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How many tons did they say that thing weighs?!
How many tons did they say that thing weighs?!
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More than 50 rescued from floods in New Orleansparts of 6 parishes completely underwater.
That is ing insane! At least it wasn't thrown into a neighborhood though.
So, what happens when the water goes down?
Tey almost need to get boats out there and tow that thing out, or they're going to have to disassemble it to move it back off of dry land.
When the Northridge quake happened, I lived in Northridge. Power, etc was out and water was supposedly contaminated, so we had to go to the store to get drinking water. They didn't actually allow you to go into the grocery stores, they had a stand in the front door and you could go up and ask for what you wanted and then they would come bring it out to you and charge you - cash only.
So I went and asked for water and some sandwiches and stuff like that. They told me that they couldn't sell me sandwiches - only thing they were selling was water and batteries. I didn't need batteries (I had a flash light and lots of batteries), so I asked for just two gallons of drinking water (that was the max they would give per person). They charged me $20.
I then went to a smaller store -- mom and pop style convenience store. I asked for 4 sandwiches and 2 more gallons or water. $47!
If I didn't have cash and I was starving and didn't have a means of transportation to go out of the area -- damn right I would have looted an ATM for cash.
Tonnage doesn't really matter in water, it's easy to displace.How many tons did they say that thing weighs?!
When the Northridge quake happened, I lived in Northridge. Power, etc was out and water was supposedly contaminated, so we had to go to the store to get drinking water. They didn't actually allow you to go into the grocery stores, they had a stand in the front door and you could go up and ask for what you wanted and then they would come bring it out to you and charge you - cash only.
So I went and asked for water and some sandwiches and stuff like that. They told me that they couldn't sell me sandwiches - only thing they were selling was water and batteries. I didn't need batteries (I had a flash light and lots of batteries), so I asked for just two gallons of drinking water (that was the max they would give per person). They charged me $20.
I then went to a smaller store -- mom and pop style convenience store. I asked for 4 sandwiches and 2 more gallons or water. $47!
If I didn't have cash and I was starving and didn't have a means of transportation to go out of the area -- damn right I would have looted an ATM for cash.
That's ridiculous!
Good grief, that's expensive!!! Are people allowe to jack up prices like that in these types of situations?When the Northridge quake happened, I lived in Northridge. Power, etc was out and water was supposedly contaminated, so we had to go to the store to get drinking water. They didn't actually allow you to go into the grocery stores, they had a stand in the front door and you could go up and ask for what you wanted and then they would come bring it out to you and charge you - cash only.
So I went and asked for water and some sandwiches and stuff like that. They told me that they couldn't sell me sandwiches - only thing they were selling was water and batteries. I didn't need batteries (I had a flash light and lots of batteries), so I asked for just two gallons of drinking water (that was the max they would give per person). They charged me $20.
I then went to a smaller store -- mom and pop style convenience store. I asked for 4 sandwiches and 2 more gallons or water. $47!
If I didn't have cash and I was starving and didn't have a means of transportation to go out of the area -- damn right I would have looted an ATM for cash.
Price Gouging is illegal and should be punishable by death.
I think it was a result of that Northridge nonsense that the federal government has put price gouging laws into effect.
You can go to a federal pound me in the ass penitentiary for price gouging now.
20 bucks for a bag of Cheetos? That, my friend, is what we call inflation
Thats what you would call it if Jimmy Carter was still president.
Yeah it was out of control after the Northridge quake - there was a lot of press about it afterward.
The point of my story was that though all of us know that stealing is wrong. There's some situations that you can understand someone taking money from an ATM.
Paula Zaun is amazingly intelligent.
"What can you tell us about the people stuck at the Astrodome? How long do you expect them to be stuck there?"
yeah Paula isnt the brightest crayon in the box
Maybe she was talking about the Oilers.
Dang, levee in St. Bernard's parish is gone.
I wonder if the Corps of Engineers blew it up with dynomite like they did for Betsy
Has anyone heard from Guru?
Where did you see thatAHF?
Weather Channel made the comment about the levee being gone.
I'm sure living in NO you know the folk tale about the Army Corps of Engineers and the St. Bernard's levee during Betsy.
Rumors that the city would do that preceed Betsy.
The "technical resource" is still doing fine here at the office. T1 is down, so I had to hunt around to find a real phone jack (one near an outlet).
I'm about to go outside and see what the weather looks like. I'm ready to head on home (where hopefully the power is on and the huge oak next to my house is still standing).
All in all, not to bad here in downtown, MS. The worst of it is in the form of power outages and downed trees. One lady got killed when a huge tree fell on her house.
Looking forward to hot and freaking muggy tomorrow.
Yeah, but the folk myth is that the city had the Corps blow it to save downtown during Betsy.
Oh yeah. And anytime there is any type of rainstorm, residents of the 9th Ward call NOPD and report seeing people putting TNT into the levee.
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