gulf coast disaster....

[Bonz manifest]

Is it just me, or is 5 days too long to leave groups 0f thousands stranded at places like the n.o. convention center with out elec,, plumbing, food and WATER.The convention center is the place THEY WERE TELLING all the refugees to go, and when they got there, no officials, no anything really. I mean, people dying on the sidewalk of a modern american city because they have no water is ,to me, a DISGRACE! THEY ARE STILL THERE 5 days later, right NOW, people are dying. I cant believe the lack of response by the government to save its own citizens. :sick: they knew days before the flood this would happen, yet 5 days later,people dying from dehydration. :( maby i'm wrong, but I think it has somthing to do with the fact that New Orleans is 70% black and HALF the people there are poor ( 30% below poverty line!) it seems the govt. is in no rush to save poor black people. I'm sorry if that offends anyone, but it offends ME. If this was in,oh i dunno, Seattle or maby Baltimore , do YOU think there would be relief for the people who went to the DESIGNATED rescue point , 5 DAYS after the disaster? ? think about it

[Joseph Corcoran]

No most sensible people are pist.

Even people that voted for bush again are questioning why.

[xTheGongx]

I just talked to my Aunt in Mississippi (where I'm from) and she said it was like the end of the world. still haven't heard from my dad, who was right in the path. My Aunt said that they had to drive about 100 miles just to get bread. They're rationed to 10 gallons of fuel at a time.
I'm on my way to the store to make a care package to sent down there. They literally have nothing to eat or drink. Can't go to the hospital cause they have no power.
What the fuck are you supposed to do when you have family member that you don't know if they are alive? Including your dad?

[rumplephorskin]

Gong i wish i knew what to tell you bro. That totally sucks. Im sure i speak for the forum when i say that your family will be in all of our prayers. Im really sorry that i dont know what else to say to you bro... best of luck. A bunch of us are auctioning work to try to send "something" there. If youre stuck where youre at and cant stop dwelling on it, maybe you could torch up a pendant or a marble or 2 to take yer mind off it but be doing something positive about it at the same time.

[Greymatter Glass]

Gong, MSNBC.COM has a reconnection page set up for families to try to get ahold of one another, you could try that. The redcross is also doing something similar.

Stay positive, I know I haven't been, and it's eating me up :(


-Doug

[IrieGuy05]

awww, well rage out some glass for them.. I'm about to make some pendants right now.

[Brian Newman]

Is it just me, or is 5 days too long to leave groups 0f thousands stranded at places like the n.o. convention center with out elec,, plumbing, food and WATER.The convention center is the place THEY WERE TELLING all the refugees to go, and when they got there, no officials, no anything really. I mean, people dying on the sidewalk of a modern american city because they have no water is ,to me, a DISGRACE! THEY ARE STILL THERE 5 days later, right NOW, people are dying. I cant believe the lack of response by the government to save its own citizens. :sick: they knew days before the flood this would happen, yet 5 days later,people dying from dehydration. :( maby i'm wrong, but I think it has somthing to do with the fact that New Orleans is 70% black and HALF the people there are poor ( 30% below poverty line!) it seems the govt. is in no rush to save poor black people. I'm sorry if that offends anyone, but it offends ME. If this was in,oh i dunno, Seattle or maby Baltimore , do YOU think there would be relief for the people who went to the DESIGNATED rescue point , 5 DAYS after the disaster? ? think about it
I don't have the latest figures, but four yars ago it was estimated by the UN food and agriculture organization that 35,615 children were starving to death each day.
A big memorial is coming up for less than 4000 who died in a war on the money system.(The legal definition of terrorism is using fear for political ends. These people had no demands. I consider it an act of war)
Your damn right it is about money!
Unless we want to live in a blind and toothless world we can't let it get to us.
Just don"t trust the government.(A no brainer)