Terrible, just terrible...

[Saitek]

They should say all looters should be dressed in orange and thrown into the waters with a backback full of concrete! Really sick. These people probably deliberately stayed so they could do just this. Probably they were hoping that NO would get flooded so that they could do it even easier.

[Nemesis_5.4]

I hadn't realised the hurricane made so much damages. After seeing the sattelite pictures of New Orleans, you just pray and hope it'll never happen to you. That's all you can do for now. I wanted to spend two hours making posts about FS and CFS but I finaly spent two hours reading all I found about the hurricane. It's a pity I don't speak english well enough to express all my feelings but what happened out there really touched me. Good luck for all these people that lost members of their familly and/or their houses.  :'(

[H]

Anyone who thinks the US is morally superior...

Morally superior? For too much of population's percentage, maybe close to moronically .

[Paz]

Morally superior? For too much of population's percentage, maybe close to moronically .

 Agreed.

[commoner]

........I just heard that the total area destroyed by Katrina is bigger than the whole British Isles..........don't know how true that is but ..Jeez...Imagine the whole of England, Scotland Ireland and Wales in the sorry state that those guys are in......whoooo!...Commoner

[Fly2e]

It just keeps getting worse & worse!

Early morning explosion
Adding to the scenes of chaos in New Orleans, an explosion rocked a chemical storage facility near the Mississippi River east of the French Quarter at 4:35 a.m., Lt. Michael Francis of the Harbor Police said. Several smaller blasts followed and then acrid, black smoke that could be seen even in the dark. The vibrations were felt all the way downtown.




Several railroad cars reportedly blew up, but NBC reporters near the scene said they were told that whatever was burning was not toxic.

The facility is near a residential area. At least two police boats were at the scene.

A fire was also consuming an office building in downtown. No fire crews were at the area, which appeared to have been abandoned.

While floodwaters in the city appeared to stabilize, efforts continued to plug three breaches that had opened up in the levee system that protects this below-sea-level city.

Helicopters dropped sandbags into the breach and pilings were being pounded into the mouth of the canal Thursday to close its connection to Lake Pontchartrain.



At New Orleans' airport, hundreds waited their turn for medical attention at the largest triage center in U.S. history. NBC's Kerry Sanders spent the night there, waking up to find two others next to him had passed away.

Rapes, beatings and armed robberies were reported in parts of the city, and Gov. Kathleen Blanco issued a warning to lawbreakers: Hundreds of National Guard troops hardened on the battlefield in Iraq have landed in New Orleans.

[pete]

[quote]

[Katahu]

If I was there and saw a Guardsman with an M-16, I would quickly comply with him.

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

That blast is making thing's worse...what will this world come to?

[Wing Nut]

For those of you complaining about other countries not offering help:

Australia
Great Britain
Singapore
Germany
France
El Salvador
Mexico

all gave offers of assistance to the US.

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

Australia
Great Britain
Singapore
Germany
France
El Salvador
Mexico

I'm surprised Italy isn't on there...Italians have good relationhips with the US...

[Staiduk]

[quote]
Australia
Great Britain
Singapore
Germany
France
El Salvador
Mexico

all gave offers of assistance to the US.

[pete]

There are other countries too - that's just a selection & not a comprehensive list ......

[Souichiro]

I'm glad that the US Government has accepted outside help.

While we are speaking a Dutch Frigate filled with Emergency supplies is on it's way. Further options for dutch help include:

Dyke Engineers (Half of our country lies below sea-level so we most have some expertise on it )

F-16 recon planes to take photo's to help coordinate stuff and maybe search for bodies (has been done before once more)

And the Sending of Disaster Identification Teams which are specialised in identifying fallen people..They were there in Indonesia with the Tsunami and did a marvelous job there..

+ probably some more (this is what Harry Potter erm..The Prime Minister anounced today..

So take it from this small Piece of Land which is Called Holland. We are thinking of you too...

[Romulus111VADT]

[quote]

Quite astounding that comment.

Surely the emphasis must be on on getting the people out of there & to safety where they can be fed & tended to.