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New Orleans rocked by huge blasts
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Details are sketchy, but the blast is believed to have involved a chemical factory. A large cloud of acrid, black smoke is drifting over New Orleans.
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Apparently the warehouse fire and the chemical plant fire are the same, but there's no chemical plant and the warehouse owner says nothing toxic was stored there."In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, HyperionComment
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They haven't been able to get fire crews over there because they're being shot at...Attached Files"In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, HyperionComment
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earlier someone suggested using closed military bases to house refugees. Apparently that is happening - San Antonio will be accommodating some at KellyUSA, the fomer Kelly Air Force Base, now a city owned complex."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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They said they're going to replay the entire interview in the next half hour on CNN...if you want to know what's going on in the city, and the desperation some of those people are feeling, I'd encourage people to listen to if it you can.Originally posted by Koyaanisqatsi
They're playing an interview with the mayor of New Orleans on CNN right now...it's amazing. I don't know how to describe it. It needs to be repeated every couple of hours until this is over."In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, HyperionComment
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Last edited by boann; September 2, 2005, 10:19."If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." -Katherine HepburnComment
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I saw clips and excerpts from it this morning around 8 pm. EST... he is royally pissed off. If anyone is truly speaking his mind and trying to get stuff done, its him.Originally posted by Koyaanisqatsi
They said they're going to replay the entire interview in the next half hour on CNN...if you want to know what's going on in the city, and the desperation some of those people are feeling, I'd encourage people to listen to if it you can.Resident Filipina Lady Boy Expert.Comment
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Did you guys hear Mayor Nagin totally losing his calm on radio? Man, was he pissed at the Federal Authorities....
too bad they cant show the swear words on their website
EDIT: Uh, I see it was brought up already...Last edited by laurentius; September 2, 2005, 10:27.Que l’Univers n’est qu’un défaut dans la pureté de Non-être.
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FOX News says a huge convoy of emergency vehicles is arriving at the Superdome.Comment
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Sign in NO window:Attached FilesComment
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refugees in georgia
Atlanta Constitution:
Local efforts to help Gulf Coast hurricane victims put their lives back together appeared to gain momentum at shelters that continued to receive streams of evacuees.
Red Cross shelters in Adamsville and Newton County together were serving hundreds throughout the day Thursday. A third shelter opened in Cobb County to receive refugees being airlifted from hard-hit areas in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Cobb shelter manager Jeanie Morris said the arrivals were unlike any she had encountered in 30 years as a Red Cross volunteer.
"This gives me goose bumps on my arms," she said.
The new arrivals in Adamsville and Newton found everything from employment assistance and medical attention to information on enrolling children in local schools — essentials needed to start new lives.
"I'm not going back," said Whitney Marcell, 24, a bus driver who fled New Orleans with his extended family of 27 and arrived at the Newton shelter Monday. "We're starting over here, with the grace of God." Marcell said he would try to contact MARTA today about a job.
The Adamsville Recreational Center on Martin Luther King Drive greeted visitors with a hand-drawn sign directing them to various tables staffed by the Georgia Department of Labor, Atlanta city schools, the state Department of Family and Children Services, and the Atlanta Workforce Development Agency.
A classroom down the hall from the gym had become a medical aid station, staffed by two doctors and a pharmacist from Grady Memorial Hospital. Visitors were given cards so they could receive medical services from the public hospital. Virtually all the requests were for medications for chronic conditions like hypertension, diabetes and arthritis.
One floor up, in the "cyberlab," there were computers for checking e-mail, composing résumés or searching for information on getting new driver's licenses and bank cards.
Volunteers and service providers said the refugees had mostly been calm, though some were beginning to complain. At one point Thursday, a group loudly demanded vouchers for gas as shelter officials pleaded for patience and understanding.
While the Red Cross could not help with gas — only shelter, food and clothing — an evacuee went into his pocket and gave the complainers money.
"God has blessed me with funds," said Mike Dummett, who owned a catering business in New Orleans. "We have been through a lot as Louisianians, and we're going to bounce back. But we need help."
Dummett then added: "I've got more love in three days [here] than in 20 years."
Dummett wasn't the only one spreading kindness. Some evacuees said they were awoken sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning by a man who handed out $100 bills. Several also were given envelopes containing cash.
In Newton County, Anthony Simms of New Orleans lined up an interview for a job as a ceramic tile layer after seeing two employment ads posted inside a Red Cross shelter at a Future Farmers of America camp.
Dave Bradberry, a businessman who posted the openings, said if today's interview went well, Simms, whose livelihood was wiped out by Hurricane Katrina, could start work Monday making as much as $150 a day, depending on his level of expertise.
"When I came to Georgia 18 years ago, all I had was the clothes on my back and a truck they were trying to repossess, and I started my life over," Bradberry said. "I thought I would do what I could to help somebody else start theirs over."
The Newton County Health Department distributed diapers and formula for infants. Outside, groups were milling around in the parking lot as they waited to be assigned cabins. Officials from the Newton County school system met with parents and planned to return today to either enroll kids in school or send teachers to the camp for daily classes, said Judy Dunn of the Red Cross.
The first 45 of an expected 240 evacuees arrived just before sunset Thursday at the west Cobb County shelter. Carrying shoe boxes and plastic bags containing everything they saved after Hurricane Katrina, the refugees were greeted at the shelter on Dallas Highway by volunteers armed with blankets, toiletries, food and smiles.
East New Orleans resident Ali Hubbard was flown from New Orleans to Dobbins Air Reserve Base by Navy helicopter with his wife, 5-year-old daughter and 25 others. First order of business, Hubbard said, was to "get some food and a good night's sleep" — the first since Hubbard's home was destroyed. Next, he said, a job.
"I'm looking for something," the former grocery meat clerk said. "I'll take a job as quick as I can find one."
Staff writer Don Plummer contributed to this article."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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Originally posted by Koyaanisqatsi
They haven't been able to get fire crews over there because they're being shot at...
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Baton Rouge Advocate says electricity expected to be restored to almost all of Baton Rouge by Sunday night.
This should relieve conditions there, where there are many refugees."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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