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Jan 1970
time: 00:33
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And just when you thought that the news of horrific incompetance can't get any worse, it does. Welcome to the Bush administration in which PR-needs trump all:
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3004197
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Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were going to be deployed as emergency workers.
Instead, they have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf Coast region to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA.
On Monday, some firefighters stuck in the staging area at the Sheraton peeled off their FEMA-issued shirts and stuffed them in backpacks, saying they refuse to represent the federal agency.
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"They've got people here who are search-and-rescue certified, paramedics, haz-mat certified," said a Texas firefighter. "We're sitting in here having a sexual-harassment class while there are still [victims] in Louisiana who haven't been contacted yet."
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But as specific orders began arriving to the firefighters in Atlanta, a team of 50 Monday morning quickly was ushered onto a flight headed for Louisiana. The crew's first assignment: to stand beside President Bush as he tours devastated areas. |
Firefighters: useful as props....
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Jack_www
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edit post wrong place
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Tingkai
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To find the Northwest Passage
Aug 2001
time: 13:33
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Yet another screw up by FEMA. They've rented three luxury cruiseliners for six months to house the evacuees. Not surprisingly, few people want to spend the next six months stuck on a boat on the water.
Katrina refugees sink cruise ship shelter plan
BY Dale Brazao
Toronto Star
Houston—They just weren't in the mood for a cruise — on ships going nowhere.
A plan to move 4,000 Hurricane Katrina refugees from temporary shelter in the Astrodome to a pair of cruise ships anchored in Galveston was dry-docked yesterday when none of the refugees would agree to trade their cots on the floor of the aging stadium for beds aboard the luxury ocean liners.
"I'm too busy trying to find the rest of my family members to even think about another move," said Tracy Youngblood, 28, as she stood in line outside the Reliant Center here to apply for emergency housing. "If after we get settled they want to give us a two-week cruise to Jamaica, I might be interested."
Red-faced officials now admit they misread the mood and "psychology" of the evacuees when they hatched the cruise ship plan, saying their intent was the safety and well-being of the evacuees.
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"Why would I wanna go on a ship of fools?" said Kimura Aubanks, when asked why he didn't snap up the offer of an air-conditioned room and three meals on board a luxury liner. "What I want, and what I need, is an apartment for me, my wife and my three kids, a job and a chance to make some money.
"If I was on my own, I might be tempted," said Aubanks, adding his home in the projects back in New Orleans is under seven metres of water. "A package of cigarettes a bottle of Hennessy and some time to groove and I'd be a happy man. But I gotta look after my babies."
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...tacodalogin=yes
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Tingkai
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To find the Northwest Passage
Aug 2001
time: 13:33
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Yeah, the nerve of the guy for wanting to find a home and a job to take care of his family. Doesn't he realize he would be better off stuck on a ship living off the taxpayer's money.
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If I was stuck in the stadium, I would welcome having my own room on a lux cruise ship. It is not like you would not be able to leave the ship and look for work.
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Jack_www
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I saw on night line last night one bar in the French Quater that is open and full of people.
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My Wife Hates CIV
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Michigan
Jan 1970
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I saw a lot of people *****in about the conditions... i didnt see anyone picking garbage up. bunch of lazy bastards. what do you think would have happened a 100 years ago. those people didnt roll over and die. they got off their lazy asses and helped themselfs. and a lack of food?!? bunch of fat lazy bastards at that! sorry - facts are facts.
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Gatineau
Dec 2001
time: 00:33
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Originally posted by My Wife Hates CIV
I saw a lot of people *****in about the conditions... i didnt see anyone picking garbage up. bunch of lazy bastards. what do you think would have happened a 100 years ago. those people didnt roll over and die. they got off their lazy asses and helped themselfs. and a lack of food?!? bunch of fat lazy bastards at that! sorry - facts are facts. |
I do remember reading accounts of how the germans were already picking up the rubbles of their towns and separating the good stuff from the garbage while the allied tanks were still rolling through the place at the end of WW2.
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Urban Ranger
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This water they have there is downright deadly.
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The dire need to rid the drowned city of water could trigger fish kills and poison the delicate wetlands near New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico at the mouth of the Mississippi. (Full story)
State and federal agencies have just begun water quality testing but environmental experts say the vile, stagnant chemical soup that sits in the streets of the city will contain traces of everything imaginable.
"Go home and identify all the chemicals in your house. It's a very long list," said Ivor van Heerden, head of a Louisiana State University center that studies the public health impacts of hurricanes.
"And that's just in a home. Imagine what's in an industrial plant," he said. "Or a sewage plant."
Gasoline, diesel, anti-freeze, bleach, human waste, acids, alcohols and a host of other substances must be washed out of homes, factories, refineries, hospitals and other buildings. |
link
Don't forget the bacteria. Last I heard the level is 45,000 times over the limit. 45,000 times.
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