Website for Katrina

Joyce · Post by **Joyce** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:27 pm

Hi,

I work for a compay that is nationwide. One of our offices is located in New Orleans. One of the Vice Preisdents is keeping an eye on things out there and talking to the Managers from that office. Four of our people they can't locate yet. If anyone is interested there is a website that he gave to us that has photos and information. The website is wwltv.com. There is one picture that I think is so sad and that is where people are on I10 walking out of town. Those poor people have nothing and who knows what is going to happen. It is so terrible I just have no words to express it all.

Love,
Joyce

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 5:43 pm

Thanks for the site. I will go there soon as I leave here.
It is so heartbreaking.

Love, Shirley

Sally · Post by **Sally** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 9:51 am

Hey, Joyce,

I found that website accidentally and have been glued to it for days. It's a good one. I even joined a forum for news just as it's happening. That shows the Internet at it's best.

I really am grieving for everyone, two legged and four legged down there. I can't believe the looting. Although, if I were in need of Pampers or food for my baby, I wouldn't hesitate to throw a brick through a window. Unfortunately, I don't think the looters are Mom's looking for diapers and Gerber's.

Love,

Sally

Peggy · Post by **Peggy** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 10:28 am

Actually Sal I saw on the local news last night a woman doing just that - leaving a store with an armful of diapers. I would do the same if I had to.

kate_ce1995 · Post by **kate_ce1995** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 10:32 am

I am saddened by what is going on down there, but (and not to start a political battle), WHY on earth did a city as large as New Orleans get build below sea level? That is just poor planning on our forefathers' part. Especially when, as a country we are not cramped into our communities the way other countries are.

We lost half an ornamental apple tree next our house as Katrina went through the northeast yesterday. Not a big loss, just an annoyance to clean up.

Katy

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 11:32 am

Katy,
I have to agree with you about "Why There?" in the first place. If someone HAD to live there, why not build up the land instead of trying to hold back the ocean?? Doesn't make sense to me at all. Billions of dollars will be spent trying to restore it to it's original glory - bleow sea level - AGAIN.

I'll get off my soapbox now. Sorry.

That opinion doesn not lessen my feelings for the people involved in this tragedy.

Shirley

Sally · Post by **Sally** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 11:50 am

According to a news story I heard on CNN last night, originally N.O. was just what the French Quarter is now and it IS on higher ground. Above sea level. Then the rest of the city kind of grew from there as a great shipping port. Why do people live in California? Why do I live here where we can look up at a ridge of volcanoes just to the east? They could erupt at any minute. Look at Mt. St. Helen's. I don't think it much matters where you live. When nature decides to do something we are all at risk. Then what nature doesn't do to us, it seems that other people do.

I HATE all the looting that is going on. That is not a natural phenomenon. It is purely humanity at it's worst.

Love,

Sally

MaggieRedwings · Post by **MaggieRedwings** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 11:50 am

Hi all. This is chaos at its worst. For all you have read or seen "The Stand" or an "futuristic" movie this just seems like it. I remember the people after they came out of shelters saying "We are heading West/East - forget which" and when I heard they told people they were going on a bus yesterday "heading West" it just rang so unreal.

Also to steal jewelry and have it mean nothing but getting a trade for a bottle of water is surreal.

Love, Maggie

kate_ce1995 · Post by **kate_ce1995** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:01 am

Yes, the ultimate chaos is horrible. I don't remember that being such a problem when Andrew hit southern Florida. I guess the things that suprise me the most are, the people who chose to stay when the evacuations were implemented before the storm, and (what I heard) was that the City's disaster plan was only for a Cat 3 storm. Usually good comes out of natural disasters....like tighter building code requirements after Andrew (of course older houses weren't upgraded like we saw in Florida last year) and earthquakes in California. But water is a VERY powerful thing. And to hold it back by any means is not fool proof. So many taxpayer dollars will be spent on recovery of this city. And when does the next one hit? 1 year, 5 years, 10?

Other natural disasters don't bug me as much. I think its stupid to build in a slide prone area (my profession works on analyzing those things, but residential building doesn't usually require as rigerous an analysis because the codes are very much based on the number of lifes affected in a structure....less lives, less strict the code, less costly to build), volcanos, correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't large areas affected by Mt. Saint Helen's not been redeveloped? And these are much more predicatable (to some degree) because seismologists and volcanists watch for signs of brewing trouble. And if a new one came back to life, after what MSH did in 1980, I think people would react differently.

Okay. I'll stop now. But lets make sure we learn as a country from this so the billions of dollars spent on a relatively small percentage of the population will not have to be respent on the same thing years from now.

Katy