Crazy stories...
Anyone ever seen 28 Days Later? New Orleans is starting to sound exactly like that. The local paper, The 'Times-Picayune' has set up a blog / forum for people to post their own stories.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001053452
Now obviously there is no way to verify these stories but it would seem likely that they are true. I was watching some CNN footage and the scope of what has happened seems to have the reporters on full blown tilt. A CNN reporter was interviewing the Governor of Louisiana when he felt he'd heard enough of the bullshit spin job that he was witnessing.
"Anderson Cooper was even harsher, challenging Sen. Mary Landrieu for thanking President Bush for his efforts to aid her state. "Senator, I'm sorry for interrupting," he said. "For the last four days I've been seeing dead bodies in the streets here in Mississippi ... You know, I gotta tell you, there are a lot of people here who are very upset, and very angry, and very frustrated. And when they hear politicians thanking one another, it kind of cuts them the wrong way right now. Because literally there was a body on the streets of this town yesterday being eaten by rats because this woman had been laying in the street for 48 hours and there's not enough facilities to take her up. Do you get the anger that is out here?"
I would have liked to hear her answer. It's is frightening to think that this was a disaster that we saw coming, everyone knew it was coming days in advance and look at the pathetic response! 4 days after the levees broke there were only 1200 National Guardsmen in New Orleans, there should be 30,000 plus! They should have been on stand by waiting to move in. What would have happen if a terrorist had blown up the New Orleans levee system and there was no warning? How bad would things have been then? There are reports that up to 20% of the local police force has stopped showing up for work, can you blame them? Anyway I find this whole situation very frustrating and have very little faith left in the emergency preparedness of any government.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001053452
Now obviously there is no way to verify these stories but it would seem likely that they are true. I was watching some CNN footage and the scope of what has happened seems to have the reporters on full blown tilt. A CNN reporter was interviewing the Governor of Louisiana when he felt he'd heard enough of the bullshit spin job that he was witnessing.
"Anderson Cooper was even harsher, challenging Sen. Mary Landrieu for thanking President Bush for his efforts to aid her state. "Senator, I'm sorry for interrupting," he said. "For the last four days I've been seeing dead bodies in the streets here in Mississippi ... You know, I gotta tell you, there are a lot of people here who are very upset, and very angry, and very frustrated. And when they hear politicians thanking one another, it kind of cuts them the wrong way right now. Because literally there was a body on the streets of this town yesterday being eaten by rats because this woman had been laying in the street for 48 hours and there's not enough facilities to take her up. Do you get the anger that is out here?"
I would have liked to hear her answer. It's is frightening to think that this was a disaster that we saw coming, everyone knew it was coming days in advance and look at the pathetic response! 4 days after the levees broke there were only 1200 National Guardsmen in New Orleans, there should be 30,000 plus! They should have been on stand by waiting to move in. What would have happen if a terrorist had blown up the New Orleans levee system and there was no warning? How bad would things have been then? There are reports that up to 20% of the local police force has stopped showing up for work, can you blame them? Anyway I find this whole situation very frustrating and have very little faith left in the emergency preparedness of any government.
posted by WesinCalgary @ 12:20 AM
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At 7:10 PM,
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New Orleans sinking man, and I don't want to swim”, who knew the Tragically Hip had such insight into future events. Did anyone see Celion Dion go "postal" (sorry for picking that one wes) on Larry King live. That girl is straight up nuts, and I would never want to scrap with her, sure I'd win, but I'd barely win. Seems weird looking at all these new students worrying about finding there class's and there are people that are truly suffering, ahh well such is life I guess. As for the policy that is now in place to “shoot to kill” the looters, this seems like a perfect example of how Americans solve there problems, and is sure to create more problems. So if you are saying “prayers” for the victims, don’t forget to thank God your Canadian well your at it, because I was there when the flooding happened in Okotoks and High River, and no one started looting or shooting, most just had a drink and said we’ll rebuild. I know this is not the same thing, but still some comparisons can be made.
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