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Politieagenten geven er de brui aan of gaan mee plunderen:
Dozens of officers turned in their badges or fled without a word.
Some joined in with looters and marauders, plunging an already jittery situation into moments of complete societal breakdown.
Vrouw stapt op bus met gloednieuwe flatscreen TV:
On Friday, two lines formed at the pickup point: one for people in medical distress, another for evacuees heading to larger evacuation points. In a line of people headed for the convention center, a woman with a Wal-Mart cart pushed her way to the De La Salle bus.
Through a bus window, she handed up a bag of tampons, boxes of crayons and pencils for her kids, and a brand-new looted 17-inch flat screen television.
Jefferson Parish verwacht terugkeer inwoners vanaf maandag:
Even though streets are strewn with storm debris, some neighborhoods remain flooded and almost all homes lack electricity and drinking water, Jefferson Parish residents will be allowed to return Monday at 6 a.m., Parish President Aaron Broussard reiterated Saturday, despite widespread skepticism from state and other parish officials.
Geen toegang voor vluchtelingen:
Mayor Ray Nagin criticized Jefferson Parish for closing the door to exhausted refugees who trudged over the Crescent City Connection to escape the ruined city and reach high ground on the West Bank.
"We were taking in people from St. Bernard Parish. If we had a bottle of water, we shared it. Then when we were going to let people cross the bridge, they were met with frigging dogs and guns at the parish line," said Nagin during an aerial tour of the city.
"They said, ’We’re going to protect Jefferson Parish assets.’ Some people value homes, cars and jewelry more than human life. The only escape route was cut off.
Hulpdiensten in St Bernard Parish vinden verpleegtehuis met 31 lijken, 22 aan elkaar gebonden lichamen:
Rescuers reached St. Rita’s nursing home in Poydras to find 31 dead in their beds. Another 50 were rescued alive from the home but were in poor condition. One rescue team found a man sticking out of an attic, hollering for help. Volunteer rescuer, Patrick Lannes of Arabi, said the man yelled to them, "You have got to get me out here; my whole family is dead in here with me.’"
Twenty-two bodies were found tied together in Violet, which along with the rest of St. Bernard was one of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. Officials said the 22 victims apparently had tied themselves together in a desperate attempt to survive the storm.
Het doet aan Irak denken: niemand houdt body-count. Of toch... Official boos over vraag:
Since Monday, when Katrina struck, officials from federal agencies and the governor's office have said it was not their job to count the dead. Federal Emergency Management Agency officials referred the question to the state and local officials – including parish coroners. Gov. Kathleen Blanco's administration turned the question back to FEMA.
On Saturday, the bureaucratic vision changed: The federal Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team will collect and count those whose lives were lost in the catastrophe, said Rear Adm. Craig Vanderwagen of the U.S. Public Health Unit. It is the same federal unit that dealt with the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.
Vanderwagen said a starting figure of the dead could come today or Monday at the latest.
Asked for an estimate of the dead, Blanco said, "A lot."
It could be in the thousands, she quickly added, but "we don't know."
FEMA Director Mike Brown was visibly displeased with repeated requests for an estimated death toll. Brown not only bristled at the question, but told reporters it was "amazing" that the question was being pressed.
Verlanglijstje van Plaquemines Parish official: 50 scherpschutters, dynamiet, 200 body bags:
Amos Cormier, chairman of the governing council in Plaquemines Parish arrived Friday in Baton Rouge seeking a long list of supplies, his top request a satellite phone. Other items urgently needed: 50 military police, 50 assault rifles, 50 sharpshooters, dynamite and at least 200 body bags.
Jefferson Parish: maandag terugkeren? Toch maar niet:
Jefferson Parish also abandoned rosier projections and said residents should not plan to visit the parish Monday, even for the temporary check-up on their homes that had been announced in the immediate aftermath of Katrina's landfall.
Geen nieuws, goed nieuws hulp nodig!
"We didn’t have any goddamn help," Parish President Henry "Junior" Rodriguez said. "You would think if those assholes didn’t get any communications from us that they could figure out that we needed help."
Eindelijk eruit geraakt ... om te sterven in busongeluk:
A motorcade of 95 air-conditioned buses broke away from the troop transport vehicles they had been following and made for the Superdome, the city's shelter of last resort, to complete an evacuation that on Thursday had pared back a refugee population that peaked at about 25,000.
The show of force began to yield results, but not without incident. One unit in a five-bus caravan had reached Opelousas when it flipped on its side, killing one passenger and injuring 17 others.
Triage op luchthaven: hopeloze gevallen worden opzij gezet:
"I have been busy administering last rites," he acknowledged, though he declined to offer specific numbers. "There is a triage center and the doctors have moved patients they can't help aside.
"In that area there are so many people," he said. "They're just there waiting to die."
Although Lavastida again declined to provide specific figures, he conceded the death toll at the airport will soon top 100.
Meer chaos dan na tsunami, erger dan 9/11:
"This is unequivocally, by far, the single most chaotic disaster situation I've ever experienced," said Dr. Mona Khanna, who said she worked on location after the devastating tsunami in Asia (last year? This year?).
Other FEMA workers, echoing a viewpoint New Orleans Police Department brass were voicing in the last dry pockets of the city during the week, said Katrina dwarfs the terrorist attacks of 2001.
"I did 9/11," said Michael Rieger, a photographer for the federal disaster agency. "This is worse."
Kosten voor herstel van kustlijn en bescherming tegen orkaan: 15 miljard $:
Congress also is considering a $1.2 billion proposal to begin restoring the coastline, a process estimated to eventually cost $15 billion.
"We're trying to put together a package recommending a comprehensive hurricane protection and costal restoration program that will provide a much higher level of protection, with the restoration of critical land features in the coastal zone that provide surge protection," Hanchey said.
Na het water, de termieten?
Johnson said he was unaware of the unique problems that debris would present if it is infested with Formosan termites, but said that would be added to the list.
When South Carolina officials stored debris from Charleston's older neighborhoods in empty lots on the outskirt of town after Hurricane Hugo hit the Formosan termite-infested area, the termites were spread to new areas, officials there said.
Entomologist Kenneth Grace of the University of Hawaii said it's likely that floodwater may result in a reduction of termite nests in the New Orleans area, but that even long-standing stormwater won't kill all of the damaging insects. That's because their underground nests are likely to contain pockets of air, and they also have nests in the upper trunks of trees above the floodwaters.
And he warned that moving building debris around was likely to spread the insects to areas not yet infested, just like in Charleston.
Problemen voor advocaten, huiseigenaars, makelaars:
Thousands of lawyers in the metropolitan area have lost their files, their clients and their offices, but one of the biggest legal ramifications of Hurricane Katrina's flooding waters is the probable loss of real estate records dating back to the early 1800s.
The records, which include titles, mortgages, conveyances and liens, were stored in the now-flooded basement of City Hall on Poydras Street.
For City Hall records, Sterbcow said, "it's the mortgages that's going to be ugly. To put it mildly, how are you going to be able to prove if you own a piece of property if your records are gone? How are you going to be able to prove you have a mortgage, or one is paid off?"
Bevalling in politiecel, hulpverleners dreigen baby af te nemen:
It was inside a holding cell Tuesday night that Stephens gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter. The memory made Gleason swell … with anger.
"The conditions the baby was born in were disgusting,'' he said, describing blood that soaked several sheets and backed up the toilet after a doctor delivered he baby. "I was holding the IV, wiping my fiancée's head down with a wet rag. I held her down when the doctor broke her water bag and put the baby in position (for delivery).
Gleason said he was worried about the birth because Stephens suffers from epileptic seizures. But a day later, medical officials arrived and said they had to take Stephens and the newborn by helicopter to a hospital.
Authorities said they had no room for Gleason because they also were transporting a man injured in a crane accident. And when Stephens objected to leaving without her fiancé, Gleason said things got ugly.
"They told her if she didn't go that they were going to take the baby away,'' Gleason said. "They threatened her as much as they could to get her in there.''
But when asked what he and his fiancée had named their first child, a grin crept across Gleason's face. The original plan was to name her Haley. But that changed after the hurricane hit New Orleans.
"My fiancée wanted to name her Katrina because her water broke on the day of the hurricane and the day after the hurricane she had her,'' Gleason said. "I don't know if she's got it on the birth certificate yet, but that's what she told the doctor.''
Goed nieuws voor makelaars in Batton Rouge, worden overspoeld door klanten:
Baton Rouge has seen a flurry of real estate activity this week with thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees descending on the city.
Local realtors said Thursday that many families are buying homes in the Baton Rouge area because they realize that a return to the Big Easy is a big time away. And businesses displaced by the storm are snapping up office and warehouse space in the state's capital city because it may be years before they return home.
Some consumers with solid credit scores and large down payments are getting virtually paperless mortgages within days instead of the weeks.
Lynda Schlif of Realty Executives Integrity First Real Estate said that her office has been "swamped, swamped, swamped."
...
Latter & Blum/C.J. Brown is not alone in being flooded with requests for space.
Vrouw hoort onderburen verdrinken:
Phillips’ downstairs neighbor, Terrilyn Foy, 41, and her 5-year-old son, Trevor, were unable to escape, Phillips said. By late Monday the surging waters of Lake Pontchartrain had swallowed the neighborhood. The water crept, then rushed, under the front door, Phillips said, then knocked it from its hinges. In less than 30 minutes, Phillips said, the water had topped her neighbors’ 12-foot ceiling and was gulping at hers.
"I can still hear them banging on the ceiling for help," Phillips said, shaking. "I heard them banging and banging, but the water kept rising." Then the pleas for help were silenced by the sway of the current, she said.
Bewijsmateriaal vernietigd. Honderden misdaden kunnen ongestraft blijven:
New Orleans criminal justice officials cringed Wednesday at another disaster evolving in the wake of Hurricane Katrina: the possible long-term collapse of the city’s criminal justice system.
With the flooding of the police department’s evidence and property room in the basement of police headquarters, evidence and records in hundreds of criminal cases appeared to be irretrievably lost, police spokesman Marlon Defillo said.
Evidence in the most serious, pending cases, from murder to rape to robbery, was housed in the basement, Defillo said.
“We lost thousands of documents and untold evidence,” Defillo said. “We lost everything.”
The floodwaters in the basement of criminal court at Tulane Avenue and Broad Street also inundated old evidence in thousands of old cases under appeal. The lost evidence could reopen cases that otherwise had little chance of getting back into trial court.
“We’re in serious trouble,” Defillo said.
Tekort aan bouwmaterialen verwacht in komende jaren:
Rebuilding New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina will be a yearslong process that will create nationwide shortages of building materials, keep builders across the country busy for years, and ultimately result in a wave of new construction that will change the face of New Orleans.
Ford said shortages of building materials will certainly occur. Major manufacturing operations of lumber companies such as Georgia Pacific were in Katrina’s path along the Gulf Coast.
“It depends on any damage to those facilities,” Ford said.
Compounding the problem will be the fact that the nation has been in the midst of a housing boom that has resulted in concrete shortages and rising steel prices, he said.
Politieagenten geven er de brui aan of gaan mee plunderen:
Dozens of officers turned in their badges or fled without a word.
Some joined in with looters and marauders, plunging an already jittery situation into moments of complete societal breakdown.
Vrouw stapt op bus met gloednieuwe flatscreen TV:
On Friday, two lines formed at the pickup point: one for people in medical distress, another for evacuees heading to larger evacuation points. In a line of people headed for the convention center, a woman with a Wal-Mart cart pushed her way to the De La Salle bus.
Through a bus window, she handed up a bag of tampons, boxes of crayons and pencils for her kids, and a brand-new looted 17-inch flat screen television.
Jefferson Parish verwacht terugkeer inwoners vanaf maandag:
Even though streets are strewn with storm debris, some neighborhoods remain flooded and almost all homes lack electricity and drinking water, Jefferson Parish residents will be allowed to return Monday at 6 a.m., Parish President Aaron Broussard reiterated Saturday, despite widespread skepticism from state and other parish officials.
Geen toegang voor vluchtelingen:
Mayor Ray Nagin criticized Jefferson Parish for closing the door to exhausted refugees who trudged over the Crescent City Connection to escape the ruined city and reach high ground on the West Bank.
"We were taking in people from St. Bernard Parish. If we had a bottle of water, we shared it. Then when we were going to let people cross the bridge, they were met with frigging dogs and guns at the parish line," said Nagin during an aerial tour of the city.
"They said, ’We’re going to protect Jefferson Parish assets.’ Some people value homes, cars and jewelry more than human life. The only escape route was cut off.
Hulpdiensten in St Bernard Parish vinden verpleegtehuis met 31 lijken, 22 aan elkaar gebonden lichamen:
Rescuers reached St. Rita’s nursing home in Poydras to find 31 dead in their beds. Another 50 were rescued alive from the home but were in poor condition. One rescue team found a man sticking out of an attic, hollering for help. Volunteer rescuer, Patrick Lannes of Arabi, said the man yelled to them, "You have got to get me out here; my whole family is dead in here with me.’"
Twenty-two bodies were found tied together in Violet, which along with the rest of St. Bernard was one of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. Officials said the 22 victims apparently had tied themselves together in a desperate attempt to survive the storm.
Het doet aan Irak denken: niemand houdt body-count. Of toch... Official boos over vraag:
Since Monday, when Katrina struck, officials from federal agencies and the governor's office have said it was not their job to count the dead. Federal Emergency Management Agency officials referred the question to the state and local officials – including parish coroners. Gov. Kathleen Blanco's administration turned the question back to FEMA.
On Saturday, the bureaucratic vision changed: The federal Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team will collect and count those whose lives were lost in the catastrophe, said Rear Adm. Craig Vanderwagen of the U.S. Public Health Unit. It is the same federal unit that dealt with the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.
Vanderwagen said a starting figure of the dead could come today or Monday at the latest.
Asked for an estimate of the dead, Blanco said, "A lot."
It could be in the thousands, she quickly added, but "we don't know."
FEMA Director Mike Brown was visibly displeased with repeated requests for an estimated death toll. Brown not only bristled at the question, but told reporters it was "amazing" that the question was being pressed.
Verlanglijstje van Plaquemines Parish official: 50 scherpschutters, dynamiet, 200 body bags:
Amos Cormier, chairman of the governing council in Plaquemines Parish arrived Friday in Baton Rouge seeking a long list of supplies, his top request a satellite phone. Other items urgently needed: 50 military police, 50 assault rifles, 50 sharpshooters, dynamite and at least 200 body bags.
Jefferson Parish: maandag terugkeren? Toch maar niet:
Jefferson Parish also abandoned rosier projections and said residents should not plan to visit the parish Monday, even for the temporary check-up on their homes that had been announced in the immediate aftermath of Katrina's landfall.
Geen nieuws, goed nieuws hulp nodig!
"We didn’t have any goddamn help," Parish President Henry "Junior" Rodriguez said. "You would think if those assholes didn’t get any communications from us that they could figure out that we needed help."
Eindelijk eruit geraakt ... om te sterven in busongeluk:
A motorcade of 95 air-conditioned buses broke away from the troop transport vehicles they had been following and made for the Superdome, the city's shelter of last resort, to complete an evacuation that on Thursday had pared back a refugee population that peaked at about 25,000.
The show of force began to yield results, but not without incident. One unit in a five-bus caravan had reached Opelousas when it flipped on its side, killing one passenger and injuring 17 others.
Triage op luchthaven: hopeloze gevallen worden opzij gezet:
"I have been busy administering last rites," he acknowledged, though he declined to offer specific numbers. "There is a triage center and the doctors have moved patients they can't help aside.
"In that area there are so many people," he said. "They're just there waiting to die."
Although Lavastida again declined to provide specific figures, he conceded the death toll at the airport will soon top 100.
Meer chaos dan na tsunami, erger dan 9/11:
"This is unequivocally, by far, the single most chaotic disaster situation I've ever experienced," said Dr. Mona Khanna, who said she worked on location after the devastating tsunami in Asia (last year? This year?).
Other FEMA workers, echoing a viewpoint New Orleans Police Department brass were voicing in the last dry pockets of the city during the week, said Katrina dwarfs the terrorist attacks of 2001.
"I did 9/11," said Michael Rieger, a photographer for the federal disaster agency. "This is worse."
Kosten voor herstel van kustlijn en bescherming tegen orkaan: 15 miljard $:
Congress also is considering a $1.2 billion proposal to begin restoring the coastline, a process estimated to eventually cost $15 billion.
"We're trying to put together a package recommending a comprehensive hurricane protection and costal restoration program that will provide a much higher level of protection, with the restoration of critical land features in the coastal zone that provide surge protection," Hanchey said.
Na het water, de termieten?
Johnson said he was unaware of the unique problems that debris would present if it is infested with Formosan termites, but said that would be added to the list.
When South Carolina officials stored debris from Charleston's older neighborhoods in empty lots on the outskirt of town after Hurricane Hugo hit the Formosan termite-infested area, the termites were spread to new areas, officials there said.
Entomologist Kenneth Grace of the University of Hawaii said it's likely that floodwater may result in a reduction of termite nests in the New Orleans area, but that even long-standing stormwater won't kill all of the damaging insects. That's because their underground nests are likely to contain pockets of air, and they also have nests in the upper trunks of trees above the floodwaters.
And he warned that moving building debris around was likely to spread the insects to areas not yet infested, just like in Charleston.
Problemen voor advocaten, huiseigenaars, makelaars:
Thousands of lawyers in the metropolitan area have lost their files, their clients and their offices, but one of the biggest legal ramifications of Hurricane Katrina's flooding waters is the probable loss of real estate records dating back to the early 1800s.
The records, which include titles, mortgages, conveyances and liens, were stored in the now-flooded basement of City Hall on Poydras Street.
For City Hall records, Sterbcow said, "it's the mortgages that's going to be ugly. To put it mildly, how are you going to be able to prove if you own a piece of property if your records are gone? How are you going to be able to prove you have a mortgage, or one is paid off?"
Bevalling in politiecel, hulpverleners dreigen baby af te nemen:
It was inside a holding cell Tuesday night that Stephens gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter. The memory made Gleason swell … with anger.
"The conditions the baby was born in were disgusting,'' he said, describing blood that soaked several sheets and backed up the toilet after a doctor delivered he baby. "I was holding the IV, wiping my fiancée's head down with a wet rag. I held her down when the doctor broke her water bag and put the baby in position (for delivery).
Gleason said he was worried about the birth because Stephens suffers from epileptic seizures. But a day later, medical officials arrived and said they had to take Stephens and the newborn by helicopter to a hospital.
Authorities said they had no room for Gleason because they also were transporting a man injured in a crane accident. And when Stephens objected to leaving without her fiancé, Gleason said things got ugly.
"They told her if she didn't go that they were going to take the baby away,'' Gleason said. "They threatened her as much as they could to get her in there.''
But when asked what he and his fiancée had named their first child, a grin crept across Gleason's face. The original plan was to name her Haley. But that changed after the hurricane hit New Orleans.
"My fiancée wanted to name her Katrina because her water broke on the day of the hurricane and the day after the hurricane she had her,'' Gleason said. "I don't know if she's got it on the birth certificate yet, but that's what she told the doctor.''
Goed nieuws voor makelaars in Batton Rouge, worden overspoeld door klanten:
Baton Rouge has seen a flurry of real estate activity this week with thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees descending on the city.
Local realtors said Thursday that many families are buying homes in the Baton Rouge area because they realize that a return to the Big Easy is a big time away. And businesses displaced by the storm are snapping up office and warehouse space in the state's capital city because it may be years before they return home.
Some consumers with solid credit scores and large down payments are getting virtually paperless mortgages within days instead of the weeks.
Lynda Schlif of Realty Executives Integrity First Real Estate said that her office has been "swamped, swamped, swamped."
...
Latter & Blum/C.J. Brown is not alone in being flooded with requests for space.
Vrouw hoort onderburen verdrinken:
Phillips’ downstairs neighbor, Terrilyn Foy, 41, and her 5-year-old son, Trevor, were unable to escape, Phillips said. By late Monday the surging waters of Lake Pontchartrain had swallowed the neighborhood. The water crept, then rushed, under the front door, Phillips said, then knocked it from its hinges. In less than 30 minutes, Phillips said, the water had topped her neighbors’ 12-foot ceiling and was gulping at hers.
"I can still hear them banging on the ceiling for help," Phillips said, shaking. "I heard them banging and banging, but the water kept rising." Then the pleas for help were silenced by the sway of the current, she said.
Bewijsmateriaal vernietigd. Honderden misdaden kunnen ongestraft blijven:
New Orleans criminal justice officials cringed Wednesday at another disaster evolving in the wake of Hurricane Katrina: the possible long-term collapse of the city’s criminal justice system.
With the flooding of the police department’s evidence and property room in the basement of police headquarters, evidence and records in hundreds of criminal cases appeared to be irretrievably lost, police spokesman Marlon Defillo said.
Evidence in the most serious, pending cases, from murder to rape to robbery, was housed in the basement, Defillo said.
“We lost thousands of documents and untold evidence,” Defillo said. “We lost everything.”
The floodwaters in the basement of criminal court at Tulane Avenue and Broad Street also inundated old evidence in thousands of old cases under appeal. The lost evidence could reopen cases that otherwise had little chance of getting back into trial court.
“We’re in serious trouble,” Defillo said.
Tekort aan bouwmaterialen verwacht in komende jaren:
Rebuilding New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina will be a yearslong process that will create nationwide shortages of building materials, keep builders across the country busy for years, and ultimately result in a wave of new construction that will change the face of New Orleans.
Ford said shortages of building materials will certainly occur. Major manufacturing operations of lumber companies such as Georgia Pacific were in Katrina’s path along the Gulf Coast.
“It depends on any damage to those facilities,” Ford said.
Compounding the problem will be the fact that the nation has been in the midst of a housing boom that has resulted in concrete shortages and rising steel prices, he said.
Thanx voor het posten Doderok, sommige dingen wist ik nog niet....
Gisteren ofzo dacht ik "gelukkig, eindelijk is er hulp gekomen". Waarom de mensen naar de luchthaven worden verplaatst snap ik wel, maar het is daar niet veel beter als ik dat zo hoor.
Gisteren ofzo dacht ik "gelukkig, eindelijk is er hulp gekomen". Waarom de mensen naar de luchthaven worden verplaatst snap ik wel, maar het is daar niet veel beter als ik dat zo hoor.
En nu is het eindelijk zover dat de hele stad ontruimd moet worden. Er mag niemand meer achterblijven daar het logistiek te moeilijk wordt om die mensen gedurende de maanden dat het water wordt weggepomd en daarna de maanden dat de stad wordt schoongemaakt te voorzien van eten en drinken.
stupidity has become as common as common sense was before
Nu op de bbc, een documentaire over de laatste week in NO.
stupidity has become as common as common sense was before
N.O is ondertussen verboden gebied geworden.
quote:NEW ORLEANS Niemand mag in New Orleans
blijven.Alle mensen moeten onmiddellijk
weg uit de stad omdat de Amerikaanse
overheid niet in staat is om deze groep
te voeden.Dat is bekend gemaakt door de
Amerikaanse minister van Veiligheid.
Zes dagen na de orkaan Katrina is in
New Orleans begonnen met de berging van
de lijken.Die drijven in het water of
liggen onder het puin van ingestorte
huizen en gebouwen.
Uit alle delen van de wereld wordt hulp
aangeboden aan de VS.Ook uit landen die
bekend staan als vijanden van Bush.Iran
wil helpen als Bush dat vraagt en ook
Cuba heeft na de ramp hulp aangeboden.
http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?f=00&g=31261c04-42a8-47fe-980b-40ec861b85bb,31261c04-42a8-47fe-980b-40ec861b85bb,53d339ff-55e8-454f-bba5-9462bf408bef,19fc9c45-54bb-4e97-b525-fab1610471bd,866f6b8d-e266-46d8-9040-69b8e41e9bc3,6236f0ff-0820-42ff-b3e8-a0367b473ab8,c8fa2426-7e4a-4609-8f6c-6b34237a99fa,2473d36c-8437-4b2e-a052-e2d42c7bf3b2,715527ab-b468-419e-856c-4ef02e25723f,d10f6e1e-c75b-43ee-8908-758805742d39,&t=m5
‘She drowned Friday night’
Sept. 4: Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish, La., breaks down while telling NBC's Tim Russert the story of the death of the mother of one of the parish’s employees
EDIT: FKKING reclameblok eerst
als je dan dit leest, al eens eerder had hij gewaarschuwd maar werd toen ook al uitgelachen en in de steek gelaten, gelukkig goed afgelopen toen maar je weet meteen hoe ook de bureaucratie slachtoffers maakt. toendertijd werd zijn oproep niet sirieus gezien, omdat wettelijk hij volgens plan niet eens een evacuatie mag oproepen, boviendien moest de senaat verkiezing doorgang krijgen
Monday, July 11, 2005
Aaron Broussard Jumps The Gun
During Hurricane Dennis many in the newsroom were making fun of Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard because he called a voluntary evacuation before the storm even entered the gulf, and while the state senate election was still scheduled to go on. Luckily, it didn't seem to matter because so few people left, but still... What a sloppy move!
Worse yet, he ignored the evacuation plan that all the parishes had agreed on. The newsroom got a call from the LA State Police after JP's press conference stating that only they (the LSP) had the authority to manage an evacuation. Governor Blanco released a similar statement to us also.
Honestly, I think it is always wise to evacuate the unprotected low-lying areas, but for those of us behind the protection levees it is unnecessary. Broussard jumped the gun, and what's worse is that in the future people will take his evacuation orders less seriously. Tsk tsk.
On toppa that - the local stations didn't challenge Broussard very harshly on his actions because if you piss off a political leader then they won't give you interviews in the future. And in the news business you just can't afford to be left outta the loop on stories, hence soft questions galore. And that is just a fraction of how bad this system gets, my friends.
bron: http://nolagrit.blogspot.(...)ssard-jumps-gun.html
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‘She drowned Friday night’
Sept. 4: Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish, La., breaks down while telling NBC's Tim Russert the story of the death of the mother of one of the parish’s employees
EDIT: FKKING reclameblok eerst
als je dan dit leest, al eens eerder had hij gewaarschuwd maar werd toen ook al uitgelachen en in de steek gelaten, gelukkig goed afgelopen toen maar je weet meteen hoe ook de bureaucratie slachtoffers maakt. toendertijd werd zijn oproep niet sirieus gezien, omdat wettelijk hij volgens plan niet eens een evacuatie mag oproepen, boviendien moest de senaat verkiezing doorgang krijgen
Monday, July 11, 2005
Aaron Broussard Jumps The Gun
During Hurricane Dennis many in the newsroom were making fun of Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard because he called a voluntary evacuation before the storm even entered the gulf, and while the state senate election was still scheduled to go on. Luckily, it didn't seem to matter because so few people left, but still... What a sloppy move!
Worse yet, he ignored the evacuation plan that all the parishes had agreed on. The newsroom got a call from the LA State Police after JP's press conference stating that only they (the LSP) had the authority to manage an evacuation. Governor Blanco released a similar statement to us also.
Honestly, I think it is always wise to evacuate the unprotected low-lying areas, but for those of us behind the protection levees it is unnecessary. Broussard jumped the gun, and what's worse is that in the future people will take his evacuation orders less seriously. Tsk tsk.
On toppa that - the local stations didn't challenge Broussard very harshly on his actions because if you piss off a political leader then they won't give you interviews in the future. And in the news business you just can't afford to be left outta the loop on stories, hence soft questions galore. And that is just a fraction of how bad this system gets, my friends.
bron: http://nolagrit.blogspot.(...)ssard-jumps-gun.html
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Ow shit, zag net effe CNN, kreeg de indruk dat ze van Rumsfeld een nationale held gingen maken. Bedankjes van (momenteel nog) het hoofd van FEMA.
Kreeg althans die indruk, ben jammer genoeg allergisch voor Rumsfeld waardoor ik reeds na enkele seconden moest zappen, kan me dus vergissen.
Kreeg althans die indruk, ben jammer genoeg allergisch voor Rumsfeld waardoor ik reeds na enkele seconden moest zappen, kan me dus vergissen.
quote:04 September 2005 10:31
Alligator aan de wandel na Katrina
NEW ORLEANS Na de orkaan Katrina is een alligator verdwenen uit de dierentuin van New Orleans. Een aantal dieren had de benen genomen maar die zijn, op de alligator na, vanzelf teruggekomen. Het is onduidelijk of de alligator door de ondergelopen straten van de stad zwemt.
De meeste dieren van de dierentuin zijn goed door de orkaan heengekomen. Alleen een paar otters overleefden het niet.
De dierentuin, die op een hooggelegen terrein ligt, was al jaren voorbereid op een zware orkaan. De betonnen verblijven waren extra versterkt. Toch is er veel schade. De beheerder verwacht dat het herstel wel 4 jaar kan duren.
Allah Al Watan Al Malik
quote:122 Teletekst zo 04 sep
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New Orleans "verboden gebied"
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NEW ORLEANS Niemand mag in New Orleans
blijven.Alle mensen moeten onmiddellijk
weg uit de stad omdat de Amerikaanse
overheid niet in staat is om deze groep
te voeden.Dat is bekend gemaakt door de
Amerikaanse minister van Veiligheid.
Zes dagen na de orkaan Katrina is in
New Orleans begonnen met de berging van
de lijken.Die drijven in het water of
liggen onder het puin van ingestorte
huizen en gebouwen.
Uit alle delen van de wereld wordt hulp
aangeboden aan de VS.Ook uit landen die
bekend staan als vijanden van Bush.Iran
wil helpen als Bush dat vraagt en ook
Cuba heeft na de ramp hulp aangeboden.
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Allah Al Watan Al Malik
http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/article24988751.ecequote:Al-Zarqawi noemt Katrina 'begin van het eind
DUBAI - De leider van al-Qaeda in Irak, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, heeft op internet verklaard dat de orkaan Katrina "het begin van de ineenstorting" van de Verenigde Staten betekent.
"Felicitaties aan de moslimwereld, aan onze sjeik Osama abu Abdullah (bin Laden) en aan sjeik Ayman Zawahiri (de tweede man van al-Qaeda, red.) met de vernietiging van Amerika, hoofd van alle kwaad. Het is het begin van de ineenstorting."
De verklaring meldt verder dat de orkaan Katrina "de wraak van god" is en dat de "gebeden van de onderdrukten nu zijn verhoord". De betrouwbaarheid van het internetbericht kon niet worden bevestigd.
Nu een grote aanslag in de VS plegen zou wel een enorme klap in het gezicht van the USA zijn trouwens..
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" Napoleon Hill
Lijken net die fundamentalistische Christenen in Amerika met hun "wraak van God".quote:Op zondag 4 september 2005 20:05 schreef venomsnake het volgende:
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http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/article24988751.ece
Nu een grote aanslag in de VS plegen zou wel een enorme klap in het gezicht van the USA zijn trouwens..
Allah Al Watan Al Malik
er word ook veel gesproken over nederland en onze deltawerken, als balkenende wakker is kan nederland een wellicht er grote rol spelen in de wederopbouw, zou een grote insteker zijn voor de nederlandse economie als nederlandse bedrijven daar kunnen bouwen
quote:Op zondag 4 september 2005 20:33 schreef bbstreams het volgende:
er word ook veel gesproken over nederland en onze deltawerken, als balkenende wakker is kan nederland een wellicht er grote rol spelen in de wederopbouw, zou een grote insteker zijn voor de nederlandse economie als nederlandse bedrijven daar kunnen bouwen
Als ik jou was zou ik al m'n spaargeld steken in aandelen Halliburton en de Carlyle Group.
ja alleen hebben die dan nog geen echt grote aanslag of kleinere aanslagen op hun naam staan... nuance my friend...quote:Op zondag 4 september 2005 20:12 schreef Mutant01 het volgende:
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Lijken net die fundamentalistische Christenen in Amerika met hun "wraak van God".
hoofdletters kosten teveel tijd
don't avoid pain to gain pleasure
niet iedereen is iedereen
don't avoid pain to gain pleasure
niet iedereen is iedereen
Jij hebt teveel naar Chertoff geluisterd? Op maandag waren de dijken al gebroken hoor en dat werd toen ook al in de grote media groot gemeld...quote:Op zondag 4 september 2005 12:25 schreef highway101 het volgende:
Tsjonge wat n overdreven reacties hier! Heeft iedereen het nieuws wel gevolgd? "de regering deed niets"
In eerste instantie (de eerste dag) stond New Orleans niet eens onder water. Dat gebeurde pas een dag later.
Ik zou zeggen: lees americablog (http://americablog.org/) eens goed door en bekijk alle bijbehorende video's an audiolinks eens. Oh ja, en volg ook bijvoorbeeld de Interdictor weblog even.
En nee, de regering deed inderdaad niets. En dat nu.nl meldt dat de schade meevalt... Hier in NL was de berichtgeving toch al dramatisch slecht, aangezien ze meer aandacht hadden voor Veerman blijkbaar. CNN was al dagen live aan het coveren toen ze hier in NL doorkregen wat er gaande was.
edit:
Even opgezocht op americablog.org
quote:Here's what Chertoff had the nerve to allege.
Chertoff said the double-barreled hit taken by the New Orleans area -- the hurricane, and the breaching of the city's levees -- is what has complicated the government's response.
"We were prepared for one catastrophe," Chertoff said. "The second catastrophe, frankly, added a level of challenge that no one has seen before."
This is a new variation of the lie Bush was spinning earlier this week, that no one could have ever foreseen the levees breaking. There are two responses to this:
1. We most certainly foresaw a levee breaking, and in fact the media reported on that possibility on Sunday before the storm even hit:
Forecasters fear levees won’t hold Katrina, Daily Advertiser, August 28, 2005
2. By Monday morning - MORNING - the levees had broken wide open. Where was George Bush? On vacation for two and a half more days. Where were YOU? God only knows, because the president didn't meet with you and everyone else until two days later. By Monday morning you already knew the levee had broken and you didn't act until two days, to five days, later.
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de helikopter die ik zag was zo'n grote helikopter die grote dozen met voedsel vervoerden en ze die dozen dumpten als ze iemand levend in het water zagen, kan ook zijn dat die mensen in het water later alsnog werden opgepikt door de politie en brandweer die in boten door de wijken vaarden, het lijkt me wel allemaal omslachtig maar goed, er werd ook gezegd dat ze dat deden om plunderingen tegen te gaan ofzoquote:Op zondag 4 september 2005 08:15 schreef Saabmobiel het volgende:
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Klopt, het betrof een kleine helicopter van het nieuws welke geen mogelijkheid heeft om mensen aan boord te nemen (wellicht 1 extra naast piloot en cameraman).
Eerder op de zaterdag hebben ze hun eigen eten en drinken naar mensen afgeworpen. Ze zijn terugggegaan naar het vliegveld en hebben de helicopter afgeladen met flessen water en legermaaltijden.
Iedereen die ze onderweg tegenkwamen in NO hebben ze voorzien van water en maaltijden, een kleine druppel, maar beter dan erboven vliegen en een beetje filmen.
en Noord-Korea ookquote:
http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/nl/news/international/#4568596quote:Iran biedt aartsvijand VS hulp aan
Na andere politieke tegenstanders heeft ook Iran de Verenigde Staten humanitaire hulp aangeboden voor de slachtoffers van orkaan Katrina. Het Iraanse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken liet weten dat de hulp via de Rode Halve Maan kan worden gestuurd zodra daar een verzoek om komt.
Teheran duidt de Verenigde Staten vaak aan als de 'Grote Satan', terwijl Washington Iran beschouwt als een land dat terrorisme steunt en een kernwapen probeert te ontwikkelen. Overigens hebben de Verenigde Staten Iran in het verleden wel humanitaire hulp geboden bij natuurrampen als aardbevingen.
Eerder kregen de slachtoffers van Katrina hulp aangeboden van Noord-Korea, Cuba en Venezuela, landen die op zeer gespannen voet staan met de Verenigde Staten.
Gelukkig is dat in Nederland anders.quote:Op zondag 4 september 2005 16:35 schreef joshus_cat het volgende:
Ook een leuke: het schijnt dat de reddingsvoertuigen waar president bush bij werd gefilmd alleen daar neer zijn gezet voor het interview, en niet om hulp te geven.
http://www.tagesschau.de/(...)5,OID4692830,00.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/insomnia/604683.html
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Amerikaanse politiek op z'n best: het gaat niet om het resultaat, het gaat om welke indruk je maakt.
"They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred "
Ahmadinejad, leader of Iran
Ahmadinejad, leader of Iran
Ben wel benieuwd wat die landen zouden doen als Bush ze vraagt effe een paar miljardjes te passen. Ik denk dat ze dan wat minder snel hulp geven. Ze doen dit gewoon om de US zwak te laten lijken. Logisch natuurlijk, alles doen om je vijand dwars te zitten. Ook al zal niemand deze aanbiedingen serieus nemen.
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f'up: wat ik half-serieus postte is nog waar ook: 'Halliburton hired for storm cleanup'quote:Op zondag 4 september 2005 20:33 schreef bbstreams het volgende:
er word ook veel gesproken over nederland en onze deltawerken, als balkenende wakker is kan nederland een wellicht er grote rol spelen in de wederopbouw, zou een grote insteker zijn voor de nederlandse economie als nederlandse bedrijven daar kunnen bouwen
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3335685
Zulk soort berichten kan niet verrassend worden genoemd. Dit soort mensen is nou eenmaal vrij gestoord en zullen alles aanpakken om amerika pijn te doen. Ik vind zelfs dat een reactie vanuit die hoek lang uitbleef. Had wel dansende mensen verwacht omdat er zoveel amerikanen dood zijn.quote:Op zondag 4 september 2005 20:05 schreef venomsnake het volgende:
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http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/article24988751.ece
Nu een grote aanslag in de VS plegen zou wel een enorme klap in het gezicht van the USA zijn trouwens..
stupidity has become as common as common sense was before
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Army Corps of Engineers says police killed some of its workers as they crossed a bridge on the way to repair a canal. More soon
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Army Corps of Engineers says police killed some of its workers as they crossed a bridge on the way to repair a canal. More soon
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"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" Napoleon Hill
http://observer.guardian.(...)6903,1562517,00.html
Wat een sicko's.
Wat een sicko's.
quote:Other Britons are, apparently, stranded in the hotel. However, contact with the outside world remains haphazard.
There is a payphone in the hotel lobby, but US operators have been refusing to accept collect calls from stranded Britons.
'Some of them are just hanging up even after they have explained they are trapped in New Orleans. It's like - what emergency?' said Scott. He added that conditions in the lobby were described as atrocious, with sewage up to knee level last night.
