Katrina info thread II

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Spiffor
I ... agree with Patroklos

QFT

[lord of the mark]

some folks are gonna get jobs right off the bat. I know that the railroads, for ex, are taking train crews from the flood damaged areas and offering them work in undamaged areas where trains are being rerouted. Ive heard of people who worked for retail chiand in NO being given jobs at branches of their chains in Baton Rouge, Houston, etc. And of employers looking for skilled workers among the evacuees. OTOH those who dont have immediate employment prospects are likely better off on the cruise ships.

[chequita guevara]

It's not like there won't be jobs where the ships are docked.

[Jack_www]

If I was stuck in the stadium, I would welcome having my own room on a lux cruise ship. It is not like you would not be able to leave the ship and look for work.

[Jack_www]

I saw on night line last night one bar in the French Quater that is open and full of people.

[My Wife Hates CIV]

I saw a lot of people *****in about the conditions... i didnt see anyone picking garbage up. bunch of lazy bastards. what do you think would have happened a 100 years ago. those people didnt roll over and die. they got off their lazy asses and helped themselfs. and a lack of food?!? bunch of fat lazy bastards at that! sorry - facts are facts.

[Wernazuma III]

ignore number 2 - check

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by My Wife Hates CIV
I saw a lot of people *****in about the conditions... i didnt see anyone picking garbage up. bunch of lazy bastards. what do you think would have happened a 100 years ago. those people didnt roll over and die. they got off their lazy asses and helped themselfs. and a lack of food?!? bunch of fat lazy bastards at that! sorry - facts are facts.

I do remember reading accounts of how the germans were already picking up the rubbles of their towns and separating the good stuff from the garbage while the allied tanks were still rolling through the place at the end of WW2.

[laurentius]

police looting

http://media.skoopy.com/vids/vid_00748.wmv

[Patroklos]

It is a little different when the rubble is 5 feet underwater.

It is just a completely different dynamic when we are talking about flooding on this level, whic is why alot of people here are having dificulty when when compare them to other hurricane disasters.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Richelieu


I do remember reading accounts of how the germans were already picking up the rubbles of their towns and separating the good stuff from the garbage while the allied tanks were still rolling through the place at the end of WW2.

And ive heard of plenty of them being thoroughly disoriented.

There are thousands of folks from New Orleans and elsewhere in the region who ARE pulling there lives together. Evacuees who are already getting jobs in their new homes. Electrical workers restoring power. Grain is already being loaded at the grain elevators, over half of which are back in operation. Refineries are back in operation. Who do you think is doing all that, men from Mars?

The folks who are left in NO are, let me repeat NOT the most together elements of the population. And theyve gone through over a week of hell, the likes of which few of us have experienced.

Food, what the hell are they supposed to do for food? Go fishing in the contaminated waters? Hunt the rabid racoons? I mean cmon, there isnt any foraging to be done in the city. The best anyone can do in NO is to get out. Conditions are only slightly better in Biloxi, etc.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by My Wife Hates CIV
I saw a lot of people *****in about the conditions... i didnt see anyone picking garbage up. .

The garbage may well be contamined with toxins, germs etc. Its better that they NOT pick it up. Like WTF good is that gonna do? The place isnt gonna be habitable for weeks, till the waters are drained, the utilities restored, and some level of serious environmental cleanup done. Picking up litter would be pointless. But im sure there are areas within walking distance of YOUR home, MWHC, where YOU could pick up some litter, and make a real difference

Have a nice day.

[Urban Ranger]

This water they have there is downright deadly.

The dire need to rid the drowned city of water could trigger fish kills and poison the delicate wetlands near New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico at the mouth of the Mississippi. (Full story)

State and federal agencies have just begun water quality testing but environmental experts say the vile, stagnant chemical soup that sits in the streets of the city will contain traces of everything imaginable.

"Go home and identify all the chemicals in your house. It's a very long list," said Ivor van Heerden, head of a Louisiana State University center that studies the public health impacts of hurricanes.

"And that's just in a home. Imagine what's in an industrial plant," he said. "Or a sewage plant."

Gasoline, diesel, anti-freeze, bleach, human waste, acids, alcohols and a host of other substances must be washed out of homes, factories, refineries, hospitals and other buildings.

link

Don't forget the bacteria. Last I heard the level is 45,000 times over the limit. 45,000 times.

[Datajack Franit]

Chemical industries operating in a below-sea level region

Such things wouldn´t happen in the Netherlands, where people actually give a damn about building over nature

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Patroklos
Definelty something he should be worried about a week after the disaster, when several hundred thousand people are homeless, most living in auditoriums or tents. Another 10,000 without even that.

Or did I miss the part where they said that they would be on lock down, chained to benches pushing oars all day? What I did read was water, food, shelter and air conditioning.

He would be better off there than 90% of the rest of the peole who left that city, and still he *****es.

Here's a guy who wants to start putting his life together after a disaster and you're b!tching at him because he won't take a free handout.

You're whining that he's ungrateful for the help offered to him that he doesn't want.

You're angry because he wants to decide how to live his life rather than letting the government decide for him.

You're surprised that people who were forced to stay in the Superdome are reluctant to go on a ship where they would have no control over where it goes.

Amazing.

We have you whining about someone who wants to find a job and other posters complaining that the evacuees are lazy.

Truly amazing.

Maybe it is time for you to show some admiration for your fellow countrymen instead of insulting them.