Governor Goodhair and Ike

[Nbadan]

Gov. Goodhair:


" the Fed Gov should treat Galveston at least as good as they did Louisiana in Katrina."

What an idiot.....and so the blame game starts...

[Anti.Hero]

I'm sorry my fellow citizens of the world, I will not be appearing on SNL tonight because a hurricane is hitting Texas.

[ChuckD]

Someone needs to tell Perry that the Keith Partridge look has been out of style for like 35 years.

[Nbadan]

The aftermath

http://blogs.fayobserver.com/weather/files/2008/09/crystal.jpg

Caught on Camera (http://www.khou.com/video/caught-index.html?nvid=282686)

[Nbadan]

The Bolivar Peninsula is flooded and is not accessible from the highway or by the Ferry as of 4pm September 13th.

http://www.swedesrealestate.com/Portals/0/News/bolivarafterike.jpg

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080914/capt.70615935381e4482bef90f81cb5948b5.ike_texas_ny 133.jpg?x=400&y=261&q=85&sig=IPjznPctuP5Tj.cNmKDmkQ--

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080914/capt.568ca3fd198640a6a19c29ac21996b43.aptopix_ike_ texas_ny131.jpg?x=215&y=345&q=85&sig=oMYOqm0JNMadQDhy2AcDZw--

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080914/capt.f266cbb7a054406bba054d1d7ee24c60.aptopix_hurr icane_ike__txdp122.jpg?x=218&y=345&q=85&sig=9GsX_YuiclGzau0UJ6JG5Q--

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Gov. Goodhair:



What an idiot.....and so the blame game starts...

Damn Perry, I'd have asked to be treated better.

[Nbadan]

Channel 13 in Houston is going to be all over this story. They are fighting mad that they are being kept away from the disaster areas and that the Federal Government is trying to control the media and the story.

To see the story unfolding, go to http://abclocal.go.com /... and click on the link for Watch live streaming video of our coverage of Ike's aftermath . Keep an eye out for reports by Channel 13 investigative reporter Wayne Dolcefino, who is saying that the Federal Government is trying to keep the media and American people from seeing images reminiscent of New Orleans and Waveland, Mississippi until they have a chance to control the story and what we see.

Watch the video titled: "Wayne Dolcefino confronts Gov. Perry."

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Developing: FEMA Hiding The Ball
by freepress4all
Sun Sep 14, 2008 at 08:14:59 PM PDT

Democratic Congressman Nick Lampsom (TX-22) is right this moment (9:15 pm CDT) on Channel 13 in Houston, being as politically correct but direct as possible, while using carefully chosen words to explain how FEMA is dropping the ball big time in Texas following Hurricane Ike.

According to Congressman Lampsom almost none of the promises made by FEMA before Hurricane Ike made landfall are being honored. In addition, FEMA is controlling the story, keeping the facts from the press, and trying to hide the ball they are dropping.

Even worse is the way the Federal Government is trying to keep the media away from the disaster areas and control the story. FEMA and the FAA are stepping all over Freedom Of The Press.

WAY MORE _ COVER UP THE SAME OLD STUFF (http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/index )

[Nbadan]

Galveston officials begin to restrict media access
By Rhiannon Meyers
The Daily News
Published September 15, 2008


GALVESTON — Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas on Monday ordered all city employees not to talk to news reporters. She did not say when that order would be lifted.

Thomas and City Manager Steve LeBlanc will be the only officials allowed to talk to reporters.

City spokeswoman Mary Jo Naschke vehemently denied the city was trying to clamp down on news coverage.

...

Reporters were also forbidden from visiting areas on the far West End of FM 3005, Thomas said. She did not explain why.

Galveston Daily News (http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=bc8628c780c2a319)

One has to wonder, what do they have to hide? A whole slew of dead bodies?

[Nbadan]

Pics from Galveston you won't see on the corporate media :

http://www.statesman.com/news/mediahub/media/slideshow/index.jsp?tId=119411

http://www.galvnews.com/photographs.lasso?view=grid&category=front&category=news&skip=0

http://www.panews.com/ikemultimedia/local_story_259232654.html

http://www.panews.com/ikemultimedia/local_story_259192705.html

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/weather/slideshow/Search_and_Rescue.html?c=y&page=2

[Nbadan]

Katrina II...looks like Texas Republicans aren't any better at hurricane relief than their Louisiana democratic counter-parts


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v189/plastic_turkeys/busholy5.jpg


..By 8:30 a.m., volunteers were unloading and passing out crates of water, ice and nonperishable food supplied by the state, and were told that the federal government would soon be sending shipments.

More than 10,000 people had showed up by 10:30 a.m., FEMA spokeswoman Mary Bell Lunsford said.

``Oh, my goodness,'' said Charlene Matthews, 43, as she walked from her car toward the church, trying to catch a glimpse of the end of a line of pedestrians that wrapped around the building, along a stretch of sidewalk and down more than two city blocks. A separate line of waiting cars stretched for two miles.

Houston Police Lt. Spencer Coker, squinting in the sun in the church's makeshift loading area, said the long lines were largely due to initial news reports that listed the Greenspoint center as the only hub in the city open Monday morning.

``We'll do the best we can with what we've got,'' Coker said as the temperature climbed and police heard reports of people suffering from heat exhaustion, distribution trucks tied up in traffic and pregnant women requesting restrooms.

The wait time at 9 a.m. on Monday was roughly an hour and a half, and peaked at two to three hours before dropping to 50 minutes by 4 p.m.

But things were moving slowly in Fort Bend County, where officials expressed frustration when water and ice did not materialize.

"I'm frustrated, I'm very frustrated,'' County Judge Bob Hebert said Monday.The judge said the county put in a request with the state to get emergency shipments. "We were told a truck would arrive at 4 p.m. today in Sugar Land.'' He said volunteers manned the site. ``Four o'clock came and no truck.''

"We still haven't heard why it didn't arrive,'' he said.

When Fort Bend officials called a state command post they were told there was no record of the county filing a request.

Hebert said he can understand if the supplies have to be sent to other areas that got harder hit than his county, but ``we wish they would have told us so we could have secured our own supply.''

Chronicle (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6002679.html)