Help for New Orleans

[langeweile]

http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18473

Looks like things are getting worse, rather than better by the hour. If you want to help, here is the link.

Thanks

 

[great bear]

we should send them some Canadian softwood lumber

Yes, but in the form of boats.

 

[galt]

All kidding aside thought folks...these people need help and our response as a nation has been notably absent. Where is Mr. Dithers? Where is DART?

Who gives a crap about softwood lumber when people are dying. The US is our best friend. I may have missed it but I have yet to see any reaction from our government

 

[RogerRabbit]

All kidding aside thought folks...these people need help and our response as a nation has been notably absent. Where is Mr. Dithers?

He is fighting the US on softwood, wtg Paul...



p.s. I agree DART should go, but they/ FEMA should ask first...

 

[Flower]

If you want to help the animals .. Noah's Wish

 

[great bear]

If you want to help the animals .. Noah's Wish

We Bears are gratefull.

 

[Master Baiter]

If you have a copy of the National Geographic Oct 2004 issue, if you read the opening paragraphs of the scenerio, it's almost to the letter as to what scientists predicted way back then, what would/did happen to New Orleans today. Everything except the category 5 hurricane and 50,000 death toll. There were warnings way way back 40+yrs ago and people took it for granted. But that is easier said than done... that's like someone telling us now that TO will slip under Lake Ontario within 20yrs. Chances are you wouldn't move either.

Prayers and hopes and donations go out to the people of New Orleans and its vicinities. I just don't like the fact that idiots are sniping/shooting at the medical services etc. who are trying to help them.

Why is FEMA taking days to get medical and food supplies out to the victims?!

 

[WhaWhaWha]

Ive been watching footage of airlift after airlift. people clinging to rooftops waiting for rescue. Large rescue boats cannot navigate the city and smaller navigable boats have limited capacity. It's going to get worse before it gets better. Has anyone looked in our own backyard?

Apparently the Downsview Dells are still eroding. Finch and Sentinel is only the tip of the iceberg. We could be looking at significant loss of property along Black Creek. Noone is fleeing. There are not very many warnings either.

 

[Esco!]

Hurricanes are fed by warm water, if global warming continues than this will heat up the oceans and in turn produce more large hurricanes. They will be more frequent and possibly stronger.

I dont see the point in rebuilding N.O. , they should start over on higher ground IMO and further from the coast line.

 

[langeweile]

Hurricanes are fed by warm water, if global warming continues than this will heat up the oceans and in turn produce more large hurricanes. They will be more frequent and possibly stronger.

I dont see the point in rebuilding N.O. , they should start over on higher ground IMO and further from the coast line.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/31/AR2005083102758.html?nav=rss_nation

after reading this I have to agree...

 

[Esco!]

Why on earth they would build a levee for a cat. 3 and not a cat. 4 or 5 hurricane
is completely beyond me

The cost for building a huge dyke is now easily surpassed by the cost of this hurricane

 

[Fatume]

Because most of the major roads leading into the city are destroyed

Do u honestly believe that is the only reason? If you do, then I must say that u are truly out of touch with reality. If these were well to do white people needing assitance nothing would stand in the way of their being helped. The truth truly sucks.

 

[papasmerf]

Do u honestly believe that is the only reason? If you do, then I must say that u are truly out of touch with reality. If these were well to do white people needing assitance nothing would stand in the way of their being helped. The truth truly sucks.

Bigotry is a treable disease to suffer from

 

[papasmerf]

NOTE TO BIGOTS:

You spend time tring to support your position, yet people never see. Prehaps you can show incontravertable evidence and the world will agree. Otherwise risk being dismissed as a crank

 

[langeweile]

Why on earth they would build a levee for a cat. 3 and not a cat. 4 or 5 hurricane
is completely beyond me

The cost for building a huge dyke is now easily surpassed by the cost of this hurricane

Some of the levee building has started in the 1800's. The science of hurricanes is a very young science. I just don't think that even a fifity years ago, somebody really knew the difference beteen a 3 or a 5.

As over time the system evolved, maybe it was too expensive to go and re enforce the exisitng structure?

More likely is ,that humans in general, are not taking warnings like this too serious. Especially since the last major disaster was quiet some time back.

Why else to they continue building in CA, OK or FL??

 

[langeweile]

Do u honestly believe that is the only reason? If you do, then I must say that u are truly out of touch with reality. If these were well to do white people needing assitance nothing would stand in the way of their being helped. The truth truly sucks.

If you have a racist mindset you can see racism everywhere.

 

[Big Sleazy]

Do u honestly believe that is the only reason? If you do, then I must say that u are truly out of touch with reality. If these were well to do white people needing assitance nothing would stand in the way of their being helped. The truth truly sucks.

Whether race has anything to do with this is one thing. But the only road into NO is the highway from West of NO. All the other roads have been destroyed. It must have been those crackers.

BS

 

[Fatume]

U are all seriously deluded if you actually believe the rhetoric u are espousing. It took Anderson Cooper on CNN to finally correlate race and lack of effort to help these people. The sooner we all realize that black people are not treated equally in all facets of life and crisis, the sooner we will be able as a society to move on to rectify this terrible injustice. For those of u that are truly naive enough to believe that there is equality in America I honestly hope that u all live long enough to see the day when this will no longer be the case, however I don't believe that day will ever come. In the meantime for those that claim I see racism in everything, well look at the media reports. Who are these people in dire need of help? Why black of course. Case closed!

 

[Meister]

Who are these people in dire need of help? Why black of course. Case closed!

That is probably true in N.O. But, in Mississipi there happens to be a lot of poor white people in trouble. If you watch CNN the videos show mostly poor whites in Biloxi. According to your theory the help must be pouring in to whites in Mississipi.

 

[stinkynuts]

I was disgusted by the speech Bush gave on the disaster. You could tell that he really didn't care. He even smirked a few times.

It's really sad to see such a apathetic response from the government when thousands of people are desperately clinging on to their lives. I'm sure race and class was a factor.