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News Flash -- New Orleans Left to the Dead and Dying
Nola.Com ^ | 3 September 2005, 5:28 p.m. CDT | By ALLEN G. BREED (AP)

Posted on 09/03/2005 4:14:36 PM PDT by Vigilanteman

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Thousands more bedraggled refugees were bused and airlifted to salvation Saturday, leaving the heart of New Orleans to the dead and dying, the elderly and frail stranded too many days without food, water or medical care.


(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: dead; downtown; dying; flood; incompetence; katrina; katrinafailures; neworleans; nola
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Well worth reading, just for the grateful comment of a 105 year old lady alone. No log-in required.
1 posted on 09/03/2005 4:14:38 PM PDT by Vigilanteman
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To: Vigilanteman
Like a scene out of the Apocalypse.


I'm broadcast live in front of a pre-recorded studio audience.

2 posted on 09/03/2005 4:17:46 PM PDT by rdb3 (I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. --Philippians 4:13)
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The elderly and frail should have been the first to go and yet I still see them lined up waiting while busses are filled with able bodied young men. WTF


3 posted on 09/03/2005 4:20:54 PM PDT by SouthernFreebird
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To: Vigilanteman

NOLA has been a great source to get current updates on what has/is happening in NO.

Read the section on finding relatives, friends, etc. It can be a jerker.


4 posted on 09/03/2005 4:21:40 PM PDT by rineaux (hardcore)
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To: rdb3

More damned if you do, damned if you don't. Nothing being done will satisify the media or Democrats. I have to admit, there are times I just want to scream "chill out and calm down!" Now is not the time to overreact.


5 posted on 09/03/2005 4:22:18 PM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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Nothing being done will satisify the media or Democrats. >

There's a difference?


6 posted on 09/03/2005 4:22:52 PM PDT by Appalled but Not Surprised
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To: Appalled but Not Surprised

Sorry... my bad....


7 posted on 09/03/2005 4:23:28 PM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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To: Vigilanteman

Just out of curiosity, how many people die in and around NO in a week's time? How many are murdered?


8 posted on 09/03/2005 4:23:35 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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To: SouthernFreebird

Because those elderly people raised thugs and condoned the thug-culture and would still rather condone it than promote individual responsibility.


9 posted on 09/03/2005 4:24:31 PM PDT by Naspino (Not creative enough to have a tagline.)
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To: SouthernFreebird

They named a nursing home last night on the Fox special where the National Guard found 80 dead. Apparently, their caretakers managed to get out. There will be many terrible tales about this.


10 posted on 09/03/2005 4:26:43 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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OMG I missed that. It appears that NO is reaping what it has sown. A total disregard for it's fellow citizens.


11 posted on 09/03/2005 4:28:37 PM PDT by SouthernFreebird
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To: Appalled but Not Surprised

Sorry to be flippant. You have not been here long enough to deserve it. You're right, for the most part. There isn't much difference.


12 posted on 09/03/2005 4:30:39 PM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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To: Vigilanteman

Better to endure squalor, thirst and starvation for a few days and live, than to die in the attic. I'll bet the vast majority of those stuck in the Dome and elsewhere believe that. The MSM will never report it.


13 posted on 09/03/2005 4:36:25 PM PDT by RTINSC
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To: rineaux
Agreed. NOLA.Com, if they get only a few pennies for each hit, deserve all of it. They have no facist policy on excerpting and registering, unlike a lot of other sources quoted on this forum. They've done a yeoman's job of putting out accurate and helpful information in the most difficult of circumstances.

While some of the reporters they use and quote exhibit the usual liberal bias, it is less so than many of their fellow travelers.

14 posted on 09/03/2005 4:39:51 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
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To: kittymyrib

First I heard of that one. Damn, Justdamn.


15 posted on 09/03/2005 4:39:58 PM PDT by sgtbono2002
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To: SouthernFreebird

No honor among thieves


16 posted on 09/03/2005 4:42:36 PM PDT by bethelgrad (for God, country, the Marine Corps, and now the Navy Chaplain Corps OOH RAH!)
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To: kittymyrib

I'll have to go back through the threads to find it, but a freeper posted about a woman and her husband who were going to help a nurse manage a nursing home full of people. The people had a family member in the home. Allegedly, all the personnel left except the one nurse. This was pre-landfall too.


17 posted on 09/03/2005 4:47:43 PM PDT by kenth (north Georgia mountains - prayers for all our neighbors in the gulf coast.)
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To: All

One of the best stories I have read is how those British youth survived in the Superdome. The young men actually made a ring around the young women to keep them safe. Contrast that to the stories you hear of the food air-drops where it is reported that the able bodied men fought for first dibs.


18 posted on 09/03/2005 4:49:50 PM PDT by gingerky
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To: SouthernFreebird

Did anyone see the able bodied adults getting the elderly and disabled strangers to safety? I did not, what I have seen is a complete break down of all civilized norms, just when they were needed the most.


19 posted on 09/03/2005 4:54:03 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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"The first few days were a natural disaster. The last four days were a man-made disaster," said Phillip Holt, 51, who was rescued from his home Saturday with his partner and three of their aging Chihuahuas. They left a fourth behind they couldn't grab in time.

They ran out of hair gel and Astroglide by the second day and it was hell on Earth.

20 posted on 09/03/2005 4:56:28 PM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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