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Setabs:
Turn on the tv the aid is finally making it to NO. They just showed on fox a some buildings on fire that the police and firefighters rolled up to stood around for a while and just left because there was no water pressure to put out the fires.

As far as the rafts go I would have hit the road on sunday and just racked up My credit cards getting the f out of dodge

--- Quote from: fredster on September 02, 2005, 11:47:18 am ---
As for all this raft business, exactly where are they going to raft to? What would they find when they get there? Come on. Don't forget this was a cat 1 hurricane all the way up into LA. It was effectively a tornado about 45-60 miles wide all the way up the state. More than New Orleans was affected.

BTW IT guys, we fired ours today in anticipation of lack of Automotive Business.

Computer guys beware.

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I think you mean up to Cat5 then cat 4 when NO got hit. I beleive Tornado winds are still faster, though

If it came down to budget constraints I could totaly see my IT postion eleminated before the storm. but I am not to worried I work for a grocery store w/ four stores in jackson, MIss and about 20-30 in LA. As long as wal-mart doesn't kill us we aint going no where

The stores in Miss opened up yesterday with the vps and executive board members giving out free ice to customers.

Shape D.:

--- Quote from: TheVengeance on September 02, 2005, 11:54:22 am ---Brother, I had four , count them 1-2-3-4 hurricanes knocking on my front door last year, and you know what , I survived every damn one of them. And, I did it without raping, killing or looting! WE no sooner cleaned up from one, and another one got us , and so on & so on.

I still for the life of me, fail to see what makes New Orleans so much more valuable as a whole , compared to the hurricanes we had last year alone in Florida! >:(

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Did any of these equal the magnitude of this one? is your house still there? or was your city completely devastated and sitting under 30' of water in parts?

That's like me telling a man who had an arm blown off in war that the paper cut I got last week at work hurt a lot and I know what he's going through.

TheVengeance:

--- Quote from: Dexter on September 02, 2005, 12:03:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: TheVengeance on September 02, 2005, 11:54:22 am ---Brother, I had four , count them 1-2-3-4 hurricanes knocking on my front door last year, and you know what , I survived every damn one of them. And, I did it without raping, killing or looting! WE no sooner cleaned up from one, and another one got us , and so on & so on.

I still for the life of me, fail to see what makes New Orleans so much more valuable as a whole , compared to the hurricanes we had last year alone in Florida!
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Stingray:

--- Quote from: TheVengeance on September 02, 2005, 12:06:47 pm ---
Perhaps you're right, the lot of us here chose not to be victims and decided to do something about it.

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As did a lot of the people who live in NO. This doesn't diminish the fact that those who remain in the city desparately need help.

-S

Setabs:

--- Quote from: TheVengeance on September 02, 2005, 12:06:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: Dexter on September 02, 2005, 12:03:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: TheVengeance on September 02, 2005, 11:54:22 am ---Brother, I had four , count them 1-2-3-4 hurricanes knocking on my front door last year, and you know what , I survived every damn one of them. And, I did it without raping, killing or looting! WE no sooner cleaned up from one, and another one got us , and so on & so on.

I still for the life of me, fail to see what makes New Orleans so much more valuable as a whole , compared to the hurricanes we had last year alone in Florida! >:(

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One thing, up to 20ft of floodwater. Just thought I'd mention it. It's not about value, or amounts or how much worse YOU have it. There are people dying of starvation, dehydration etc and the government are dragging their heels. They're deploying weapons to blast undesirables with instead of deploying the military to bring aid and protection.

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And your point is?

Perhaps you're right, the lot of us here chose not to be victims and decided to do something about it.

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The problem w/ NO is flooding. They have to evacuate the entire city with close to 100,000 people in it still. Thats why all the attention is going to them. In parts of Miss and Ala. they have started, I believe, to begin the earliest phases of working to rebuild. Mainly get supplies in to people that need them.

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