South Mississippi needs your help (Desperate Appeal from So. Ms. Sun Herald)

Sun Herald ^ | Wed, Aug. 31, 2005 | Sun Herald Editor

[Smogger]

When asked why these young men were not being used to help in the recovery effort, our reporters were told that it would be pointless to send military personnel down to the beach to pick up debris.

Apalling. People better get their stuff together down there.

[Smogger]

A man looks at damage to an apartment building in Gulfport.

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Paula James stands among the remains of an apartment complex that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport.

[Rodney King]

On Wednesday reporters listening to horrific stories of death and survival at the Biloxi Junior High School shelter looked north across Irish Hill Road and saw Air Force personnel playing basketball and performing calisthenics. Playing basketball and performing calisthenics!

What, specifically, do you want them to be doing? Don't just say "helping out" or something vague. What specific thing should these guys by doing?

[Smogger]

A man and his dog walk among the remains of an apartment complex that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport.

[Rodney King]

People are hurting and people are being vandalized.

How do people get vandalized? Are people spray painting them?

[Smogger]

Richard Senecal, 12, Catheryn Senecal, 6, and Robert Senecal, 10, wait with belongings salvaged after Hurrican Katrina as their parents look for a shelter in Gulfport.

[My Favorite Headache]

Exactly the chaos described to me last night and all day today..Mississippi is just as if not more out of hand than N.O.

People need serious help down there.

[Smogger]

People line up outside a gas station for supplies in Gulfport.

[eureka!]

This seems a little shrill. What's the political bent of these presstitutes? Barbour seemed a lot more on the ball than the NOLA group and this article does not ring true as to the efforts underway...

[Smogger]

What, specifically, do you want them to be doing? Don't just say "helping out" or something vague. What specific thing should these guys by doing?

Gee I don't know. Help look for survivors. Just off the top of my head. It's as good an exercise as playing basketball.

[teenyelliott]

How do people get vandalized?

Are people spray painting them?

Is there no end to the depravity?????????

[eastforker]

Orlando on FNC reported earlier that refrigerated trucks are parked near the mourges to store the recovery victims.

[eureka!]

That photo was from a Florida hurricane. The only shootings I have read about were thugs in NO....

[Smogger]

This seems a little shrill.

Sounds desperate and short tempered to me. These guys have been doing an excellent job updating their website with information from coastal Mississippi and has been pretty much the only source for such information and photos. I think they are frustrated that their plight is not receiving the proper attention in the media or from the Feds. They're has been a lot of good coverage here on FR, though.

[Smogger]

Ben Powers recovers items from his destroyed home.

[Rutles4Ever]

Shrill? Do you really think anything can be OVERstated at this point and time?

[crazyhorse691]

The newspaper is part of the problem; by their own admission they have reporters out in the field collecting facts, but, no mention is made if this info has been used in any other means than to blast every official imaginable.