New Orleans: Fly low and slow over Convention Center to air drop?

Greg Copeland wrote:

I'm apt to believe things could of been much, much better for everyone
is people would have simply picked up a dang phone.

Poor people have phones? Must be what keeps 'em poor...

Does part of your "hard truth" include the invalids, children, sick,
hospitalized, mentally insane, amputees and people who were too poor to own
a car?

Now, if you had said this was an example of Social Darwinism, I would have
agreed with you.

These people, for the most part, were left behind because they were poor, or
stupid, or otherwise unable to make good decisions.

Don't be so ****ing heartless.


"Dave S" wrote in message
ink.net...
You need to quit trying to freelance and contribute to an existing relief
effort. You are asking someone to essentially throw their pilots license
in the trash by assisting you in your well intentioned but misguided ploy.
Their certificate would be revoked on an emergency basis, and likely
permanently revoked. If you are lucky, the drop wont hit someone on the
head, killing them.

The COLD HARD TRUTH is that many people bear SOME of the responsibility
for the situation they are in.

They were told to get out. SOME couldnt. Many CHOSE not to.

Prudence dictates that you keep a ready supply of your prescription meds,
and TAKE THE MED BOTTLES WITH YOU when you leave home.

Common decency says dont shoot at the goddamn helicopters trying to bring
you food and water, and give you a ride out.

You cant fly relief in until the hurricane is gone. You cant truck relief
in over a demolished bridge. You cant snap your fingers and make a
division of guardsmen appear in 2 hours. It takes time to mobilize
resources.

Yes.. You are right.. people are dying. People died on the bus ride to
houston last night, and no, this wasn't on the news, and no, its not
heresay.

Send your 4 grand to the red cross and if you want to help, call them and
ask what YOU can do to help, UNDER THEIR DIRECTION. If you were interested
in helping people, you would have joined up with such an organization
ahead of time, being proactive, rather than REACTING after the fact.

Dave


wrote:
The kits have picture diagrams for usage on the packaging.

Once one person figures out how to make drinkable water, I'm sure
others will copy what he/she did.

wrote:

The kits have picture diagrams for usage on the packaging.

Once one person figures out how to make drinkable water, I'm sure
others will copy what he/she did.

Walk across the Mississippi river bridge, good clean water can be had on
the other side... Thats where all the support stuff is being driven in
from...

Listen to 'The American Life' from NPR that aired this weekend.
Several stories about the situation in New Orleans.

One story (confirmed, multiple sources) was on how the local police
from the town on the other side of the Mississippi bridge guarded the
bottom of the bridge on the New Orleans' side and wouldn't let anyone
try and cross the bridge. Despite the fact there was no traffic on the
bridge. These police officers fired their guns into the air/toward the
people to keep them back.

Why a largely white town in Mississippi didn't want thousands of wet,
dirty and mostly black 'displaced' persons entering their precious town
is left as an exercise for the reader.


d

If you are going to spread ugly rumors, it would help to look at a map
first and include some details. There is no bridge from New Orleans to
any town in the State of Mississippi. The closest anything comes to that
description is the I-10 bridge east of NO across the lake which Katrina
took out.

wrote in message
oups.com...
Listen to 'The American Life' from NPR that aired this weekend.
Several stories about the situation in New Orleans.

One story (confirmed, multiple sources) was on how the local police
from the town on the other side of the Mississippi bridge guarded the
bottom of the bridge on the New Orleans' side and wouldn't let anyone
try and cross the bridge. Despite the fact there was no traffic on the
bridge. These police officers fired their guns into the air/toward the
people to keep them back.

Why a largely white town in Mississippi didn't want thousands of wet,
dirty and mostly black 'displaced' persons entering their precious
town
is left as an exercise for the reader.


d

Do your kits filter out gasoline, diesel, and about 1000 other chemicals in
the toxic mix inside NO?


wrote in message
oups.com...
The kits have picture diagrams for usage on the packaging.

Once one person figures out how to make drinkable water, I'm sure
others will copy what he/she did.

In article ,
"Terry Briggs" wrote:

Do your kits filter out gasoline, diesel, and about 1000 other chemicals in
the toxic mix inside NO?

Activated charcoal will... at least one time use.

Also, remember that during the first few hours/days, the ratio of
chemicals to water was much lower than it was after a week or two.

The point of the kits is to be used as soon as possible after disaster
before pollution can become an issue. By getting them right at the
beginning of a disaster, it allows for many individuals to shelter in
place and survive for several days until rescue can get around to them.
Many could have waited for a week on an unflooded second / third floor
while rescue concentrated on those that needed medical attention.

As a sad fact, I saw an image of someone who had painted 'Diabetes
Hear' on their roof. The use of 'Hear' instead of 'Here' was their
mistake, not mine.

Another way to get gasoline and diesel out of the water is to skim or
soak it up off the surface, use the sun to lightly heat the water and
evaporate the fuels off. If you need it immediately, a match or spark
will work as well.

I commend your efforts, I wish I had a plane.