Posted on 09/03/2005 12:37:22 PM PDT by nwrep
Read the article below from AP. Fed. response was immediate and timely - within 24 hrs., contrary to recent revisionism:
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As dawn broke on the day after Hurricane Katrina's landfall, emergency officials in the Gulf Coast states faced the sobering reality of the storm's devastation. With confirmed deaths now past 50, Mississippi's governor warned that the toll in one county alone could rise to 80.
The death toll soared with the grim discovery of numerous bodies in the remains of a Biloxi, Mississippi, apartment complex. Authorities said the count of lives lost is certain to rise as rescue workers reach victims in other flood-ravaged neighborhoods.
Even with Katrina swirling away to the north as a tropical storm, two different levee breaches in New Orleans sent a churning sea of water coursing through city streets.
"The hurricane was scary," Scott Radish told The Times-Picayune. "All the tree branches fell, but the building stood. I thought I was doing good. Then I noticed my Jeep was under water."
Across the Gulf Coast, boats rescued people clinging to rooftops, hundreds of trees were uprooted and sailboats were flung about like toys after Katrina crashed ashore yesterday in what could become the most expensive storm in U.S. history.
The federal government began rushing baby formula, communications equipment, generators, water and ice into hard-hit areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, along with doctors, nurses and first-aid supplies.
The U.S. Defense Department sent experts to help with search-and-rescue operations.
"We pray that the loss of life is very limited, but we fear that is not the case," Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said.
New Orleans, relieved to have missed the brunt of the killer hurricane, found itself dealing with a second, creeping disaster on the day after the storm.
The mods have been on these electronic brownshirt trolls like a hungry pit bull on a dropped hamburger.
I know!
It amazes me that they could believe that one could control a hurricane.
But.. they said it.
Especially DUmmy "cthrumatrix"..
He was correct to say this. When I was a volunteer EMT in Virginia, between six and seven pm when the county was transitioning between the paid crew and the volunteers, the tones dropped for a head-on collision on Rt 1. All the paid units heard it and turned around. All county volunteers heard it and rushed to their stations.
The result was that my station went out of service for nearly three hours, because both of our ambulances responded independently. Because we'd switched to an alternate channel, the second unit didn't hear that I'd already picked up the ambulance and responded.
It was chaos. People and ambulances everywhere, stations left unattended for calls, no command and control. Both out units were trashed; we were lucky we didn't get any other calls for awhile. As Jeff Foxworthy would say, "It was pandelerium!"
The debrief wasn't pretty.
They've also been waiting on some of them, almost taunting them.
As if letting them wander about in fear before leaping out from behind something to nail them.
Wild stuff. Maybe he/she reads the same novels as Anoreth does :-).
We had all types of electronic brownshirted trolls trying to derail and detract the threads last night.
When a name popped up with a new signon date, a forum check showed them spewing the same nonsense on several threads.
The mods were whacking them quickly.
I think that we will see some of the older trolling moles with older signon dates exposing themselves. They are losing this battle bigtime, and they know it.
I'm certain that anything Anoreh reads would be way beyond the raving nutters over at the dump.
;-)
Those pictures of the submerged buses are worth a million words. There's simply no meaningful response to be made ... only gibberish (as exemplified Big Time by Mayor Nagin).
Saw a few of those last night.
Wild ride.
Good point. I screen her books for profanity and immorality, so they probably wouldn't interest a DU'er. (Too bad, because they could learn how to control the weather :-).
LOL!
;-)
More than a few, but they seem to be getting spotted.
I just don't understand how MSM can continually beat this drum about the Federal Government not sending help soon enough. From what I can tell, every state had to have a disaster plan on record by a certain date or they wouldn't get money from Homeland Security. That's what the Emergency Management Assistance Compact is for, to spell out the responsibilities of the state requesting assistance and the state that is giving assistance. That means a lot of the MSM consumers, both in state and local government and those who volunteer as firemen,etc. know that it is the state that needs to tell another state what they need in terms of help. Having read your posts for some time now I know you know the inside scoop about this. I'm just venting. It's frustrating!
I'll say. The only comfort I have right now is that the MSM just can't keep lying. Sooner or later, the truth will come out.
"...paperwork needed to get the troops en route didn't come from Washington until late Thursday." "could get ugly"
When did Richardson/Blanco get the paperwork from their end to Washington...Thursday morning?
With that thought, my following question is - "get ugly for whom?!?
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