Official Hurricane Katrina Thread

[Vashner]

In some was however, besides the downtown gaffe...

A LOT of people where saved... .. more reliable vehicles that didn't break down..(on the initial rush out of town)

We are talking about the FIRST evacuation of a major US city since the civil war...

There was one guy, an aircraft fuel operator that stayed at one of the small airfields.

He basically was there the at dawn the next day fueling up the choppers...

Besides the big downtown food and water screw up everything else has really gone well in terms of getting help and people out.

[timvp]

2:50 P.M. - WWL-TV LIVE pictures show thousands still wait to be picked up from I-10 and Causeway. Buses arrived a few hours ago, but the refugees say that it's the first sighting of buses in 12 hours. Some of the refugees have been waiting four days. State Police say five people died Thursday while waiting.

2:54 P.M. - WWL Reporter Jonathan Betz says the refugees at I-10 and Causeway are standing in squalid conditions. He said there are only 10 portable toilets for thousands of people and the Interstate median is full of human waste.

3:14 P.M. - St. Bernard Parish officials say that FEMA has not called them yet...five days after the storm.

6:26 P.M. - WASHINGTON (AP): Thousands of people stranded in two swamped parishes south of New Orleans are just as desperate for food, water and supplies as those trapped in the city, but they can't get the attention of federal disaster relief officials, Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-La., said Friday.

And to make matters worse, Melancon said in a telephone interview, he was unable to deliver that message to President Bush during his visit to New Orleans on Friday because the president's security detail couldn't clear him in to meet with Bush on Air Force One.

Yeah, everything going as planned.

Man, if I were those conditions, I'd be looting my azz off. After three days of starving and without any hope, I'd be right there strapped trying to survive.

[Jelly]

The people who are the true saviors of these people and who have been the real catalyst in lighting a fire under the government are the media. If we didn't have Anderson, Shephard, Geraldo, Joe Scarbourough and all the rest of those guys constantly on TV , showing America the true depths of despair, and demanding attention from the government, a lot more people would be dying. So kudos to the media, they have redeemed themselves.

[MannyIsGod]

Yeah, amazing what happens when the media stops ing around with nothing but looting coverage.

[timvp]

Yeah, amazing what happens when the media stops ing around with nothing but looting coverage.

Yeah, no crap. I've been pissed off since Tuesday that nothing was getting done. At that point, all the media cared about was the looters.

Finally they see the real issue.

It took five days but I guess it's better late than never.

[SpursWoman]

PS - I love that 18 year old kid that *stole* a school bus and drove all of those people to Houston. I really hope nothing but good things happen to that kid....that was awesome.

[Kori Ellis]

Michael Brown, the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA - a job he trained for by running something called the International Arabian Horse Association - admitted he didn't know until Thursday that there were 15,000 desperate, dehydrated, hungry, angry, dying victims of Katrina in the New Orleans Convention Center.

[timvp]

PS - I love that 18 year old kid that *stole* a school bus and drove all of those people to Houston. I really hope nothing but good things happen to that kid....that was awesome.

Next time he should try "finding" the bus.

[MannyIsGod]

He can't, unless he's white.

[timvp]

15,000 is a lot of damn people. That's like a regular season SBC Center crowd. Spurs fans get mad if the TV timeout takes too long. Imagine four hot long days with nothing. People dying and no help to be found.

Amazing.

Baghdad > New Orleans

[baseline bum]

Next time he should try "finding" the bus.

Sorry timvp... you're either born a looter or a finder, and only Michael Jackson has ever successfully crossed over.

[Kori Ellis]

I can't get over the Convention Center up. I don't understand it at all.

If the FEMA director didn't even know people were there, what happened? Who told them to go there? Has anyone taken any responsibility on this subject?

[Trainwreck2100]

Sorry timvp... you're either born a looter or a finder, and only Michael Jackson has ever successfully crossed over.

Condelisa Rice???

[timvp]

Sorry timvp... you're either born a looter or a finder, and only Michael Jackson has ever successfully crossed over.

I think that caption miscue is going to live in infamy. It's a bad sign when Jesse Jackson starts making sense...

[timvp]

I can't get over the Convention Center up. I don't understand it at all.

If the FEMA director didn't even know people were there, what happened? Who told them to go there? Has anyone taken any responsibility on this subject?

No. A lot of finger pointing but no one has stepped forward to take the blame.

[Trainwreck2100]

I can't get over the Convention Center up. I don't understand it at all.

If the FEMA director didn't even know people were there, what happened? Who told them to go there? Has anyone taken any responsibility on this subject?

The media didn't cover it those first days, maybe if they were looting it he would have found out sooner.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Here's my solution.

Drop that FEMA er Michael Brown in the middle of the 9th Ward, give him communications equipment, and tell him until everyone's evaced he can't leave. No food or water for his sorry ass either.

It sounds like FEMA is giving everyone the run around. Today when Bush was talking he said something like "they tell me they're bringing in food, water, and buses, I felt I needed to come here to see if it was true for myself."

Sounds like the FEMA asshole is trying to spin everything away, when the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of him and his organization.

Pretty ing pathetic.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

If the FEMA director didn't even know people were there, what happened? Who told them to go there?

Shepard Smith interviewed one of the people at the Convention Center on I think Wednesday, and the guy said they just figured if they all congregated there that FEMA would show up and help them.

[spurs=bling]

I feel bad for those in New Orleans they have nowhere to go its just so sad.
I feel good though that my school is trying to raise ten thousand to send over there so i hope we have luck. so far the red cross has reported 305,758 Donors & $43,965,785 Raised

[Jelly]

You guys will have to come up with more than one picture of a white woman with a loaf of bread if you want to keep claiming this racist media BS.

[timvp]

All those people and they bring a short bus.

Nice.

[Kori Ellis]

Shepard Smith interviewed one of the people at the Convention Center on I think Wednesday, and the guy said they just figured if they all congregated there that FEMA would show up and help them.

I'll call bull on that one.

I guarantee you that it had to be on the news in the days preceeding Katrina to go to the Convention Center. 15K people didn't decide to go there on their own.

Why were the doors unlocked? How did they get in?

[timvp]

Shepard Smith interviewed one of the people at the Convention Center on I think Wednesday, and the guy said they just figured if they all congregated there that FEMA would show up and help them.

15K all had the same idea?

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, the man the mayor says got more done in his first 3 hours in NO than the FEMA prick did in two days.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/hon...ile/index.html


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Hey, don't shoot the messenger on the Convention Center, it was some random guy standing there waiting, and he said people were going through chest high water to get to the Superdome, so some people just took up shop at the CC and started telling people to wait there and not go through the dirty water.

*shrugs*

[Kori Ellis]

Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, the man the mayor says got more done in his first 3 hours in NO than the FEMA prick did in two days.

Yeah he's a bad ass.