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Janice
Sweet Jessie Quinn
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
astro dome offered spots to 25k. they said this morning they have 70k people. and it is people out of control with guns. I guess it is all about who gets to go on the bus. could you imagine that though? It would be like telling everyone here that we are bringing you to a dome in Ohio.
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MrsJ
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
Posted by Janice
astro dome offered spots to 25k. they said this morning they have 70k people. and it is people out of control with guns. I guess it is all about who gets to go on the bus. could you imagine that though? It would be like telling everyone here that we are bringing you to a dome in Ohio.
I cannot even imagine!!!
I also hear somewhere that Long Island coud very well be in a similar situation someday! That is scary !!
Ooooh I think Im going to start another poll with a post...
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| Posted 9/1/05 3:00 PM |
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heidla
Me and the guys
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
Posted by kelleherkm
WOW weren't they supposed to evacuate people from here last night or this morning? What's holding them up?
I'm not really sure. They have taken some to Houston, but I think that the crowds have turned so angry that the operation has been halted. I also heard that getting enough vehicles through to the dome was proving to be very difficult. On CNN.com they have a few really disturbing videos.
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| Posted 9/1/05 3:01 PM |
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MrsJ
I love my Katie Bug
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
Posted by heidla
Posted by kelleherkm
WOW weren't they supposed to evacuate people from here last night or this morning? What's holding them up?
I'm not really sure. They have taken some to Houston, but I think that the crowds have turned so angry that the operation has been halted. I also heard that getting enough vehicles through to the dome was proving to be very difficult. On CNN.com they have a few really disturbing videos.
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You know I have a feeling that this is all only the beginning!
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| Posted 9/1/05 3:02 PM |
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ExpectingJoy
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
I heard in the Astrodome last night people were attacked,robbed, and many were raped. CNN reported that three people actually were killed by others in there. I would be guarding my children and precious things in shifts. It's crazy.
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LadyMaravilla
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
Posted by ExpectingJoy
I heard in the Astrodome last night people were attacked and many were raped. Three people actually were killed by others in there. I would be guarding my children and precious things in shifts. It's crazy.
 It must be oure chaos!!!!! We al need to do our share and help!!
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| Posted 9/1/05 3:35 PM |
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Janice
Sweet Jessie Quinn
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
Posted by ExpectingJoy
I heard in the Astrodome last night people were attacked and many were raped. Three people actually were killed by others in there. I would be guarding my children and precious things in shifts. It's crazy.
it is sick. Women getting raped. I would rather be on my roof waving a sheet.
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| Posted 9/1/05 3:35 PM |
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ExpectingJoy
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
when the lights go out, that has got to be the scariest place.
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| Posted 9/1/05 3:39 PM |
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MrsJ
I love my Katie Bug
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
Posted by ExpectingJoy
I heard in the Astrodome last night people were attacked,robbed, and many were raped. CNN reported that three people actually were killed by others in there. I would be guarding my children and precious things in shifts. It's crazy.
OMG!!!!!! 
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| Posted 9/1/05 3:49 PM |
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MommyofG
just the girls
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
I know they said people were giving out free gas and there were buses at no charge- the mayor really did a good job providing FREE service for all to get out. Many people stayed b/c they didnt think it was going to be this bad too. I agree too , it would have been very difficult for me to leave without my pets- I dont know what I would have done. I tear just thinking about it.
I did hear that they may not be able to rebuild new orleans. such a shame
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| Posted 9/1/05 4:11 PM |
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You know, I havent heard anything about the mayor or Governor sending busses or trucks BEFORE the hurricane to help aid in the evacuation of New Orleans.. Personally thats what I would have done If I was in their shoes.. If they would have been gone, no-one would have been left to Loot, no- one would be in the state they are in trying to sleep a night at the dome, in those conditions..
But not for nothing, some of these people have no concern for the llife of any others.. After the toilets started backing up they started peeing and sh!tting in the seats of the stadium.. How gross!
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| Posted 9/1/05 4:34 PM |
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karacg
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
I think everyone should have tried to get out. I think a lot of people wanted to be "taken care of" instead of taking care of themselves (welfare, anyone?). There were evacuation procedures in place -- for everyone. MOST did not leave because they didn't want to. SOme saw their "opportunity" to rob and steal and loot and ..well you see what is happening.
It is a shame and sad and awful and so depressing ... human beings acting this way...what are you going to do with that huge tv you stole?? You don't have a home, electricity, nothing.... so you shoot at people trying to help???
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| Posted 9/1/05 4:44 PM |
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MsG
Should be working
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
Posted by karacg
I think everyone should have tried to get out. I think a lot of people wanted to be "taken care of" instead of taking care of themselves (welfare, anyone?). There were evacuation procedures in place -- for everyone. MOST did not leave because they didn't want to. SOme saw their "opportunity" to rob and steal and loot and ..well you see what is happening.
It is a shame and sad and awful and so depressing ... human beings acting this way...what are you going to do with that huge tv you stole?? You don't have a home, electricity, nothing.... so you shoot at people trying to help???
Yes! People want to be "taken care of" when they are floating their spouses bodies down a flooded street. When they drown in their attics. 
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| Posted 9/1/05 4:49 PM |
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MsG
Should be working
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
I don't see how total evacuation was ever possible...
Katrina was barely a hurricane on Friday, lots ignored it on Saturday (expecting it to be torn apart by passing over mainland Florida, as storms typically are), and then when they woke up Sunday morning, it had 175mph winds. By Saturday night flights were cancelled.
It is just not feasible to evacuate more than a couple days in advance. For a storm that is going to hit the Eastern or Gulf Coast, the amount of uncertainty about where it will hit is just too great for any period of time greater than that. Even for two days warning, as in this case, you can't evacuate the coast from Pensacola to Corpus Christi: that's about 20 million people.
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| Posted 9/1/05 4:55 PM |
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karacg
Babygirl is 4!
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
Posted by MsG
Posted by karacg
I think everyone should have tried to get out. I think a lot of people wanted to be "taken care of" instead of taking care of themselves (welfare, anyone?). There were evacuation procedures in place -- for everyone. MOST did not leave because they didn't want to. SOme saw their "opportunity" to rob and steal and loot and ..well you see what is happening.
It is a shame and sad and awful and so depressing ... human beings acting this way...what are you going to do with that huge tv you stole?? You don't have a home, electricity, nothing.... so you shoot at people trying to help???
Yes! People want to be "taken care of" when they are floating their spouses bodies down a flooded street. When they drown in their attics.
Taken care of....they didn't try to leave the area. Boy do I hate the icon...
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| Posted 9/1/05 4:57 PM |
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WoodIAm
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
Posted by missus-hbradio
Its easy to call people idiots while we sit up here in NY. Who knows what everyones individual sitution or mindset was/is. The point is whether you obeyed the evacuation or not, you are in trouble anyway. Both evacuatees and non are in a state of devestation. Who are we to say what we would have done if it was us? We may panic and not do the right thing either.
Well said!
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MsG
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
Posted by karacg
Posted by MsG
Posted by karacg
I think everyone should have tried to get out. I think a lot of people wanted to be "taken care of" instead of taking care of themselves (welfare, anyone?). There were evacuation procedures in place -- for everyone. MOST did not leave because they didn't want to. SOme saw their "opportunity" to rob and steal and loot and ..well you see what is happening.
It is a shame and sad and awful and so depressing ... human beings acting this way...what are you going to do with that huge tv you stole?? You don't have a home, electricity, nothing.... so you shoot at people trying to help???
Yes! People want to be "taken care of" when they are floating their spouses bodies down a flooded street. When they drown in their attics.
Taken care of....they didn't try to leave the area. Boy do I hate the icon...
You honestly think they stayed there so that they could be in the situation they are in now? Starving, degydrated, dying?
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MrsERod
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
Posted by karacg
I think everyone should have tried to get out. I think a lot of people wanted to be "taken care of" instead of taking care of themselves (welfare, anyone?). There were evacuation procedures in place -- for everyone. MOST did not leave because they didn't want to. SOme saw their "opportunity" to rob and steal and loot and ..well you see what is happening.
It is a shame and sad and awful and so depressing ... human beings acting this way...what are you going to do with that huge tv you stole?? You don't have a home, electricity, nothing.... so you shoot at people trying to help???
this statement is worse then the other IGNORANT statement that was made earlier this week:
"buh bye new orleans!"
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heidla
Me and the guys
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
Posted by karacg
I think everyone should have tried to get out. I think a lot of people wanted to be "taken care of" instead of taking care of themselves (welfare, anyone?). There were evacuation procedures in place -- for everyone. MOST did not leave because they didn't want to. SOme saw their "opportunity" to rob and steal and loot and ..well you see what is happening.
It is a shame and sad and awful and so depressing ... human beings acting this way...what are you going to do with that huge tv you stole?? You don't have a home, electricity, nothing.... so you shoot at people trying to help???
I'm sorry , but what a heartless and ignorant statement. To compare staying in your home to the abuse of wellfare is a comparision I don't understand. I don't think that you can say that most of the people who stayed in their homes did so because they wanted to. Yes, there was limited transportation provided by the city government, but not enough for the entire city. A massive evacuation isn't as easy as they make it seem in the movies.
Yes, it is sad that times like these will bring out the worst in some people. To clump them all into that catagory is rash and IMO wrong.
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Redhead
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
Posted by heidla
Posted by karacg
I think everyone should have tried to get out. I think a lot of people wanted to be "taken care of" instead of taking care of themselves (welfare, anyone?). There were evacuation procedures in place -- for everyone. MOST did not leave because they didn't want to. SOme saw their "opportunity" to rob and steal and loot and ..well you see what is happening.
It is a shame and sad and awful and so depressing ... human beings acting this way...what are you going to do with that huge tv you stole?? You don't have a home, electricity, nothing.... so you shoot at people trying to help???
I'm sorry , but what a heartless and ignorant statement. To compare staying in your home to the abuse of wellfare is a comparision I don't understand. I don't think that you can say that most of the people who stayed in their homes did so because they wanted to. Yes, there was limited transportation provided by the city government, but not enough for the entire city. A massive evacuation isn't as easy as they make it seem in the movies.
Yes, it is sad that times like these will bring out the worst in some people. To clup them all into that catagory is rash and IMO wrong.
i have to say i agree 100%
it never amazes me the ignorance of some people
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MrsERod
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
Posted by heidla
Posted by karacg
I think everyone should have tried to get out. I think a lot of people wanted to be "taken care of" instead of taking care of themselves (welfare, anyone?). There were evacuation procedures in place -- for everyone. MOST did not leave because they didn't want to. SOme saw their "opportunity" to rob and steal and loot and ..well you see what is happening.
It is a shame and sad and awful and so depressing ... human beings acting this way...what are you going to do with that huge tv you stole?? You don't have a home, electricity, nothing.... so you shoot at people trying to help???
I'm sorry , but what a heartless and ignorant statement. To compare staying in your home to the abuse of wellfare is a comparision I don't understand. I don't think that you can say that most of the people who stayed in their homes did so because they wanted to. Yes, there was limited transportation provided by the city government, but not enough for the entire city. A massive evacuation isn't as easy as they make it seem in the movies.
Yes, it is sad that times like these will bring out the worst in some people. To clup them all into that catagory is rash and IMO wrong.
my exact sentiments! thank you heidla!!
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Redhead
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
honestly...i am truly sickened 
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| Posted 9/1/05 6:33 PM |
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mrswask
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
Posted by heidla
Posted by karacg
I think everyone should have tried to get out. I think a lot of people wanted to be "taken care of" instead of taking care of themselves (welfare, anyone?). There were evacuation procedures in place -- for everyone. MOST did not leave because they didn't want to. SOme saw their "opportunity" to rob and steal and loot and ..well you see what is happening.
It is a shame and sad and awful and so depressing ... human beings acting this way...what are you going to do with that huge tv you stole?? You don't have a home, electricity, nothing.... so you shoot at people trying to help???
I'm sorry , but what a heartless and ignorant statement. To compare staying in your home to the abuse of wellfare is a comparision I don't understand. I don't think that you can say that most of the people who stayed in their homes did so because they wanted to. Yes, there was limited transportation provided by the city government, but not enough for the entire city. A massive evacuation isn't as easy as they make it seem in the movies.
Yes, it is sad that times like these will bring out the worst in some people. To clump them all into that catagory is rash and IMO wrong.
Well-said Heidla. As many others have expressed in this thread, it is very easy for us to sit up here in our homes, with our air conditioners, computers and all the luxuries that we take for granted that many of these people have never and will never have - and pass judgement on others less fortunate. I wish the negative thoughts and energy so apparent in some of these posts could be turned into something positive, like HELPING these people!
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| Posted 9/1/05 6:39 PM |
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dm24angel
Happiness
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
Posted by mrswask
Posted by heidla
Posted by karacg
I think everyone should have tried to get out. I think a lot of people wanted to be "taken care of" instead of taking care of themselves (welfare, anyone?). There were evacuation procedures in place -- for everyone. MOST did not leave because they didn't want to. SOme saw their "opportunity" to rob and steal and loot and ..well you see what is happening.
It is a shame and sad and awful and so depressing ... human beings acting this way...what are you going to do with that huge tv you stole?? You don't have a home, electricity, nothing.... so you shoot at people trying to help???
I'm sorry , but what a heartless and ignorant statement. To compare staying in your home to the abuse of wellfare is a comparision I don't understand. I don't think that you can say that most of the people who stayed in their homes did so because they wanted to. Yes, there was limited transportation provided by the city government, but not enough for the entire city. A massive evacuation isn't as easy as they make it seem in the movies.
Yes, it is sad that times like these will bring out the worst in some people. To clump them all into that catagory is rash and IMO wrong.
Well-said Heidla. As many others have expressed in this thread, it is very easy for us to sit up here in our homes, with our air conditioners, computers and all the luxuries that we take for granted that many of these people have never and will never have - and pass judgement on others less fortunate. I wish the negative thoughts and energy so apparent in some of these posts could be turned into something positive, like HELPING these people!
I tend to agree...when I came on to LIF tonight, and the last day or two, Im shocked to see these threads get so many "hits" and responses, but my prayer thread and the donation threads got very little notice or responses...Is it really that we all care so deeply or love us some drama?
Maybe everyone should go spend some time donating a few bucks instead of arguing what could have happened..should have happened...would like to have happened and why it didnt...
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Redhead
You Live, You Learn
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Re: New Orleans and all the people who stayed...
Posted by dm24angel
I tend to agree...when I came on to LIF tonight, and the last day or two, Im shocked to see these threads get so many "hits" and responses, but my prayer thread and the donation threads got very little notice or responses...Is it really that we all care so deeply or love us some drama?
Maybe everyone should go spend some time donating a few bucks instead of arguing what could have happened..should have happened...would like to have happened and why it didnt...
OMG
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