay glued to the tube. What they do not broadcast, at least in proportion, is the huge majority of people who are doing right - helping each other, as best they can.
Yes, if we could get all the innocents to safety, and leave the thugs behind - sure, let 'em have at it.
"Innocents," don-o says. Too many Freeper have said, "Let the dumasses, who did not evacuate, let them die." I find this sentiment more dangerous for the survival of the Repblic than the conduct of the vermin thugs.
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