Hurricane Katrina: Aftermath and Cleanup, Continued, Again

Trapped....
http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_nolaview/archives/2005_09.html#076223

 

In all honesty, they've been the worst and most in need of help and law enforcement.

 

Alabama has authorized the use of lodging at all state parks for evacuees from AL, MS, & LA.

 

CNN>
BREAKING NEWS

AP: Huge oil spill spotted near storage tanks on Mississippi River downstream from New Orleans, state officials say. Details soon.

 

Just read something else that said a lot of church owned "summer camp" type of places are being used for shelter.

 

Man, what the hell else can possibly happen?

Being downstream, it's probably not a danger to NO, but could have a huge environmental impact, I assume.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.impact/index.html

Well, at least one person is.

edit: Oops forgot about ITN, make that two people.

 

At least the oil spill should trigger presidential sorrow as a side benefit.

 

Has anyone posted this:

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/list/

It's a list of people that are known safe.

 

Are you Moby?

 

There is no such thing as being safe in Monroe Louisiana

 

you need to harden up.men don't cry. besides, he has been a crummy leader. did you see rudy gulliani constantly blasting the feds in the aftermath of 9-11? no, he showed strong leadership. the mayor needs to be a leader, a statesman. he is obviously in way over his head.

 

You have to imagine it read in a Romanian accent, or else go back a few days in NPR's ATC archives, where Codrescu reads it himself. It's worth the search.

 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4826792

 

No, but I've seen him in concert.

 

with all due respect to the people of new york, the area of destruction isn't even remotely the same. everybody's in over their head.

 

nico, patrickm's a troll who's incapable of any serious discussion. Ignore him.

Back to the cleanup:

Companies Scrambling to Restore Power

This brought up a question I'd love to see a story on: How do utility companies pick up the sticks? The story touches on that briefly, mentioning public safety buildings as a top priority. And I'm glad that refineries also seem to be high up on the list.

But how do they assess the damage and set their priorities and deploy their workers? I'd love to see a feature on that.

 

I know I should....I know I should...I know I should...

 

If anyone else hasn't posted this yet, here are some pics of NO from the last couple of days.

http://sigmund.biz/kat/index.html


And here's a survivor's livejournal.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/2005/09/01/

 

Thank you all for sharing that. It was incredibly moving.

 

There's something I don't understand about the situation over there, (and apologies if it's been asked before), but why didn't they get the people out of New Orleans before the hurricane. I'm not talking about the people who had vehicles or the money to get themselves out - I heard the police chief fell saying "it's time to haul arse" - but what about the hundred thousand or so people who didn't have the money or intelligence to get themselves out.

There was a young British girl on TV over here who had only arrived there a day or so beforehand and hadn't been following the news. She was on holiday backpacking her way across the US and most people don't follow the news particularly when they're on holiday. In any event when someone DID happen to mention that they were all leaving because of a suspected hurricane she immediately tried to get out, only to find that all public service transport had been cancelled until further notice.

I mean, what's the point of the police chief telling people to get out if they've no way of actually doing it unless they've got a car or van or access to one.

I'm afraid it has to be said fellas that in most other developed countries the state would likely have provided some form of transport if people didn't have their own. Particularly in the situation where everyone knew that there was a possibility that these levees might be breached and the city flooded with salt water, sewage and chemicals from factories.

Obviously if people THEN don't want to go, that's their affair but this young girl said that there were many people trying at the same time as her to get out who couldn't. She said there were people with almost no money or savings who had sold what little they had in an attempt to get out who were stuck there.

I'm sorry to have to say it but, frankly, you've been made to look like some type of banana republic.