Any Good News Regarding the Wrath of Katrina?

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CarbineCaleb

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I am suffering a little battle fatigue listening to all the horror stories filtering out about about Katrina and it's aftermath. :( Has anything good happened??? A free bullseye target to each respondent! :D
 
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You will not find it in the regular news media (including the major internet sites) but things are steadily getting better in this area and judging by the limited info. I’ve gotten from the coast and N.O. things are getting better there also. Of course, in some cases, almost anything is better than where they were
My area (Meridian, MS) is quite a bit inland so our damage was not nearly as extensive as the coastal areas. We just got wind, tornadoes, and rain. Since trees outnumber people by about 10 to 1 inside the city limits, you can pretty much predict the outcome here … a true 100 per cent power outage. Now it is about 60 per cent. Surprisingly the water and natural gas situation stayed stable. There are now people collecting water that was stored in advance of the storm by city residents and sending it out into the county. Fuel was a concern. At one point, there was absolutely no gasoline available. Our fuel was almost entirely supplied by a pipeline from the coast. It was completely down. Now it is operating at about 50 per cent capacity so gas is scarce but attainable. There is very little price gouging and lawlessness here. Those that have tried have, for the most part, been caught either by the cops or private citizens. Most of the "rowdy" visitors from N.O. have realized that about half of the cars with Lauderdale plates (and 90% of the pick-ups) have some type of firearm in them. Local businesses have reduced or held firm prices. Gas is sold for 2.49 to 2.69 a gallon. 8 pound bags of Ice range between 75 cents and free. Bottled water is available at normal prices or at shelters/drop-off points for free. Tap water is available at almost anywhere in town for free. Almost all roads in the area are passable … albeit not clear. Trees and limbs seem to be everywhere but now they are mostly on the SIDE of the road.
Our area is having problems but coming along fine. According to reports from family/friends from New Orleans LA (3),Metarie LA(1), Hammond LA(1), Slidell LA(3), Biloxi MS (1),Pascagoula MS(1),McComb MS (3), Picayune MS (4) things are getting better in their neck of the woods also.. The number in parenthesis indicates the number of those friends/family I have talked to from those areas. Not all of those "rode it out" in those areas. For instance, in the case of New Orleans, only one of those I contacted actually rode it out there. Also, my sister is the one from Metarie who was not there but in Hammond at the time of the storm. She is now in New Orleans as a communications specialist in the Air Guard. She was activated the Friday before the storm.

All you will see on the news is the suffering, whining, and accusations. You will not hear the whole of the story. Don’t get me wrong. There is plenty of hell to go around but we’re comparing today to Tuesday morning … not Saturday night. In the past few days, I have learned a little more than I wanted to about what is usually referred to as "human nature". I am considering posting a few of my observations and experiences and also a theory. In general, the topic would not be very uplifting and only tertiary to the subject of guns so this may be the wrong site for it.
 
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahah

Good news doesnt sell......

We need VIOLENCE, TRAGEDY, BABIES DYING IN THE STREETS O GOD HELP THEM BUT THANK GOD THEY ARE THERE ON THE SCENE TO BRING THE NEWS TO YOU, so that the journalists (I use that word like in the same sense I use a traditional anglo saxon expletive for faeces) can see their o so well made up faces on TV being MEANINGFUL and MAKING A DIFFERNCE, yes, striving like HEROES to fight the RASCISM, REPUBLICANISM, GLOBAL WARMING AND GOVERNMENT INDIFFERENCE, that CAUSED THE TRAGEDY!!! yes it wasnt Katrina, but rather the plight of the poor being beaten down by the BOOT of the imperialist US rascist Texas Cowboy Bush-ites THAT CAUSED THE TRAGEDY!!!!!

Did ya see that POMPOUS non entity Geraldo Rivera holding up a baby and sobbing, telling the world that yes, this is like WILLOWBROOK (for those of you too young to remember, Willowbrook was a disgusting institution where the handicapped were instituionalized in NY about 35 years ago, where a young Channel 7 reporter named GERALDO RIVERA won a prize for exposing the nightmare, thereafter sinking ito partial obscurity yet now, 35 years later, still riding its coatails!!!!), yes im gerlado rivera, crusading journalist, look at MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE being a hero, remember, im the one that exposed Willowbrook, dang his make up is perfect isnt it....

What a bunch of self promoting jerk offs....

Wanna bet that all the horror we are hearing about fizzles away like the looting of the Baghdad Museum..remmeber that???....the millions of treasures that dissapeared, were STOLEN because of OUR FILTHY WARMONGERING TOWARDS THE INNOCENT PEOPLE OF IRAQ and later they were found in the basement...

PS..not to trivialize but reports of shootings and rapes...like thats not heard of in the inner city???...life goes on, even when everything is destroyed...some folks arent being turned into criminals by this tragedy, some folk were just criminals to begin with...

WildrantoffAlaska
 
Yes, there is good news-most of it unreported. Things like a young man stealing a school bus and taking 80-odd people out of the place. I'm sure more than that has happened, but between all the constant Bush bashing and the Geraldo crying, it will take years to find out the courage of the few.

I say we make GW king of America and dissolve the state and local governments-that way, we can justify laying ALL the blame at his feet. People squawk because he does not do this or that to their liking. but yet they do not want federal interference in their lives. What's it gonna be, folks???? Some are getting to sound like the mayor of New Orleans......don't blame me-I'm just in charge of the first responders, whom I never lifted a finger to organize. :mad:
 
Misanthrope that I am, I'll confess to finding the whole thing to be rife with comedy gold.

The high point thus far has been the .gov's assurances that they are... are you ready for this? ...going to get the dole checks in there as fast as they can. I guess welfare checks are high in fiber, or, if you had enough of them, they could be bundled with oily rags on the end of a stick and used for a torch...
 
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I'll confess to finding the whole thing to be rife with comedy gold.

Bingo! All it takes to make me smile is to hear a politican speaking without notes or a teleprompter, but that means you have to separate the tragedy from the remarks made.
 
I think the mere fact that only a couple hundred died in a city of over half-a-million is pretty good news.

Oddly enough, I think the fact that it shed light on the flaws in FEMA's response to a major catastrophe is good news. This is an excellent dress rehearsal for a dirty bomb attack.
 
The horrific, self-inflicted damage the New Orleans’ felonious underclass is suffering probably is good news, regardless of the political incorrectness and impropriety of this statement. Obviously, there are also many decent, innocent people who are also suffering terribly, we all are extremely concerned for their well-being, and I have already mailed a charitable check to assist them. But the fact, however harsh, is that the criminal, shiftless, government welfare-dependant, dim-witted, indolent underclass – and New Orleans has always had more than its fair share – are going to be catastrophically hurt by Katrina.

It is significant that other Gulf cities, some more directly in the hurricane’s path, are not suffering as badly is New Orleans, because: (a) the have a much smaller criminal underclass and (b) their local governments are far more responsible.
 
animal: Thanks for the detailed report in your area! Lots of good info there - hang tough!

Wildalaska:
non entity Geraldo Rivera
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Yep, I am not real fond of Geraldo either. He is a classless, exploitive individual - in the same bucket as Jerry Springer and various Televangelists in my book.


DAVID NANCARROW:
a young man stealing a school bus and taking 80-odd people out of the place.
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Wow, there goes a hero for you. :)

JATerpack:
Oddly enough, I think the fact that it shed light on the flaws in FEMA's response to a major catastrophe is good news. This is an excellent dress rehearsal for a dirty bomb attack.
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I would agree with that. Analogously, while war isn't a good thing, it invariably improves battlefield medicine for example - people learn things and improve with experience. (No, I am not cheering for war)
 
After Andrew the Florida economy had a bit of a boom. I suspect that a year from now we will see the same thing in the gulf coast - an economic boom based on the huge cash inflow.
 
This is gonna be a lightening rod statement, I just know.

But what about the REAL first responders? Here's to the New Orleans PD officers I saw wading thru hip deep sewage to protect property and tossing looters out of stores by the shirts.

Looting by some cops, you say? Might have happened. Corruption in the dept, you counter? May be so. But back before the Mayor started blaming everyone else; before the Governor took her head out of her poll ratings; Before FEMA, the National Guard and the US Army, I saw outnumbered New Orleans cops, working without chain of command; without the clear rules of engagement afforded to their brothers in Mississippi; doing far more than any of us might hope to in similar situation.

So here's to the NOPD few.
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The Coast Guard:
Now there's an agency that stepped up on Day One. They didn't wait for politics or orders to tell them where to take people; they didn't wait for official priorities. They simply waded, boated and rappelled their way in and rescued THOUSANDS....one at a time.

So here's to the US Coast Guard....perhaps the most overachieving, under rated organization in the US Government.
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The US Military and National Guard:
I truly believe, were they left to their own devices, they'd have accomplished on Day One what we see them doing on Day Five.

So here's to our Military and Nat Guard. When the politicians get out of the way, they NEVER let us down!

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And lastly, here's to the evacuees (finally, FOX has stopped referring to them as "refugees" as though they're foreigners). Living on overpasses, in attics and on roofs for 5 days in 90+ degree temps. No food. Zero water. But they obviously BELIEVED they would not be abandoned by their countrymen.

Rich
 
CarbineCaleb… Thanks, but there is no need to hang tough here anymore. We are more "severely inconvenienced" than "in need" We weren’t hit nearly as hard here as other areas and our community really came together well. Now, most all of the necessities in town are covered. Wife and kids went further north this morning … they couldn’t earlier because she works for WMOX Radio and this station pretty much serves as the hub of local info. during an emergency. Problems with the bad element peaked yesterday and had us a little worried but seemed to have pretty much evaporated (thankfully) today….Spent part of the morning at a friend’s gas station (on the highest point on the corner of the parking lot) with my .40 Taurus and a HK91. All of the guys (only 2 of them actually worked there) in the lanes directing traffic were armed with pistols. I do not think anyone buying gas realized there was an armed presence at all. Everything was tastefully (and technically, - illegally)concealed. I’m sure there were other gas stations with similar security. I know of no accidents involving firearms at all during this time. You can call us hicks and worse but it looks like we can handle guns and chainsaws pretty well… :)

Mississippi now has all highways and interstates passable with the exception of Hwy 90
 
I think the mere fact that only a couple hundred died in a city of over half-a-million is pretty good news.
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I don't mean to a pessimist in a thread about good news, but the official body count won't be out for a while. They're expecting it to be measured in thousands, though, not in hundreds the last I heard. :(

The good news is that real progress has been made, a significant amount of people have been evacuated and things down there don't seem to spiraling down the drain anymore.
 
While hundreds of New Orleans school busses and thousands of potential evacuation seats rust away in the fetid waters, one enterprising young man by the name of Jabbar Gibson commandeered a school bus and picked up 70 men, women, and children and drove them all to Houston, arriving Wednesday night:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/casey/3335904
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Much good and humanity

I see a lot of good people........even when the media focus is the bad and how this didn't work and that failed.......I see civilians and military working together. The work is slow but it's moving in the direction it needs too. I saw a business guy from California get a charter 737 and fill it with victims of the storm. His effort to move, feed, care for and get a community to house and help this small group was a great thing to see. To hear the other stories of people helping people....... both financial and in all ways, that is what makes me happy and proud to be American. I tend to think the ugly sides of things with this storm are quickly getting out-done by all the hard work and good.
The heck with what media sells...... I would hope they get a little better at the job of bringing news to us......all of it and no spin. No politics needed now, just save it for later...
 
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