Posted on 09/01/2005 8:18:59 PM PDT by Calpernia
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... However; we have refugees. The prison alone which usually runs about 875 inmates has already gotten in 300 prisoners and we expect another 200-300 before we max out. Right now we are looking everywhere for tents and other things to put up. The prisoners are out of the Orleans Parish Jail (population about 5000). We are in a disaster mode. We give them a mattress, dry clothes, food and only the medications the need to survive. We are down to the (war time) basics. Some of the prisoners stood in water chest deep for 2 or more days, had not eaten, had not slept and had only the flood water to drink. The flood water in the jail was not what seeped under the door but what backed up from the sewers so you can imagine what they were drinking. Many were injured from breaking out of their cells to climb to higher floors. The routinely more sick and wounded were in the basement. They came without papers, without medications, without personal belongings, withoout knowledge of their families and of course no clothes except what they were wearing.
In addition to the prisoners our general area of SW Louisiana does not have any rooms, rv spaces, parking places or floor space in shelters. People living in motels are running out of money, they can't use credit cards, ATM's or write checks because the banks in NO are flooded. There is no electricity, water, food, telephones, or other means of communications. So not only are we faced with the prisoners we are also developing a homeless, moneyless population here that is tired, frightened, frustrated, running out of money and in some cases hungry. It is not a pretty picture. The devestation is unbelievable.
Actually Mississippi got hit harder than New Orleans but there is a big difference. When it passed through MS it was gone. When it passed through NO (which is below sea level) the levee broke and the water stayed. There is no electricity to run the pumps to dry it out. The breaks in the levee have, up to this point, been unrepairable. NO is a big cesspool without utilities. And it is full of people who were too dumb to evacuate. Most of them had this old "it will never happen here" attitude; but it did, and now they are blaming the rest of the country for not sending Superman in to evacuate them.
Well, we are all doing the best we can and I personally will be working through the holidays helping out here and there. ... End Excerpt
Sharing an excerpt of this evenings email.
is this ok for Front Page?
Thanks.
Katrina Tidbit Ping.
Thank you, Cal..
Prayers will continue. An overwhelming task for the first responders.
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Unbelievable. Where is the head of Public Safety for New Orleans? Was there no disaster plan for the jails in cased of flooding? This incompetence is just beyond my comprehension. I can't wait for the wave of civil rights lawsuits that will be filed by all these prisoners. It's only a matter of time before we hear that "we treated the prisoners at Abu Ghraib better than these people."
Does this help your comprehension any?
New Orleans has a Democrat Mayor, a Democrat City Council, and a Democrat Chief of Police. Louisiana has a Democrat Governor, a Democrat Lt. Governor, a Democrat Attorney General; 24 of 39 Louisiana State Senators are Democrat, 67 of 105 Louisiana State House Representatives are Democrat, there's a Democrat Representative in the House from New Orleans, and one of two Senators in the Senate is a Democrat.
Chest deep water for two days...oh no...
My Riverine unit in Vietnam did that for 4 days at a pop
then off two days then back in for 4 more days sometimes 5
And we all did it for a year or so..
Human fertilized rice paddy water in the year long heat of Vietnam gets pretty nasty too..
Most of us still have the scars from our various skin dieseases to prove it...others scars are even more pronounced..
Better they shot the rapists, murderers and child molesters
in chest deep water than give them life giving supplies
that decent folks needed before they died do to lack of.
imo
That is an insightful perception.
I really wish more Vets would take teaching jobs in history at schools.
Thank you.
That was a great post. As I sit here with my girl friend, I continue to remind her how important it is that I return to claim our families belongings. Memories are so important, but without them, it's as if my family has never existed.
Worse. There was a 24-36 hour notice of the hurricaine. Time to evacute inmates to other facilities. Florida did an excellent job of this during hurricane andrew.
saved your 'democrat' listing for dropping here and there....
My guess is they planned to use the National Guard to help facilitate evacuation.
Well the National Guard is busy doing everthing else.
Use it whenever you need it.
Better they shot the rapists, murderers and child molesters
in chest deep water than give them life giving supplies
that decent folks needed before they died do to lack of.
I believe that the state has the obligation to eliminate dangerous criminals.
However, wholesale shootings by guards is fascist. I know how innocent or very marginal people can be caught in the criminal justice system by bad laws and worse DAs.
A friend’s son was jailed for breaking a protection from abuse order thrown at him by the girl’s parents. They were two years apart in age. She kept crawling into the window of their house at night to see him. His parents had him arrested for breaking the order when She visited him at his and his parents home. He did a year on that charge. He wasnt a criminal, just immature.
This kind of thing happens more than one can possibly imagine. In our state, if a minor or someone on probation for a MINOR crime is caught with a beer, they will be immediately jailed. The normal bumpings of life are not tolerated.
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