Now comes the snakes and alligators...
Health care feeling the strain..
Damage in the tens of billions of dollars...insurance claims set to be high...this may turn into one of the nation's worst natural disasters in the history of the United States...
International aid? Where are they? The United States was one of the original countries to offer tsunamia relief last year.. thus far not too many offers have been extended to the U.S. ...
George W. Bush has reached out to Clinton and Bush Sr. for an official reach-out effort to the world community ...
The Superdome isn't so super anymore: Desperaation taking hold...crime and looting and shootings in the city of New Orleans...people struggling--often times dying--to get out...
CNN reporting of rumors that Congress is planning on an early return to D.C. for emergency aid bills for Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama...
Reports of car jackings near the Superdome...reports of gangs roaming the streets...
Police having trouble with their communication systems..
Blogs cover it..
With the situation going from awful to even worse, health problems are occuring..
Dead bodies floating in water..
In addition to what is already being sent, the Pentagon announced that 10,000 more Guard troops would be sent in the next two days to Louisiana and Mississippi, about 5,000 to each state...
Telethon being planned..
In some places, life struggles to continue..One place is the French Quarter, where the BBQ still gets served.
25,000 evacuees go to Houston
x x x
$4 a gallon??
Thousands dead ... while thousands line up to donate items...
Surge in Red Cross donations..
WalMart donates $1 mil
More at "Asmallvictory.net"
x x x
Rescues continue...
Relief numbers..
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Fate: The factors that put New Orleans under water..
New fears from the Mayor of New Orleans...There may be thousands dead...
Officials "helpless" against looters..
It's one thing for people to take food and water...they need it, and it's survival at the fittest...but what can fast occur is a recession of morals, and a downward spiral that can turn into crime and looting for pleasure and pride...It's important for law enforcement to get a hold of the "war zones" in the South...
x x x
Bush takes charge...
President Bush tours the devastation along the Gulf Coast...
America feels helpless during a natural disaster...so many dead, so many hurt...so many nerves rattled and cages shaken by a storm that precedes humankind by centuries...
President Bush has releases oil from the petroleum reserve, flew over the disaster area today, and admits that the recovery from Katrina may take years...
Bush to visit..
The politics of the hurricane...
While this site was unfair, along with others, but placing the Bush photo of him playing a guitar on the site with a critical reference, NEWSWEEK taking it further; The mag says: Now, faced with a far bigger and deadlier disaster, the Bush administration faces at least two difficult questions: Was it ready to deal with the long-predicted flooding of New Orleans? And is it ready to deal with the long-predicted terrorist attack that might some day strike another of our big cities?
..and a critic on the right as well..
Chances for Bush to shine?
x x x
And some make it political: Another tacky headline from Smudgereport: "INTELLIGENT DESIGNER DESTROYS NEW ORLEANS!"
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BRYAN SMOLOCK WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31 2005 10:30 PM EDT: MORE UPDATES COMING EDT
Ridin' on the City of New Orleans
Illinois Central, Monday mornin' rail
15 cars & 15 restless riders
Three conductors, 25 sacks of mail
All along the southbound odyssey the train pulls out of Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms & fields
Passin' graves that have no name, freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of rusted automobiles
Good mornin' America, how are you?
Don't you know me? I'm your native son!
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done
Dealin' cards with the old men in the club car
Penny a point, ain't no one keepin' score
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
And feel the wheels rumblin' neath the floor
And the sons of Pullman porters & the sons of engineers
Ride their fathers' magic carpets made of steel
Mothers with their babes asleep, rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
Good mornin' America, how are you?
Say don't you know me? I'm your native son!
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans.
I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done.
Night time on the City of New Orleans
Changin' cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Halfway home, we'll be there by mornin'
Thru the Mississippi darkness rollin' down to the sea
But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream
And the steel rail still ain't heard the news
The conductor sings his songs again
"The passengers will please refrain:
This train got the disappea rin' railroad blues
Good night America, how are you?
Say don't you know me? I'm your native son!
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans.
I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done.
--Arlo Guthrie, The City of New Orleans
2005 ARCHIVE
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