Re: [Nolug] How's everyone doing?

On 09/08/08 22:05, -ray wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>
>> Agreed. I'm a little concerned that people will end up letting their
>> guard down for the next one in NOLA. This one could have easily done
>> some major damage to NOLA and a lot of people could have gotten hurt.
>> I'm just thankful that the damage was mostly to property and not people.
>
> Also agree. The casuality rate was so low cause 2 million people left
> the area ahead of the storm! I can't believe people saying Nagin cried
> wolf. Blah...

I had such high hopes for him, too, back when he was originally
running for office. Or maybe N.O. as it currently exists is just
ungovernable.

> Kudos to Nagin and Jindal for getting people out... they
> saved many lives.

Kudos to *Jindal* for being competent.

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-11/1220766246123480.xml&coll=1

> I was in Nashville watching national news. And it was just *killing*
> CNN and Fox News that everyone left and they really had nothing to
> report. Geraldo was the best. I caught one segment where they were
> filming near the river... Geraldo says "OH MY GOD THERE'S A MAN IN THE
> WATER!! GODDAMNIT! THERE'S A MAN IN THE WATER! SOMEONE HELP HIM!!
> JESUS! HEYYY! THOSE GUYS ON THE SHIP!! SOMEONE HELP HIM!! HE HAS A
> ROPE! THEY THREW HIM A ROPE! THEY PULLING HIM IN! WOW!! What a
> dramatic rescue!! Caught on live tv!!!"

If the guy *had* been drowning, and a reporter just stood there with
his thumb up is arse, he'd have been pilloried.

What should he have done? (Stay home *is* a viable response!!!)

> I later learned that they guy
> in the water and his "rescuers" worked for the corps of engineers. The
> guy jumped in the water voluntarily, with rope and life jacket, to
> inspect a tank near the river that was under water.

That's still pretty heroic.

> Hahaha...jackass
> Geraldo.

That goes without saying.

> The other funny headline was "LEVEE NEAR NEW ORLEANS ABOUT TO BREAK!".
> Said levee was way down in Braithwaite.

You expect the media to be competent?

> Now it would have sucked for
> the people down in Plaquemines (or St Bernard?)

Plaquemines. It runs down the river.

St. Bernard is SE of N.O. and N.E of Plaquemines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Map_of_Louisiana_highlighting_Plaquemines_Parish.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Map_of_Louisiana_highlighting_Saint_Bernard_Parish.svg

> if it would've broke,
> but since it is about 20 miles from NOLA, i think the city was safe.
> And luckily it didn't break!

It did. Was only finally plugged a day or two ago.

-- 
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no
hook beneath it."  -- Thomas Jefferson
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