To clarify some misunderstood info... According to CNN (link) "The Pentagon said that by next week 24,000 troops would be on the ground to assist in recovery efforts, including 8,600 National Guard members by Friday who could be put to work in law enforcement. " ... A Louisiana National Guard official told CNN Thursday morning that between 50,000 and 60,000 people had converged at evacuation points near the Superdome hoping to get on one of the buses out of town. "It's no longer just evacuees from the Superdome, as citizens who were holed up in high-rise office buildings and hotels saw buses moving into the dome, they realized this is an evacuation point," Lt. Col. Pete Schneider of the Louisiana National Guard said. ... Houston has offered to house about 25,000 people in the Astrodome. San Antonio, Texas, has agreed to take another 25,000 people, officials said Thursday. Schneider said that officials were looking for additional locations. ...
The White Alligator (for anyone who ever saw it) is actually in NJ right now. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/w...01,0,1356840.story?coll=ny-region-apnewjersey
I'm not a civil engineer but I would do the following if feasable. 1. Fix the levees and drain the city. 2. Bulldoze the most damaged structures. 3. Fill in the lowest parts of the city so that it is roughly a little above sea level. 4. Strengthen and raise the levees, build additional levees to criss-cross the city dividing it into grid sections. Then if one levee breaks in the future it doesn't flood the entire city. A sectioned off city should give the pumps more of a chance. 5. Remove some of the levees along the river or allow a means to let river water flood the delta to help build back marsh land. There should be no attempt to rebuild the city as it was with the old levee and pump system. The city is just too low, to close to the ocean.
Jesse Jackson says he's gonna lead a three bus convoy into NO to rescue the traped Xavier students first, then others. No one will shoot at The Reverend.
Clutch BBS poster Saint Louis for mayor of New Orleans!! he has a better plan than 90 % of those trying to fix this horrible problem
caption: Safe from the Storm One of three dolphins evacuated from an ocean-front marine park plays in a hotel pool in Gulfport, Miss., after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005.
What is that dolphin doing in a neighborhood pool? Also, any news on the large Vietnamese shrimping community south of NO? No word on them yet. CEO of Citgo says his company & Venezuela will do whatever they can energy supply-wise & Citgo is contributing at least $1 million.
Are you joking? If this is true, I'LL shoot at the guy! He should help those in dire need first, regardless of religion, race, gender, or any other factor (including a friggin' school)!
I just watched the news conference. It's true. Apparently the Xavier students are in dire need of help. I don't know that we should be condemning anyone's efforts, considering the state & federal governments have proven largely ineffective thus far. Thank God for the Coast Guard at least. Their choppers have saved thousands...
I work for ConocoPhillips and we got an email from our CEO today. He said that ConocoPhillips will be donating 3 million dollars towards the relief efforts to be divided between Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Also said that each employee living in the affected areas would get an instant $5,000 payment made to them to help with temporary housing. I just thought that was pretty awesome and wanted to pass it along.
After speaking with several different evacuees today I am in a state of absolute shock at the utter piss poor management of a disaster that has been studied in detail for decades. Surrounding the city with earthen levees, no city grids, pumps below sea level etc. etc. etc. After the flood - the horrendously slow reaction to bring in troops, food, and water has cost many more lives and robbed the city of NO of its last bit of dignity. I am so ****ing angry with all this now...
At least he's a leader who's doing something! You've got a complete Nero fiddles while Rome burns situation right now. My wife's sister and her family were in that storm in New Orleans and there is no word from them. It's a sickening feeling to be witnessing this incompetence from the government while people are dying nearly a week after the storm.
