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I've got tons of stuff to donate (like children's clothing), but the Red Cross doesn't take that kind of stuff. I was going to try the Salvation Army next....
These things bring out the best and the worst in people. Often, in the same person.glad to see this guys priority's are straight.
he couldn;t wait a bit to bring that up?
I've got tons of stuff to donate (like children's clothing), but the Red Cross doesn't take that kind of stuff. I was going to try the Salvation Army next....
yes they do, they are a really important part of the local economy... but they also have lots of $4 and insurance ..
and you;d think that there 1st words after this would be condolances or offers of help to their employees or the comunity or somehting to that effect.
thats waht I'm saying.
Where do people go? Shelters? Could you afford to live "on the road" for a month?
By the way, Bayou le Batre, AL of Forrest Gump fame got decimated with virtually all shrimping boats wrecked.
CNN just showed aerial video of Biloxi........it's incredible.... just foundations left.
really it looks like a scale model that someone wiped away
I'd appreciate an answer to that. My two kids just cleaned out their too small clothes. I have 12 bags of clothes in the van I was going to deliver to Goodwill, but if it can go to Katrina victims, I am for it.
Well I just got my first New Orleans evacuee transfer patient...he drove maybe a quarter of the way here before his car broke down and then hitched a ride the rest of way, with nothing but the clothes on his back...sad but interesting stuff. As I talked to him about the whole ordeal he didn't sound too depressed and was very talkative about it. He didn't have any family with him, he just had to worry about getting himself out of the city.
They just discussed it on WWL-TV... FEMA will likely work to set up shelter/housing/accommodations for those who have nowhere else to go.Where do people go? Shelters? Could you afford to live "on the road" for a month?
Hopefully most of them have family close to the area that they can stay with.
You're right. I assume most people that have followed this closely feel the same. But you'd be surprised how many people are ignorant of the severity of this situation. I met with a client an hour ago that when I brought the subject of Katrina up, she said, "That storm in Louisiana?"
By the way, in my neighborhood in Fort Worth, one of my neighbors (well, like down the street) has two cars with Louisiana plates in front of it that got here on Saturday. I wonder if they're refugees.
No one seems to be accepting in-kind donations at this time.
There will be a time for that. Right now, I think they have to focus on getting those levees stabilized, and on search and rescue for people still trapped out there.No one seems to be accepting in-kind donations at this time.
Once that's done, then we can start figuring out how to care for basically the entire population of southern Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama that has been evacuated and won't be able to go back for a long time.
Did y'all see this on CNN?
http://www.retrospection.net/videofi...rricanekat.php
Fox News one-upped them.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/08/28.html#a4676
Rescuers are leaving marks on rooftops of houses that contain bodies, becasue they don;t have the means to clear the mout right now.
Rescuers are leaving marks on rooftops of houses that contain bodies, becasue they don;t have the means to clear the mout right now.
Did you see the red X / black X thing in Mississippi? I'm trying to find a link to it.
Does that Pollyanna Homeland Security dude have any updates on getting the levee breaches fixed?
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html
3:07 P.M. - Governor Blanco: We are looking for ways to get people out of the Superdome and out of New Orleans said Governor Blanco as she tried to keep from crying.
2:41 P.M. - Jefferson Parish officials say schools could reopen by Dec. 1.
me too.
apparently the Army Corp of Enginners will be dropping a 3k sand bag onto it from a helicopter.
more blog news (I'll stop posting this if everyone's reading along from WWR):
3:13 P.M. - Governor Blanco: A lot of people have lost their lives, but we have no numbers because the priority is saving those who are alive so we don't have more casualties.
3:12 P.M. - Senator Vitter: Mayor Nagin's calm and control and command of the facts showed me that we have one of the best leaders in the country right here.
3:12 P.M. - Senator Landrieu - Scenes are similar to what she saw after the Tsunami.
3:11 P.M. - Senator Landrieu: Those who evacuated should be patient and thank God that they are okay because so many still need to get out.
3:09 P.M. - Senator Landrieu: Plenty of people still on rooftops in N.O. East waiting to be rescued. Every boat available is being used to try to save people.
Y'know, one tiny thing I've gotten to appreciate out of all this is the way Nagin and Blanco handle the press and their business, and to a lesser extent Mary Landrieu. I haven't heard to much from Dave Vitter yet, so I excluded him.
from CNN.com
i was able to find...
In east New Orleans, rescuers pulled out as many as 500 people, in some cases using axes to break through roofs and reach people in attic areas. Not everyone made it out, apparently -- witnesses reported seeing bodies floating near Interstate 10, the north border of the district.The Federal Emergency Management Agency is preparing to house "at least tens of thousands of victims ... for literally months on end," said the agency's director, Michael Brown.
Lakes and rivers were still spilling over levees late Monday, and "it's going to get worse before it gets better," Brown said
"It's too dangerous to come home," said Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, who ordered state police to block re-entry routes to all but emergency workers.A Louisiana public health expert described conditions in New Orleans that are probably typical in all the stricken areas:
"No sewage, no drinking water, contamination, threat of rapid increase in mosquitoes, roads are impassible, downed power lines everywhere, trees, debris from houses in the roads, no way to go shopping, no gas," said Ivor van Heerden, director of the Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes in Baton Rouge.
3,000 pounds of sand won't make a dent. 2,500lbs wasn't enought to level out the ground for a stupid 18' pop-up pool in my back yard.
I'll take at least hundreds, if not thousands, of those to do anything useful in that mess.
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