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oneeightyone

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ANYBODY IN THE D.C METRO AREA , I KNOW THERE"S A FEW OF

 

YOU ON HERE. . .

 

""""400 families will be arriving this weekend at the DC Armory (from New

Orleans).

The delivery site is 415 4th Street NW. This is police First District HQ.

202-698-0515. Deliveries accepted 24/7.

They stressed their biggest needs at this time are bottled water and

anything that would constitute a "care package"...toothbrushes,

toothpaste, soap, undergarments, etc.

 

my coworker called and they said that they would accept a whole host of

other things...toys, clothing, etc."""""

 

IM GONNA BE GOING TOMORROW AFTERNOON WITH BOTTLED

 

WATER FROM MY OFFICE AND CLOTHES AND BLANKETS

 

ANYBODY THAT HAS ANYTHING TO PICK UP IN THE AREA THAT

 

CANT GET UP THERE (DC, NORTHERN VIRGINIA AREA) HIT ME

 

UP AND ILL DO MY BEST TO GET OUT TO YOU.

 

 

 

YEA, IT DESERVES CAPS.

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bathoræ

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Originally posted by villain+Sep 2 2005, 04:14 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (villain - Sep 2 2005, 04:14 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>
Originally posted by alure@Sep 2 2005, 05:48 PM

<!--QuoteBegin-villain@Sep 2 2005, 03:15 PM

I wonder how Bathorae and her sister are doing...

 

bathorae lives in new mexico her sister does live in new orleans..but i think she evacuated..

 

Ooohh...

I hope so.

 

I'm glad you got through to your family.

[/b]

 

oops! I must have missed this.

 

Yes, my sister goes to University of New Orleans. As of Monday she had evacuated to Covington (north of Lake Pontchartrain) but I haven't heard anything since then.

 

Thank you.

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villain

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Originally posted by bathoræ@Sep 2 2005, 10:18 PM

oops! I must have missed this.

 

Yes, my sister goes to University of New Orleans. As of Monday she had evacuated to Covington (north of Lake Pontchartrain) but I haven't heard anything since then.

 

Thank you.

 

 

Alright... thanks for checking in. I'm glad she has evacuated... I would think she would be relatively safe in covington compared to new orleans. Most of the flooding went south of lake ponchatrain.

I was trying to get some current satellite images of covington, but I only found this simulation of flooding by nasa:

http://www.nasa.gov/mov/126394main_pia04175.mov

More information about hurricane katrina from nasa found here

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingat...icane_2005.html

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fermentor666

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Originally posted by 2BLAZZED+Sep 3 2005, 01:39 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (2BLAZZED - Sep 3 2005, 01:39 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-shape1369@Sep 2 2005, 08:51 PM

Anybody just watch Kanye on the redcross special just now? First he pulled the media's card about black and whites "looting" and "finding food", respectively. Then he straight up goes and I qoute "George Bush does not care about black people." Mike Meyers was standing next to him talking as well, and dude just got this majorly exasperated look on his face. They cut the camera mad quick to get away from that.

 

 

http://rapidshare.de/files/4662131/Kanye_-...t_NBC_.mpg.html

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FUCK YES! I love the way Mike Meyers is just like "uhhhh", then they cut him off and Chris Tucker is just like "uhhhhhhh".

 

Fuck Bush, GET FUCKING ANGRY! This man and his "good people" are running our fucking country and futures into the ground. IF THIS DOESN'T WAKE UP AMERICA TO THE STATE WE ARE IN, SOCIALLY, POLITICALLY, AND ENVIRONMENTALLY THEN WE TRULY ARE FUCKED AND A WASTE OF AIR.

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Poop Man Bob

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Originally posted by bathoræ+Sep 2 2005, 10:18 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (bathoræ - Sep 2 2005, 10:18 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>
Originally posted by villain@Sep 2 2005, 04:14 PM

Originally posted by alure@Sep 2 2005, 05:48 PM

<!--QuoteBegin-villain@Sep 2 2005, 03:15 PM

I wonder how Bathorae and her sister are doing...

 

bathorae lives in new mexico her sister does live in new orleans..but i think she evacuated..

 

Ooohh...

I hope so.

 

I'm glad you got through to your family.

 

oops! I must have missed this.

 

Yes, my sister goes to University of New Orleans. As of Monday she had evacuated to Covington (north of Lake Pontchartrain) but I haven't heard anything since then.

 

Thank you.

[/b]

 

I have family in Covington, and from what I've heard, they sustained a lot of wind damage, but no flooding, etc. Best of luck.

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fermentor666

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The president said he is "satisfied" with the federal government's response to the Katrina disaster, although there is not "enough security in New Orleans, yet." (Full story) (Watch Bush news briefing -- 2:32)

 

 

 

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From CNN.com. Fuck you, Bush. Fuck Bush. I'm getting a bumper sticker that says "Fuck Bush". None of this "Buck Fush" nonsense. Get to the point.

 

 

 

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State officials have spotted a "major" oil spill in the Venice area of the Mississippi Delta region, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality said Friday. A department news release said two tanks capable of holding 2 million barrels appeared to be leaking. The statement did not give the precise location of the spill. Venice is about 75 miles southeast of New Orleans.

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8onus

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Originally posted by oneeightyone@Sep 2 2005, 09:14 PM

ANYBODY IN THE D.C METRO AREA , I KNOW THERE"S A FEW OF

 

YOU ON HERE. . .

 

""""400 families will be arriving this weekend at the DC Armory (from New

Orleans).

The delivery site is 415 4th Street NW. This is police First District HQ.

202-698-0515. Deliveries accepted 24/7.

They stressed their biggest needs at this time are bottled water and

anything that would constitute a "care package"...toothbrushes,

toothpaste, soap, undergarments, etc.

 

my coworker called and they said that they would accept a whole host of

other things...toys, clothing, etc."""""

 

IM GONNA BE GOING TOMORROW AFTERNOON WITH BOTTLED

 

WATER FROM MY OFFICE AND CLOTHES AND BLANKETS

 

ANYBODY THAT HAS ANYTHING TO PICK UP IN THE AREA THAT

 

CANT GET UP THERE (DC, NORTHERN VIRGINIA AREA) HIT ME

 

UP AND ILL DO MY BEST TO GET OUT TO YOU.

 

 

 

YEA, IT DESERVES CAPS.

 

i am doing the same thing, i'll be down there tomarrow, i gotta raid my boss's warehouse in rockville first(he owns a vending company) for some deer park and shit.

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fermentor666

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The big disconnect on New Orleans

The official version; then there's the in-the-trenches version

 

Friday, September 2, 2005; Posted: 5:17 p.m. EDT (21:17 GMT)

 

Conditions were desperate at the Louisiana Superdome on Thursday.

Image:

 

 

 

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Diverging views of a crumbling New Orleans emerged Thursday, with statements by some federal officials in contradiction with grittier, more desperate views from the streets. By late Friday response to those stranded in the city was more visible.

 

But the conflicting views on Thursday came within hours, sometimes minutes of each of each other, as reflected in CNN's transcripts. The speakers include Michael Brown, chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, evacuee Raymond Cooper, CNN correspondents and others. Here's what they had to say:

 

Conditions in the Convention Center

 

# FEMA chief Brown: We learned about that (Thursday), so I have directed that we have all available resources to get that convention center to make sure that they have the food and water and medical care that they need. (See video of Brown explaining how news reports alerted FEMA to convention center chaos. -- 2:11)

 

# Mayor Nagin: The convention center is unsanitary and unsafe, and we are running out of supplies for the 15,000 to 20,000 people. (Hear Nagin's angry demand for soldiers. 1:04)

 

# CNN Producer Kim Segal: It was chaos. There was nobody there, nobody in charge. And there was nobody giving even water. The children, you should see them, they're all just in tears. There are sick people. We saw... people who are dying in front of you.

 

# Evacuee Raymond Cooper: Sir, you've got about 3,000 people here in this -- in the Convention Center right now. They're hungry. Don't have any food. We were told two-and-a-half days ago to make our way to the Superdome or the Convention Center by our mayor. And which when we got here, was no one to tell us what to do, no one to direct us, no authority figure.

 

Uncollected corpses

 

# Brown: That's not been reported to me, so I'm not going to comment. Until I actually get a report from my teams that say, "We have bodies located here or there," I'm just not going to speculate.

 

# Segal: We saw one body. A person is in a wheelchair and someone had pushed (her) off to the side and draped just like a blanket over this person in the wheelchair. And then there is another body next to that. There were others they were willing to show us. ( See CNN report, 'People are dying in front of us' -- 4:36 )

 

# Evacuee Cooper: They had a couple of policemen out here, sir, about six or seven policemen told me directly, when I went to tell them, hey, man, you got bodies in there. You got two old ladies that just passed, just had died, people dragging the bodies into little corners. One guy -- that's how I found out. The guy had actually, hey, man, anybody sleeping over here? I'm like, no. He dragged two bodies in there. Now you just -- I just found out there was a lady and an old man, the lady went to nudge him. He's dead.

 

Hospital evacuations

 

# Brown: I've just learned today that we ... are in the process of completing the evacuations of the hospitals, that those are going very well.

 

# CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta: It's gruesome. I guess that is the best word for it. If you think about a hospital, for example, the morgue is in the basement, and the basement is completely flooded. So you can just imagine the scene down there. But when patients die in the hospital, there is no place to put them, so they're in the stairwells. It is one of the most unbelievable situations I've seen as a doctor, certainly as a journalist as well. There is no electricity. There is no water. There's over 200 patients still here remaining. ...We found our way in through a chopper and had to land at a landing strip and then take a boat. And it is exactly ... where the boat was traveling where the snipers opened fire yesterday, halting all the evacuations. ( Watch the video report of corpses stacked in stairwells -- 4:45 )

 

# Dr. Matthew Bellew, Charity Hospital: We still have 200 patients in this hospital, many of them needing care that they just can't get. The conditions are such that it's very dangerous for the patients. Just about all the patients in our services had fevers. Our toilets are overflowing. They are filled with stool and urine. And the smell, if you can imagine, is so bad, you know, many of us had gagging and some people even threw up. It's pretty rough.(Mayor's video: Armed addicts fighting for a fix -- 1:03)

 

Violence and civil unrest

 

# Brown: I've had no reports of unrest, if the connotation of the word unrest means that people are beginning to riot, or you know, they're banging on walls and screaming and hollering or burning tires or whatever. I've had no reports of that.

 

# CNN's Chris Lawrence: From here and from talking to the police officers, they're losing control of the city. We're now standing on the roof of one of the police stations. The police officers came by and told us in very, very strong terms it wasn't safe to be out on the street. (Watch the video report on explosions and gunfire -- 2:12)

 

The federal response:

 

# Brown: Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans, virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going relatively well.

 

# Homeland Security Director Chertoff: Now, of course, a critical element of what we're doing is the process of evacuation and securing New Orleans and other areas that are afflicted. And here the Department of Defense has performed magnificently, as has the National Guard, in bringing enormous resources and capabilities to bear in the areas that are suffering.

 

# Crowd chanting outside the Convention Center: We want help.

 

# Nagin: They don't have a clue what's going on down there.

 

# Phyllis Petrich, a tourist stranded at the Ritz-Carlton: They are invisible. We have no idea where they are. We hear bits and pieces that the National Guard is around, but where? We have not seen them. We have not seen FEMA officials. We have seen no one.

 

Security

 

# Brown: I actually think the security is pretty darn good. There's some really bad people out there that are causing some problems, and it seems to me that every time a bad person wants to scream of cause a problem, there's somebody there with a camera to stick it in their face. ( See Jack Cafferty's rant on the government's 'bungled' response -- 0:57)

 

# Chertoff: In addition to local law enforcement, we have 2,800 National Guard in New Orleans as we speak today. One thousand four hundred additional National Guard military police trained soldiers will be arriving every day: 1,400 today, 1,400 tomorrow and 1,400 the next day.

 

# Nagin: I continue to hear that troops are on the way, but we are still protecting the city with only 1,500 New Orleans police officers, an additional 300 law enforcement personnel, 250 National Guard troops, and other military personnel who are primarily focused on evacuation.

 

# Lawrence: The police are very, very tense right now. They're literally riding around, full assault weapons, full tactical gear, in pickup trucks. Five, six, seven, eight officers. It is a very tense situation here.

 

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.response/index.html

 

 

 

Your government is fucking lieing to you.

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Jabbar Gibson's first time behind the wheel of a school bus was spent transporting dozens of people from New Orleans to the Reliant Astrodome.

 

 

The first busload of New Orleans refugees to reach the Reliant Astrodome overnight was a group of people who commandeered a school bus in the city ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and drove to Houston looking for shelter.

Jabbar Gibson, 20, said police in New Orleans told him and others to take the school bus and try to get out of the flooded city.

 

Gibson drove the bus from the flooded Crescent City, picking up stranded people, some of them infants, along the way. Some of those on board had been in the Superdome, among those who were supposed to be evacuated to Houston on more than 400 buses Wednesday and today. They couldn't wait.

 

The group of mostly teenagers and young adults pooled what little money they had to buy diapers for the babies and fuel for the bus.

 

After arriving at the Astrodome at about 10:30 p.m., however, they initially were refused entry by Reliant officials who said the aging landmark was reserved for the 23,000 people being evacuated from the Louisiana Superdome.

 

"Now, we don't have nowhere to go," Gibson said. "We heard the Astrodome was open for people from New Orleans. We ain't ate right, we ain't slept right. They don't want to give us no help. They don't want to let us in."

 

Milling about the Reliant entrance, Sheila Nathan, 38, told her teary-eyed toddler that she was too tired to hold him.

 

"I'm trying to make it a fairy tale so they won't panic," said Nathan, who had four grandchildren in tow. "I have to be strong for them."

 

After about 20 minutes of confusion and consternation, Red Cross officials announced that the group of about 50 to 70 evacuees would be allowed into the Astrodome.

 

 

 

All were grateful to be out of the devastation and misery that had overtaken their hometown.

 

"I feel good to get out of New Orleans," said Demetrius Henderson, who got off the bus with his wife and three children. Many of those around him alternated between excited, cranky and nervous, clutching suitcases or plastic garbage bags of clothes.

 

They looked as bedraggled as their grueling ride would suggest: 13 hours on the commandeered bus driven by a 20-year-old man. Watching bodies float by as they tried to escape the drowning city. Picking up people along the way. Three stops for fuel. Chugging into Reliant Park, only to be told initially that they could not spend the night.

 

Every bit worth it.

 

"We took the bus and got out of the city. We were trying to get out of the city," James Hickerson said.

 

Several passengers on the bus said they took the matter into their own hands earlier Wednesday because they felt rescuers and New Orleans authorities were too slow in offering help.

 

"They are not worried about us," said Makivia Horton, 22, who is five months pregnant.

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