Comments on: Big Easy Evacuees Set For Thursday Return

But Mayor Ray Nagin Doesn't Recommend Staying Permanently

[lewiston14]

Most of those people look like they could stand a month or two with eating

[mjvw2]

Hurricane Gustav was the first "wolf" cry. A couple more "wolf cries" and New Orleans will, like before Katrina, do nothing. Then the next Katrina comes and you can all blame it on Bush.

[vastr-wcon]

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We report, you decide:

A little blow and a lot of hot air.

1. Hurricane Gustav, or
2. sweetie hussein and plagiarist-joe.

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[barbaraf4]

"Donate to the Red Cross Disaster Relief fund."
Posted by Pensacola98
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Wrong. Donate items to your local church. Money donated to the American Red Cross will guarantee that our local Director will get paid his $500,000 salary this year. This means 500,000 people will have to donate $1.00 each before we even get into other overhead. Multiply that times all the local and area Directors and you get the picture.

[pensacola98]

The evacuees must wait patiently until towards the end of the week. Without power, there is no gasoline stations, or stores, restarants open for buisiness.

Also, the levee system needs to be examined carefully, before allowing evacuees to return. The levy during Katrina didn''t fail until three days after the storm. Three days after Gustav is around Wednesday or Thursday.

Donate to the Red Cross Disaster Relief fund.

Commercial power and telecommunications restoral efforts are under way. Without power or fuel, nothing can be restored. If evacuees compete with restoral workers for fuel and power, then restoral will take much longer.

Even if the levy was safe, there is nothing for an evacuee to look forward to, without fuel or power. In such a scenario, any returning evacuee will hinder the restoral.

[shouterguy]

McCain on Katrina (cont.):

Forty Senators and 100 members of Congress visited New Orleans before McCain did; he finally got there in March 2006. He voted against establishing a Congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local responses to Katrina in med-September 2005. He repeated that vote in 2006. He voted against allowing up to 52 weeks of unemployment benefits to people affected by the hurricane, and in 2006 voted against appropriating $109 billion in supplemental emergency funding, including $28 billion for hurricane relief.

[shouterguy]

Here''s what the G.O.P. nominee did for the last hurricane victims in Lousiana:

''Though McCain issued a statement the next week (after Katrina) calling on Congress to make sacrifices in order to fund recovery efforts, he was quoted in The New Leader on September 1 [2005] cautioning against over-spending in support of Katrina''s victims. "We also have to be concerned about future generations of Americans," he said. "We''re going to end up with the highest deficit, probably, in the history of this country."''

[barbaraf4]

New Orleans (and surrounding areas) evacuees: The minute you get back home, begin planning for your next evacuation adventure.

Those of you who remember driving around for several days looking for space for you and your three children, pack a tent and sleeping bags in the trunk of your car. Suddenly you will have your own portable emergency shelter. Self-reliance, what a radical concept!

Those who regularly commute to friends or relatives during evacuation emergencies, ask if you can store a few things at their house so you don''t need to worry about packing clothing.

Those who stay in the shelters with the sweating masses, take along a book or your knitting. Everyone looks so bored. Don''t you folks know how to entertain yourslves?

Mostly for those who don''t feel they can afford to evacuate, start putting a little money aside each month. These storms happen at the same time every year.

Every family should have an emergency plan.

[realpatriot1]

Pensacola98,

I agree with you. Thanks for posting an intelligent and non-judgemental comment.

Americabiker,

I understand your sentiment and I appreciate the tone of your comments, especially compared to some of the others.

I''ve felt all along that the bulk of the rebuilding should be out of the flood plain, but the government can''t just take somone else''s land to rebuild for these people and the government DOES have an obligation to help them rebuild their lives since they were responsible for maintaining the levees whose failure caused the worst of the destruction.

The levees appear to be holding and if they continue to the investents already made will be salvaged. If not, then some other options will have to be found.

We all need help from our governments(local, state, & federal) from time to time, not just New Orleans. No one complained much when we had to rebuild LA & San Fran on the fault lines.

I hate having to pay for people of means to rebuild the same vacation homes on the same eroding beaches time after time; maybe they need to be required to put in a moat.

[realpatriot1]

MyOpinion,

I''m up every day at 4:30, so I guess that means I work harder than you.

I keep what insurance I can afford to on my house, which doesn''t include flood insurance(and I don''t live in a flood plain).

Most of the people trapped by Katrina work like you; your racist stereotypes only demonstrate your ignorance. If the flood of the Century came to your doorstep would you leave your job and be the kind of unproductive leech on society that you paint others to be or would you go to work, take care of your family and house, and hope for the best.

No one expected the leveees to break ***!

Once they did the federal government didn''t even try to get their citizens food or water for days until they were shamed into, but let an earthquake hit Pakastan or Iran and were johnny on the spot.

What does that and your viscious comments say about how much your party loves America? Have fun waving your Giant Flags at the Convention of Incompetence!

[pensacola98]

The levees in New Orleans didn''t break until three days after Katrina passed and dumped rains that raised the water levels.

In my opinion, residents should wait until Thursday to learn if the levees will hold or fail. This storm has dumped most of the water in a different location that will drain and apply force against a different part of the levy system.

[gop_forever]

besides Tennessee and Ky would make better beach front property..








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Posted by AmericaBiker
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Tornados happen in Kentucky and Tennessee. Its a recurring problem. Also they get flooding every spring! Maybe everyone should relocate to Maine. Nothing ever happens there.

[arial13]

People in New Orleans need to realize that evacuation orders area are a fact of life. Mayor Nagin and the government screwed up last time and this time they did the right thing. If people think that bugging out during each major hurricane is a hassle-LEAVE AND LIVE ELSEWHERE! Otherwise, stay, get flooded, and learn to SURVIVE on your own without power, medicine, food for days til recovery. I don''t want to see you cry and whine on the roof of your houses ( for CNN) again because you didn''t heed the evacuation orders.
If people can''t get along under difficult conditions in a shelter (for their welfare and safety), I''m afraid what it might look like when the world ends!
Definitely won''t be there to join them.....No shelter for me!

[beechbaby-2009]

My point, Frekster, was that there were LOTS of other areas affected by the hurricane. How come New Orleans is the only one being talked about??? There are areas that were just as devastated by Katrina and just as anxious about Gustav...where is our concern for them? We seem to be focusing on the "whiner of the group".
What happens to the rest of the towns and cities that were affected? They don''t seem to be asking for the same handouts as New Orleans. From the lack of news coverage, you can only assume that New Orleans is the one looking for a handout and a chance to b**** rather than taking responsibility for the city on their own.

[mollydtt]

For those of you that don''t live in cities with shelters for the hurricane displaced families---you don''t know what you are talking about if you are criticizing them. These people are far from home, making do with bare necessities, and they have spent 15-20 hours in bumper to bumper traffic driving away from the coast. They want to go home, they are tired of sleeping on cots, and here in Austin, the weather is always about 100 degrees every day--at least it isn''t raining, but it isn''t exactly heaven.
I hope this storm clears out fast, because I want people to know they can get back to life where they want to be and check on their homes. At least this year people were encouraged to bring their pets, and the local SPCA took care of them. Still, it isn''t fun being here and I''m so sorry they had to leave their homes. After a day or two or three, I''d be pretty darned cranky. The fact that most are so gracious even now after all of this is just above and beyond what anyone should have to endure.

[lewiston14]

The people in the shelters are anxious because they want to get back and see how much free pity money they%u2019ll get.

Not this time around sorry. Government learns lessons to. The problem now is the likelihood of people leaving so quickly if at all. They were in such a hurry to get people out but while understandable are not in such a hurry to bring them back and many people knew this would happen. Perhaps by design what a clever idea. Unload over a million poor people with no intent to bring them back. A few will make it back on their own but not many.

[twogunsono1g]

"It wasn''t her things," Grigg said of the woman. "It was her dogs."


Pure steer stuff!! What kind of idiot leave''s a dog home during a hurricane??

[freckster]

Wow, what cynics y''all are. You''re spewing hatefulness before 7 AM. Are you the same people that type-lash others for not staying on point? Or are you the same people that complain about a slow news day?

Here you have all these people who lived through the terrible disaster that Katrina and Rita turned out to be. They''re fearful of the destruction that could have well happened again. They''re fearful of the disruption of their lives and the cost (in time, money, emotionally) of leaving their homes and crowding into shelters.

You guys sound like the same people that would criticize these people had they stayed and had a worse storm to deal with.

Find something constructive to do with your lives.

[beechbaby-2009]

Are there no other cities along the Gulf Coast besides New Orleans???
How long are they going to whine about their hurricane issues without taking some control over the situation themselves? It seems that the other cities affected by Katrina have managed some "Southern Grace" with regard to putting their cities and lives back together...what about New Orleans??
I''m a born and bred Southern, raised in Chas., SC with LOADS of Southern Grace...weathered Hurricane Hugo and watched Charleston put itself back together with LOTS of grace and help for our neighbors. New Orleans needs to take a lesson from other hurricane ravaged cities and take some responsibility for its own actions and preparations!
How about some news about the cities that have made some positive progress with re-building?