katrina

[Zspider]

It looks like help is on the way:

http://www.flakmag.com/rejected/louisiana.html

[KD]

did anybody see the parrish president on meet the press today? poor guy broke down and cried - it's very sad down there.

[busty]

I'm really bummed to see one of my favorite cities destroyed ... and even more bummed to see scumbags making it an opportunity for an all-you-can-grab day at an abandoned WalMart [and other places] there.

I wonder how much of this was looting to steal stuff people wanted versus stealing stuff that people needed. I can't really fault people for taking food and drinks, diapers, and baby formula. To some extent, I can't fault people for taking some clothes or shoes if they didn't have them because of the storm. But stealing guns, stereos, giant piles of clothes etc. isn't right.

[Meadows]

Need vs. Want. They need food and police permitted taking in a grocery stores. Running off with a cart full of DVDs isn't something that will help them too much with survival, unless they're building a raft.

[Ultra]

the funny thing is . All the stuff they loot. They can't take it with them when they evacuate. They will have to leave it behind.

[spuzo]

We have talked about taking in some people from the devestated areas...with our living situation (rent free because I manage a property) not sure how that would work, probably have to approve it through someone I guess.

Just devestation. Amazing and heartbreaking. Friends' mother had a house on the Bilouxi waterfront...no longer. They are luckier than most, evacuated three days before the hurricane. But, seeing as they worked at the casino...are just staying where they evacuated to...have to start over. And they had JUST moved there.

Maybe a selfish thought...but I just keep thinking how well off we'd be in a natural disaster. Gear and supplies in the truck or van --- gas can of extra gas to get us to safer ground and enough homemade canned soup beans to last QUITE awhile. We'd be able to live and climb just fine till things got back to normal. hhmm any chance of a hurricane hitting Nevada anytime soon?

[Zspider]

Maybe a selfish thought...but I just keep thinking how well off we'd be in a natural disaster. Gear and supplies in the truck or van --- gas can of extra gas to get us to safer ground and enough homemade canned soup beans to last QUITE awhile. We'd be able to live and climb just fine till things got back to normal. hhmm any chance of a hurricane hitting Nevada anytime soon?

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Yeah, but what if the tornado rolls your truck, flattens the place where you store your extra food and water, and blows your gear into the next county?

ZSpider

[Zspider]

All the looting is just the oppressed people struggling against the dominant order. Down with capitalist pigs. Power to the people.

ZSpider

[tomdarch]

Maybe a selfish thought...but I just keep thinking how well off we'd be in a natural disaster.

Man, if I lived in California or near the New Madrid fault, I'd be scared shitless given how incompotent the Feds have proven themselves to be. I heard an interview with a Louisiana official who was explaining how the Guard and state troopers had to find ways to circumvent the Feds because this administration's FEMA guy for the state was such a total imbicile and was blocking things like food and water distribution.

What do you think the odds are that tons of post-earthquake rescue and recovery gear from Missouri and California, along with the trained Guard troops to use it, are sitting in the desert in Iraq right next to the Louisiana Guard high water vehicles?

[Crankmas]

interesting points about the situation are unfolding, all the school buses the grieving mayor could have used to evacuate the poor( read oppressed blacks) are neatly parked and locked and sitting in four feet of water,