This http://mgno.com/ blog has an incredibly interesting account from some guys living there who apparently have a connection.
This shit isn't getting any better either.
Its like we suddenly have our own third world in the deep south.
How about that blog?
Wow.
After Katrina, the gas price went up even all the way over here in Sweden. I read it in a newspaper on the bus on the way to school this morning, and I looked out of the window, and saw a sign with the gas price on, and I was shocked that it actually was true.
yea gas in my state in like 3.31 for the lowest…....... >_<
Right now the whole United States are now petitioning the government to lower the price. Oh yeah, the Deep South is becoming like a war in Africa. I guess we have to suffer this for 3 months while in the Deep South is having a war similer to Africa.
Currently writing a book
@joekido:
Right now the whole United States are now petitioning the government to lower the price.
Lower them? Heck, we're lucky they aren't any higher!
At any rate… I feel terrible about this whole thing. Geez, how stupid are we? I mean somthing like this already happend in Galveston before. You think that such a huge city like that, some odd feet below sea level, would have gotten more attention! I don't think anybody took the hurricane seriously at first... and it was so stupid putting all those people in the astrodome. >__> Gah, they would have probably had been better off hoofing it to a different state rather than getting crammed in there. :wacko:
Sorry, just a bit of a rant. I just think we could have saved alot more lives if we had taken this a bit more seriously. I mean COME ON. We had freakin documentaries about hurricanes and Louisiana. We KNEW what would happen. You know the old saying 'an ounce of prevention is cheaper than a pound of cure'... I wonder how much an ounce of human life costs... :glare:
I've heard the airline industry bases safety-feature purchases on a figure of USD 2.5 million per life lost.
I figure a lot of the problem now is coopting the National Guard for service in Iraq. They should be in the Southeast US now, maintaining order and funneling aid.
i thought i would like to share this with everyone someone posted this at president bush Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?
Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this – after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.
There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!
You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.com
P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.
How about THIS? I read this in the local paper:
A Washington tourist came and asked a cop for help, and he replied:
"Go to hell. It's every man for himself."
Also, gas prices were at 3.26 when I went into school. When I went up to the gas station after school (where we hang after class), it was at 3.35… O_O;;
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.
President Bush is in New Orleans… http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/ts/080304tropicalweathe/im:/050903/photos_ts/2005_09_02t213311_371x450_us_relief_bill
i know i was watching the news an hour sayin how he got there people were making comments on how fast he reacts to the war but it takes him awhile for this disaster.
Well, it's not ALL his fault. I hate Michael Moore because he seems to think that EVERYTHING is Bush's fault. Bush can't do PIDDLY SQUAT without three-fourths of Congress and funny enough, Congress isn't all that controlled by Repulicans ATM.
 
This is all i have to say about it http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/262703
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
I would really hate to get into a political debate, as I think its more important to focus on things in a non-partisan sort of standpoint right now, but I have to jump in on this one point.
I could have sworn that I saw Black Hawks landing and airlifting people in LA, then coming back again and again in waves. What was misleading about that?
Anyhow, man, this thing is such a mess, and people are still pointing the finger at everyone else and not working to resolve anything. BOTH sides of whatever issue it is need to stop bickering and just do what they can to help out these people before things get even more out of hand.
Situtation seems like it should belong in a movie. One of those post apocalyptic movies…
this whole incident is no ones fault.Michael moore is just mad cause how long it took bush to get over there and do something and i agree with irresistiblement, right now isnt the time to blame on another right now we should help each other in any way we can we wont solve things by blaming one other this isn't the time and it never will be right now teh only thing that matters is the people who are stuck and i hope they get out soon and my blessings go to them and i morn for the lost of others.
i was reading something on yahoo the other day white people "find" things
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/photos_ts_afp/050830071810_shxwaoma_photo1
black people "loot" things
Those Yahoo things are SO BAD… I saw them on ytmnd.com.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050902.wtelethon0902/BNStory/Entertainment/
Comedian Mike Myers was paired with West for a 90-second segment that began with Myers speaking of Katrinaâ€
s devastation. Then, to Myersâ€
While allowing that “the Red Cross is doing everything they can,â€? West — who delivered an emotional outburst at the American Music Awards after he was snubbed for an award — declared that government authorities are intentionally dragging their feet on aid to the Gulf Coast. Without getting specific, he added, “Theyâ€
After he stated, “George Bush doesnâ€
I thought this guy was meant to be some sort of musical genius? :glare:
Hey, Diamonds is a wicked song. :P
as for the OP that 'apparently' has a connection, that's the LJ of the security op for Directnic, a fairly important server provider (one site of note, Something Awful, is on their line) so I'd say they're pretty self-reliant, given they HAVE to be. :laugh: Their problem is maintaining enough fuel to power their generators to actually RUN their servers, which, in that beast of a jungle NO's become… well. :p
Anyway I totally have to agree with Tabby here. Who's bright idea was it to build a sinking city between a lake and a river on a swamp in the general area in which hurricanes are guaranteed to hit EVERY YEAR ? - Hell, not even that, I can't fathom why millions of people live down there fully knowing they're going to get slammed like this. -_-; But the fact also remains that the city WAS there, people were living in it, they'd been pushing the severity of such a flood for two decades and now look where they are and how many people are dead ! And check it out people, there've been thirteen named tropical storms this year so far and we're only in the beginning of September. Hurricane season doesn't end till November. Guess who's getting pounded even more ? :P
(I'll put it into perspective a little. We're expected to get up to 18-20 named storms this year - the average is seven. Ahem, global warming anyone ? :p)
I think the best commentary comes from Ray Nagin meself. Gotta love the guy from Nawwlins who tells the feds to 'get off their asses'.
Honestly, Kanye West > George W. Bush.
The whole thing was just very, very poorly planned out on all levels: local, state, and federal government. Also, it doesn't hurt that the majority of faces that we see on the news are either poor, elderly, or black. I'd be fucking irate if I was a black person with the media coverage of this travesty, everybody giving a much bigger focus on the 'looters' that are, also, predominately black. Kanye West has a right to voice his opinion, because the local, state, and federal government all dropped the ball with Hurricane Katrina. Hell, it took National Media attention on the New Orleans Convention Center in order for the government to hurry up the process.
There should have already been a plan for this to have happened. This major catastrophie could have been avoided with planning and coordination between all three levels of government. They didn't do that, so now we have to wonder about the lives we could have saved if there had been any plan in place…
shakes head We have bigger issues to deal with than what Kanye West said. And frankly, based on the relief efforts that I've witnessed thus far, there's proof that we simply don't care about our poor population in the US, which is frightening.
Oy vey.
Edit: I also think that Michael Moore is a nutcase who completely disregards any other view except his own. Just wanted to throw that out there for discussion.
You come at the king, you best not miss.
Maybe the person who can explain New Orleans could also explain Los Angeles and San Fransisco…
In Australia we were told 3 days before Katrina hit it was heading for New Orleans and the city was being evacuated.
I guess either the whole thing was poorly organised or a hell of a lot of peolpe chose to stay. The latter I could understand. I mean it's outside most people's experience. You just wouldn't believe it could happen to you. The former there is no excuse for. Indonesia got more help faster from the other side of the world than New Orleans is getting.
We are now being shown pictures/footage of the devistation.
People were saying they had been picked up be rescue trucks and then just dumped on the side of the road on dry ground but with no help. I would rather see footage of people being rescued. Today we finally got some of that.
I just feel for anyone stuck there and feeling abandoned.
I also want to Sanji-kick the fecking low-lifes raping and looting for anything but food and absolute essentials. (I mean, they seem to have to do for themselves. No one should be shot for grabbing food from deserted shops). I saw two ladies had loaded up a truck with their belongings and drove 14 hours to New Orleans to give them to the survivors. That was nice. Maybe the president could ask them how they did it for future reference.
There are Australian's and other tourists trapped too. The news crews have been able to rescue some of them (despite what the squirrel said so well) but the authorities won't let consular officials through (just news crews WTF) which is pretty mean and makes no sense. The longer the tourists stay there the longer they are a burdon on local resources.
Let 'em go! The are scared, far from home and maybe some of the other nations could actually help out if let. We certainly have a lot of experts
of this sort of thing here after what happened in Indonesia and our capital last year. (huge deadly fire storm).
Anyway, if petrol prices are our biggest problem we are lucky. (And yes, I run a car)
The whole thing bites. Those people deserve better and they'd better get it.
Seems like repairing the levies is looking like the far cheaper option now.
We have lost so many precious people.
I hope the world hasn't lost New Orleans as well.
I pray all in the area stay safe and they all get the help they need and the authorities get prevention is better, and cheaper, than cure.
I'm pissed about this so you guys must be ropeable.
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I do agree that the government and everyone was poorly prepared for this event, and the looting bit was a bit…bad, but saying "THE WHITE MAN IS TRYIN TO KEEP US DOWN" isn't going to help anything at all.
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Whoa. That hurricane was some heavy stuff. You really have to feel for the people stuck down there. It seems to me like the goverment dosent even care about the people. Its really sad that it is the year 2005 and yet we really havent learned to get over our racial differences. The media is just so one sided. It really is a shame, the government should have been more on the case on the relief effort. I think there is some racial issues involved in why the relief came so late. Its really….. :glare:
On top of all the damages, I heard that the price of gas in New Orleans was 7 dollars a gallon or something. I'm guessing (and hoping) that its a rumour though.
@Phet:
Whoa. That hurricane was some heavy stuff. You really have to feel for the people stuck down there. It seems to me like the goverment dosent even care about the people. Its really sad that it is the year 2005 and yet we really havent learned to get over our racial differences. The media is just so one sided. It really is a shame, the government should have been more on the case on the relief effort. I think there is some racial issues involved in why the relief came so late. Its really….. :glare:
They haven't even gotten over sexism so I wouldn't expect too much…
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