Official Hurricane Katrina Thread

[TheWriter]

what the ever...

Wake up ![/Chappelle]

[TheWriter]

Let me know the first time they show a non-black person "looting".

They just did now... opps, that was Michael Jackson.

Kinda counts...

[Spurminator]

There's a thread about it in the Political Forum called "The Politics of Katrina" if you guys want to discuss the racial overtones.

[Kori Ellis]

I was talking to his boss today who mentioned that where the levees broke is "coincidentally" the ones protecting the poorest part of town. They are saying perhaps those levees had help in breaking so that the ones protecting Bourbon Street, etc. would hold ...

Someone else (ahem timvp) mentioned a similar conspiracy theory early today. I refuse to believe that. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't think they'd do that.

[Clandestino]

Let me know the first time they show a non-black person "looting".

i saw one a few mins ago... i think only one.. then again, most whites probably got out..


except for a dumbass white couple they showed before the storm hit.. they had just come out of the store and what did they have in their box of goodies??? 2 12-packs of bud light. 2 1-liter bottles of water and some bread! hahaha!

[timvp]

I've read most of the 70 pages of this thread but not all so if this has already been mentioned, forgive me.

One of the guys I work with has family in New Orleans in law enforcement so they were not allowed to evacuate. I was talking to his boss today who mentioned that where the levees broke is "coincidentally" the ones protecting the poorest part of town. They are saying perhaps those levees had help in breaking so that the ones protecting Bourbon Street, etc. would hold ...

Yeah, the poorest wards flooding is pretty damn fishy (no pun intended). But I'm not a big conspiracy fan, so I'll call it a coincidence.

[TheWriter]

I've read most of the 70 pages of this thread but not all so if this has already been mentioned, forgive me.

One of the guys I work with has family in New Orleans in law enforcement so they were not allowed to evacuate. I was talking to his boss today who mentioned that where the levees broke is "coincidentally" the ones protecting the poorest part of town. They are saying perhaps those levees had help in breaking so that the ones protecting Bourbon Street, etc. would hold ...

Flawed theory, everything will be underwater soon. Bourbon Street shall not escape this.

[Clandestino]

supposedly the levees that held were built after the 65 hurricane by the ACOE. the others weren't

[TheWriter]

i saw one a few mins ago... i think only one.. then again, most whites probably got out..


except for a dumbass white couple they showed before the storm hit.. they had just come out of the store and what did they have in their box of goodies??? 2 12-packs of bud light. 2 1-liter bottles of water and some bread! hahaha!

So out of the 200,000-300,000 that stayed in New Orleans, all but two people were black?

[missmyzte]

They just showed a woman on CNN in New Orleans with a shirt that says, "BAD GIRLS SUCK, GOOD GIRLS SWALLOW"

I don't think they meant to show that! lmao

[Clandestino]

and those ACOE levees were only meant to hold against cat III hurricanes

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Efforts to close the breach at the 17th Street canal continued late Tuesday as the Louisiana National Guard was bringing in 108 concrete highway barriers. Each barrier is 15 feet long and weighs 15,000 pounds. They will be set up around the breach.

Helicopters were also preparing to lift 50 3,000-pound sandbags and drop them directly into the breach.

State Department of Transportation and Development spokesman Mark Lambert said at some point, the whole thing needs to be fixed because this is not a permanent solution. -- Associated Press

Concrete barriers... good thinking

[Kori Ellis]

They just showed a woman on CNN in New Orleans with a shirt that says, "BAD GIRLS SUCK, GOOD GIRLS SWALLOW"

I don't think they meant to show that! lmao

[TheWriter]

Let me know the first time they show a non-black person "looting".

Let me know when a young missing black girl is shown none stop on those cable news channels.

[timvp]

They just showed a woman on CNN in New Orleans with a shirt that says, "BAD GIRLS SUCK, GOOD GIRLS SWALLOW"

I don't think they meant to show that! lmao

Probably another crazy black looter.

[timvp]

Hopefully they shot her.

[Mixability]

i think shaq will do close to or 1 mill on his own....

and then he'll announce it on national tv!

[Kori Ellis]

Please go to the Political forum if you want to get in a big race discussion. I'd like this thread to continue to be just an informational resource and discussion.

[ObiwanGinobili]

Let me know when a young missing black girl is shown none stop on those cable news channels.

or mexican....

damn, we had a pregnant woman go missing on thanksgiving here in SA last year.. still no sign of her. not a single snippet of national coverage on that either.

[TheWriter]

Please go to the Political forum if you want to get in a big race discussion. I'd like this thread to continue to be just an informational resource and discussion.

Racist!

[Clandestino]

Let me know when a young missing black girl is shown none stop on those cable news channels.

let me know when the writer stops making everything about this hurricane racial..

and let me know when the writer stops thinking nsync is cool. i bet you only like them because none were black!

[ObiwanGinobili]

Please go to the Political forum if you want to get in a big race discussion. I'd like this thread to continue to be just an informational resource and discussion.

sorry!

[TheWriter]

or mexican....

damn, we had a pregnant woman go missing on thanksgiving here in SA last year.. still no sign of her. not a single snippet of national coverage on that either.

I bet her name wasn't Megan or Sandra or Natalie.

[Trainwreck2100]

Someone else (ahem timvp) mentioned a similar conspiracy theory early today. I refuse to believe that. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't think they'd do that.

Maybe if I put it this way, which do you think our local gov. would want protected the west side or the Alamo?

[timvp]

So how many levees are down? Two or three?