I still can't believe is has been only 2 years
Matthew
I pray for the lost ones everyday
Sheelagh >o<
As do I. It must have been a terrible thing to live through for both
cats and humans alike.
Purrs & Prayers to them all.
Sheelagh >"o"<
CatNipped
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> Since the US was turned upside down by Hurricane Katrina
>
> http://www.nola.com/katrina/
>
>
> I pray for the lost ones everyday
This is what my daughter and her family and friends went home to when they
finally let people back into the parish after about 6 weeks (these were
taking by my daughter, they're not stock news footage)...
http://www.possibleplaces.com/StBernard/Erin/ My daughter's house (most of
these were blurred because she was shaking and crying so badly)
http://www.possibleplaces.com/StBernard/Judy/ Her mother-in-law's house
http://www.possibleplaces.com/StBernard/General/ St. Bernard Parish in
general This community had the dubious distinction of being the only
American community that was *entirely* wiped out by a natural disaster - not
a single building in the parish was left untouched by the storm surge. Most
news reports focus on New Orleans, but St. Bernard was "ground zero" and
took the worst of the hit. What's sad is that only about 1 out of every
200-300 houses and very few business have rebuild, so St. Bernard looks
pretty much the same today as it did then!
http://www.possibleplaces.com/Ninth_Ward/ The lower Ninth Ward where
most lives were lost since the inhabitants were too poor to have working
transportation to evacuate.
http://www.possibleplaces.com/Recovery1/ This was the start of the
recovery process for my daughter's family.
http://www.possibleplaces.com/Recovery2/
http://www.possibleplaces.com/Recovery3/
http://www.possibleplaces.com/Recovery4/2006_01_06/
http://www.possibleplaces.com/Recovery5/2006_03_28/
http://www.possibleplaces.com/Visit_Home/Thanksgiving/ By Thanksgiving of
2006, they were just about finished, but
http://www.possibleplaces.com/Visit_Home/Erin_Block/ only a couple of
other families in her subdivision have even started trying to clean up the
mess even two years later.
I think people still don't comprehend the scope of the disaster - most
Americans have already forgotten about it.. But, for me, worse than all the
property damage - the scenes seared into my brain - are the 7 days after the
hurricane when people there were dying of thirst, starvation, and heat
stroke because they couldn't get out and our government (who has no problem
air-lifting food and medicine to enemy countries) couldn't seem to get any
relief into the area (though John Travolta managed to fly in supplies, as
did Oprah - maybe our government should have asked one of them for
transport?!*).
*Sorry, as you can see, I'm still pretty bitter about this whole thing!
Hugs,
CatNipped
Matthew
People unless there have been there they can't understand. It is like twin
towers ground zero unless you go there you can never see the full brunt of
the damage.
I have seen it upfront and I still can smell that smell. If you have been
there you know what I am talking about. I wish the best for your kids. I
hold them in my prayers
"CatNipped" <CatN...@PossiblePlaces.com> wrote in message
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bonbon
Oh girl, I'm hearing you. It makes me wonder that if New Orleans were
mostly a Republican area instead of Democratic if things would be
different as far as repairing one of our most beloved pieces of
history, and putting back together the lives of those who call New
Orleans home.
I saw on the news just last night that the Bush Administration is
spending 7 billion (yes BILLION) every week on the war in Iraq. And
for what? Nothing has changed over there. Yes, we did save them from
Saddam, but he's gone now. It's time for us to pull out.
-bonbon (who DOESN'T watch Fox "Noise".....for the real news, check
out Keith Olberman's Countdown, aired each evening.
Sheelagh >o<
> I know how you feel Cat. I still have nightmares.
>
> People unless there have been there they can't understand. It is like twin
> towers ground zero unless you go there you can never see the full brunt of
> the damage.
>
> I have seen it upfront and I still can smell that smell. If you have been
> there you know what I am talking about. I wish the best for your kids. I
> hold them in my prayers
>
>
> news:5jo8ba...@mid.individual.net...
>
>
>
> > "Matthew" <Iamacatsl...@proudtoserve.com> wrote in message
>
> - Show quoted text -
I looked through every single photos that C.N posted. It is shocking!!
If I didn't know better, I would have assumed that was a small place
in the middle of Serbia Or anywhere in eastern Europe for that matter,
where there is no cash for regenerating communities. Where there is no
help to reorganise a disaster like this. The fact that it is America,
shocks me to the core of my very being. It appears that Erin & her
family had to do every single thing to ensure that their family had a
home to grow up in, rather than a trailer for life? Would I be right
in my assumption?
It is terrible to think that the government feel that their money is
better spent, pedaling in other continents wars. Whilst I understand
the reasons, it doesn't excuse the reality of the fact that CHARITY
BEGINS @ HOME....
Purrs,
Sheelagh >"o"<
CatNipped
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Yep! Exactly 2 people in St. Bernard Parish have received the "Road Home"
funds that have been so highly touted by our government (but already 6
politicians have been indicted in Louisiana for pocketing money ear-marked
for Katrina victims - that's just the ones who were caught, that's not
counting the ones who were smart enough to get away with it, and believe me,
they've had years and years of practice getting away with it). Bush had the
nerve to visit N.O. yesterday and say "we haven't forgotten you" - oh yeah,
really? When did you ever remember us??! Oh yeah, after *SEVEN DAYS IN
HELL FOR N.O. SURVIVORS WHO WERE DYING OF THIRST, STARVATION, AND HEAT
STROKE IN THE OVER-CROWDED SUPERDOME WITH NO PLUMBING OR ELECTRICITY - where
the dead were covered with a piece of plastic and left to lie where they
died, can you imagine the smell of that after 7 days in triple digit
heat?!!!!*
Of the *HUNDREDS* of *MILLIONS* of dollars collected by the American Red
Cross, all any Katrina survivor got was $300. After *SIX MONTHS*, FEMA gave
each person $10,000 and each family $25,000 (as a gauge of how far that
went, my daughter's family had to spend about $350,000 to rebuild their home
and their lives* - they'll be in debt for the next 30 years, and they're one
of the few *lucky* ones who were even granted a loan because my SIL still
had a job - those people who lost their employment as well as everything
else in their lives have been denied loans by the SBA).
Yet, as Bonbon noted, our government is spending *$7 BILLION DOLLARS A WEEK*
on the war in Iraq.
*In one way, they were extremely lucky - they are both very "handy". Most
people in St. Bernard are on a contractor's waiting list that is now 5 years
long! Erin and Greg (with the help of their three girls) did *EVERY*
*SINGLE* *THING* in that house, including putting on a new roof (did you see
*those* grandmother-scaring pictures?? ;>), laying floors, wiring the
electricity, laying the plumbing, running the gas lines, adding insulation,
and floating sheetrock (along with more prosaic tasks like painting) with
their own two hands. So they saved about $100,000 because they didn't have
to pay a contractor to do the work.
What's really hard is for people (even me) to comprehend the *scope* of the
obstacles they faced/face in the recovery process. Every single mordern-day
convenience was gone (some places in New Orleans and St. Bernard still don't
have electricty even now, two years later). In the entire parish there was
no clean water, no electricity, no gas, no convenience stores (or hardware
stores, lumber suppliers, etc.), there were no grocery stores, no
restaurants or fast-food joints, there was no medical help (no hospitals, so
you had to pray you didn't injure yourself during the clean-up). There was
no place for anyone to stay while they were trying to clean out their
homes - the closest open motel was over 60 miles away.
Also, most of the people there had/have no income since their place of work
was also destroyed. So with no jobs, no insurance pay outs, no donations
from the Red Cross, no government aid, they had to replace their entire
lives from the ground up. They had only the few clothes they brought with
them when they evacuated. They had to replace all of their furnishings,
every dish rag and bath towel, every appliance (thousands of dollars for
that alone), the central air conditioner ($5,000 for that alone), every pot
and pan and plate and fork and, and, and...
It's just mind-boggling. Had it been me I would have done like 98% of the
people there and just walked away from it all and try to make a new life
somewhere else.
Hugs,
CatNipped
cycjec
> On 30 Aug, 17:31, "Matthew" <Iamacatsl...@proudtoserve.com> wrote:
>> > This is what my daughter and her family and friends went home to when they
>> > finally let people back into the parish after about 6 weeks (these were
>> > taking by my daughter, they're not stock news footage)...
>> >http://www.possibleplaces.com/StBernard/Judy/
>> > I think people still don't comprehend the scope of the disaster - most
>> > Americans have already forgotten about it.. But, for me, worse than all
>> > the property damage - the scenes seared into my brain - are the 7 days
>> > after the hurricane.
I haven't forgotten, and I thank you for this update, because it
is not that easy to find them.
CatNipped
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Thank you. I think more Americans than I gave credit to remember during the
last election (where Republicans got soundly drubbed) - and I hope they
remember during the next presidential election also!
Here's the official New Orleans link: http://www.nola.com/Katrina/
Hugs,
CatNipped
sheelagh via CatKB.com
> Yep! Exactly 2 people in St. Bernard Parish have received the "Road Home"
> funds that have been so highly touted by our government (but already 6
> politicians have been indicted in Louisiana for pocketing money ear-marked
> for Katrina victims - that's just the ones who were caught, that's not
> counting the ones who were smart enough to get away with it, and believe me,
> they've had years and years of practice getting away with it). Bush had the
> nerve to visit N.O. yesterday and say "we haven't forgotten you" - oh yeah,
> really? When did you ever remember us??! Oh yeah, after *SEVEN DAYS IN
> HELL FOR N.O. SURVIVORS WHO WERE DYING OF THIRST, STARVATION, AND HEAT
> STROKE IN THE OVER-CROWDED SUPERDOME WITH NO PLUMBING OR ELECTRICITY - where
> the dead were covered with a piece of plastic and left to lie where they
> died, can you imagine the smell of that after 7 days in triple digit
> heat?!!!!*
This really shouldn't surprise me, yet it does.
I was brought up in Africa where "everything" smacks of corruption, & there
is no such thing as the word "fair" . The wealthy get wealthier, & the poor
simply starve, no one cares, & hardly anyone ever hears about what happens to
them. It is extremely hard to imagine that this could actually happen in the
United States in this modern day & age, isn't it?
I knew about the super dome, because we were told about this. When Katrina
happened, we had a fairly comprehensive coverage of how bad things were for
you all, but, as with most stories, it died down & we heard no more. We were
all aware that Mr Bush didn't feel it necessary to visit you all until well
after the incident. It was like he was trying to ignore a bad smell, &
presented that way on the news too. I have to say that we all found it
disgusting, but what could we do from this side of the pond, other than tell
our own leaders that we thought it was well out of order?!! Also, how on
earth did he get away with it?
I do know exactly what you mean about the smell, the no power & the
corruption as well as no medical supplies, no clean drinking water, &
fighting over some where safe to sleep, but I don't know what you can do as a
community to ensure that this never happens again. In a democratic country,
you should be able to make sure everyone in the world knows what happened to
you all....
> Of the *HUNDREDS* of *MILLIONS* of dollars collected by the American Red
> Cross, all any Katrina survivor got was $300. After *SIX MONTHS*, FEMA gave
> each person $10,000 and each family $25,000 (as a gauge of how far that
> went, my daughter's family had to spend about $350,000 to rebuild their home
> and their lives* - they'll be in debt for the next 30 years, and they're one
> of the few *lucky* ones who were even granted a loan because my SIL still
> had a job - those people who lost their employment as well as everything
> else in their lives have been denied loans by the SBA).
>
> Yet, as Bonbon noted, our government is spending *$7 BILLION DOLLARS A WEEK*
> on the war in Iraq.
This is the news that I find most disturbing. We were led to believe that you
were all well compensated. I have never heard anything to the contrary @ all,
until you posted this picture reminder of what an entire family went through.
Also, one thing that confuses me. Over here in the UK, you *have to by law,*
have something called buildings insurance if you have a mortgage on your
property. This covers things like natural disasters ect, so that in the
eventuality that something like this occurs, you are refunded the cost of the
damage. *Most People* also have contents insurance too. this covers
everything from domestic floods, to earthquakes & burglary. Is this the case
in the USA too? Obviously not for people who were simply tenants- because it
is the responsibility of the person who owns the building to do this. You
mention the poor too. It must have hit hardest there?
The pictures were shocking, honestly!! The personal allowances were punitive,
& an embarrassment to the leaders. I hope that they can live with themselves-
I know that I wouldn't have been able to, that is for sure.
The war thing disgusts me *personally*. We are loosing more and more soldiers
life every day in a loosing battle that can *Never be won*. As you so rightly
point out, we have done what we went there to achieve. Saddam is gone, now we
should pull out & allow them to sort their own hierarchy out. Please don't
think I don't value what our soldiers have sacrificed their lives for,
because that is not the case @ all! I just think we are throwing good money
after bad. We can't achieve anymore than we have done, so why are we there?
The numbers are mind boggling aren't they?
> *In one way, they were extremely lucky - they are both very "handy". Most
> people in St. Bernard are on a contractor's waiting list that is now 5 years
> long! Erin and Greg (with the help of their three girls) did *EVERY*
> *SINGLE* *THING* in that house, including putting on a new roof (did you see
> *those* grandmother-scaring pictures?? ;>), laying floors, wiring the
> electricity, laying the plumbing, running the gas lines, adding insulation,
> and floating sheetrock (along with more prosaic tasks like painting) with
> their own two hands. So they saved about $100,000 because they didn't have
> to pay a contractor to do the work.
It was still a hell of a lot of money to find though. Just to give you a
comparison, my 4 bed roomed house in the UK with a small garden (15yard x 5
Yards), & the front is around the same size. We have a downstairs Bedroom
annex a dinning room downstairs loo & kitchen, & our house is worth £190,000
( Around $380!) So, yes, I can fully appreciate exactly what they have had to
borrow just to get their home back. That is one hell of a commitment. Where
you pointed out that the kids didn't just have their own homes to worry about
is also a moral dilemma that they had to help out with. were it my own mother,
I would have had to do the same thing as well. When your parents get older,
you expect to have to help them out, but never in your worst nightmares, do
you ever conceive that you would have that commitment loaded on top of your
own. I would have to the same for my mother too. Where on earth was the
government whilst this happened?
> What's really hard is for people (even me) to comprehend the *scope* of the
> obstacles they faced/face in the recovery process. Every single modern-day
> convenience was gone (some places in New Orleans and St. Bernard still don't
> have electricity even now, two years later). In the entire parish there was
> no clean water, no electricity, no gas, no convenience stores (or hardware
> stores, lumber suppliers, etc.), there were no grocery stores, no
> restaurants or fast-food joints, there was no medical help (no hospitals, so
> you had to pray you didn't injure yourself during the clean-up). There was
> no place for anyone to stay while they were trying to clean out their
> homes - the closest open motel was over 60 miles away.
That is absolutely terrible. Out of interest, how long did it take for their
trailers to turn up, so that they @ least had shelter? How on earth did
people manage with no hospital too? In conditions life those that you
describe, it is obvious that people will eventually become ill & need
treatment. No clean water, & dead bodies are a recipe for illness!
Have any of these conveniences come back yet? (shops, garages, water plants
electricity ect?)
> Also, most of the people there had/have no income since their place of work
> was also destroyed. So with no jobs, no insurance pay outs, no donations
> from the Red Cross, no government aid, they had to replace their entire
> lives from the ground up. They had only the few clothes they brought with
> them when they evacuated. They had to replace all of their furnishings,
> every dish rag and bath towel, every appliance (thousands of dollars for
> that alone), the central air conditioner ($5,000 for that alone), every pot
> and pan and plate and fork and, and, and...
Shocking :o(
> It's just mind-boggling. Had it been me I would have done like 98% of the
> people there and just walked away from it all and try to make a new life
> somewhere else.
I can't possibly imagine what that must be like.
Having said that, We have been warned that with global warming, that the sea
will reclaim most of a county called Norfolk over here within the next 30
years. We live out on something that is called the Fens over here. A fen is
reclaimed land from the sea, made very similar to the Dutch dyke systems. The
dykes are made to control the water & Chanel it back to the sea ( rather like
the mississippi has been). Recently though, with storms getting worse, the
land is literally falling into the sea. Every year a few more feet, even
meters keep collapsing into the sea., & people who own property that once
upon a time used to be a house near the sea, are now, houses fallen into the
sea. The people that own these houses, are stuck in the same dilemma. They
get nothing from the government, the insurance companies will not cover the
houses because of the risk factors involved, so people who have worked their
whole lives to build up a home for their retirement, or younger families who
have bought hotels, or bed & breakfast places for tourists, have lost
everything. this is never going to get better either- only worse. Obviously
anyone buying a house, will not buy one that is likely to fall into the sea
anytime soon!! (30 years).
The sea is pushing it's way in -land with every bad storm that we get in east
Anglia. & the crops are failing because during the summer, ( & the recent
floods of course"!!) the water in the dykes, used to be used to farming, so
when there was no water in the summer, they would pump the dyke water into
the crops- now they can't for fear of killing them.... It's a strange world
we live in these days.
One last question which is a bit more on topic. What happened to all of the
animals that got left behind in the rush for safety? Did shelters simply
release them, or did they try transporting them out of area? I simply hate to
think what happened. were there volunteers that offered to help rescue them,.
or were things SO BAD, that it was a case of human life over animals lives?
I will never forget this. Thank you for the update & sharing this story C.N,
& best wishes to you all that live around that area....
Sheelagh>"o"<
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> This really shouldn't surprise me, yet it does.
>
> I was brought up in Africa where "everything" smacks of corruption, &
> there
> is no such thing as the word "fair" . The wealthy get wealthier, & the
> poor
> simply starve, no one cares, & hardly anyone ever hears about what happens
> to
> them. It is extremely hard to imagine that this could actually happen in
> the
> United States in this modern day & age, isn't it?
I think that had it been a middle class white community, there would have
been immediate help. But since it was mostly poor blacks who were affected
that this "disenfranchised" section of the population could afford to be
ignored (nobody in the Superdome was likely to donate money to anybody's
reelection campaign).
>
> I knew about the super dome, because we were told about this. When Katrina
> happened, we had a fairly comprehensive coverage of how bad things were
> for
> you all, but, as with most stories, it died down & we heard no more. We
> were
> all aware that Mr Bush didn't feel it necessary to visit you all until
> well
> after the incident. It was like he was trying to ignore a bad smell, &
> presented that way on the news too. I have to say that we all found it
> disgusting, but what could we do from this side of the pond, other than
> tell
> our own leaders that we thought it was well out of order?!! Also, how on
> earth did he get away with it?
I truly don't know the answer to that one - it baffles me too. I think he
should have been impeached a long time ago. The president before him spent
months and months defending himself against a lynch mob just for getting a
blow job, but this one gets away with bankrupting our country and letting
his own citizens starve in a hellhole!
I'm still asking where the *HUNDREDS* of *MILLIONS* of dollars given to the
American Red Cross went to - Katrina victims saw exactly $300 of that money!
>
> Also, one thing that confuses me. Over here in the UK, you *have to by
> law,*
> have something called buildings insurance if you have a mortgage on your
> property. This covers things like natural disasters ect, so that in the
> eventuality that something like this occurs, you are refunded the cost of
> the
> damage. *Most People* also have contents insurance too. this covers
> everything from domestic floods, to earthquakes & burglary. Is this the
> case
> in the USA too? Obviously not for people who were simply tenants- because
> it
> is the responsibility of the person who owns the building to do this. You
> mention the poor too. It must have hit hardest there?
They did have insurance. The insurance companies have still not paid on
most people's claims - the claims they did pay, they paid about $0.01 on the
dollar. They claimed that since the home was destroyed by flood it wasn't
covered, or a dozen other excuses. Some homeowners have started when we
call "class action" lawsuits against insurance companies who have failed to
pay the legitimate claims made against them. However, since those same
companies have made record profit margings in the same year Katrina victims
lost everything, they have quite enough funds to pay expensive lawyer to
drag this out in the courts for years to come.
*Every* *Single* *Member* of my, and my husband's family lost every single
possession they owned. And their savings were wiped out by the expenses of
having to find alternate lodgings after Katrina (and they no longer had
incomes because their employers were also wiped out). Ben and I had 7 other
people (and 4 dogs and 2 cats - along with our own four cats) staying with
us for 6 months after Katrina. They had us living in Houston, so they were
much luckier than most N.O. residents.
>
>> What's really hard is for people (even me) to comprehend the *scope* of
>> the
>> obstacles they faced/face in the recovery process. Every single
>> modern-day
>> convenience was gone (some places in New Orleans and St. Bernard still
>> don't
>> have electricity even now, two years later). In the entire parish there
>> was
>> no clean water, no electricity, no gas, no convenience stores (or
>> hardware
>> stores, lumber suppliers, etc.), there were no grocery stores, no
>> restaurants or fast-food joints, there was no medical help (no hospitals,
>> so
>> you had to pray you didn't injure yourself during the clean-up). There
>> was
>> no place for anyone to stay while they were trying to clean out their
>> homes - the closest open motel was over 60 miles away.
>
> That is absolutely terrible. Out of interest, how long did it take for
> their
> trailers to turn up, so that they @ least had shelter? How on earth did
It took my daughter 6 months to get a FEMA trailer. Now, understand, that
these trailers were "travel trailers" - not "house trailers" like a lot of
people live in. We're talking *TINY* - about as big as an RV. Most people
in New Orleans are still living in those things!
> people manage with no hospital too? In conditions life those that you
> describe, it is obvious that people will eventually become ill & need
> treatment. No clean water, & dead bodies are a recipe for illness!
> Have any of these conveniences come back yet? (shops, garages, water
> plants
> electricity ect?)
There is *one* grocery open in St. Bernard. Water and electricity are back
on, but no hospitals are open - the nearest hospital is about 40 miles away.
There are only two schools open in St. Bernard (one for grades one through 5
and one for grades six through 12). Nothing much else is open yet - 90% of
the buildings are still sitting in ruins and haven't even been bulldozed
yet.
The evacuees were not allowed to take their pets with them, so most people
had to leave them home (some refused to leave their pets so they stayed with
them and ended up losing their lives). People thought they would be back in
a couple of days and left enough food and water for about three days, but
nobody was allowed back into the area for over 6 weeks. A small portion of
the animals were rescued by volunteers who went into the city in boats, but
hundreds of thousands of family pets were left to starve to death.
>
> I will never forget this. Thank you for the update & sharing this story
> C.N,
> & best wishes to you all that live around that area....
Thank you!
Hugs,
CatNipped
Cheryl
rec.pets.cats.health+behav
<news:5jrato...@mid.individual.net>:
>> One last question which is a bit more on topic. What happened
>> to all of the
>> animals that got left behind in the rush for safety? Did
>> shelters simply release them, or did they try transporting them
>> out of area? I simply hate to
>> think what happened. were there volunteers that offered to help
>> rescue them,.
>> or were things SO BAD, that it was a case of human life over
>> animals lives?
>
> The evacuees were not allowed to take their pets with them, so
> most people had to leave them home (some refused to leave their
> pets so they stayed with them and ended up losing their lives).
> People thought they would be back in a couple of days and left
> enough food and water for about three days, but nobody was
> allowed back into the area for over 6 weeks. A small portion of
> the animals were rescued by volunteers who went into the city in
> boats, but hundreds of thousands of family pets were left to
> starve to death.
2 years after the horror still has hundreds of animals having to be
rescued and moved to shelters that can take them in. This is
because while those who loved them dearly took care of them, they
didn't have them spayed/neutered. The animals coming here from
there are young ones.
--
Cheryl
Sherry
> "Matthew" <Iamacatsl...@proudtoserve.com> wrote in message
>
> news:46d5dbc3$0$19590$4c36...@roadrunner.com...
>
> > Since the US was turned upside down by Hurricane Katrina
>
> >http://www.nola.com/katrina/
>
> > I pray for the lost ones everyday
>
> This is what my daughter and her family and friends went home to when they
> finally let people back into the parish after about 6 weeks (these were
> taking by my daughter, they're not stock news footage)...
>
> http://www.possibleplaces.com/StBernard/Erin/ My daughter's house (most of
> general This community had the dubious distinction of being the only
> American community that was *entirely* wiped out by a natural disaster - not
> a single building in the parish was left untouched by the storm surge. Most
> news reports focus on New Orleans, but St. Bernard was "ground zero" and
> took the worst of the hit. What's sad is that only about 1 out of every
> 200-300 houses and very few business have rebuild, so St. Bernard looks
> most lives were lost since the inhabitants were too poor to have working
> recovery process for my daughter's family.http://www.possibleplaces.com/Recovery2/http://www.possibleplaces.com/Recovery3/http://www.possibleplaces.com/Recovery4/2006_01_06/http://www.possibleplaces.com/Recovery5/2006_03_28/http://www.possibleplaces.com/Visit_Home/Thanksgiving/ By Thanksgiving of
> 2006, they were just about finished, buthttp://www.possibleplaces.com/Visit_Home/Erin_Block/ only a couple of
> other families in her subdivision have even started trying to clean up the
> mess even two years later.
>
> I think people still don't comprehend the scope of the disaster - most
> Americans have already forgotten about it.. But, for me, worse than all the
> property damage - the scenes seared into my brain - are the 7 days after the
> hurricane when people there were dying of thirst, starvation, and heat
> stroke because they couldn't get out and our government (who has no problem
> air-lifting food and medicine to enemy countries) couldn't seem to get any
> relief into the area (though John Travolta managed to fly in supplies, as
> did Oprah - maybe our government should have asked one of them for
> transport?!*).
>
> *Sorry, as you can see, I'm still pretty bitter about this whole thing!
>
> Hugs,
>
> CatNipped
You should be bitter.
I saw on the news tonight where FEMA decided some funds issued to
Katrina
victims were issued in error. So apparently they are requesting the
recipients
*pay back* the money??? I don't know the particulars of the story yet.
But what I *do* know, just from the scores of people who lost their
homes
here during March 06 wildfires, FEMA is a joke.
Sherry
Sheelagh >o<
> "sheelagh via CatKB.com" <u33188@uwe> wrote in messagenews:7785d5e632afb@uwe...
Thank you for all of the answers that you provided C.N. I still find
it shocking. Especially the bit about not being allowed to take your
pets with you. That is simply dreadful!
I can't blame communities taking multiple law suites against the
insurance companies either.. I think that I would be inclined to do
the same thing. they are all too happy to soak up the premiums, so why
shouldn't they pay out when the need arises. I have to be honest.
I am dumbfounded that the government is allowing this to continue. I
am shocked that no one has brought this to the presidents attention.
If this Mr Bush wanted a few brownie points, or any hope of his party
being re elected for the next term, he would be doing something to
ensure that the precious votes they are going to need, went his way.
Still, having said that, it isn't his problem, is it? He has finished
his term, almost, so I guess that makes this someone Else's problem,
not his? On this side of the pond,. he will be remembered for his war
mongering ways & his uncaring manner towards his own people. He is not
liked very much over here, for those two very reasons. We blame our
own Prime minister for becoming involved in the Iraq war. Tony Blair
couldn't jump high enough when Bush said jump!
I will tell you what we have noticed over here- Mr Al Gore (Is that
his name?)... He seems to be making himself a BIG name over here. I
wonder, is he running for re election? If his promise is as good as
his word, then maybe he would be the right choice. Still, I have also
heard that Hilary Clinton is running this time too. It would be
interesting to hear from people who have to live by their decree, what
would be best for them. As you say, if your area was one of his prime
assured voting areas, he would be more inclined to do something to
help those that needed him so badly in their greatest hour of need.
These sorts of things come back to bite politicians up the bum though!
I think my lingering memory of Katrina, was press conferences with the
Mayor(? He looked hispanic or mixed race??), begging & pleading for
intervention & help from the outside world...& the day that Mr Bush
came to town, he looked like someone had hit him in the face with a
paddle, & nailed his tongue to the roof of his mouth!! He looked So
Angry!!!!!!!
God Bless you all two years later! We still think of you....
Sheelagh>"o"<
Sheelagh >o<
> On Aug 30, 11:08 am, "CatNipped" <CatNip...@PossiblePlaces.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > "Matthew" <Iamacatsl...@proudtoserve.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:46d5dbc3$0$19590$4c36...@roadrunner.com...
>
> > > Since the US was turned upside down by Hurricane Katrina
>
> > >http://www.nola.com/katrina/
>
> > > I pray for the lost ones everyday
>
> > This is what my daughter and her family and friends went home to when they
> > finally let people back into the parish after about 6 weeks (these were
> > taking by my daughter, they're not stock news footage)...
>
> >http://www.possibleplaces.com/StBernard/Erin/ My daughter's house (most of
> > these were blurred because she was shaking and crying so badly)http://www.possibleplaces.com/StBernard/Judy/ Her mother-in-law's househttp://www.possibleplaces.com/StBernard/General/ St. Bernard Parish in
> > general This community had the dubious distinction of being the only
> > American community that was *entirely* wiped out by a natural disaster - not
> > a single building in the parish was left untouched by the storm surge. Most
> > news reports focus on New Orleans, but St. Bernard was "ground zero" and
> > took the worst of the hit. What's sad is that only about 1 out of every
> > 200-300 houses and very few business have rebuild, so St. Bernard looks
> > pretty much the same today as it did then!http://www.possibleplaces.com/Ninth_Ward/ The lower Ninth Ward where
> > most lives were lost since the inhabitants were too poor to have working
> > transportation to evacuate.http://www.possibleplaces.com/Recovery1/ This was the start of the
> > 2006, they were just about finished, buthttp://www.possibleplaces.com/Visit_Home/Erin_Block/ only a couple of
> > other families in her subdivision have even started trying to clean up the
> > mess even two years later.
>
> > I think people still don't comprehend the scope of the disaster - most
> > Americans have already forgotten about it.. But, for me, worse than all the
> > property damage - the scenes seared into my brain - are the 7 days after the
> > hurricane when people there were dying of thirst, starvation, and heat
> > stroke because they couldn't get out and our government (who has no problem
> > air-lifting food and medicine to enemy countries) couldn't seem to get any
> > relief into the area (though John Travolta managed to fly in supplies, as
> > did Oprah - maybe our government should have asked one of them for
> > transport?!*).
>
> > *Sorry, as you can see, I'm still pretty bitter about this whole thing!
>
> > Hugs,
>
> > CatNipped
>
> You should be bitter.
> I saw on the news tonight where FEMA decided some funds issued to
> Katrina
> victims were issued in error. So apparently they are requesting the
> recipients
> *pay back* the money??? I don't know the particulars of the story yet.
> But what I *do* know, just from the scores of people who lost their
> homes
> here during March 06 wildfires, FEMA is a joke.
>
>
> - Show quoted text -
Utterly ridiculous!!
sheelagh>"o"<