Hurricane Katrina aftermath - worst natural disaster in US history

[Granite]

New Orleans



Alabama



Missippi

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Much of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alamaba is in ruins. New Orleans, one of the historically signifcant cities in American History, is under 5-20 feet (roughly 2-9 meters) of water after a leevee protecting the city from flooding broke.

My prayers go out to those folks affected by Hurricane Katrina. One of my good friends is from Louisiana, and his childhood home is utterly destroyed. In an effort to do what I can, I am do fundraising for the American Red Cross where I live. Radstar - thank you to Texas for taking some of those folks in. The Houston Astrodome and San Antonio are currently housing thousands of people. If any movie-listers can help in your own areas please do so. Tens of thousands need food, water, shelter, and medical supplies. The best way you can help is donate to the relief organizations help with the recovery:

http://www.networkforgood.org/topics...on/hurricanes/

[michalz00]

This is horrible. I'm watching CNN all the time and I can't belive it...

[Jean-Pierre Bazinet]

<a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/redir.asp?OID=Movie-List.com&DID=09022005"><img border="0" src="http://www.redcross.org/images/psabanners/all/468x60/D6.gif"></a>

[chernabog_ca]

I have a hard time giving to the American Red Cross after what happened with the donations for 9/11. Whomever I donate money to, I want to make sure it gets to the people that need it.

[Granite]

According to my local chapter of the red cross, ALL donated money for Septemeber 11 has been accounted for and distributed. Furthermore, they are once again recoginzed as a "Top tier" relief organization.

Should you still have an issue with donating to them, there's at least 10 organizations (if not more) with organized relief efforts in the region (see website link in my first post in this thread)

[Kal-el]

Did anyone see Kayne West on the NBC Concert Special? He was talking about the differences of whites and blacks and how blacks are mostly portrayed as the looters on TV. But after he and Mike Meyers gave this long speech, Kayne takes a new twist on it and says, "George Bush hates black people!"

Anyone else see this?

[BuDi]

...talking about the differences of whites and blacks and how blacks are mostly portrayed as the looters on TV.

[Kal-el]

Ok, I found the page with the video I referenced to earlier. I don't know how to direct link to a WMP file, so hopefully someone's watching this..(EDITMAN, ZUBI?!? your names come to mind....)

Here's the webpage.... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9147333/

You want to look for "Kanye West off the script"

That's the better quality version.

You can also download it here...I just found it on a P2P network.....The quality isn't that great, but the look on Mike Meyers (spelling?) face is priceless....

http://rapidshare.de/files/4667571/K...trina.wmv.html


and direct link.... http://dl4.rapidshare.de/files/46675...ne_Katrina.wmv

Feedback Welcome......

[radstar]

I didn't see that. And I think that's stupid. Here we go again. It's like black people got all the right to badmouth white people. And everyone lets them as a "Please forgive my ancestors for treating yours like slaves." But white people get beaten and smashed for badmouthing the black people. And it's always funny but also old that black people is always saying.. "Because I'm black..." I don't see anyone different from anyone else.

And that's a total different subject so I apologize.

The hurricane aftermath is too devastating for me. I can't stand to hear/watch any more news. I heard 25,000 New Orleans people are coming to Dallas. They're asking for boy scouts to help out. Like one boy scout per family and helping them out.

I can't give money or blood. There's really nothing I can do. I feel so helpless.

And back to George Bush, I'm tired of him talking talking and talking. He NEEDS to DO SOMETHING!! Act for once, Mr. frickin Bush.

[ZUBi]

hurricane katrina - stealing for salvation (from MSNBC):

http://rapidshare.de/files/4631747/C...lmart.wmv.html
(click FREE icon & wait a few seconds)

[Kal-el]

hurricane katrina - stealing for salvation (from MSNBC):

http://rapidshare.de/files/4631747/C...lmart.wmv.html
(click FREE icon & wait a few seconds)

Wow, I've worked for Wal-Mart for 9 years now doing remodels and that video really opens my eyes. All I can think of when I see that is "Man, that's gonna take a while to fix....."

[redbear]

hurricane katrina - stealing for salvation (from MSNBC):

http://rapidshare.de/files/4631747/C...lmart.wmv.html
(click FREE icon & wait a few seconds)

i know i am going to catch flak for his but this is the one reason why i refuse to give them any money. when their own people, even their own cops are caught looting stupid crap (on video even)...it shows me the type of people they are. what possible reason would you need a DVD player in 10' of water for ?? there's no figgin' electricity to even use the blasted thing.

i live in pensacola and we got hit with Ivan last year. granted, it was bad but i do think orleans got hit a little worse since they are underwater before the storm. however, there was not one case of looting reported. no murders, no rapes, nothing. everyone knew we are all in the same boat together and everyone worked together. i think i saw one fight at a gas line (and they both were from out of town). it is also an understanding that you have enough food,water and clothes to last for at least three to five days. the people saying they are starving is their own fault.

i feel sorry for the town that it got hit that hard as it does have a history. but, now it has something else to add to that. i know not everyone is like the people i describe. those are the people i feel sorry for as they are getting grouped in with the dumbasses who are those i describe.

[j7wild]

All this back and forth arguing between yall not going to solve anything, get anyone anywhere nor help those poor folks in New Orleans, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabame.

So here's the link again:

http://www.networkforgood.org/topics...on/hurricanes/

Go there and make a donation; especially you Jake since you think it's easy to survive on $5/hour, why don't you donate at least $5? or even $20.

Thanks!!

p.s. there are many people in this country for whom, $5 makes the difference between not having a place to stay or food on the table or gas in a car. BTW - I already donated (last week), so don't bite my head off!!

[ZUBi]

& here comes the new one: Ofelija...

[j7wild]

20 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotes About Hurricane Katrina And Its Aftermath

1) "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." –President Bush, on "Good Morning America," Sept. 1, 2005, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina

2) "What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them." –Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane flood evacuees in the Houston Astrodome, Sept. 5, 2005

3) "It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that's seven feet under sea level....It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed." –House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), Aug. 31, 2005

4) "We've got a lot of rebuilding to do ... The good news is — and it's hard for some to see it now — that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house — he's lost his entire house — there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch." (Laughter) —President Bush, touring hurricane damage, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005

5) "Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans, virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going relatively well." —FEMA Director Michael Brown, Sept. 1, 2005

6) "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." –President Bush, to FEMA director Michael Brown, while touring Hurricane-ravaged Mississippi, Sept. 2, 2005

7) "I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water." –Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, on NPR's "All Things Considered," Sept. 1, 2005

8) "Well, I think if you look at what actually happened, I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers and I saw headlines, 'New Orleans Dodged the Bullet.' Because if you recall, the storm moved to the east and then continued on and appeared to pass with considerable damage but nothing worse." –Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, blaming media coverage for his failings, "Meet the Press," Sept. 4, 2005

9) "I mean, you have people who don't heed those warnings and then put people at risk as a result of not heeding those warnings. There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving.” –Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), Sept. 6, 2005

10) "You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals...many of these people, almost all of them that we see are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story unfold." —CNN's Wolf Blitzer, on New Orleans' hurricane evacuees, Sept. 1, 2005

11) "Louisiana is a city that is largely under water." —Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, news conference, Sept. 3, 2005

12) "It's totally wiped out. ... It's devastating, it's got to be doubly devastating on the ground." –President George W. Bush, turning to his aides while surveying Hurricane Katrina flood damage from Air Force One, Aug. 31, 2005


13) "I believe the town where I used to come – from Houston, Texas, to enjoy myself, occasionally too much – will be that very same town, that it will be a better place to come to." –President George W. Bush, on the tarmac at the New Orleans airport, Sept. 2, 2005

14) "Last night, we showed you the full force of a superpower government going to the rescue." –MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Sept. 1, 2005

15) "You know I talked to Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi yesterday because some people were saying, 'Well, if you hadn't sent your National Guard to Iraq, we here in Mississippi would be better off.' He told me 'I've been out in the field every single day, hour, for four days and no one, not one single mention of the word Iraq.' Now where does that come from? Where does that story come from if the governor is not picking up one word about it? I don't know. I can use my imagination.” –Former President George Bush, who can give his imagination a rest, interview with CNN’s Larry King, Sept. 5, 2005

16) "...those who are stranded, who chose not to evacuate, who chose not to leave the city..." –FEMA Director Michael Brown, on New Orleans residents who could not evacuate because they were too poor and lacked the means to leave, CNN interview, Sept. 1, 2005

17) "We just learned of the convention center – we being the federal government – today." –FEMA Director Michael Brown, to ABC's Ted Koppel, Sept. 1, 2005, to which Koppel responded " Don't you guys watch television? Don't you guys listen to the radio? Our reporters have been reporting on it for more than just today."

18) "I actually think the security is pretty darn good. There's some really bad people out there that are causing some problems, and it seems to me that every time a bad person wants to scream or cause a problem, there's somebody there with a camera to stick it in their face." –FEMA Director Michael Brown, CNN interview, Sept. 2, 2005

19) "I don't make judgments about why people chose not to leave but, you know, there was a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans." –FEMA Director Michael Brown, arguing that the victims bear some responsibility, CNN interview, Sept. 1, 2005

20) "Thank President Clinton and former President Bush for their strong statements of support and comfort today. I thank all the leaders that are coming to Louisiana, and Mississippi and Alabama to our help and rescue. We are grateful for the military assets that are being brought to bear. I want to thank Senator Frist and Senator Reid for their extraordinary efforts. Anderson, tonight, I don't know if you've heard – maybe you all have announced it -- but Congress is going to an unprecedented session to pass a $10 billion supplemental bill tonight to keep FEMA and the Red Cross up and operating." –Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), to CNN's Anderson Cooper, Aug. 31, 2005, to which Cooper responded:

"I haven't heard that, because, for the last four days, I've been seeing dead bodies in the streets here in Mississippi. And to listen to politicians thanking each other and complimenting each other, you know, I got to tell you, there are a lot of people here who are very upset, and very angry, and very frustrated. And when they hear politicians slap – you know, thanking one another, it just, you know, it kind of cuts them the wrong way right now, because literally there was a body on the streets of this town yesterday being eaten by rats because this woman had been laying in the street for 48 hours. And there's not enough facilities to take her up. Do you get the anger that is out here?"

I think most of them are from George!!