Katrina fall-out

Dave Stadt wrote:
I had not noticed fences around reservations keeping the residents from
leaving and getting a job. Don't the American Indians get more free
government hand outs than any other ethnic group?

It's not a free handout, it's the money the Department of Interior
siphoned out of their trust accounts over the last hundred years.

("Chris" wrote)
And now, for some aviation content: The looters in New Orleans are
SHOOTING at rescue helicopters!

They are just exercising their constitutional right to bear arms;-)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4205074.stm


Hurricane Rodney King ...I shake my head at the area's local, city, state
and federal govt officials more though, WRT those levees ...and about ten
other issues.

It's like the potato famine in Ireland, when do you say 'enough is enough'
and make the decision to leave all that you've ever known? (Now would be a
good time)

Head north, or west, on foot and I'm sure that over a distance of 30-40
miles people will have garden hoses that you can drink from - 15 hour walk
for someone out of shape. Next day walk another 30-40 miles and I bet a
family, or a church, would take you in. I'd take in someone who walked 75
miles over two days!!

Walk another 25 miles the third day - I bet your accommodations would
improve the further away from NO you'd get. By day four you should be able
to catch a ride. To where? I don't know - where do Mexicans go when they
walk across the border? To jobs...

This isn't for everyone, but I would think 10%-20% of the needy refugees(?)
left in the flooded city could make it work for them.

Good luck.


Montblack

I'm surprised someone hasn't yet figured out a way to blame this all on
the trial lawyers. They must be somehow responsible.

Chris wrote:

Which they looted from the WalMart, according to the news reports!

Safety measure, hell there are people with guns out there who might want the
food that's been looted too.

My neighbor made a distribution run to Biloxi to the FEMA peoples with 2
transports and his personal car yesterday. The trucks got shot at in
Mississippi because the company name has FOOD in it and didn't stop when
they wanted it to... He said it looks from interstate just as horrible
as it does from the videos of the coast and he said the smell is BAD...

RST Engineering wrote:
It would have been a hell of a lot cheaper to round up as many military
vehicles to form a human convoy to pack everybody a few hundred miles away
befor it hit the fan than paying to pick up mangled bodies afterwards.

Yep.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

sfb wrote:

Must be the scenic route as Houston is something like 350 miles on I-10.

I-10. I-59, and I-55 were one way out bound so getting busses back would
be a challenge.

Only the news people run towards a disaster about to happen... Blew
through from Pensicola to Louisiana back in the late 70's or early 80's
while a storm was hitting Dauphin Island, 85mph through the tunnel in
Mobile...

We were the only fools on the road...

Hindsight, should have stayed in north Florida, I-10 was closed for 4
days and we could have collected pay for it...

Flyingmonk wrote:

He still had one leg, and what happened to his crutch or Humaround?
Where's his car?

I don't see a smilie, but I hope you meant one.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

"skym" wrote:

I'm surprised someone hasn't yet figured out a way to blame this all
on
the trial lawyers. They must be somehow responsible.


No, no, no!

It's the liberal media!

Jay Honeck wrote:

Almost without exception, the very first thing a poor,
inner city family buys, after arriving in town -- ....

Well, one thing is that most of these people didn't "arrive in town." They were
born there. People who have families elsewhere do tend to buy cars when they
can. But people who grew up in large cities frequently don't. Most Manhattanites
don't have cars, for example. Hell, when I hit Atlanta in my youth, it was
several months before I bought a car - hitchhiking and public transportation did
me fine.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

john smith wrote:

What about trains?
Are there rail lines that run into New Orleans?
You can move thousands with boxcars and flatcars and a couple engines.

6 class A rail lines I think the mayor stated...